The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1899-05-26
REBELS FLEE BEFORE THEM,
Infantry and Gunboats Give No
Rest to the FiIipinos.
ARE DRIVEN OUT OF SAN LUIS.
N"tives Greot American Troop, With
fcrto Rican' Wclcomes-Cau' Be-
noVe That United statos Troops Will
Not Seek Revenge.

MANILA, May o2-The runboat and
land expedition sent up the Rio
orande river by Genera Lawton met
with no resistance except ut the out
skirts OF San Luis, beyond San Isidro,
where several hundred Filipinos were
e~atrenchcd. The rcb2.s rctrcated be-
yond Caudaba and tho gunboats
steamed ahead, all the wa
training their Gatlings upon
the banks and dropping shells
Wherever uniforms appeared on the
shore. The g%unboats dispersed the
insurgents before Sal Luis. After
they had passed sharpshooters from
trees across the river, n hundred yards
distant, harassed the Seventeenth in
fantry, which was marching by tours
along the narrow wooded road from
which the troops were unable to see
the en- .my. The members of the bat
TALON laid on their faces in the road
tor a quarter Of al hour trying to To-
cate the rif1emen and return their
hrlng. Two Americans were wounded.
The road wound close to the stream
and was thickly settled. 1t was u
picturesque march. Many groups Of
hundreds of natives were clustered
under the trees on the opposite banks,
displaying white shirts, towels, sheets
or anything white on poles. Some
shouted welcomes to the American
soldiers, but most OF them maintained
l. sullen silence.
An old man in q carriage met the
troops two miles outside Of the town.
He said:
II have lived in England and I
have told the people hat the Ameri-
cans are like the English and that
they need not be afraid
Captain Grant, in command Of the
%gunboats, landed before the troops ar
rived and met with u Porto Rican"
welcome. The natives, who had as
on the shore, crowded about
the Americans with fulsomo ex pres
of friendship, apparently half
afraid that they would be m~assacrcd.
Captain Grant quickly distri buted
the men from the gunboat Laguna de
LAY to guard the town, and the ma
tlvcs sent a messenger to tell the peo-
plo who had taken refuge in the
swamps to return. Hundreds of the
natives thereupon returned timidly,
a man with an improvised flag of truce
flying from a bamboo polo preceding
each party.
A Capuchin priest, one Of the few
whom the Filipinos have not impris-
oned, was found at Candaba. He said
1t was useless to try to convince the
that the Americans had not
to Cypress them.
The natives belive their leaders, he
who have told stories of mas
sacres, rapcs and Filipino victories.
The walls Of the towns were pla-
with reports of the slaughter
of Americans, hundreds Of whom were
said to have been taken prisoners.
As o 0 as Major Kobbe Of the ar
reached San Luis tho natives
the insurgents rice stores. All
day u stream of half naked people
emerged from the ~storehousc, in the
manner of ants rushing to their
with bags Of rice on their
heads.
Thursday night a body Of rebels re-
turned to San Luis and burned a part
OF the town. Lieutenant Cunningham m,
with o signal corps party engaged in
running telegraph line, was camped
near the place. Major Kobbe sent the
army gunboat Cavedonga there and
found Cunuingham's party in the
to-day.
The Rio Grandc, since Major Kobbe
started, has been the highway for ex-
of the natives, and to-day there
is q continuous procession of matched
cascoes, vita white flags, drifting
down the river and containing whole
families of twenty to thirty persons,
with their household goods and ami
mails on board. Thousands of these
,oats have passed the army gunboats.
PARTY AFTER ANDREE.
The Search to Continue In Greenland