The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1899-06-06
F|LIPIR0S PUT To- ROuT
Halls Column Has Two En-
gagements with Rebels.

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gagements with Rebels.
AMERICAN LOSS Is FOUR KILLED.
| Country Around Mouth of Laguna de
Bay is Completely Cleared Up-strong-
| hold of Antipolo Abandoned without
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Sweeping the
| Peninsula of Morong.
MANILA, June 5.-General Halls col
umn in the movement upon the Morong
peninsula completed circuit OF 70
miles over rough and mountainous
country, having two engagements with
the insurgents, one of them severe, and
keeping up an almost constant fire
against scattered bands of rebels for "a
hours from four o'clock Saturday morn
ing, when the column left the pumping
station. The Filipinos were driven in
every direction, and the country through
which General Hall passed was pretty
thoroughly cleared. At 10 o'clock Sum
day morning the column reached point
few miles miles from Taytay, where
General Hall was met byG General Lawton
who had already entered the town and
found it deserted. General Halls OBJ
jective point was Antipolo, ten miles
off, and there was desultory firing all
along the line Of march. The gunboats
could be heard Smelling the hills in ad-
vance of the column.
The column, after driving the rebels
from the foothills near Mariquina, with
loss of but two or three slightly
wounded, proceeded with all possible
haste toward Laguna de Bay, the
Fourth cavalry in the lead, the Oregon
regiment next and the Fourth infantry
last. At o'clock these three regiments
fought their second battle of the day,
and it resulted like the first, in the COM
plete rout of large Filipino force, To-
} Gated in the mountains, and having
every advantage of position. The
American loss was four killed, three of
the Fourth cavalry and one Oregonian,
and about Is wounded. The Filipino
loss could not be ascertained, but the
terrific fire the Americans poured into
them for half an hour must have in
flicted severe punishment. In this en-
gagement our troops made one Of the
most gallant charges of the war, and
the enemy was forced to fec in the
greatest disorder.
! 1t was the intention to press on to
, Antipolo Saturday night, but this was
, found impossible, owing to the two
fights and the constant marching for
more than 10 hours with nothing to eat
since morning and no supply train in
sight. The troops, moreover, suffered
from the intense heat. many being pros
trated and all greatly exhausted. Con-
! sequently they bivouaced for the night
, ON the second battlefield.
Carries Position by Storm.
The cavalry, the Oregonians and two
companies Of the Fourth infantry had
just crossed small creek about clock
Saturday afternoon and entered upon a
; sunken road, from which they were
, emerging upon small valley sur
rounded on all sides by high and heav-
lily wooded hills, when the rebels. con-
cealed in the mountains on three sides
of the plain, opened a hot fire and sent
showers of bullets into the ranks of the
Americans. The latter deployed i'm
mediately in three directions. Then
, followed charge across the rice fields
and bitches and up the hillsides, from
which the shots came pouring all the
time in terrific hail. while the air re.
sounded with the constant rattle of
musketry.
The Fourth cavalry being in front
fforo1 <l,<, 1oco Tho NJ
tack opened, two of their killed being
sergeants and the other private. The
Oregonian killed was private.
| The natives were unable to stand the
} vigorous firing Of the Americans long,
and at the first sign of their wavering,
} the cavalry, Oregonians and Fourth in.
, fantrymen broke into wild cheers and
charged still faster up hillsides, pouring
in volley after volley until the men
left the places where they were par.
TALLY concealed by the thicket, fed over
the summit in the widest confusion
and disappeared in the surrounding
valleys.
The troops. after camping for the
night on the battlefield, started at s
O'Clock Sunday morning for Antipolo,
where it was expected strong resist.
ance would be made. Antipolo is a
place far up in the mountains, which
the Spaniards had said the Americans
could never capture. It had cost Spain
the lives Of 300 troops.
The troops reached Antipolo in few
hours. but it was found unnecessary to
fire shot. Not rebel was visible and
the town was entirely abandoned.
Two hours later, after conference
between General Lawton and General
Hall, the column proceeded toward
Morong, to drive away any rebels found
in that quarter.
Volunteers Not Needed
Boston. June 5.-Secretary Alger
and wife left Boston last night for De-
troit. In the course of an interview
Secretary Alger said that the matter of
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