Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1899-12-08
His Small Force Drove Insurgents
and Their Artillery from the
Trenches at Vigan.
RELEASED MANY PRISONERS
Three Companies of the Thirty-Fourth
Regiment Joined in the Fight and One
Battalion Is Pursuing Aguinaldo
and His Band.

siderable relief in Manila when news
| was received to-day that General
| Young's small force arrived safely at
| Vigan, South Ilocos, December 6. Gen.
eral Tino made a stand in the noun
| tain pass between Navacan and San
| Quinto The fight lasted five hours
| General Youns al three companies OF
the 34th infantry, under Lieutenant
| Colonel Robert l.. Howe, and two
troops of the Sd cavalry, Captain SWIM
gart commanding, and one troop under
Captain Chase. He was re-enforced
Hare with a battalion of the 33d, en-
route to Vigan. Young ended the fight
by charging and routing the enemy,
who left twenty-five dead and several
rifles and thousands of rounds of am
munition in the trenches. The enemy
employed artillery. Only one American
was seriously wounded. The country is
extremely rough, and was strongly in
trenched. About 800 prisoners who es-
capped reported the insurgents allowed
but one American and prominent Span
ish prisoners to escape from Bangued.
General Otis has sent transportation,
with subsistence and medical supplies,
to Vigan to bring the prisoners to Ma
Mia and supply Young's troops with the
necessary quartersmasters stores. The
uprising in the island of Negros was led
by the police of La Corlata district,
where there is a small American garri-
son. The police inspired false reports of
insurgent victories in Luzon and Panay.
There are 250 native police in Negros,
armed with Springfield rifles. Lieuten-
ant Ledyard, the American officer
killed, was the son Of the president of
the Michigan Central railroad.
Washington, December S.-General
Otis to-day cabled the war department
in regard to the uprising in Negros as
follows: Il am informed of an outbreak
of the natives in the district of south
Negros as the result of reported recent
great insurgent victories in LuZon and
Panay, which the natives believe. The
extent of the outbreak was not ascer-
tained. Lieutenant A. c. Ledyard, 9Th
infantry, was killed and two privates
wounded. One of our chief difficulties
arises from the circulation of falsehoods
among the natives and defamatory
newspaper articles in the United States
and Europe, promptly published in
Spanish in San Francisco and Madrid
and by the Hongkong junta, and circu-
lated in the Philippines. Insurgents
have based all their hopes upon false
rumors.'
A second dispatch from General Otis
says: The hospital ship Relief has
just returned from Vigan, bringing 27O
sick soldiers and 232 Spanish prisoners,
and reports several hundred Spanish
prisoners at Vigan, for which we will
send a transport this evening. Colonel
Hare, 33d infantry, took Bangued on the
5th inst, and now with portion of his
regiment and battalion Of the 34th in
fantry is in pursuit Of insurgents on
the roads southeast to Lepanto, thence
to Bontoco, on which Agunaldo and 300
insurgents are supposed to be retreat
ing with American prisoners. The in
habitants of the western coast Of Luzon
are friendly and give us assistance"
General Otis reports the arrival of the
transport Olympia with the seth infan-
try, one battalion of the 45th infantry
and some recruits.