The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, February 12, 1899, Page 1

_— SAN FRANCISCO, SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 1899—THIRTY-TWO PAGE AT ALL POINTS FILIPINOS FALL _ BACK BEFORE THE AMERICANS —_— DEWEY NOW TRAINS GUNS ON MALABON Driving the Rebels Slowly Toward Agui naldo’s Cap- ital at Malolos. Two Californians Are Found Dead in the Jungle After a Skirmish Near Old Ca mp Dewey. MANILA, Feb. 12.—Another encounter took place last night between the American troops the insurgents, in which men were once more vic- torious. A squad of the Four- ith Infantry, which was on outpost duty to the south of the , in the vicinity of the coast, > engaged in reconnoitering | e upon a large body of Fili-| pinos in the jungle clase to old | Camp Dewey. The presence of | insurgents in force so far re-| moved from the scene of the re-| cent hostilities was a surprise to the Americans, and after a few shots had been exchanged the in- fantry squad fell back upon the| and Otis’ tee main line. | On their reporting the pres- ence of the enemy a portion of senting, Harper's Weekly and The Call and Herald, was shot in the arm yesterday. The loss of the enemy is estimated at fully fifty killed and wounded to one American killed or wounded. The heat to-day knocked out many more of our men than did the Filipino bullets, especially in the lands north of Malabon, where the Kansas regiment was stationed. Fully a score of them were taken to the hospital. Among the accidents of the day it is cited that Privates Hart- ley and Fitch of the Minnesotas were both wounded in the leg by the same bullet, and Private Mitchell of Company B of the Kansas regiment, while assisting | a couple of men to the rear, was | shot in the left arm. The railroad is now open to Caloocan, and supplies for the the Fourteenth Infantry and the | Fourth Cavalry were at once or- 3 | dered to advance and drive the insurgents from their position. A determined stand was made by the rebels and the engagement lasted time without any perceptible advan- for a considerable tage being gained. In the meantime a small gun- boat, which had been cruising in the vicinity, hearing the noise of firing, steamed up to the support of the troops. She swept the coast with her rapid American fire guns and Colts with excel- lent effect, and the Americans finally succeeded in driving back the enemy after inflicting heavy loss on their ranks. Privates Ransom, Hensel and Saunders of Company F, Four- teenth Infantry, and two troopers of Fourth Cavalry were wounded. the The bodies of two members of the California regiment were sub- sequently found in the bush to the right of the line. They had been shot to pieces by the rebels Orie of these bodies was identi- fied as that of Private Abnep-| pam, but the other has not yet | been identified. (The name given here is clearly erroneous, the mistake having been made in| transmission by wire.) MANILA, Feb. 11.—2:30| p. m.—Early to-day the monitor | Monadnock and the cruiser Charleston began dropping shells | into the rebel camp between Co- loocan and Malabon. The en- emy’s sharpshdoters in the jungle on. the American left had been particularly annoying since day- light, so the Third Artillery 4 drove the rebels out of the jungle at noon. In the meantime a few more of our men were wounded. troops are being forwarded by rail. | The following additional par- | ticulars regarding the capture of ‘(fa]mcan have been obtained: The insurgents had been concen- | trating their forces for days at | Caloocan, and Major General El- [ well S. Otis, the American com- mander, determined to attack [them. He instructed his com- | manders accordingly and re- quested the assistance of the naval forces under the command of Rear Admiral Dewey. Major | General MacArthur reported that | all was ready, and at 3 o’clock ‘he received the following message: “The commanding general or- ders you to go ahead with the programme. BARRY.” The attack began immediately. The monitor Monadnock and the cruiser Charleston shelled Caloocan and the country north of it for half an hour. General MacArthur’s artillery also did ef- fective work from a hill in the rear. Brigadier General Harrison | Gray Otis, with his brigade, con- sisting of the Kansas regiment, the Montana regiment and the Third Artillery, regulars, acting as infantry, advanced handsome- ly, pushing forward in the face of the Filipino bullets as cheerfully as if they had been snowballs. The enemy was utterly routed and fled to the mountains. At 6 o’clock “cease firing” and “recall” were sounded. The troops were then well through Caloocan and north of it. Gen- eral MacArthur established his left at Caloocan and strengthened his lines for the night. By the capture of Caloocan the control of much of the rolling stock of.the Manila Dagupan Railroad was obtained. The city is now quieter and business is bet- ter than at any time since the out- .John F. Bass, an artist repre- | break of hostilities. e e e 2 WASHINGTON, Feb. 11— General Otis to-day sent the @ following additional list to the ‘War Department: KILLED. PRIVATE JOHN M. GIBBONS, hospital corps. @ PRIVATE ALONZO RICKETS, ® Company I, Twentleth Kansas Vol- @ unteer Infantry. PRIVATE FRED HALL, Com- pany I, First Montana Volunteer Infantry. PRIVATE HARRY McCLURE, Company H, First Idaho Volun- teer Infantry. WOUNDED. First Montana Volunteer Infan- try—Lieutenant Colonel R. B. Wal- 1 Second Lieutenant Willlam Gardenheir, Company E; Privates Thomas Malo, Company L; Seth H. Dibble, Company D; Everett Met- calf, Company B; Joseph Craft Company F; Willilam J. Borthwic Company G; Clarence Briggs, Com- pany H; Captain W. L. Hill; Pri- vates Henry G. Reynolds, Com- pany D; John C. Bullan, Com- pany A; Joseph W. Kennedy, C. B. Beloa, Company D; Bab- cock, Company G; Carl G. Peter- son, Company M; John W. Camp- bell, Company L; Willlam Ken- nedy, Company G; Harry Slack, Company B; Perry G. Bullard, Company C; G. W. Boardman, Company M; J. M. Box, Company D; David Burn Company M; Frank Gotti, missing. Third United States Artillery— Privates Oscar Portwich, Battery G; Jerry R. Cleveland, Battery F Leo Heisler, Battery H; Bert ) Dorton, Battery K; Corporal Davis C. McKelvey, Battery K; Privates Jerry Cramer, Battery H; James Leonard, Battery K; Rufus B. Blume, Battery K; B. L. Putzker, Battery K. Twentieth Infantry—Corporal Kansas Edward Volunteer g ® [ 3 4 D. ‘Willing, Company B; Privates Harry 8. Harris, Company B; James 8. Mills, Company E; Dayvid M. Horkman, Company H; 8. J. Howard, Company B; Elmer Unle, Company Barber, Company Company K; John Company K; Sidney Morrison, Company M. First Idaho—Captain L. R. Ha- mer, Corporal Howard Barkley, Company E; Private James Willard, Company D. Thirteenth Minnesota Volunteer Infantry — Private Ben Optan, Company L. Utah Artillery—Corporal Andrew Peterson, Battery B. Attacked by Paralysis. SALINAS, Feb. 11.—L. Greenleaf, a jeweler, was stricken by paralysis this morning while entering his place of busi- ness, and had to be conveyed home. Greenleaf has but one leg, and in falling this morning he injured himself. As this is the third attack of paralysis it is feared it will prove fatal, he being 54 years of sa8e. ® First North Dakota Regiment— @ Sergeant Willlam H. Lock, Com- pany G. o €08 L 1] 000000006 S4>4090 0+ ON THE ADVANCED LINE. A view of the town of Paslg, th.lrteen miles southeast of Manlla, on one of the outlets from Laguna de Bay into the Pasig River. This place Is held by a part of the First California Regiment, and with them Is the headquarters of General King, the brigade commander. B e B e B e Tl S SRS SRCHDAIR DA DN MDA SN SN S S By John F. Bass. | NEW YORK, Feb. 11.—Mr. John F. Bass, who has sent the following graphic descrip- | tion of the week’s fighting around Mam'la,:l represents Harper's Weekly in the Philip- | pines, through the courtesy of which paper | he also served as the correspondent of The | Call and Herald. He is a graduate of Har vard University, class of 1890. This is not | his first experience with war. He passed | through the Turko-Grecian war as the cor- respondent of the London Daily News. He | sent The Call-Herald's dispatch while suf- | fering from a wound in the arm. MANILA, Feb. 11.—When hostilities | were opened last Saturday the Ameri- | can army encircled Manila in two di- visions, the first brigade of the first division, General Anderson’s,.being un- der command of Brigadler General King and the second brigade was com- manded by Brigadier General Oven- shine. The lines extended from the sea along the line of the Spanish block- houses to the Pasig River in Sampaloc. The second division, under General Mc- Arthur, with the first brigade com- manded by Brigadier General Harrison G. Otis, and the second brigade by Brigadier General Hale occupied a po- sition to the north of the city from the Pasig River to the sea. The most ex- treme point inland occupied by the American troops was the camp of the Nebraska Regiment at Santa Mesa, where the fight first began at 8:45 o’clock last Saturday night. The Nebraska outposts challenged and fired on an insurgent company which was advancing into the neutral zone. Soon afterward the whole in- surgent company was advancing into the neutral zone. It was not long before the insurgents’ lines on the north of the city began a heavy fusillade. This charge was con- centrated on the Nebraska camp, which became untenable. Orders were given for the regiment to open fire. Springflelds flamed in the half moon all about the camp. The enemy’s Mausers gave no flash. At 4 o’clock on Sunday morning, with the shout “Viva la Republica,” the Filipinos tried to rush across the bridge over the road leading to the water works opposite the American camp. One company of the Nebraska men met the advancing insurgents at the bridge and drove them back. Twice the Filipinos, with indomitable pluck, charged upon the bridge again, but they were driven back each time. Lieutenant Webb of Battery A, sta- tioned on Mesa Hill, prayed for day- light, and when dawn came two guns of the Utah Battery opened fire so near to the firing line that two men | were killed at once. The plan of the 1 3 VICTORIOUS DEEDS DURING S aoa OB Sl o Ot e o O e e s o e o THE FIGHTING AT MANILA second division was to sweep forward and carry the high position held by the nemy north of the Pasig River. The Colorado volunteers under com- mand of Colonel Mecoy rushed on block- houses No. 4 and No. 6, and the villages beyond San Juan bridge were cleared with shrapnel. The Nebraska men made their way over the bridge, crouching in pairs, amid the hissing and spattering of bullets. On the other side they were met with a surge of lead from the steep hill of San Juan. But they were followed by two Norden- feldts under charge of Lieutenant Gibbe. As these tumbled over the bridge a battalion of Tennessee troops approached and quickly followed across in columns of four under fire. Colonel Smith fell from his horse and died of apoplexy at the moment of the charge. Up the hill the artillery and infantry scrambled, digging with their hands and feet. Nothing could stand before them. It was a grand sight. At 12 o’clock noon our men took the reser- voirs at the top of the hill. Further to the left on the heights was Binaldo Church. In order to take this the- Americans did not have to advance up . the steep incline, but could make a gradual ascent over two miles of rough country. Barbed wire impeded their advance. The Utah guns followed the advance of the troops step by step to clear the way. The Third Artillery moved along the dikes through a cul de sac with swamps on either side and got into the open, losing twenty-five minutes. Two batteries then swung to the right under Captain O'Hara, going into the open like veterans and drove from the church the insurgents who were pouring a cutting fire on the Mon- tana and Pennsylvania troops while they were coming up the hill through the cemterey toward Binaldo Church. Colonel Frost, commanding the South Dakota Regiment, swung that body around from the left and carried two insurgent redoubts where thirty in- surgents were killed. The South Da- kota and part of the Pennsylvania troops then took Binaldo Church. The Concord, from the bay, shelled the woods near the shore, and the Kan- sas men, followed by the Montana troops and supported by one gun, moved on Saturday night along Caloo- can road. The enemy charged them six times, coming within one hundred yards, but they were steadily pushed back, until by Sunday night the Amer- ican line had advanced three miles. Thus all along the second division had little difficulty in driving the enemy, who fought well behind trenches, but once dislodged fled in panic. Against the first division south of the city per- haps the fighting was the hardest. The insurgents showed wonderful pluck un- der command of General Noreal. During Saturday night everything was quiet, but at 7:30 o’clock on Sunday morning from Artillery Knoll, General Anderson’s headquarters, the Sixth Ar- tillery opened fire, and from the bay to blockhouse No. 14, where the American troops entered Manila, the ground was held by the North Dakota Regiment and the Fourth Infantry. The Monadnock, from her place in the bay, pounded the insurgents with her big guns. Captain Murphy, in com- mand of the Fourteenth Battalion, be- Jand wounded Fillpinos. gan the fighting at 8 o’clock in the morning. So stubborn was the resist- ance at this point that he only suc- ceeded In taking blockhouse No. 14, a | few hundred yards distant, at 2 o’clock | that afternoon. | This place is called ‘“‘Bloody lane” by | the Spaniard Lieutenant Michael fell | crying, “Never mind, men; go on.” Lieutenant Miles then took the lead. | One hundred yards from the block | house the fire.was so hot that he called | for volunteers, and with eight men he | took the place, the insurgents going out | as his men went in. | General Ovenshine was ordered to | | dislodge the enemy in Murphy's front. | | He formed a brigade of the Fourteenth | | Infantry, on the right of Murphy’s po- fon, with volunteers on right of the | Fourteenth Infantry, and troops C and L of the Fourth Caval mounted, on the left of Murphy men. All of the men to the right of Mur- | phy's position wheeled to the left | across an open field till the thicket was | reached. Then they opened fire and the | enemy was finally dislodged. The en- gagement was hot, but the fire of our men - was.irresistible. General Oven- shine with his brigade then proceeded to Pasay, which he entered without re- sistance, The line of the First Division on Sun- day night extended from the bay at Pasay to the Pasig River at San Pedro Macate. Farther inland our line was along the stream to Triega, and three miles in front was an open coun- try. One and a half miles diagonally | across the line Colonel Smith, with | three companies of the California | troops, one Washington and four Wy- oming companies, was ordered to ad- vance toward San Pedro Macate. General King was to move forward as | soon as Colonel Smith came opposite. | The troovs waded the stream and | marched into the open country as. if | they were on drill. From the stone | house, nipa huts and earthworks the enemy poured bullets upon the Amer- icans, while Battery D, Sixth Artillery, under Captain Dyers, and Hawthorne’s separate Montana Battery continued to shell the enemy magnificently over the heads of the advancing troops. | At San Pedro Macate the position of | the insurgents seemed Impregnable, but Lieutenant Haven of Company A, En-l gineer corps, forced a way back of the | town and by plucky work made the po- sition untenable for the enemy. The Washington troops swam the es- tuary under fire, and later the -Idaho troops, with one company of Washing- ton men, swept the insurgents toward the left. One hundred of the Filipinos jumped into the Pasig River, but only twenty succeeded in getting across the stream. The village was burned on everv side to dislodge the guerrillas. Smoke of fire and battle encircled the | city. An improvised river gunboat with Captain Randolph of the Third Artil- lery commanding riddled Santa Ana with its guns. The Idaho troops charged the bastion fort and Major McConnville was killed. Two Krupp guns were captured and sixty-five dead insurgents were found in one heap. The rice fields were dotted with dead The hospital corps did splendid work for both friend and foe. The insurgents, once dislodged, ran miles back into the country and all along the line were swept by the first division. On Monday afternoon the Nebraska Battallon, the Twenty-third Infantry and Tennessee troops, General Hale commanding, with four guns. under Major Youne of Utah, swept the coun- ry for four miles to the pumping sta- tion. They shelled the insurgents from hill' to hill. At the foot of the second hill was found the stripped body of Dr. Young of Utah, who rode through the lines by mistake. His horse had been shot, and twelve empty revolver cartridges were found by hi ide. The insurgents re- tired firing as they went, and at 5 o'clock in the afternoon on Monday the pumping station had been taken. The cylinder heads had been removed by the insurgents, but these were found later in the coal works and are now in good condition. On Tuesday. General Anderson meved his left up to La Gana Pasig, which surrendered For several ys loads of insurgents were seen landing at Ca- lpocan, north of Manila, and on Friday the Concord shelled the town. General MacArthur sent the Kansas and ‘Montana troops and the Third Ar- tillery to take the place. In a splen- did charge the Kansas men went through the jungle near the shore. The | insurgents fought from tree to tree. but were steadily driven back under a heavy infaptry fire. The Montana ‘troops and the Third Artillery ad- vanced into the open for two miles without sheiter. The insurgents fired from the edge of the woods and strong earthworks in Caloocan. Four guns of Battery A, Utah, and two guns of Dyers’ Battery, under Lieutenant Fleming, shelled the posi- tion accurately, and before the splendid charge of the infantrymen the insur- gents fled. . Lieutenant Colonel Wallace was shot through the lungs, but he will recover. Our men rushed into Caloocan with a shout. ihe American flag was raised on the church at 5 o’'clock in the after- noon. The insurgents fled on and in every direction were followed by our enthusiastic soldiers. The charge could not be stopped un- til they had reached a point a mile beyond Caloocan. The town was burned to dislodge the sharpshooters. | Our losses were three killed and thirty- eight wounded. Every department of the army de- serves the highest praise. There is no chance of an insurgent uprising in the town with the vigilant administration of the '-provost marshal, General Hughes. All the supplies are up within the fir- ing line. The present line is about twenty miles long, encircling the city at the bay, from Aupan at Pas Ryon, south to San Pedro Macate on the Pa- sig River: thence to the water works at Santolon; thence to Santa Mesa, the Chinese Church and Caloocan on the north. Your correspondent was shot in the rizht arm in yesterday's fight and writes with difficulty. The wound is slight. All the wounded are doing well Ln.nd are likely to recover.