Thus this aquatic charge by unarmed men secured the bridge and enabled the American troops to cross.
Not far beyond was the Rio Grande, four hundred feet broad and crossed by another railroad bridge that must be taken.

Here again the task was entrusted to Colonel Funston and the Twentieth Kansas.

This time they found an old raft.

Two privates stripped and swam across with a rope.
Landing unarmed on the enemy's side of the river, they fastened their rope to a part of the very trench works of the Filipinos.

With this connection established, Colonel Funston improvised a ferry and was soon on the enemy's side with supports.