Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1898-08-11
WITHIN WALLS OF MANILA
Terrible Panic During Sundays Battle
Very Effective Work by Some
American shots.

! (Copyright 1895 by the Associated Press.
! Manila Aug. 3.--Via Hong Kong, Aug.
Tho rumOr is current here that the in
surgents fearful that peace will he con
Guided between Washington and Madrit
and that the Americans will withdraw
from tho Philippines, are consequently
the more strenuous in their desires and et
forts to capture Manila. Sunday nigh
there was a heavy bombardment witt
heavy modern shells. 1t is generally re-
lieved in the city that the Americans as
sisted and the American papers give lists
of Americans killed including some name.
OF rank.
There is also report that half the Am.
orleans have succumbed to fever and this
misstatement with others like it. encour.
age the Spaniards to maintain their suici.
dal resistance.
On Sunday many shots entered the town
Several reached tho citadel itself and IL Is
reported that some ladies were killed
There was a frightful panic inside the
walls, women and children shriekng anc
praying in their terror the whole night
through. One shot caused twenty casual.
ties at the Luneta battery; another ex-
plodcd at the Malate barracks, killing five
The troops turned out just in time to
save Malate fort and the magazine. The
insurgents showered large and small
shots with such precision that the garri-
son believed the whole American army
and fleet were concentrating their fire
Many Spani1rds had previously resolved
to cease lighting the moment the Ameri-
cans began; but the insurgents have sub
sided and the fort has been reinforced
from the barracks There has been lit
Tie fighting in other directions The total
Spanish losses are probably hundred
but many houses have been seriously
damaged.
on Monday evening there was a furious
fusilade in every direction. Telephone
inquiries were sent out from headquarters
to various outposts. No answer was re-
ceived from FL Pace; and accordingly a
squad Of horsemen FASTENED thther. In
the darkness and storm the sentres fired
and wounded two Probably in the panic
they ina gined the horsemen were Ameri-
cans few such nights would drive the
Spanlards inside the citadel; and then
there would be the CHASTITY prospect of
prolonged devastation and slaughter, with
the inevitable destruction of the town and
its inhabitants unless the Americans has
tened to close in.
on Sunday 1900 houses at Tondo were
burned, and the flames driven by a
strong gale, threatened the whole of Ma
Mia, but they were finally eXtinguished,
mainly through the efforts of the fire bril-
gade organized by the British merchants
at Manila.
The British consul here died of dysentery
yesterday but his remains cannot be bur-
led in the Protestant cemetery on account
of the Insurgents.
For four days "A typhoon has ragged. The
suburbs have been flooded the trenches
sWamped and the sand bags dissolved.
Disease is raging. Mere infants OF 1S
years of age are existing they become Of
tlcers and fight in the trenches. The news
papers applaud what they should condemn
as a crime.
The British vice-consul supported by
the French consul who Is the dean of the
foreign representatives here, took the in
itiative in unofficial "feelers' looking to
an armistice pending peace, but the AM
orleans are not authorized to accept any
thing except surrender and the Spaniards
will never surrender. The latter hope to
Washington and Madrid. The hardships
of the situation are carefully pressing
upon the natives and the foreigners, and
not upon the Spaniards. because the bulk
of the priests. the officials and the mill
tary, can monopolize the food supplies
and though quarter of million of the
population starve, the fact goes practice
ally unheeded,
Then ten thousand Spaniar,is 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 re-
solved regardless of the fate of women
and children to finally sell their lives dear
~ in reeking their hatred upon the Eng
lish, the Americans and the Fllipinos,
This correspondent has seen natives eat
ing rats and mice and 1t Is expected that
they are stealing food and numbering