The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-02-07
INCIDENTS OF BATTLE.
Great Heroism Displayed By the
American Volunteers.

American Volunteers.
Manila, Feb C:15 p. m.)-Owing to
the area embraced in the scene Of Sun
days engagement, a semi-circle OF
fully seventeen miles, details regard
ing the fighting have been extremely
difficult to obtain. So far as can be
gathered, the brush commenced at S:45
on Saturday evening by the firing of
a Nebraska sentry at Santa Mesa upon
Filipinos who were deliberately cross
ing the line, after repeated warnings,
with the evident purpose of drawing
our fire. The first shot from the
American sentry was evidently ac-
cepted as q pre-arranged signal, for 1t
was followed almost Immediately by q
terrific fusilade along the entire Fill
pino line on the north side of the Pa
sig river The American oUtposts re-
turned the fire with such VigOr that
the Filipino fire was checked until the
ITrival OF reinforcements. All the
To0ps in the vicinity were hurried out,
md the Fihpinos ceased firing for half
N hour while their own reinforce
nents came up.
At 10 O'Clock the firing was resumed,
ne American firing line consisting Of
he Third artillery, the Kansas and
Montana regiments, the Minnesota
regiment, the Pennsylvania regiment,
he Nebraskans, the Utah batteries, the
Idahos, the WaShingtonS, the Califor
MANS the Fourth cavalry, North Da-
kota volunteers, Sixth artillery and
Fourteenth infantry.
The FiHpinoS concentrated their
forces at three points, Caloocan. Santa
Mesa and Galingalan, and maintained
an intermittent fusilade for some
hours. They brought artillery into ac-
ton at Galingalan at 1890, but only
one gun annoyed the Americans to any
appreciable extent, a howitzer on the
road beyond Santa Mesa The Third
artillery silenced the Galingalan bat
terry by firing two guns simultaneously,
which were followed Immediately by
volleys from the infantry.
At about midnight there was u lull
in the firing, lasting until about 3:45
a. m, when the whole Filipino line re-
opened fire. The Americans poured d
~terrific fire into the darkness for twen-
ty minutes, and then there was another
lull until daylight, when the Ameri-
cans generally advanced. During the
night, in response to Admiral Dewey'S
signals, flashed across from Cavite, the
United States cruiser Charleston and
the gunboat Concord, stationed at Ma
labon, poured a deadly fire from their
secondary batteries into the Filipino
trenches at CalOOcan.
After daylight the United States
double-turret seagoing monitor Monsd-
mock opened fire off Malate, and kept
Smelling the Filipinos' left flank, while
the other vessels shelled the right
flank for several hours.
BY l o'clock the Americans had ap-
parently completely routed the enemy
and had taken the villages Of Palaw-
pong, Santa Mesa, Paco, Santana, san
Pedro, MacorJe, PandOcan and Passi;
had destroyed hundreds of native huts
and had secured possession of the wa
ter main reservoir, a distance Of over
six miles. The Tennessees joined the
firing line at 10 o'clock on Sunday
morning and assisted in capturing
Santa Mesa
BRAVE CALIFORNIANS.
One OF the most notable events of
Sundays work was driving the Fill
pinos out of their stronghold at Paco
by the reserve, a few companies of
Californians, commanded by Colonel
Duboce The main road to the village
was lined by native huts. fuH of Fill
pino sharpshooters. After they had
been firing upon General King and his
staff, killing a driver, and firing on an
ambulance of the Red Cross Colonel
Duboce ordered the huts to be cleared
and burned. The FilipinOs concentrated
{n PacO church and convent where