The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, August 10, 1898, Page 1

TYOLUME I 1. XXIV.—NO SAN FRANCISCO, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 10, 1898. PRICE FIVE CENTS. CALIFORNIANS FOREMOST IN THE FIGHTING AT MALATE COWARDLY RETREAT OF INSURGENTS | Fall Back at Night, Leav-| ing the American Right Unprotected. Volunteers of the Golden State! Cheer as They Charge the Spanish Foe at Night. CO0O00000000000000000000000000000000 WASHINGTON, Aug. (<] .—The War Department to- blegram from Hongkong: jutant General, Washington: McArthur’s troops ar- the 31st. No epidemic of sickn but five deaths. Kerr of the Engineers died of spinal meningitis. g at the camp was delayed on account of the On tillery outpost It was necessary to call out the brigade. ish loss is reported to be heavy. The Our loss is as follows: Killed: Tenth Pennsylvania—John Brady, Walter Brown. ion. Infantry—William Wiiliam Stillwagon. First California—Maurice Justh. Third Artiliery—EIli Dawson. First Colorado—Fred Springstead. Seriously wounded: Tenth Pennsylvania — Sergeant Alva Walter, Privates Lee Snyder, Victor Holmes, C. S. Carter, Arthur Johnson. First California—Captain R. Richter, Private C. J. Ed- wards. Third Artillery—Privates Charles Winfield, J. A. Mc- Elrath. E. Brinton, Jacob ‘Hull, Jesse Noss, 000000000000 00CCCCO00000 MERRITT.” ary Alger regards the Manila fight as the begin- ning of the general attack on the Philippine capital. “Thirty-eight slightly wounded. | Secr | 000 IDO0000000N00000000000UVE0LON00000 00D [ © © © © ] S| o o © © © o CO0000002C00C00000CO00000000000000000 Special Cable to The Call and the New York Herald. Copyrighted, 189S, by James Gordon Bennett. BY SOL N. SHERIDAN. CAMP DEWEY, Aug. |, via Hongkong, Aug. 9.— Nine dead; forty-six wounded. That tells the story of the baptism of fire the American army| has undergone before Manila. The American trenches before |position. Then from a dense Malate, thrown forward some | bamboo thicket, 250 yards to the days ago to displace the insur- | American right, there blazed the geiits, and extending from the |fire of 2000 Mausers, while the bedch a half-mile toward the pas- | Malate batteries sent shrapnel sage where are General No hrieking in upon the American headquarters, were held “last i\\'Ork& and from the front came mg-ilt by the Pennsylvanians and |2 galling fire from Nordenfeldts. Jatferies A and B, Utah Artil-| While the Spaniards swept lery,. with three rapid-fire guns. | Calle Real the insurgent batteries Between the American extreme |on the Pasay side remained om- fight and the insurgent barracks |inously silent, protected by thick- at ‘Pasay there is about a half |ets and covered by darkness. The of bamboo swamp, inter- | Spaniards attempted to rush the d with mango trees, which | American right. The plan ap- the insurgemts were supposed to [parently was to double the havé covered and did cover here- |troops up on the beach and sweep tofore. After some desultory |across the flats on to the camp. firing from the insurgent guns,| Company D of the Pennsyl- o which the Spaniards replied at [ vania Regiment was cut off from idntervals, the insurgents retired |the main body, but fought its ‘to Pasay, 1g the American |way back. right uncovered. Colonel Haw-| The Spaniards repeatedly ad- kins of the Pennsylvanians had |vanced within sixty yards of the thrown three companies—D, E |American intrenchments, but fell and K-—outside the trenches to |back before the steady fire of the cover the right of Companies A, | volunteers. A shell from Malate buried one of the Utah guns and t spef; H, € and E, which held the trenches down to the beach, with ’L:’té\vh's company, B, lying as a reserve back along Calle Real, toward Camp Dewey. *.At-11:30 o'clock at night the the American right, drawing the Pennsylvanians’ fire outside the trenches, and thus getting their Spaniards in front opened fire on |tillery and Major O’Hara, with- the position was rapidly becom- ing - untenable, when Hawkins dispatched a messenger to the camp for reinforcements. The messenger struck the Third Ar- out awaiting orders, hurried two batteries into action as infantry rushes into trenches, The Penn- WHERE THE FIRST AMERICAN BLOOD WAS SHED ON PHILIPPINE SOIL. Repulse of the Spaniards in Their Attempt to Turn the'nght'of the American Lines Before Malate on the Night of July 31. The California Boys Are Shown Com- ing Up on the Right of the Pennsylvanians Under a Deluge From Heaven.and a Storm of Spanish Bullets. The Scene Was Lighted by the Flashes From the Sky and the Guns of the Americans as They Swept the Enemy From the Top of the Works Which They Had Mounted in Greatly Superior Force. | s had four rounds for |rain. the man when succored. Major| Marching beside Colonel O’Hara then sent information to | James E. Smith of the First Cal- Greene of his move. | ifornia Regiment, I reached the this time the ,fire was|trenches before the correspond- heavy and continuous, vastly dif-|ents of any other American pa- ferent from the usual outpost pers. Only one other paper was shooting of the Spaniards. The [represented on the field that natives had aroused the camp. |night. The call to arms sounded at mid-| Going down the Calle road we night and the First Battalion of imet the insurgents running Californians, closely followed l\_\'!a\\'ay, firing as they ran. the remaining battalions, march- | California First Battalion was ed to the front, cheering as they | thrown immediately forward. In crossed muddy fields in a pitiless | the trenches I found Krag-Jor- sylvania 3y The | | gensen rifles of the regulars do- |ing deadly work. I have seen the new rifle tried and know it is |an effective weapon. | The Second California Battal- {ion deployed on the right, hold- ing the line to Pasay, the Third | being in reserve, with the Colo- rados in the rear. Not one in- {surgent was found in the | trenches. For three hours the Spaniards | were maintaining a galling enfi- |lading fire, but they shot high, making a veritable hell of the SN 224 y{@ vg \ % Jd \ £ 7 u=7 @\ s i (@ ) A ARTHUR ‘z@); : oy = o >4 JoHNSON PHOTOS BY-HODSON™ i 7 JoriN D. BRADY--. TG ALVA ™M Tl WALTERS THREE VICTIMS OF THE BATTLE OF MALATE. Bradv Was Killed and Johnson and Walters Were Among, the Serlously Wounded. ENTRY TO MANILd MAY BE EFFECTED WITHOUT FORCE Operations to Cease as Soon as Merritt Learns of the Peace Negotiations. NEW YORK, Aug. 9.—The Washington correspondent of the Herald telegraphs the following: Although Spain has accepted the peace terms proposed by the President, hostilities will not technically cease until the signipg of the protocol declaring the existence of an armistice. This means that Manila will not be forcibly occupied by General Merritt's troops and that operations in the Philippines between the American and Spanish forces will end as soon as Rear Admiral Dewey and Major General Merritt are informed of the status of the peace negotiations. This information will be sent to-morrow to Hongkong and from there forwarded by the dispatch boat McCulloch to Manila. [CROJOXOROROXOXOROJOROROROROROFORO] OROROJOROXOROJOJOJOJOROROROROROXO CEOEROOEOOE ©OOOE CEOOOE® ported heavy. The Astor Battery did not go into action, as its gun cartridges were damaged in the transfer | from the transport to the beach. | The men were compelled to lie in camp and fume while the fighting®proceeded. To-day Cap- tain March is keeping the men busy putting dry powder into shells. General Greene issued an or- der thanking officially the Penn- sylvanians, the Californians, the Utahs and the Third Artillery for bravery in action and steadiness under fire. AMERICANS WHO FELL second line of entrenchments held by the Second California Battalion. Crossing this line to the front I crawled through the mud while all about me scattered a storm of bullets. At this point the most casualties occurred to the relieving troops. The Penn- sylvanians were shot outside the trenches. The Spanish fire gradually slackened toward morning. At daylight the garrison retired be- hind sandbag entrenchments at Malate. Only the sharp bark of the rifles of the American sharp- shooters picking off Spaniards were heard occasionally. That ceased after sunrise, when the weary troops were relieved and the recovery of the dead began. The Spaniards carried off their | dead as they retired and none were found. The Spaniards shot brass-coated balls. The Spanish losses are unknown, but are re- IN THE MALATE BATTLE Official List of Those XKilled and Wounded While Repulsing the Spanish Onslaught. | Special Cable to The Call and the New York | Herald. Copyrighted, 18%, by James Gor- don Bennett. CAVITE, Aug. 4 (via Hongkong, Aug. 9.).—There was a heavy engagement ! pefore Malate on the night of July 3L