Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1899-04-26


FORE CALUMPIT, RESTING FOR
ANOTHER DAYS HARD FIGHT
INGETHE LARGER BUILDINGS
IN CALUMPIT ARE BURNING
REBELS Reforming TO MALO-
LOS UNDER THE GUISE OF NON
CONBATANTS.
Manila, April 25.-10:3O p. m.-Gen.
MacArthurs division fought its way
to the Filipino trenches before Column
pit to-day, advancing four miles, most
~ through woods and jungle and
crossing the Bagbag river.
This was accomplished at a cost to
the Americans of six killed and TWEEN
ty-eight wounded, the First South Da-
kota regiment being the heaviest loser.
After fording the river the South Da-
kotans pursued the insurgents to the
outskirts of Calumpit, but the town
was found SO strongly protected that
Gen. Macarthur deemed it best to
withdraw the tired fighters and to go
into camp for a nights rest before
making the final assault.
The largest buildings in Calumpit
were being fired by the Filipinos while
the Americans were crossing the river
fully mile away, indicating the enc
my's Intention to abandon the place.
The insurgents seem to have adopted
settled policy of retiring from one
position after another after infiicting
the greatest possible damage upon the
advancing army. Their forces to-day
were we'll drilled. Every foot of the
ground was tenaciously disputed by
thoroughly organized troops who stood
remarkably firm, even before artillery.
The enemy had planned to wreck
our artillery transport train. This at
tempt was failure, but span of the
iron railroad bridge over the river was
destroyed, hampering the American
transportation for some time. The Fill
ipinos cut the Orders, intending to
have the structure fall with the train,
but it collapsed prematurely of it's own
weight
THE BAGBAG RIVER,
which is about hundred yards wide
at that point, was splendidly fortified
aid the Americans were compelled to
approach across an open space from
which the rebels had cleared every OBJ
struction to sight. The bank of the
river, high bluff, was surmounted
with trenches capped with rocks, loop
holed and partly hidden by bushes.
Gen. Wheatons brigade approached
the river along the railroad, leaving
camp beyond Malolos city. Gen. Hale's,
which started yesterday, was earlier
on the march and sweeping westward
toward the railroad. The armored
train was being pushed by Cinnamon,
the Twentieth Kansas regiment advanc
ing in extended order on the left, and
the First Montana regiment, with the
Utah artillery, on Inc right
The rapid firing guns on the train
"opened the BALI at II: 80 a. M, about
mile from the river, their popping
alternating continuously with the
boom of the six Founders.
The Montana regiment and the Utah
artillery batteries at the same time
entered the jungle from which the in
surgents who occupied large, stray
Cling village of huts, poured heavy vol
leys.
In the course of an hour the Amer
leans had forced passage through
the woods to the open space in front
of the river and the artillery immediate
ly on wheeling into the opening, began
Smelling the Filipino trenches.
In the meantime Co. X, Goth Kansas,
led by Captain Boltwood, performed
one of the most brilliant achievements
Of the campaign. The regiment was
being held in reserve and Co. X, charg-
ed distance of quarter of a nile
over a corn field to the bank of the
river near the bridge, where the in
surgents from trench were peppering
the armored train, then about two hun