The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1899-08-18
REBELS LACK AMMUNITION,
Had Only Forty-Five Rounds Each
Before the Angeles Fight.
KEEP OUT Of OUR RIFLE RANGE
Natives Stories May Account for the
Half Hearted Resistance of the Fiji
pinos-Aband oned MacArthur's Obiec-
tive Point After Setting Fire to It

MANILA, Aug. 12.-There is reason
to believe the reports recently re-
ceived that the insurgents are short
OF ammunition, as we'll informed ma
tives at Calulet say that before the
light the rebels had only forty
rounds of ammunition each and five
rounds extra were issued just before
the fight. This is held by many to
explain the insurgents comparatively
light fire in the engagements of the
last few days.
General MacArthur's troops re-
NAMED at Calulet last night. The reb-
els had evidently fled far beyond rifle
range, for the American outposts were
not disturbed and not a shot was
tired during the night. At daybreak
this morning a reconnoitering party,
consisting of a battalion of the Seven
tecnth infantry, with one field piece,
started up the railroad track toward
Angeles, four miles north. The party
approached within 1,2OO yards of the
town and opened fire with the field
gun. The Americans were received
with a badly directed rifle fire, which
the battalion of the Seventeenth re-
turned with few volleys.
AS the strength of the insurgents at
Angeles was unknown General Mac
Arthur directed the accommodating
party to return until the rebels aban-
doned the town. Soon after the re-
ceipt of these orders it became evil
dent that the rebels had set fire to the
town and fled, leaving the place to be
occupied by the Americans.
A battalion of the Twelfth infantry
was sent OF a reconnoitering cxpcdi-
ton toward the west, but up to noon
no firing had been heard in their di-
rection and no word received from
them at MacArthur's headquarters. 1t
is believed that they encountered
nothing.
Everything indicates that all the
rebels have scattered for miles in
every direction around Calulet. They
lost heavily in the fighting around
Calulet. 1t is believed that a hundred
were killed and 800 or 400 wounded.
The Iowa regiment killed thirty in
one place, and one company of the
Seventeenth suddenly encountered a
party of rebels in a trench and killed
twelve. The total American loss was
five killed and thirty-one wounded, in
Guiding three officers.
The attack was a complete sur
prise to the insurgents, who had
no idea that a movement was intend
ed until the armored car opened fire
with two Gatlings, a revolving cannon
and a six-pounder. The heavy artil-
lery opened on both TANKS a moment
later. Most Of the Filipinos were
asleep when the attack was made.
Men with large bells were heard run
ming among the shacks arousing the
soldiers.
The Americans maintained almost a
perfect line four miles through cane
brake and jungles, where they could
see nothing ahead. The Filipinos
tried to ambush the Americans sew
eral times, and the country is we'll
adapted to these tactics; but the
troops stopped for nothing, forcing
their way through or over obstacles
and firing whenever they could locate
the fleeing enemy. The officers highly
commend the recruits of the various
regiments.
Since the American occupation Of
San Fernandino, the rebels have torn
up three miles of railroad between
there and Calulet, and it is impossible
to get the armored car more than two
miles beyond San Fernando.