Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1898-08-18
HORROR OF WAR
People of Manila Panic
Stricken During the
Battle Of July 81.
MANY SHOTS ENTERED TOWN

spaniards Bent on Obstinate Resistance
Foreign Consuls Negotiating for sn
Acknowledgement Aided Amer
leans with Good Affect.
Manila, via Hong Kong, Aug. IA
The rumor is current here that the in
surgents, fearful that peace will be con-
cluded between Washington and Ma.
drid and that the Americans will with.
draw from the Philippines, are conse-
quently the more strenuous in their de-
sires and efforts to capture Manila.
Sunday night there was heavy bonn
bardment with heavy modern shells.
1t is generally believed in the city that
the Americans assisted, and the papers
publish lists of Americans alleged to
have been killed, including some
names of rank.
Americans have succumbed TO fever,
and this misstatement, with others
like 1t, encourages the Spaniards to
maintain their suicidal resistance.
On Sunday many shots entered the
town. Several reached the citadel it.
s-lf, and it is reported that some ladies
were killed. There was a irightful
panic inside the walls, women and
children shrieking in their terror the
whole night through. One shot caused
20 casualties at the Luneta battery;
another exploded at the Malate barracks
killing five. The troops turned out
just in time TO save Malate forts and
the magazine. The insurgents show
cred large and small shots with such
precision that the garrison believed
the whole American army and feet
were concentrating their fire. Many
Spanish had previously resolved to
cease fighting the moment the Ameri-
cans began, but the insurgents have
subsidized and the forts have been rein
forced from the barracks. There has
been little fighting in other directions.
The total Spanish losses are probably
100, but many houses have been seri.
ously damaged.
On Monday evening there was furi.
o,,s fusilade in every direction. Tele-
phonic inquiries were sent out from
headquarters to various outposts. Nc
answer was received from Ell Paco and
accordingly a squadron OF horsemer
FASTENED thithe4. In the darkness
and storm the sentries fred and wound.
ed two. Probably in the panic they
imagined that the horsemen were
Americans.
A few such nights would drive the
Spaniards inside the citadel, and there
would be the CHASTITY prospect Of pro
longed devastation and slaughter, witt
the inevitable destruction OF the towr
and its inhabitants unless the Ameri'
cans FASTENED to close in.
On Sunday 1900 houses at Tondt
were burned, and the flames, driven by
strong gale, threatened the whole O
Manila. but they were finally extin
guished. mainly through the efforts o
the fire brigade organized by the Brit
ish merchants at Manila.
The British consul died of dysentery
yesterday. but his remains cannot bt
L ~
account of the insurgents.
For four days a typhoon has ragged
The suburbs have been flooded, tn,
trenches swamped and the sand bank:
dissolved. Disease is raging. Mere
| infants Of ~ years OF age are enlisting.
They become officers and fight in tht
trenches The newspapers applaud
what they should condemn as a crime
The British vice consul, supported
4 by the French consul, who is the dear
Of the foreign representatives, took the
initiative in unofficial "feelers" look
ing to an armistice, pending peace
but the Americans are not used to &C
cept anything except surrender, ant
the Span sh will never surrender. Thu
latter hope to endure until peace is de
ciared between Washington and Ma
drd. The hardships are continual,
pressing upon the natives and foreign
ers; the officials and the military cal
monopoize the food supplies, and
though a quarter Of a million Of tn,
population starve, this fact goes practic
ally unheeded.
The 0,O00 Spaniards in Manila ar
confident of their safety. They believe
that the strong walls of the city will
resist for three months, and they ar
resolved, regardless of the fate OF tn
women and children, finally to eel
their lives dearly in wreaking thei
hatred upon the English, the Amer
cans and the Filipinos.
American Warship for Gautemala.
San Francisco, Aug. l2.-The Unite
States man-of-war Albatross, iormerl
the flagship of Admiral Miller. ha
heen nrllarei To San lose de Atamala