Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1898-08-19

NEW YORK, Aug. ia dispatch TO
the World, from Manila, gives tho fol-
lowing complete list of the killed and
wounded during the fighting o. the cap
ture of Manila:
Killed-M. E. Holmes, first sergeant,
Astor Battery; d. Cremins, second SER
geant, Astor Battery: Samuel Howell,
Fourteenth Regulars; VIM. Lewis, Ne
braska volunteers; Robert McCann,
Fourteenth Regulars; Edward O'Neill,
California volunteers; A. P. Patterson,
private, Minnesota volunteers; Charles
l. Phoenix. private, Colorado volunteers;
August Thellen, private, Twenty-thlrd
u. s. Infantry.
Wounded -Astor Battery: r. III.
Stlllman, sergeant; III. Van Horne, cor
poral; Privates q. Baker, G. Bewtell, G..
Dunn, r. S. Hayden, w. Ii. Seymour,
C.sE. Van Pelt; Minnesota volun-
teers, Captain Bjornstsd Buraen,
Captain O. Seebach; Privstes Carlson,
Kahl, Moore and Tetzoff; Twenty third
Regulars, Privates Baker, McCann,
Morgan, Newman and Parker; Califor-
mia Volunteers, John Dunmore and
Albert Hammersen. The Spanish loss
is estimated at not less than 200, in
cluding both killed and wounded, and
in the neghborhood Of 5000 captured.
Vast stores of military and naval sup
plies were seized The casualties on
the American side were confined to the
land side. Not man on the fleet was
injured. Through the four lines of en-
trenchments, extending for two miles,
THE ENEMY WAS DRIVEN IN PANIC
to the walled portion of Manila. This
the Spaniards surrendered. The enemy
had tive lines of entrenchments IN front
of General Greene, back OF those lines
was the Rio Cingalon, a small stream;
next teyond was the powder magazine,
an ancient fortress, mounting one o.
inch gun. Immense sand bag walls and
trenches surrounded the fortress on the
south ard seaward sides. General An
derson was in command OF the division
which was composed of two brigades.
AT $50 a. m, the Olympia opened lire
with her starboard 2-inch guns at range
of 1900 yards The Raleigh and Petrol
tried 5-inch and 6-inch guns at $500
Yards. Shell after shell burst in the
fort and drove the Spaniards, panic
stricken, toward Manila. Every shot
was marked by the debris hurled high
in the air. Soon the
ENEMY DESERTED THE TRENCHES
fn front of General Green, but ran off to
the right into the bamboo swamps.
Two shots from battery in the mag
azins was the only reply given to the
fieet's fire. Both were 300 yards short.
The puhboat Callao and Launch Bar
cello advanced within 1000 yards, and
began sending deadly heat from their
raised fire and machine guns. By this
time the fortress was deserted and the
Heet was signallsd to cease firing. Then
the orders to advance were given. The
Colorado troops formed In column
WITH FLAG FLUNG TO THE BREEZE,
and dashed into the Rio Cingalon, wad-
inr waist deep. The Californians fol-
lowed. The enemy's mausers began to
crack in the bushes in front and on the
left. but the shooting was wild. The
Colorado men ran up to the fort ana
took possession. Private Phoenix, Co.
r climbed to the ramparts and pulled
down the Spanish flag, and as he was
raising the American standard was shot
dead, Thereupon Richard G. Holmes,
Co. |, seized the flag and ran it up on
the pole. Colorado, California and the
Eighteenth Infantry drove the Span
fards through the streets OF Malate.
The enemy
THREW AWAY GUNS AND AMMUNITION
in their flight. The troops followed
capturing Luneta battery and chasing
the enemy into the walled city. Mean
while General MacArthur's brigade
over on the right wing, was having the
sevsrest kind of lighting. Two guns
of the Utah battery opened on the
block house No. IA. and soon Knocked
It into splinters. Then the troops ad-
yanced BY the Pasig road towards tht
city. the Astor battery in the lead. and
had the hottest fighting of the day a
the junction of the Cingalon road. Th'
Spanish soon retreated and Genera
Mac Arthur entered the city and estab
lished headquarters in Malate.