The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1899-02-08

was found 10 have been horribly mu-
tiloted. The Fllipinos were driven back,
rctlrins In bad order and carrying With,
them the valves and heads OF the steam
chest and cylinder OF the pumping ma.
| chinery. -
General overshlne's brigade advanced
ana look paranaque, capturing two
ton. -, | = n
General McArthur's division advanced
beyond Gagalangn without loss, the
enemy retreating upon Caloocan.
me Americans now have the steamer
line TO Malahon, and six hundred ma
rines with four Maxims have been
landed at Fleet Beach. north OF the
city.
The Third artillery. on the main road,
and the Utah battery, In a cemetery,
covered the advance OF the 4 Kansas
troops.
Important Points Captured.
Among the important points captured
was strong emprasurcd earthworlt
within sight OF Caloocan.
There was considerable firing from the
upper WINDOWS of the houses IN the ma
no casualties have been reported as the
| result. T.EI ~ ~ 97It,lE'
The signal corps were compelled to
run their lines along the firing line dur
Ing the fighting. and consequently there
we're frequent Interruptions of commu-
nication, owing to the cutting OF the
wires, and the signal men were ordered
| to Kill without hesltancy anyone who
attempted to interfere with the lines
The Americans, as this dispatch Ia
sent, are IN complete control of the stu
atlon within q radius OF nine miles of
| Manila, their lines extending to Mala-
| bon on the north and to Paranque on
the south, and are fully twenty-five
miles long.
While a.few detached bodies Of the en-
emy still offer desultory opposition. the
| main body of the rebels Is in full re-
treat and utterly routed
| Of tho hordes of troops originally
drawn up in battle array against the
Americans, fully one-third are already
incapacitated, and the others nre scat
tered In every direction.
Terrible Losses OF Filipinos.
The terrible loss OF the rebels may be
gathered from the fact that 1GO OF them
were buried in one rice field on Monday.
near Pasas, and that 81 were Inferred
between Paco and Santa Ana.
y converted river gunboat did terri
BILE execution among the rebels, sweep
Ing both banks OF the river with her
SatlinG guns and her heavier battery.
Hundreds OF Fi!ipinos undoubtedly
crawled into the canebrakes and died
there.
The Americans are working nobly in
their Efforts to find the wounded, and
bringing hundreds of suffering rebels
TO the hospitals for treatment. The ma
tires are unable to understand the hu-
name motives which prompt the VIC
tors TO succor the wounded OF the
! enemy.
The correspondent of the Associated
| Press Is Informed that numbers of the
hospital corps have made The startling
discovery that there are several women
in male dress, with their hair cropped.
| among the dead.
\ Bit t0fTrcachcry.
The chief OF the Igorotes. the Filipino
natives who fought so CALAMITY in the
face Of our artillery. fire with their bows
and arrows, IS in Il hospital with shat
tered thigh. He admits that he never
saw modern artillery, anu was ignorant
of It's effects until he and his followers
met the disastrous fire of Sunday morn
Ing. The chief Is bitterly incensed
against the TagalGs for placing the
YsDlDtcs in front of the American bat
ter, under th,. pretense thai they were
sent 10 occupy n post OF honor. and he
intlmItes that the YSorotes will avcrEe
this trcachcry when the survivors re.
turn north.
IL Is regarded as n significant fact
that many OF the Filipino officials OF this
city disappeared from Manila as soon
as hostilltics commenced. Some Of them
are supposed 10 be still hiding hcre.
Hundreds OF women are pouring into
Manila from all districts. as tho VIII
lagos AROUND Manila have as u rule been
destroyed by the troops
The further the Americans extend
their lines the more the need of means
of transportation increases. The Amer
ican commanders have already been
compelled 10 impress horses and reh-
clea on all sides, to the Inconvenience,
naturally, OF the civilians.
Situation in Manila.
All the public convcyances at this
writing have either been impressed or
have disappeared in some manner or
other, Street car traffic, however, has
been resumed, and the cars are run
ming regularly. though the streets are
almost deserted. There are few ma
tive stores open, and white flags in the
nature Of towels, pillow slips and aprons
tied to bamboo adorn The windows Of
the native residences everywhere. But
In spite OF these emblems of peace.
scores of Fil!Dmos. under the cover Of
darkness. fired from these same win
dows yesterday evening on the Ameri-
can patrols. A, 9 o'clock last nigh {
II e., a 4
Quinpo and Binon districts. The inhab-
ltan,s OF the city generally believed that
battle was raging at their doors.
Lights werc ,eXtinguished inside the
dwellings. and a majority OF the people
were In n state of terror. Under the cir
cumstances 1t il remarkable that no
casualties were reported. Several shots
were fired across the river during the ex-
element.
General Hughes has tho interior cit
uation absolutely In hand.