The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1898-08-10
.BOMBAROMENT
Of MANILA BY
INSURGENTS
A FrightfuI Panic Inside the
Walls.
IA NIGHl OF HORROR
A FURIOUS FUSILLADE HONDAY
On ALL SIDES.
A NIGHl OF HORROR
MANILA THREATENED BY THE FIRE FlEND
Flames Extinguished by Fire Prigate Organized
by British Spanish Troops in Manila
Confident oI their Safely--0eat'l
of the British Consul.

tC0pyrIght lS:S by ASS0Nated GreSS.D
Manila. August 3.-Nia Hong Kong,
August 9.-The rumor is current here
that the insurgents. fearful that peace
will be concluded between Washington
and Madrid and that the Americans will
Withdraw from the Philippines, are con
Sequently the more strenuous in their de-
srcs to capture Manila. Sunday night
there was Il heavy bombardment. with
heavy modern shells. 1t is generally be
licved in. the city that the Americans as
sisted: and the papers publish lists of
Americans alleged to have been killed,
including some names of rank. :.
On Sunday many shots entered the
town. Several reached the citadel itself
killed. There was/a frightful panic in
side the walls. women and children
shrieking and praying in their terror
the whole night through. One shot
caused twenty casualties at the Luneta
battery; another exploded ut the Malate
barracks, killing five.
The troops turned out just in time tC
save Malate fort and magazine. The
insurgents showered large and small
shats with such precision that the garri
son believed the whole army and fleet
We're concentrating their fire.
Many SpaniardS had previously reSOlv.
ed to cease fighting the moment the
Americans began. but the insurgents
have subsidized and the fort has been
reinforced from the barracks. There has
been little fighting in other directions
The total Spanish losses are probably 4
hundred, but many houses have been
seriously damaged.
On Monday evening there was furi-
ous fusilade in every direction Tele-
phonic inquiries were sent out from
headquarters to various outposts. Nc
answer was received from lei Paso, and
accordingly. squad of horsemen has
tened thither. In the darkness and
storm the sentres fired and wounded
two probably; in the panic they ina
gined that the horsemen were Americans
y few such nights would drive the
Spaniards inside the citadel, and then
there would be the ghastly prospect OF
prolonged devastation and slaughter
with the inevitable destruction of the
town and its inhabitants unless the Am
oricans FASTENED to close in.
On Sunday 1st, 10 houses Mt TondC
were burned and the flames driven by {
strong gale, threatened the whole OF
Manila, but they were finally eXtin
gushed, mainly through the efforts of the
fire brigade organized by 'the British
merchants at Manila.
The British Consul here died of dys
entery yesterday. but his remains cannot
be buried in the protestant cemetery Oh
account of the insurgents. For -four
days typhoon has ragged. The sub
urbs have been flooded. the trenches
swamped and the sand bags dissolved
Disease is raginfg Mere infants OF
thirteen years of age are enlisting; they
become officers and fight in the trenches
The newspapers applaud what they
should condemn as Il crime.
The British Vice Consul supported by
the French Consul who is the dean OF
the foreign representatives here, took the
initiative in unofficial ''feelers" looking
to an armistice, pending peace, but the
Americans are not authorized to accept
anything except surrender. and the Span
iards will never Surrender. The latter
hope to endure until peace is declared
between Washington and Madrid. The
hardShipS of the situation are chiefly
pressing upon the natives ana the Tor
eigners and not upon the Spaniards, be-
cause the bulk of the priests, the Off
cias and the military can monopoliZe
the food supplies and though a quarter
of Il million of the population starve,
the fact goes practically unheeded.
The ten thousand ,Spaniards in Manila
are confident of their safety. They be-
lieve that the strong walls of the city
will resist for three months and they
are resolved regardless of the fate of
women and children, finally to sell their
lives dearly in wreaking their hatred
upon the English and the Americans and
the Filipinos.
The Spaniards are busy making
mitraileuses. This correspondent has
seen natives eating rats and mice. and
it is reported that they are stealing food
and mur1prinr