Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1898-08-19
SITUATION IN manila
People Panic Stricken
During Late Battle.
MANY SHOTS ENTERED TOWN

spaniards Bent on Obstinate Resistance
Foreign Consuls Negotiating for an
Armistice-Insurgents 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.
There ls also report that half the
Americans have succumbed to fever,
and this misstatement, with others
like it, encourages the Spaniards to
maintain their suicidal resistance.
On Sunday many shots entered the
town. Several reached the citadel it.
self, and it is reported that some ladies
were killed. There was a frightful
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 fleet
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-
Gus fusilade in every direction. Tele-
phonic inquiries were sent out from
headquarters to various outposts. Nc
answer was received from El Paco and
accordingly squadron of horsemen
hastened thither. In the darkness
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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 ghastly prospect of pro
longed devastation and slaughter, with
the inevitable destruction of the towr
and its inhabitants unless the Ameri'
cans hastened to close in.
On Sunday 1900 houses at TondC
were burned, and the flames, driven by
strong gale, threatened the whole o
Manila, but they we're 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 b.
buried in the Protestant cemetery OF
account of the insurgents.
For four days typhoon has ragged
The suburbs have been flooded, tt,
trenches swamped and the sand bank
dissolved. Disease is raging. Mert
infants of ~ years OF age are enlisting
They become officers and fight in th
trenches. The newspapers applaud
what they should condemn as crime
The British vice consul, supportet
by the French consul, who is the dear
of the foreign representatives, took tn
initiative in unofficial "feelers" look
ing to an armistice, pending peace
but the Americans are not used to &C
cept anything except surrender, an
the Spani ish will never surrender. Tn
latter hope to endure until peace is de
clared between Washington and Ma
drid. The hardships are continual.
pressing upon the natives and foreign
ers; the officials and the military ca
monopolize the food supplies, and
though a quarter of million OF tn
population starve, this fact goes practiC
ally unheeded.
The 10000 Spaniards in Manila ar
confident Of their safety. They believ
that the strong walls OF the city wi
resist for three months, and they ar
resolved, regardless Of the fate of tn
women and children, finally to sc,
their lives dearly in wreaking thei
hatred upon the English, the Amer
cans and the Filipinos.
American warship for Guatemala.
San Francisco, Aug. 12.-The Unite
States man-of-war Albatross, formerl
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