The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, February 7, 1899, Page 1

VOLUME "LXXXV—=NO. 69. SAN FRANCISCO, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 7, Call 1899, PRICE FIVE CENTS THE CALIFORNIANS HEROES OF THE DAY BRAVE CHARGE OF DUBOCE PACO CH VOLUNTEERS SAVE THE Leaving the Ground Strewn With Fili- pinos. (GeneralOtis Sends to Wash- ington an Official List of Dead and Wounded. EORONORO R RIS 0 23 O BRORIBRORGIIRS O 81025 L83 0 B3 0 3101 SR =4 - MANILA, Feb. 6.—One of the most notable events of Sun-| day's battle inos out of their stronghold at W co by the reserve, a few com- anies Californians, com- manded by Lieutenant Colonel Duboce. The main road to the 1le was lined by native huts of full of Filipino sharpshooters. After they had fired upon Gen- er King and his staff, killing a and had fired onan ambulance of the Red Cross| > Colonel James FT.| Smith ordered the huts to| be cleared and burned. The Filipinos concentrated in Paco church and convent, where they made a determined stand in the upper stories. A platoon of Cali- fornians, stationed on a neigh- boring bridge, maintained a hot fire on the Filipinos, but was un- able to dislodge them. In the face of a ter- driving the Fili-| FILIPINOS LOST THOUSANDS MANILA, Feb, 6.—Careful estimates place the Filipino losses up to date at 2000 dead, 3500 wounded and 5000 taken prisoners. SRORORORORORORO NORGIOTE 8 SOOI L0280 8310 83X I U, Rl s THE REBELS 1 DRIVEN BACK HONGKONG, Feb. 6.— The S SSIEIOE O 23101 83 5 23 0 83 X1 23 01 B30 80 latest advices from Manila say that the rebel forces have been driven back ten miles and their losses are estimated at 1900 killed or wounded. During the fighting the United States warships shelled a train loaded with insurgents. Colonel William C. Smith of the First Tennessee Regiment was in the thick of the fight when he was attacked by apo- plexy and fell from his horse. HONOOGOLONOLORQION rific fusillade Colonel |Duboce and a few vol- junteers dashed into the church, scattered coal oil inside of it, sct fire to the oil and retired. In the meantime Captain Dy- | er’s battery of the Sixth Artillery bombarded the church, dropping |a dozen shells into the tower and iroof. Company L and part of s um;;gi{(fill LIEUTENANT COLONEL VICTOR DUBOCE, TBECHE2 01 23 0183 O SOOI 0F SR 0H S0 SRR 0S0e680.0M 20000000026 20006800000200000 ® : : § : : ; : § : AT URCH Company G of the Californians charged into the church,, but were unable to ascend the single flight of steps leading to the story above. | After the incendiaries had re- i tired,a company of.the Idaho and | jthe Washington guards, station- | ed on either side of the building, picked off the Filipinos as they | were smoked out. Many of the i | 3 | Continued on Ninth Page. 0—6-—0-0-9-0-0-6 °-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-90 o—ooo—oooo-oooaoo-n—z WW—*‘ R e ) 0000000¢ & FFICIAL LIST OF CASUALTIES THE KILLED. LIEUTENANT JAMES MITCHELL, Fourteenth wounds at 2:05 p. m., February 6. PRIVATE G. W. HALL, Company G, First Idaho, died of wounds. COLONEL WILLIAM G. SMITH, First Tennezsee, died of apoplexy at the head of his command on firiing line, February 5. FIRST CALIFORNIA INFANTRY. J. J. DEWAR, Company K. TOM BRYAN, Company H. JOSEPH MAHR, Company M. FIRST COLORADO INFANTRY. ELMER S. DORAN, Company I. CHARLES CARLSON, Company L. FIRST SOUTH DAKOTA INFANTRY. HORACE J. McCRACKEN, Company H. FRED E. GREEN, Company L WILLIAM J. LEWIS, Company 1. FOURTEENTH INFANTRY. CORPORAL GUY P. SODEN, Company E. CORPORAL HENRY F.THOMPSON, Company M. PRIVATE JESSE A. HALE, Company A, PRIVATE MAURICE SEAMAN, Company A. PRIVATE LOUIS V. DIETZ, Company D. 5 PRIVATE JAMES HARVEY KNIGHT, Company M. PRIVATE CHARLES W. DOUGLAS, Company M. PRIVATE FRANK K. ESSINGHA USEN, Company M. PRIVATE CHARLES A. SEITZ, Company M. PRIVATE ALPHONSE BONNER, Company M. PRIVATE PETER A. ESTORMER, Company I. SIXTH ARTILLERY. PRIVATE W. A. WOODMAN, Company D. FIRST IDAHO INFANTRY. MAJOR ED McCONNVILLE. CORPORAL FRANK R. CALVERT, Company B. PRIVATE JAMES FRASER, Company C. FIRST WASHINGTON INFANTRY. CORPORAL GEORGE W. McCGOWAN, Company A. PRIVATE RALPH W. SIMONDS, Company A. PRIVATE GEORGE R. REICHART. PRIVATE FRANK SMITH. PRIVATE MATTHIAS H. CHERRY. PRIVATE SHERMAN HARRING. PRIVATE EDWARD H. PERRY, Company I PRIVATE WALTER N. HANSON, Company L. PRIVATE ARNO H. MEICKEL, Company H. MISSING. FIRST MONTANA INFANTRY. CORPORAL HAYES, Company H. FIRST COLORADO INFANTRY. PRIVATE C. D. WHITE, Company D, supposed to have been drowned. WOUNDED. TENTH PENNSYLVANIA INFANTRY. MAJOR E. BRIERER, flesh wound; arm; slight. LIEUTENANT ALBERT J. BUTTERMORE, flesh wound; slight. SERGEANT JOSEPH SHELDON, Company H, slight flesh wound; thigh. PRIVATE HIRAM CONGER, Company D,abdomen; penetrated; serious. PRIVATE EDWARD CALDWELL, Company C, lung penetrated; serjous. PRIVATE Infantry, died of PRIVATE PRIVATE PRIVATE PRIVATE PRIVATE PRIVATE PRIVATE PRIVATE DEBAULT, flesh wound; back; slight. FIRST MONTANA INFANTRY. Pf{IVATE REYNOLDS, Company H, slight wound in ear. PRIVATE CHARLES RUMMELS, flesh wound in leg; slight. PRIVATE bly die. PRIVATE MAYERSICK, Company C, lungs penetrated; serious. CORPORAL SKINNER, Company I, slight wound; thigh. FIRST COLORADO INFANTRY. PRIVATE ORTON TWEVER, Company B, wounded; left thigh. PRIVATE CHARLES S. MORRISON, Company B, wounded; left hand. PRIVATE MAURICE PARKHURST, Company B, wounded in pubes, CORPORAL WILLIAM H. ERLE, Company I, wounded in left cheek and arm. PRIVATE CHARLES B. BOYCE, Company L, flesh wound in left knee. F!R‘?T LIEUTENANT CHARLES HAUGHWOUNT, flesh wound left nee. JOHN SORENSON, Company L, head wounded; will proba- FIRST SOUTH DAKOTA INFANTRY. PRIVATE BENJAMIN PHEPPS, Company K, wounded right thigh. l‘Ol({rll’iOr!;(AL EUGENE E. STEVENS, Company K, wounded in right gh. PRIVATE FRANK McLAIN, wounded in right hip. HIRAM FAY, wounded in right knee. CORPORAL XKARL H. OSGOOD, Company F, sprained knee. PRIVATE A. HASKELL, Company I, slight wound in neck. THIRD ARTILLERY. BERNARD SHARP, flesh wound leg, slight. ORIAN RYAN, shot in head, serious. EDWARD LUNDSTROM, Company L, shot through hand, PRIVATE PRIVATE PRIVATE siight. PRIVATE JAMES GLEASON, Company L, flesh wound thigh, slight. FIRST WASHINGTON INFANTRY. SERGEANT SAMUEL E. BOAKLER, Company L CORPORAL JAMES NEARY, Company M. MUSICIAN JOSEPH W. OSBERGER, Company M. TRIVATE DIXON A. EVERETT. Company A. PRIVATE MICHAEL KENNEDY. PRIVATE AUGUSTIN BERRY, Company F. PRIVATE BENJAMIN A. HARBOUR. PRIVATE HUGH P. McCLELLAN. PRIVATE HERMAN STEINHAGEN. PRIVATE O. B. WRIGHT, Company I. PRIVATE WILLIAM SLOAT, Company K. PRIVATE ARTHUR L. OSBORNE, Company M. PRIVATE RICHARD HUGHES, Company M. PRIVATE ALBERT E. BARTH, Company M, The official list sent by General Otis to the War Department at Wash- ington makes no mention of Hogan, Wall, Scheren nor any Califor- nian as having been wounded. o Al K3 moommoonnoooeomgoo (1] | | | | e R 900909 90000000000 (-8-0-0-90-00- [ = o ’.—......H.HH-—.....—H..HQ—OH—. SOME HEROES OF MANILA. Of these soldiers shown here the dispatches yesterday gave the name of Lieutenant Erwin among the -killed and of Lieutenant Hogan and Sergeant Mahr of the First California as wounded. Poor Mahr, according to the official list, has been killed. Neither the name of Hogan nor of any Californian occurs among the list of wounded sent by General Otis. TERRIBLE CARNAGE AMONG THE RANKS OF FILIPINOS :Four Thousand of Aguinaldo’s Followers Fell in the Battle, and More Than Half of That Number Were Killed. MANILA, Feb, 6.—It would be scarce- ly possible to describe the effect upon lowing ‘the latters’ attack upon the Americans on Saturday night. It is ap- | the natives in the city of Manila of the | | disastrous result to the Filipinos fcl- | parent now that many natives in' the | city had full knowledge of the intended movement of the insurgent fcrces, who, calculating upon taking the Americans by surprise and thus winning a com- | paratively easy victor left in a position to dictate terms to our generals. Of course this idea was due to the ignorance of the natives, but*it is this very ignorance which will, for some time to come, be a dangerous factor in the situation here. The Filipinos in the city were evidently buoyed up by the hope that when the invaders began to retreat they would have an opportu- nity, in the resuiting confusion, to real- ize the long cherished dream of looting Manila,® a‘proceeding they have been | 1ooking forward to with the keenest ex- pectation ever since’ Dewey vanquished Montojo last May. They were. it will expected to be | ed when the city capitulated to find their hopes of ‘v the Spaniards, aRd at the same time despoiling thém of their property, were nullified by the action of Merritt, then military commander here, who forbade them to enter the city armed. On Sunday afternoon, when they realized the full extent of the disaster which had befallen them, they were in a condition bordering on frenzy, and it required strong and tactful handling of the situation to prevent an out- break, which would certainly have re- sulted in the slaughter of hundreds of the Fillipinos here, upon whom would have fallen the anger of the American troops, anxious to avenge the death of their comrades who had fallen under the fire of the followers of the treacher- ous Aguinaldo. The precautions taken, however. were | such that there was no serious trouble. and as cabled to The Call yesterday. the city remained quiet after the first outhurst of -excitement. Your correspondent went over the fighting ground yesterday afternoon to make an examination of the position which had been held by the enemy and % - ' aking vengeance on | with such heavy losses. There is no denying the fact that the Filipinos will stand fire. The ground in every direc- tion bere evidence of this. On all sides were lying dead natives, their bodies in many instances being full of bullet holes. The majority of the dead were lying with their heads toward the line of the American advan showing that they had fallen figh To the north and where the shells of th: ton and gunboat Callao Monadnock reached the Filipinos, the slaughter was sickening. The bodies of hundreds of insurgents had been literally torn into shreds by the fire from the warships. In some | places the shells had torn great holes in the earth, and around these were scattered the fragments of human be- Ings. ©On all sides the scene was one of ter- | rilfle desperation 1at on Satur- | day had been a s andscape was | now marked and pitted by the yravages { of war. Your correspondent Went to | Santa Mesa, San juan del Mante, Santa | Ana, San Pedro Macati and Lomia and | other places from which our troops had driven the enemy, and the scene in and |around each was identical. The great | be ‘remembered, extremely disappoint- | from which he had been driven out|number of dead showed the little nae