| Show LETTER FROM ENSIGN the news publishes another er let lette today from Ensign Pearson written h family from manila bay twelve d day after the great american victory W biti the letter came an excellently dra draw map the course followed b admiral dewey and men on enter ri ln the harbor and during the terrible fly they were under from the spanish to tort and aad fleet as the battle progressed j is probably the most accurate ma that has been published in the uhl unite states or elsewhere of the great con test and is of particular interest t utah people who have such an inte in ensign pearson by whom it wa drawn and sent the letter wit with h wa whid h it came is as follows since my last letter about the in elgh little has occurred the tele telegraph aph 6 cable from manila to hon hongtong Hong kong ng a an the outside world was cut some un u ago so we can get no telegrams same a aai awi from here of course there a are r e 0 steamers running now averyt everything hl ing at a standstill so to get the news nes washington one of our ahlf to hongtong Hong kong to dispatch the from here she left here on may sf and got back in five days or on ma since we had heard no new fi two weeks we anxiously awaited return she had no particular but brought word that several a tb sand mad soldiers were coming here and that the fleet beet in atlantic had bad not yet met the neet fleet there on one of our ships were three newspaper reporters for new york and chicago papers they were here bere during the fight and went kong to send their reports to their papers by telegraph one of them sent 1500 words in a message descriptive of the battle this same ship 01 of ours is going to songsong Song kong with malls mails and telegrams and tor for news tomorrow since laai writing there have been two english one Xa japanese one french and two german men of war come to look out for their people here on receipt of the admirals news at washington the president sent a telegram to the admiral saying that lie he the me admiral had bad been promoted and d that he the president thanked the admiral officers and men for the victory he had won the admiral ran up his new flag and it was saluted by AU all the ships here our own and the foreign ships I 1 tend send you a copy of the telegram toce ce my la last t writing we have been lyias here here rno mostly aly taking every span ish 1912 vessel that has come around all of ci the forts have been blown up and the guns in them wrecked we are taking all the good guns from the spanish anish ships that are above water and when this is completed we are going to blow them the th ships to pieces so ao the spanish can never raise them again this morning I 1 we ve deiv berall all surprised to see a spanish gunboat coming into harbor flying the spanish flag one of ships shot so that the shell fell fast in front of her wishing to stop aud and take imke jer the boat seemed to take no notice but went on another of our ships began firing to stop her but on an she he came these shots were not aimed at her but intended to tall fall ahead of her to make her stop kli finally nally our alp began a heavy fire at her and the shells were falling all around her she and hauled down the spanish flag one of our ahas went out and brought her to the fleet and now she Is 19 ours oum we learned from the spanish captain that he had been a way away from manila fourteen months down in the southern philippine islands and did not know that war had been declared nor anything about the situation he thought we were having target practice and seeing the shots fall so near torn him thought he was in the way so hurried up to get out of the way but when her the shots came faster than ever she je finally guessed what was up so 80 bied down his flag and stopped I 1 the captain an and d his men were sent e and the united states now owns the gunboat the captain sald said his wifel wife lad family were coming here from the flame e p place ace in a day or two so we expect t to 0 get another spanish steamer ste asner when ben she comes in I 1 manila Is really blockaded n no 0 food ex I 1 into n to the town since it has a population tion of about people food is getting scarce there we are filling our amps with coal from the spanish coal Mop plies which they had at their naval alt Atlon the e houses of the spanish living a at t have been c completely ample tely ransacked and all of them have gone to manila T the reporters were yesterday sent to the zafiro to live so we now have them OB oa hoard board we have to hold manila and y the philippines paines until un tal further order orders s so fantt fr r stay sta ylli in indeli indefinite nite we look forward 10 lo news from ajom by this steam ler or we send bend tomorrow y 01 another other officer from the mon H haa come to join the fleet by orders of the admiral of course you h have ave long fc toc read the newspaper reports about abut to altair and know it so I 1 need not to te about it regards to all youra I 1 H A PEARSON athe I 1 nt number of killed and abd wounded the spaniards is in much larger than at first supposed it is now estimated that the spanish killed and wounded Is 1000 or more I 1 visited their hospital and saw some of the wounded wounds of all ands arms and legs cut off and every sort of injury possible we had none killed and only a few wounded none beyond a scratch or bruise a most wonderful thing H A P |
