Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1898-06-07

at a moments notice to take them Il
the protection OF their own warshipl
or the Americans.
FOUGHT SEVENTY HOURS.
Manila, May sl-via Hongkong, June
6.-(Copyrighted. 1898 by the Associ-
ated Press.)-The Spanish outposts
have been driven In all along the line
simultaneously and with great
slaughter. 1t Is said over a thousand
have been killed. There has been
fierce hand-to-hand fighting for seventy
hours despite the typhoon which is
raging.
The violent winds and torrents of rain
render the rites of the Spanish troops
unuvalling, The natives easily win at
every step with their slashing knives.
Today the Insurgents hold Malabo
Taralac aud Bacopr They are now at
atcklng San Tamcra and Moorlate, the
suburbs of the city, which is complete
ly inclosed for distance of sever
miles, A native regiment under Col.
Aguinaldo. cousin of the lnsurgen'
leader, YESTERDAY Joined the insurgents
Three rockets were dropped into TIN
city yesterday They are supposed 70
have been a signal for the natives.
The governor has issued a despairinr
proclamation, begging the insurgents
to come to terms, and now he Is ar
ranging to remove all the Spanish
He Is filling the meats, testing the
drawbridges and placing strong guards
on the principal streets and artillery
along the walls. All the other troops
are camping in the suburbs. The
weather is terrible.
Later-It now appears that the rock
cts yesterday were not signals to the
natives, but a warning from the Ger
man consulate of the APPROACH of the
typhoon. Issued for the benefit of ships
in the harbor
visited Cavlte without the Span
iards knowing It. ana found there 1877
wounded and SO prisoners, among
the latter G Spanish officers. All We're
well treated
Chief Agulnaldo. in the course OF an
Interview. has said that the insurgents
are eager TO make an attack on Manila
forthwith. but that Admiral Dewey re-
fuses to "allow hordes OF passionate
semi-savages to storm civilized me-
tropolis."
Admiral Dewey wants to wait the
arrival OF American troops. In the
meantime the insurgents have been
forbidden to cross the Violate river,
seven miles south of Manila Other
wise the the Petrol will be stationed
there to lombard them. The volun-
teers smelt powder yesterday. An Of
| flecer was killed and three officer,
wounded. They retired rapidly one
German resident has enlisted with the
| volunteers.
DEWEY AMPLY PROVIDED FOR
Washington, June G.-The officials
have been more anxious than they
Dewey's condition. They We're not
seriously apprehensive of personal
danger to the fleet, but an impression
was gaining ground that the admira
had not maintained the same measures
of success in his operations in Manila
bay that rewarded his first effort
Now the report received goes to show
that his plans are working out ad
| mirably; that he has succeeded II
placing upon the insurgents the burdei
of conducting military operations
against the Spanlards. while he himsel
Is lying in enforced idleness awaiting
the arrival of the troops, and that h
has succeeded In preventing the cor
| ruption of the insurgent leaders by tn
Spaniards, which appeared at one tim
to be threatening.
There is some speculation her b,
anxious minds as to how the insurgent
will treat the prisoners they have take
who are more numerous, 1t Is said, tina
all the captures made by the Cuban in
surgents since their war began. 1t wa
reported by cable, soon after he had sc
cured the cooperation of the insurgen
chief Agulnaldo, that Admiral Dewe
would see to 1t that the insurgents Oh
served the rules of civilized warfare
The navy department gave order
today that the double-turreted monte
Monadnock, now at Mare lslant
Cal. should be ready to sail for Manil
within ten days, and the necessar
orders were hurriedly telegraphet
The Monterey will not wait for tn
company of the Monndnock, bu
should be off in the course of fe'
hours under the convoy of the Bru
tus The navy department will I'm
medlately procure another merchant
ship to accompany the Monadnoc
on her 6,000-mlle voyage.
The Monadnock Is a most powerft
double turreted monitor With twl
screws and 300O-horse- power engines
she is easily able to make twelve an
one half knots an hour. Built on tn
general lines of the Amphltrite, sh
has better engines and more powt
than that monitor. She carries fou
lO-inch besides two 4-inch rapid
fire guns In a casemate and a numei
Gus secondary battery. Her coal CO
pacity is $500 tons in bunkers, and n
most as much more stowage room en-
he found on the decks, Consequent
, the Monadnock has the ability
make n longer cruise than the Monte
,, rey without replenishng her cot
supply, yet her capacity Is stin to
small to permit her to make the pas
sage from Honolulu to the Philippine
unaided.
with these two monitors Admir-
Dewey win be fully able to take cal
of himself even should she muci
, talked-of Cadiz iiect undertake to a.
tack him In Manila harbor. The mon
= tors at their maximum draw onl
fourteen and one-half feet of water,
ten feet less than the Spanish battle
t ship Pelayo, and therefore would
: able to pick their position In the sha
, low water. where the Spanish battle
ships could not possibly reach then
and hammer away at the latter
their hearts content, presenting the
selves so small mark as TO render
very difficult FOR the Spanish gunnel
to reply effectively.
There is no doubt entertained OF Il
Nonodnock's seaworthlness, for, b
fore being reconstructed at the Ma
, Island navy yards she made the Ell
tie VOYAGE from the Delaware clei
around the horn to San francisco,
: voyage longer really than that mac
, by the oregon.
TWO REPORTS FROM CUBA.
7 One that the Americans Landed TROOP
the other that they Did Not.