Show disobeyed orders bobee ida sept 8 in a letter from manila under dato of angust jtb capt finn company A first idaho volunteers make an interesting statement concerning the fighting prior to that time lie says the troops that have been landed thus far have bad only a few brushes with the enemy eight men all told were killed and several wounded the deaths were due to disobedience of orders A company had been ordered to occupy a large deserted house and to lie bidden until they bad orders to move under no circumstances were they to fire on the spaniards who had a strong battery benr by the bouse was occupied under cover of darkness after daylight one 0 the men in peeping out of a bole in the wall egied a spaniard and remarked ill have a shot at that dago for lock and fired instantly the cung ot the battery were turned on the house and when the smoke cleared away eight dead and twenty five wounded soldiers eol diers showed the result of disobedience to orders |