The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, April 1, 1899, Page 1

[ { 1039« J VOLUME LXXXV-—NO. 122. — PRICE FIVE CENTS. TROOPS TO REST AT MALOLOS AND SHOT WHILE THEN PURSUE AGUINALDO. ANILA, April 1.—General MacArthur, evidently un- der advices from headquarters, seems to have decided to give his troops a good rest and enable them to replenish their equip- ment before pursuing Aguin- aldo’s phantom army, which the scouts report is making an fort at reorganization on the rail- way north of Calumpit. It was expected that orders to march would be given this morn- ing, but instead the general seems to be nvnkmg preparations for an extended stay. What is leit of the city is being policed and ]mti in order, as though for a perma- nent camp. Though offi- announced, it is believed that Malolos will henceforth be headquarters, and that future movements against the insur- gents, whether as organized army or as guerrilla bands, will be directed from there. Fresh troops have been ordered up, but whether as reinforcements or to take the place of those regiments which have been in the field from the first, is not known. indications are that the campaign in the north will be long drawn out, as the country is very badly cut up with deep watercourses, boggy marshes and jungles. Arthur was six days in Malolos, averaging y four miles daily. While it | the insurgents| will make such resistance in the| future as in the past, what will be ef- not an Prese is not expected gained in that respect will be overcome by increased difficul- ties of travel. 1e work of re- pairing the railroad, which was torn up for a mile out of Malolos, was practically completed last night if expectation that* a for- ward movement would be begun this morning. The*pacificosthave already be- gun returning to Malolos. The Peace Commissioners have not issued the proclamation prom- ised on the fall of Malolos, as they probably realize there can be no peace until Aguinaldo is cap- tured. = SO THE STORY OF THE FALL OF MALOLOS Rebels Themselves Knew They Could Not Stand Against the Americans. Bpoectal Cable to The Call and the New York Herald. Copyrighted, 159, by James Gor- don Bennett. ANILA, March 31.—Malolos, the insurgent capital, was taken by the American army this morn- ing after a short fight. The line formed for the advance in the following order, from left to right: Third Artillery, First Montana, Twen- tieth Kan Tenth Pennsylvania, First South Dakota and First Ne braska, with Wheaton's brigade back as support. At twenty minutes to 7 o'clock the | artillery began shelling the insurgent | trenches, which were one mile north on the line of rallway. The shelling continued for half an hour. Severel ghells were thrown into Malolos 3700 yards away. A sharp Mauser fire an- ewered, but speedily subsided and the trenches were silent. The Nebraska and Pennsylvania reg- iments wore then thrown forward on the right flank and met a hot firg The left wing advanced cautiously thfough the thickets and open fields, finding no gign of the enemy, and finally reach- ing the outskirts of Malolos. Colonel Funston of the Kansas Regi- ment, with a small detachment of troops, advanced beyond the firing line and saw that Agulnaldo’s headquar- ters had been fired.” The American sol- diers went yelling down the street to- ward the principal square. Several in- effective shots greeted them from a stone barricade at ‘the head of the street, but the troops rushéd on, the insurgents fleeing. The city was found to be burning, but the troops speedily took possession of it. The utmost confusion prevailed. The Chinese were flocking back into the city, and the *terrified insurgents were firing parting volleys as they re. treated and the troops were returning their fire. ‘When the troops reached the center of the city, the Presidencia was in flames and the Filipinos were fleelng in ‘error toward the mountains. .The American loss was one killed and fif- teen wounced, according to the official report. It is bellevéd here that the rebels eannot in the future make even a slight resistance to the Americans. It is evident that the rebels for some time past have abandoned all hope of holding their capital, for the Ameri- cans found there evidences of elaborate preparations for evacuation. On the rallroad the rails and ties for about a : ; : : COLONEL FREDERICK FUNSTON Of the Twentieth Kansas Volunteers, the First American Soldier to Enter the: City of Malolos. County with his parents. of Tola lery in Gomez's army. In Cuba, and after s captured by the Spa ting for the U: HHO404+04040 4+ 0+ 0+ O 4040404+ 04040404040+ 0 + O+ OH04040+H They said Aguinaldo Jeft Malolos on Wednesday. The principal citizens of Malolos, their families and goods have been taken into the country over the rail- road, while others departed on foot, carrying their possessions and driving their cattle and other animals before them. b Most of the rebel forces were re- moved yesterday evening to positions east of the railroad, leaving only some small bands in the strong trenches in | front of Malolos. 2 When General MacArthur began his advance to-day the XKansas and the Montana regiments moved upon Ma- lolos, and the Nebraska and the Penn- sylvania regiments and the Third Ar- tillery kept along the right of the rail- road. 3 The only effective stand made by the rebels was at a bamboo and earthen work, half a milé from Malolos, and on the right, where the Nebraska Regi- ment, as was the case yesterday, had the hardest work and suffered the greatest loss.. Colonel Funston, always at the front, was the first'man in Malolos, followed by a group of dashing Kansans. The Filipino flag, which was flying from the center of the town, was hauled down by some of the Montana regi- ment, who subsequently raised their own above it. From the columns of smoke arigjng from the city it seemed as If the Whole place was ablaze. It turned out, however, that only the Presidencia, or Government building, and a few of the smaller bulldings had been set'fire to by the rebels before they evacuated. mile had been torn up and probably thrown into the river. The only pris- oners captured were a few Chinamen. From the reports gathered by the American officers from prisoners and others,; it 18 belleved that the rebel TOPEKA, Kan., March 31.—Colonel Fred Funston was born in Ohio thir- ty-three years ago, and came to Kansas when a small boy, settling in Allen His father is ex-Congressman Colonel Funston spent three vears at the Kansas State University. 1803 he went to Alasks on a botanical expedition for the Government. this adventurous trip he returned to Kansas. enlisted in the cause of the insurgents, where later k with the rank of colonel. rds and released on parole, He was made colonel of the Twentieth Kans: ment by appointment of ex-Governor Leedy. E. H. Funston In After In 1885 he went to Cuba and = became chief of artil- He was wounded twice while ited States in the winter of 1897-98 was s Volunteer Infantry Regi- 4040 4+0+0+040+0+H army is constantly losing strength on account of the desertions, and that al- though the enemy may make one or two more stands, the forces of Aguinaldo will degenerate in perhaps a month to a few hundred, who may continue guerrilla warfare in the mountatns. The American troops behaved splen- didly. They advanced steadily against successive. lines of trenches, through | woods and jungles while suffering from | frightful heat. | In addition, the American volunteers | were handicapped in fighting by. the fact that their Springfield rifles are of shorter range than the Mausers in the hands of the rebels. Under those cir- cumstances the steady advance of our troops is a really remarkable achieve- ment. 5 . But the most noteworthy feature of | this onward sweep of the Americans is the patience and endurance of the pri- vate soldiers. They have never hesi- tated to plunge across any kind of dif- flcult country, against any number of | the enemy and in the face of the posi- tions of entirely unknown strength. Recently issued copies of ‘the Repub- lica Filipino, Aguinaldo’s official or- gan, contain a proclamation to the ef- fect that certain parties are raiding the northern towns, and ordering them to Join the Filipino army immediately or take the consequences when Agui- naldo shall have finished with the Americans. P This is construed as, meaning that Makaboulos, the Governor of ‘the five northern provinces, is unfriendly to Aguinaldo. If this be true, Aguinaldo’s retreat is undoubtedly cut’ off at the raflroad beyond San Fernando. The Republica Filipino on March 23 published an extra edition, containing a statement to the effect that the Americans had attacked Pasig, that many- of them were killed and a-ma- Jority of the remainder were wounded, while 180 of them were taken prisoners. A second paragraph in the .same edi- tion asserted that the Americans had ravished 300 of the Filipinos’ fairest daughters, and called upon the natives to “defend their honor with their lives against oppressors who spared neither age, sex nor condition, murdering whole families in cold-blooded revenge.” General Hall's brigade advanced to- day from Mariquina up the Mateo River Valley almost to Montalban, | driving the enemy to the hills in the | north. The rebels were in considera- ble force at the junctions of the rivers Nanca and Ampit with the Mateo, but the American artillery soon scattered them with heavy loss. The American loss was one killed, Lieutenant Gregg, of the Fourth Infantry. General Hal eventually returned to the water works, General King has advanced from San Pedro Macate, establishing headquar- ters at Pasig. The transport Roanoke reports pick- ing up ‘twenty-two Spaniards in a boat off San_Fablan, north of Dagupan. | They had - escaped from the rebels, They say the natives are suffering from | scarcity of food and .are afraid the | American cruisers will attack the coast | towns. GENERAL OTIS WILL PURSUE AGUINALDO NEW YORK, March 31.—The Wash- | ington. correspondent of the ‘ Herald | sends’ the following: Despite the fail- | ure -of ' General -MacArthur ‘to " pen'| Aguinaldo’s force In Malolos, the end of the campaign is believed here to he | a question of a very short time. Dis- | patches: from Otis seem to indicate a | purpose“to pursue Aguinaldo to his new | headquarters. ' This. may be done by detachments of troops and fiot by a | single large command, since ‘the rebel | army is now apparently disorganized. | Acting Secretary of War Meiklejohn is not one of those who believe that General MacArthur's movement has | been unsuccessful, even if he did not | crush Aguinaldo. ‘He said to-day: | “Undoubtedly the taking of the insur- | gent capital will have effect on Aguinaldo's followers. The | enemy’s force has been greatly weaken- ed by the vigorous work of the Ameri- cans, and 1 believe it will not be long before peace is restored to the island.” Similar_views were expressed by Ad- | jutant General Corbin. i Major General Miles said to me he | was confident of the speedy success of | the American troops, adding: “In the | fighting which has taken place the | American troops, regulars and volun- teere. have bec Tolag splendld 'The. ot the voiunteers has n very commendable. They are very fine fight- | Ing men and accustomed to looklngl out for themselves.” l e J D S s e . : R — s NS | streets, | Nred: ARRESTING A DESPERADO Brave Officer William H.| Kilroy of Nevada City | Murdered. E) MOORES CRIVE | Soores of Armed Men Roaming| the Mountains in Search of | a Desperate Fugitive. Special - Dispatch to The Call. NEVADA CITY, March 31.—Special Policeman William H. Kilroy, one of | the most fearless and popular peace of- ficers Nevada City ever had, lies dead at an undertaker’s to-night with two bullet wounds just below the heart and one in the face. Ed H. Moore, a pros- pector from Canada Hill, a mile north of here, who has long been regarded as a lawless and desperate scoundrel, is wanted for the crime. All day long scores of armed men have been watch- ing and waiting in every canyon and all along-the trails and roads. They realize that if they come across the man they are looking for it probably will be necessary for them to kill him, or else be killed. He is armed with a repeating rifle and two revolvers and | is an expert shot with all these weap- ons. He has blankets and provisions | and his dog accompanies him. The killing occurred twenty minutes before 1 o’clock this morning. The men met at the corner of Broad and Pine in the business center of the city. Officer Kilroy had long suspected Moore of committing various burglaries of local saloons. Moore realized that Kilroy shadowed him whenever he +O40401Q40+ 404040404 04 04040+ Q4040 would “fix” Kilroy if he did not quit. | A FIRE’S FEAST COSTS A ROUND HALF MILLION Big Hardware House of Miller, Sloss & Scott Destroyed by Flames. Theorists Say That a Cigarette Created M+O+0404 040 © + a discouraging | came to town, and frequently said he | © + LUORID PYROTECHNICS a great whip over-the roof, a red, crackling mass, build! be seen for miles. black titles of gur injured and a cheer went up. went off lik i the g, In connection with' this incident it face of the danger the firemen never faltered. posts while citing feature of tHe fire—but while it lasted it was lively eno control. the Disastrous Conflagration---Ex- ploding Cartridges Cause Excitement. O+0+T4040+ 040404040404+ 0 +04040+0+0+0 WHILE FLAMES PLAYED N the memory of residents.of San Francisco the blaze of last night has only been exceeded from.a spectacular point of view by the burning of the B a few months ago. There ws ive-story brick build= with inflammable goods. abed up structure, worked its way from end to end napped like reflected larger in the vicinity, and throwing a glow upon the 1 could Above it, like a pall, hung the black ma f smoke, but occ onally pierced by a flying ,-which only d to make the blackness.look blacl In the building w stored quan- owder and many -thousands of cartridges. e reached the powder it exploded with a dull boom, followed h flame. T on learr that not hed the cartridges: rk of t though the wa hould be said to their credit that in the They stuck bravely to their This was perhaps the only ex- the above the red, ‘When the sharp clinking of’broken d crowd drew back breathl ny fireera the crowd & s0 m time bei possible death confronted them. was under At about 11 o'clock the taps sounded, signifying that the fi HO404040+0 4 0 + O 40404040404+ 0 + O+ O 4O4040+ As they met this morning they had | H4Q+O+04+C4+0+ 0+ O+ 0404040+ +0404+04C4 040 +0404+ 04040400 heated words. Moore applied vile epi- | thets to Kilroys The officer was seen | to place his hand on the other's shoul- | der as if to arrest him, when three shots were fired in rapid succession. | Printers working in the Morning Her- ald office and Robert Gates, a barber, | heard the quarrel and saw the shots | The officer fell dad tn hig trac The murderer fled and ran down Co; Continued on Second Page. | the as mained to transfer the last acgoun | the ledger, ar perhaps discuss the for KS. | tunes of the day, flames burst from the M- | rear of the big firm’s building on Fre- i mont street, between Market and Mis- I B S SR S o B o SO O e S SCay SROSY S D046+ 0+ 0-+0+0+@ SCENE DURING THE DESTRUCTION BY FIRE OF THE BIG HARD- WARE ESTABLISHMENT OF MILLER, SLOS5 & SCOTT. | IRE, with all its dramatic inci- | sion, and within three hours a half dents, has closed, temporarily | million dollars’ worth of property had at least, the long establi ~1‘ been destroyed. Theories as to the hardware house of Miller, Sloss & | cause of this ruinous blaze are many, Scott. Last night, just as the| but after a careful investigation of the | business district had closed doors after | facts the blame is cast on a party un- ‘s bustle, and but few men re- pposed to have care- known who is lessly cast a lighted cigarette among somefpaper .;rag and then left to-join his family or “do the life” in search of pleasure. Clerk Sanders, employed s to by Miller, v+ O S am o m SRCRS SR o E\v i~ MARKET 57 MISSION 5T B I S @O0+ 0404040404+ 0+0+0 Al ¢ | Sloss & Scott, was seated at his desk @ | closing the day’'s accounts when -his ¢ | attention was attracted by the crack- o f ling of flames.. He'sprang from his seat ¢ | and just as he started to investigate @ | thé measured stroke of the alarm bell | announced that others had found the | flames and an‘alarm had been soun | A muffled report and suffocating clotids of smoke marked the bursting out of the windows in the rear of the building, and within ten minutes after the dis- covery of the blaze the entire building seemed to:be a seething furnaece. . The building occupied by, the firm backs against the Sacramento build- ing, fronting on First street and occu- pied by the Hicks-Judd " Gompany,* printersgand bookbinders# *The men employed by the Jattericoncern tvere working gvertime 'last night. Shortly after 7 o'tlock one of the printersfem- ployed in the bookroom called the at- tention of J. G. Leaf, foremfan of.that department, to the fact that flames were shooting out of the secbnfi-story window in the rear of *Miller, Sloss & Scott’s establishment. Mry Leaf at once called to John Radferd, an em- ploye of the Hicks-Judd Company, who broke the glass in the auxillary fire * Continued on Fourth Pags ©- D e e e S R e S o 4. o7 P TR S