The record-union., 1898-08-10

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Brigadier General commanding desires
to thank the troops engaged last night
| for gallantry and skill displayed by
them in repelling such a vigorous at
tack by largely superior forces of Span-
| iards. Not an inch of ground was
yielded by the Tenth Pennsylvania and
! Utah Artillery stationed in the trenches.
a battalion of the Third Artillery and
| First Regiment, California Volunteer
Infantry, moved forward to their sup
port through a calling fire with the
utmost intrepidity. The courage and
steadiness shown by all in the engage
ment is worthy of the highest COM
| mendation."
| ANOTHER ACCOUNT.
| HONGKONG, Aug. 9.-Dispatches
from Cavite under date of August 9th
| report that Manila was then 'still
| Spanish These dispatches say:
At 11:30 d. m. on Sunday 5000
| Spaniards attacked the American camp
near Malate, assaulting the trenches oc-
cupied by the Tenth Pennsylvania
t Regiment, Battery X and Battery A,
| Utah. and two other companies of
/ Pennsylvania troops. They charged
| the American right. and nearly sue
| ceeded in cutting off the Pennsylvania
/ companies, but the Americans rallied
and repulsed the Spaniards after des-
perate fighting, the American fire
/ breaking the Spanish center.
| The Spaniards charged again but
were forced to retreat to the jungle,
| where they kept up a heavy fire on
one of the roads leading to the Ameri-
can trenches, in order to prevent REIN
/ forcementS from arriving. The First
| California Regiment and the Utah Bat
terry came to the rescue through a with
ering fire and never wavered. though
! several were wounded and Captain
/ Richter was killed.
| The Spaniards charged several times,
| but they We're met by a steady fire from
/ the infantry and by shrapnel from the
! Utah Battery, so that eventually they
retreated to Malate forthwith, with a
loss, it is reported, of 800 killed and a
/ thousand wounded, though this report
is probably exaggerated.
/ The insurgents rendered no assist
| ance but retreated on the first shot i
| is believed that General Aguinaldo,
aware of the Spanish intentions, moved
his men away
On August 1st the Spaniards made
! two weak attacks, but were easily re-
| pulsed. On August I'd they made an
other attack, when one man was Killed
and one wounded On the Sd there
was a cannonade all day.
The Americans, though under arms,
| do not. attack the city.
The Spanish loss in the minor at
tacks is not known.
| Mr.. Williams, formerly United States
| Consul at Manila, has called the lead
ers in fifteen provinces of the Philip
pines to a conference, from which good
results are hoped
! REPORT FROM GENERAL MER-
RIFT.
! WASHINGTON, Aug 9.-The War
| Department to-day received the follow
ing cablegram from Hongkong:
"Adjutant General Washington: Nc
! Arthur's troops arrived on the 31st.
No epidemic of sickness, but five deaths.
Lieutenant Kerr of the engineers died
| Of spinal meningitis. The landing at
/ the camp was delayed on account of the
| high surf.
ITO gain an approach to the city,
/ Green's outpostS were advanced to con-
tinue the line from the Canine Real to
the beach. On Sunday night the Span
| ish attacked sharply. The artillery
outposts behaved well, and held the
! position. 1t was necessary to call out
/ the brigade. The Spanish loss is ru-
mored to be heavy. Our loss is as fol-
| lows:
| "Killed-Tenth Pennsylvania, John
Brady, Walter Brown; infantry, Will
! lam z. Brinton, Jacob Hull, Jesse Moss,
/ William Stillwagon; First California,
Maurice Just; Third Artillery, Eli Daw-
son; First Colorado, Fred Springstead.
Seriously wounded-Tenth Pennsyl-
vania, Sergeant Alva Walter; privates,
Lee Snyder, Victor Holmes, c. S.
Carter, Arthur Johnson; First Califor-
MIA, Captain r. Richter, Private c. j.
Edwards; Third Artillery, Privates
| Charles Winfield, j. A. McElroth.
Thirty eight slightly wounded.
| 'MERRITT"
/ Secretary AIger regards the Manila
fight as the beginning of the general
attack on the Philippine Capital.