The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, March 27, 1899, Page 1

The SAN FRANCISCO, MONDAY, MARCH 27, 1899. PRICE FIVE CENTS. V—NO. 117. S B = ° -6 06 @ e & ¢-0-0-0-0-90 + General Egbert and Prince ? ® L oewenstein ? < Among the Dead. ® 9 6 ©0-0 9009600089600 0060 0008 6 00 @0 €00 0-09° o900 000-¢0-00 ® Most Disastrcous Battle i @ With the ® Retreating Insurgents. + é® 000 -©-© 0 © & 06 0-0-6-0-6-—0 e-o D R e O S o3 S e Ded GE NERALS 1 @+ RTHUR = O CARTHUR, HL N COMMAND DURING THE FORWARD MOVEMENT. D S S o S o S IPINDS S S e e O s S O e e e o O S CE S SRS SO = ] e e S ot ] Aguinaldo’s Forces Fleeing to Malolos for a Final Stand. ANILA, March 26, 7:30 M p. m.—The United States troops under Brigadier- Generals H nd Lloyd Wheat- on captured the town of Malinta, beyond the Tuliahan River, to- day after a sharp fight. Colonel Harry C. Egbert, of the Twenty- second Regular Infantry, was killed. Prince Loewenstein, for- merly aid-de-camp on the staff of Brigadier-General Miller at Iloilo, somehow got in front of the firing line and was shot in the side, dying almost instantly. A German who accompanied him was wounded. The American casualties to- day were much lighter than those | of yesterday, the total losses thus far reported since the engage- ment commenced being 43 killed and 145 wounded. General Wheaton entered Ma- linta, which is a small village of huts, at 1 o'clock this afternoon. The United States gunboat Hel- ena and other gunboats have been shelling Malabon, about a mile northwest of Caloocan, for several hours. | Thc insurgents made a fierce | resistance to the American ad- {vance up the railroad at Malinta. ;'In addition to the fatal wounding |of the Twenty-second Infantry {and several men of the Oregon and Kansas regiments were killed. Evidently anticipating a bom- bardment by the fleet, a thousand rebels vacated Malabon last night, leaving a few to burn the town. General Wheaton’s bri- | gade, composed of the Second Oregon regiment and the Twen- |ty-second and Twenty-third In- fantry, stretched out along the railroad from Caloocan to the | Tuliahan River, was powerless to |prevent the withdrawal, owing to | the natural obstacles and to the strong opposition. A column of smoke at day- break was the first intimation of the enemy’s intentions, but oth- ers followed at various points, all soon blending in a dense balloon- shaped cloud. The flames of the burning rice mills and large 4 buildings could be plainly seen 25 O SRS INSURGEN 2 fe33 Malolos. press on to-morrow; is tally wounded. o B O00e U RSO 25 CE Y from Caloocan despite the strong sunlight. By 11 o'clock in the morning |the only building of importance not destroyed was a large stone church in the center of the town, but even at noon fresh fires were started among the native huts in the outskirts of Malabon, al- though the general exodus took place much earlier. Many of the rebels sought refuge in the sub- urbs Navotas and Casag or were driven inland by the shells of the Helena, Callao, Ningdapan and Laguna de Bai. In the meantime General Wheaton’s brigade held the rail- road to the river, but was unable either to repair the bridge, which had been destroyed by the ene- my, or to advance, owing to the FROM INTRENCHMENTS General Otis’ Report of the Advance of the Flying Golumn Under MacAsthur, WASHINGTON, March 26.—The War Department to-night received the following: “MANILA, March 26.—Adjutant - General, ton: MacArthur’s advance beyond New Canavan, two miles beyond Polo, nine miles from Manila and fifteen miles from Railroad will be repaired morrow and troops supplied now gents stoutly resisting behind succeeding lines of intrench- ments from which the troops continually drive them. City is perfectly quiet and the native inhabitants appear to be relieved of anxiety and fear of Krayenbuhl, Commissary Lieutenant Third Artillery, is mor- R RO, | | OO0 O RONORORORILOR VEN Washing- to advance point to- cars. MacArthur wiil open country. Insur- by in the insurgents. Captain OFIS? 8350 SO0 other side. The calculations of both Gen- eral Hale and General Harrison Gray Otis, whose brigades con- stituted General MacArthur’s di- vision, were much interfered with by the character of the country in front of both, and the enemy was able to take advantage of this, so that the operations against Novalrehs and Polo were delayed, though the right wing of the division swung out, sweeping the enemy in a north- westerly direction. General Wheaton’s headquar- ters last night was half a mile south of the river on the railroad. The opposite bank was protected yesterday by blockhouses and in- trenchments. Occasionally the artillery and infantry fired across opposition and the hills on thelthe stream. Finally the engi-| > | gan to replace the floor. HAVE F OAREAEREERERE S e PRINGE LOEWENSTEIN KILLED DURING THE PROGRESS OF BATTLE MANILA, March 26, 7:30 p. m. —Prince Loewenstein, formerly honorary aid-de-camp on the staff of General Miller at Iloilo, somehow got in front of the fir- ing line and was killed. The death of Prince Ludwig Carl Loewenstein-Wertheim in vesterday’s fighting ends a ca- reer which of late had seemed mysterious and gives rise to no little speculation. According to a dispatch from London to the Associated Press on March 4, the Prince, who married Ladv Anne Saville, daughter of the Earl of Mexborough, had ‘been lost sight of by his friends, 2nd an adver- tisement inquiring as to his whereabouts had appeared in the London news This elicited a dispatch from Manila ng that the missing Prince in the Philippines, had there for many months, was present at the de- struction of Montejo’s fleet and was a member of the European Club. The dispatch asserted also that his hehavior had given rise to a suspicion that he was acting as the confidential agent of the German Government. It was further alleged that before Manila surrendered he was al- lowed to pass in and out of the 5 5 d insurgent lines, parently regarding ble to themselves. 4444444444444 4 4444444414444 4444444444444 44 4444t 4 4+ 44444 him as fa For a few serted that h tary aid-de-camp on the staff of Brigadier eral Miller. The London Daily Mall about the same time said it had in- formation that Prince Ludwig was in Tloilo in January of this year, and with other papers it asked the meaning of these “mysterious movements.” PO S S S R e R R R R R R e D R R e S R s neers moved a construction train | up to the bridge, the iron frame- work of which remained, and-be- While this was going on the | {Second Oregon regiment crossed | |the river on the left and the Twenty-second on the right, with |four companies of the T\\'ent_\'f‘v third Infantry supporting the lat- | ter regiment. A rising clear ground stretched away for a dis- | tance of half a mile to Malinta, situated on its crest. In front of the village were strong Filipino intrenchments, but no Filipinos were to be seen. Apparently they had fled. The | Twenty-second regiment ap- proached diagonally, with Gen- |ing the ground. | When the Americans were | within about 300 yards of the in- |« |trenchments the Filipinos sud- | denly volleyed heavily.! The H'\\'cnt)‘-svcon(l, which was hold- |ing the center, suffered consider- | }ably, but with the Oregonians on | |the left and the Kansans on the | right in the woods, the fighting wvas kept up for half an hour, the Twenty-second Infantry advanc- ing up the slope through the thick gtass under the hottest fire. General Wheaton and staff were all the time under a rain of bullets. Colonel Egbert, who was in the thickest of the fight- ing, was shot in the abdomen. He was placed on a stretcher and an attempt was made to carry him to the cars, but he died on the way. It was a most affecting scene. L O S S O S S S g O R S S S e =) iGeneml Wheaton, baring his |head, said: “You have done nobly.” Colonel Egbert gasped in reply: “I must die; I am too old.” 3 No Filipinos were found in the trenches. Though apparently their force was much smaller than that of the Americans, they had an immense advantage in po- sition and opportunity to retreat. General MacArthur’s advance ; | eral Wheaton and his staff close | & | behind and scouts closely observ- IRED MALABON GALLANT TROOPERS WHO FELL Brave Men Killed and Wounded During Battles With Tagallos. OFFICERS KILLED:. COLONEL F. C. EGBERT, Twenty-second Infantry. CAPTAIN JOHN S. STEWART, First Colorado Vol- teers. OFFICERS WOUNDED: CAPTA@IN C. D. CLAY, Se,venteenth Infantry. FIRST LIEUTENANT HAROLD L. JACKSON, Twen- ty-second Infantry. CAPTAIN LEE FORBY, First Nebraska Volunteers. CAPTAIN WALLACE C. TAYLOR, First Nebraska Volunteers. 5 FIRST LIEUTENANT A. BRAZEE, Second Oregon : Volunteers. ® SECOND LIEUTENANT W. S. OVERTON, Third : United States @Artillery. . : CAPTAIN GEORGE B. FORSTEN, First Washington @ Volunteers (mortal). : 00 L L] ©209 .0: ASHINGTONM vices from ¢ watched wit March 26.—Ad- | President was kept advised as to the neral Otis were | developments as indicated in General keenest interest | Otis' dispatches. Early this morning ~ Department of- | the first message from General Otis ficials to-day, and Assistant | was received, and was soon followed by Secretary Meiklejohn, who inthe absence | others, whose contents gave the officials of retary Alger is acting Secretary ‘ here their first general idea of the op- of War, remained in his office through- erations of the last two days. out the day in order to keep in close "he list of killed and wounded, which touch with the progress of the fighting. 1 Otis had promised, was anx- Many army officers and other officials | iously awaited by the department and were also at the department, and the | the friends and relatives here of the of- GENERAL EGBERT KILLED IN BATTLE Bl A a8 LS S OO 45400004040 D +5+Q ASHINGTON, March 26.—Colonel Henry C. Egbert, whom General Otis reports among the kiiled, was born in Pennsylvania, and ap- pointed a first lieutenant in the army from civil life on Septem- ber 23, 1861. He served continuously as a line officer for nearly forty years. He was more closely identified with the Twelfth Ine fantry than any other organization, having served with distinction in that regiment during the Civil War. He was taken prisoner at the battle of Get- tysburg, but escaped and rejoined his command, and was severely wounded * on June 3, 1864, in the battle of Bethesda Church, Virginia. He was major of the Seventeenth Infantry from 1880 to 1893, when he became lieutenant colonel of the Sixth Infantry. This regiment he commanded in the Santiago campaign until disabled by a shot through the body on July 1, 1898. For his distinguished service in battle he was promoted a brigadier general of vol- unteers, which grade he heid until December, 1898, when in the reduction of the volunteer army he was honorably discharged. He was promoted colonel in the regular establishment on July 1, 1898, and assigned to the Twenty- second Infantry, whose colonel, Charles A. Wikoff, was Killed at San Juan Hill. He joined the Twenty-second Infantry on January 30, 1899, sailed with guard, the Third Artillery and Continued on Second Page. it for Manila on February 1, and arrived at Manila on March 4, 1899. Gen- eral Egbert was well known throughout the army as an officer of a high or- der of ability and as a man of sterling qualities.