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fire: particularly on the forts.
Suaop OPPOSITE HAY’'S HoTrL.
ENSIGN KNEPPER’S ACLOUNT.
Thrilling Details of the Manila Bat-
tle as He Saw It.
Believing that a Somerset boy’s de-
scription of thejgreat naval battle fought
in Manila harbor will be of interest to
our readers, we reproduce the follow-
ing from the Somerset Democrat:
Last Saturday Oliver Knepper, Esq.,
of Main street, received a long letter
from his son, Ensign Orlo 8. Knepper,:
who read the signals on board the gun-
boat Concord throughout the thrilling
engagement at Manila on May 1, be-
tween the Spanish fleet and Admiral
Dewey’s vessels. The letter was writ-
ten on May 3,two days after the battle,
and contains a thrilling and well writ-
ten description of that historical naval
contest. While not written for publi-
cation, anything concerning the Manila
fight has become of such public interest
that even private letters about it are in
a sense considered publie property, and
‘are eagerly read by the patriotic peo-
ple of the United States. Coming from
one who was born and reared in Som-
erset and who is known by a large num-
ber of people in this county, Ensign
Knepper’s letter will prove of especial
interest to our readers. Being the sig-
nal officer on board the Concord, he had
especial advantages to witness every
detail of the conflict and he writes en-
gbertainingly and instructively about the
The ensign’s letters
home are directed to his sister in Ne-
braska, who forwards them to Somer-
set after she has read them. In order
to keep the correspondence straight he
has numbered his letters consecutively :
U. 8. 8. Coxcorp,
Maxira Bay, May 3, 1898.
No. 13.
“This is No. 13, but it certainly is for
luck—for no army or hostile force has
ever been as fortunate, or had a more
complete victory than we have had.
But I had better begin at the beginning.
Suffice it to say that we have no killed
and the Spanish fleet is completely de-
stroyed.
We sighted the Philippines at dawn,
Saturday,30th. Then the Concord and
Boston were signaled to go ahead and
reconnoiter Soubig bay, about thirty
miles to the northward of Manila. We
went into the bay and inspected it
thoroughly, finding not the sign of a
vessel there. We thought the entrance
was ined, and know now that there
were about seventy torpedoes there,
but we were fortunate enough to miss
them all. Then we joined the fleet and
steamed slowly down the coast, intend-
ing to enter the bay of Manila during
the night; of course we had every light
on the ship out or obscured.
We arrived off the entrance about 11
o'clock Saturday night and went to
quarters. Then we steamed in slowly,
the flagship leading, and saw not a sign
of light at any of the forts. We were
well in and past the fort at the en-
trance when suddenly we heard a shell
whistle over our heads, immediately
followed by another. We answered
with one shot from the Raleigh, two
from the Concord and one from the
Boston. No more shots were fired
from the fort and we went on up the
bay at about four knots. The bay is
large and Manila is about thirty miles
from the entrance. Our object was to
get off the city at daylight and we
timed it exactly. At 4:55 dawn began
to break and we could make out ships
of Manila, but apparently all merchant
ships. At 5 o'clock Sunday morning:
the Spaniard began fiiring on our right
and we made out their fleet off Cavite
—the naval station, five or six miles
from Manila. The flagship went column
right and we followed. At 5:10 the
signal was made to begin general action
and we opened fire. The Spanish fleet
were well prepared and were under the
lee of two forts—one at Manila and the
other at Cavite. We steamed past the
entire fleet and the cannonading was
something terrific, shells literally rain-
ing around us. When we reached the
end of the fleet we turned and came
back the same line, turning again at
the other end.
I was on the bridge reading signals
and had a splendid view of everything,
though most of the time I was too busy
with signals to think of anything else—
for which I was very glad. Shells
burst all around us, but strange to say
we were never hit. At 7:30 the com-
modore made a signal to withdaw from
the action, and we steamed out of
range. We had been at quarters since
11 o’clock the night before and the men
needed a rest and something to eat.
At first I felt disheartened,but we soon
saw that the Spanish fleet had suffered
very much more than we had. Several
of their ships were on fire, while as far
as we could make out we were not
seriously hurt. We had expended near-
ly half our ammunition and the com-
modore called all the commanding offi-
cers on board the dagship for a consul-
tation.
At 10:30 we ran in again and opened
The two
argest Spanish ships were soon seen to
be so badly on fire that they could do
nothing, and about 11 o'clock they haul-
ed down their flags. Shortly after that
another ship—the Don Antonio de Ulloa
—hauled down her flag, but soon hoist-
ed it again. I had seen her haul &
down and knew that it was not shot
away. On looking at her again 1 saw
that she was sinking rapidly and hoist-
ed the colors so that she would go down *
with them flying. ! watched her for
five minutes, I suppose, though I had
no idea of time then, and it was really
pathetic to see her go to the bottom.
The water was not very deep, so that
her colors remained just above water
when she settled on the bottom.
Then we, on the Concord,
dered to burn a transport further up
the line, and left to do that. By the
time we had shelled her and set her on
fire the forts at Cavite had hauled down
the Spanish colors and run up a white
flag, as had also the navy yard. The
remainder of the Spanish fleet had gone
behind a break-water and we hauled
her off at about 12:30. In the after-
noon we came back, but met with no
resistance. The remainder of the Span-
ish fleet had surrendered, and as the
ships had been scuttled, we burned
eight more—so that day we destroyed
twelve ships—the entire fighting Span-
ish fleet, and had a white flag floating
over the navy yard and at the fort at
Cavite. We had not had a single man
killed and only six men injured on the
Baltimore. One man on the McCulloch
died of heat or heart failure, I don’t
know which. The heat here is awful,
and most of us are burned in blisters.
The Spanish surprised us very much
by putting up the fight they did. We
had heard that they were not at all pre-
pared and all sorts of rumors, but they
fought splendidly, and fought as long
as they had a ship or gun to fight with.
When the Don Antonio de Ulloa went
down, she went down stern first, and
after her stern was under water and
just before her bow went under, they
fired a shot from one of her forecastle
guns, and the men must have gone
down with the ship. The Spanish loss was
very heavy. We don’t know how many
and I suppose never will, but I know it
must have been over 500. It was nothing
in the world but a miracle that brought
us out without loss. We were under
fire for over four hours and shells sim-
ply rained around us. I don’t believe
there is a battle in the history of the
world where the destruction was so
complete on one side and the loss noth-
ing on the other. Most of the boats
were shot away from our ships, but so
far as the fighting qualities of a ship go,
we are as well off to-day as before the
engagement, except that over one-half
of ourammunition is gone. However,we
will have no more fighting out here, for
there is nothing to fight.
To-day we have been destroying bat-
teries and I have practically been on
the bridge from 5 this morning until 9
to-night, and must close and get some
sleep. Until last night I hadn’t had
my clothes off for four days and haven’t
been in bed since last Friday. To-night
I hope to get a good night’s sleep, buat
it must be nearly 12 o’clock now.
Wednesday morning—\We have just
heard that we can send a mail to Hong
Kong to-morrow, so I will finish this
letter this morning. To-day seems
hotter than ever. The skin is all com-
ing off the back of my neck from ex-
posure to the sun, but that is too small
a matter to consider. The night of
May 1 was one of the most beautiful I
have ever seen, and I never expect to
see as grand a sight and at the same
time as sad a sight, especially to a na-
val officer. We sat up ondeck smoking
and talking just as though nothing had
happened, while in front of us was the
entire Spanish fleet in flames. The
steel ships had about burned out, but
were red hot and looked like huge
skeletons of ships. Then several maga-
zines blew up that sent a cloud of
flames up into the clouds. It didn’t
and it doesn’t seem possible that we
could sit there with our fleet absolutely
uninjured and see such destruction be-
fore us.
Before I forget it, get the New York
Herald and read the account of the fight
That will be accurate and probabfy th
only one that will. Br. Stickney wis
with us all during the fight on the flag-
ship and he took numerous photographs.
He is a graduate of the naval academy
and his description can be relied upon.
Since Sunday we have been busy de-
stroying batteries on shore and have
now finished that. I have never in my
life felt as sorry for any men as I have
for several Spanish officers I have met.
Not that I don’t condemn their whole
policy, but there are men among them.
Yesterday 1 went ashore at El Fraile—
that is the battery that first fired at us
—and destoryed the guns there. A
Spanish officer went with us and show-
ed us where the guns were and then
stood by while we broke them to pieces
and threw every movable part over-
board. The poor man had tears in his
eyes. I hope I will never live to see
the day when I must stand by any guns
I have commanded and see a lot of for-
eigners destroy them.
Monday we went ashore—the cap-
tain, navigator, Davidson, and myself
—to take a look around. Of course we
wore side arms with a revolver. On
the beach we saw a party coming tow-
ard us with a hospital flag. They were
two doctors and three Sisters of Char-
ity, and I think they really thought we
were coming ashore to murder the
wounded in the hospitals. That proe-
Jamation of the beggarly governor gave
them the idea.
here that I don’t feel sorry for. I would
like to make him eat that proclamation.
When we got it we called all hands to
muster on the ships and read it to the
crews. I think it did us more good
were or-
-
He is the only man]
of the proclamation. It would bea
good thing for the Deocrat to publish
[The proclamation is reproduced below.
—Ed.)
Manila proper has not surrendered,
because we don’t want it. If it surren-
dered to us we would be responsible
for the policing of it and we haven’
the men, nor are oar orders to take it.
Our orders were, ‘You must capture or
destroy the Spanish fleet,’ and never
have orders been more effectually car-
ried out.
How long we will be here, where we
will go or what we will do are questions
that we cannot answer. The war out
here is over, because there is nothing
left to oppose us. I only hope the
North Atlantic squadron was as suc-
cessful.
Yours affectionately,
OrLO KNEPPER.”
PROCLAMATION ISSUED BY THE GOVERNOR
GENERAL OF THE PHILIPPINES.
Following is the war proclamation
which was issued by the Governor Gen-
eral of the Philippine Islands referred
to in above letter:
“Spaniards :—Between Spain and the
United States of North America hos-
tilities have broken out. The moment
has arrived to prove to the world that
we possess the spirit to: conquer those
who, pretending to be loyal friends,
take advantage of our misfortunes and
abuse our hospitality, using means
which civilized nations‘count unworthy
and disreputable.
The North American people, consti-
tuted 'of all the social excrescences,have
exhausted our patience and provoked
war with their perfidious machinations,
with their acts of treachery, with their
outrages against the law of the nations
and international conventions.
The struggle will be short and decis-
ive. The God of Victories will give us
one as brilliant as the justice of our
cause demands. Spain, which counts
upon the sympathies of all nations, will
emerge triumphantly from this new
test, humiliating and blasting the ad-
uenturers from those States that, with-
out cohesion and without a history, of-
fer to humanity only infamous tradi-
tions and the ungrateful spectacle of
Chambers in which appear united inso-
lence and defamation, cowardice and
cynicism.
A squadron manned by foreigners,
possessing neither instruction nor dis-
cipline, is preparing to come to this
archipelago with the ruflianly intention
of robbing us of all that means life,
honor and liberty. Pretending to be
inspired by a courage of which they
are incapable, the North American sea-
men undertake as an enterprise capa-
ble of realization the substitution of
Protestanism for the Catholic religion
you profess, to treat you as tribes re-
fractory to civilization, to take possvs-
sion of your riches as if they were un-
acquainted with the the rights of prop-
erty, and to kidnap those persons whom
they consider useful to man their ships
or to be exploited in agricultural or in-
dustrial labor.
Vain designs!
Your indomitable bravery will suffice
to frustrate the attempt to carry them
ito realization. You will not allow the
faith you profess to be made a mock of
impious hands in the temple of the
true God; the images you adore to be
thrown down by unbelief. The aggressor
shall not profane the tombs of your
fathers, they shall not gratify their
lustful passions at the cost of your
wives and daughters’ honor nor appro-
priate the property that your industry
has accumulated as a provision for your
old age. No, they shall not perpetrate
any of the crimes inspired by their
wickedness and covetousness, because
your valor and patriotism will suflice
to punish and abuse the people that,
claiming to be civilized and cultivated,
have exterminated the natives of North
America instead of bringing to them
the life of civilization and of progress.
Philippinaos, prepare for the struggle,
and, united under the glorious Spanish
flag, which is ever covered with laurels,
let us fight with the conviction that
victory will crown our efforts, and to
the calls of our enemies let us oppose
with the decision of the Christian and
the patriot the cry ‘Viva Espana!
Your general,
BasiLio AvGusTiN Davina”
Manila, 23d April, 1898.
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