The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, August 24, 1899, Page 21

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL | Licutenant 4 rEeant % Adler, A sending death Into thelr ranks. For with a cheer. Almost slmultaneously, nos fleeing from the doomed city. :ipinos were pursued down the road ible progress, they sped 1In a few minutes a battalion was through Guadaloupe, where there wa rd and leaped over the barriers lined up on the river bank, and the sharp fighting in an old convent yard, redoubt. The guns of that forti- Californians opened fire. A single vol- and another triumph for the Americans. s On the insurgents sped, and after them soldlers of Idaho, the ment of ¥V nians won to the great advantag ipinos the grim never learned th For some t been ¢ 1 hours they lay in their trenches an- with irresi nal triumph th, ve swering the fire of their foes, when forw point of ¢ could, and seeing twelve of their of th 1ght the Fil- gallant comrades killed and many fication spoke no more that day. The s tide of battle had turned and the way raised from the barge. But the Cali- came the Californians, through the lock In the morning General W clear into the very heart of the fornians, like all other American sol- Villages of San Perillo and San Nich- to the frenzied enemy diers, had learned to distrust the white olas to Pasid, twelve miles from Ma- as now their The Californians dashed into the flag of the Filipinos. It had been raised nila. There the fleeing soldiers of chery to be trusted Aguinaldo found a brief interval of rest behind strong works. ton d the Vash cans a strate 1t horrors of war as they wounde lesson before. At § e serious trouble had Otis gave permissi e rom the Filipir had taken every means to ir s enough, and the white flag w to ad nd the who troo It and turn, accepted it with a feroc- streets of Santa Ana, cheering like mad too often in tre the flecing Filipinos be- now. 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In that engagement twenty A First t nts commander of Comr y 9 Filipinos were killed and sixty were x S tx L ! 2 on the The as turning for wounded. i S L in" thes) ugn in and Americans could ion to At the the Californians big casco or barg 1z poled across But still the irresistible progress of : I S ant nd Maniia. The ave remove the te was toe tro o bounded forw the river. It was weighted with Filipi- the Californians was not stayed. The * S * %1 y “ t * M poral % s r > * 1% * * * Al o * r * x5 S ir 4\(\\11' > 8 5 i Armstr x 3 Atwood, ¥ S Aubertin, x i Bessach * ate Jr * rivate dr * 1 Erivate d * Private 4 * 1 TR * A rivate & * rivate J : te ¥ * te ¥ * te d * ok * N te % : i : : : % Devany, J i Private % DeSousa : : ; : % Dodd, R > x “ Dole, A 2 % Donovan, J : : ; : % De Bernard * X i e * ! ¥ . 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The fire of the enemy from men Captain Cunningham went out to But the rest was not to be of long * Private 4 the but the most imperative avenge. And when their work was the windows and verandas of hot the barge and took the Filipinos as his duration. The Californians were too * Private X com had be given to avoid over, when the Californians had swept seemed to have no effect. Compa prisoners. He found that the volley insistent, too daring, too impetuous to : 3 y-;»\,:::-: trouble at all hazard At last the the rebel, treacherous host from the M, F and K of the First Californi of his men had killed an insurgent cap- 8ive up after so long and desperate a Skl limit of endurance was reached. The streets of Santa Ana, the Filipinos knew ried the honors of that assault. They tain and four men and had wounded chase. il Privats insu: nts we stro; intrenched in terrible seriousness what war and swept everything before them and twenty-six others. On the next day, February 6, Major * B --Private 4 Private s ng Gene ny A to watch the Sime, with Companies A and C, arrived ided another triumph to the many Leaving Compa and the attack began. It was, as the shington troops were sent to that they had already won in their prisoners and guard the southern en- in positions f al King's death mean. 3 lines. Powerful redoubts, armed with The W others had been, overwhelming and in masked Krupp guns, had been estab- clear the r fields south of Santa Ana brilliant campaign. trance to Santa Ana, the other two S ] lished. Trench after trench hid insur- and the Californfans were commanded But this was not the whole story of companies of Californians took the road the night the insurgents retreated. On gent soldiers and protected the ap- to pour in a cross fire, which they did the day. While these heroes of the to the south. It was to be a day of the following day the First California Regiment occupled the town. The reg- proaches to Santa Ana. In the little with savage energy and terrifying ac- Golden State were making their victo- victories. On the way south a strong I 0 city were other fortifications and men curacy, at the same time suffering rious way in the streets of Santa Ara force of insurgents was encountered iment h “““] ““,'[‘l'“‘t;“b““'.“”“ now enough to make them dangerous. itho inching > fire o e Kri b/ anie ORf: :ndering and route aving its B8 b Bt S i without flinching the fire of the Krupp Companies A, E and H were rendering and routed, leaving its dead upon the it g Jor It had lost some of its y Donnolly rvice equally valiant and quite as field. The insurgents had Just come pravest on the field and mang bore the The key to the entire situation was guns of the enemy. It was not long e road running from Santa Ana to a before the important road into Santa daring. 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