The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-04-26
Will TAKE GALUAPT.
MacArthur'S Forces Driving
Insurgents Out.
SIX KILLED IN THE FIGHT.
Insurgents Burn and Prepare TO
Abandon the Place.

Hale's Troops Counted Over 200
Dead Native soIdiers-After Max
ing an Assault on the Trenches
Macarthur withdrew His Forces
for Nights Rest-EnOrt to Wreck
nm Artillery Train-TrOOps VIII
Press on Into CaIumpit at Once.
Manila, April 25, 10 p. m.-Gen. MacAr-
thurs division fought its way to the Fill
nino trenches before Calumpit to-day ad
yancing four miles, mostly through woods
and Jungle, and crossing the Bagbag river.
This was accomplished at cost to the
Americans of six killed and twenty-eight
wounded, the First South Dakota Regi-
ment being the heaviest loser.
After fording the river, the South Da-
kotans pursued the insurgents to the out
skirts of Calumpit, but the town was
found so strongly protected that Gen. Mac
Arthur deemed it best to withdraw the
tired fighters and to go into camp for a
nights rest before making the final as
sault.
The largest buildings in Calumpit were
being fired by the Filipinos while the
Americans were crossing the river fully
mile away, indicating the enemy's inten-
ton to abandon the place.
The insurgents seem to have adopted a
settled policy of retiring from one position
10 another, after infiicting the greatest pos
eible damage upon the advancing army.
Their forces to-day were we'll drilled. Ev-
cry foot of the ground was tenaeiously dis
putcl by thoroughly organized troops who
stood remarkably firm even before artil-
lery.
Tried to Wreck a Train.
The enemy had planned to wreck our ar
tllery transport train. This attempt was
a failure but a span of the iron railway
bridge over the river was destroyed, ham,
pering the American transportation for
some time The Filipinos cut the girders,
intending to have the structure fall with
the train, but it collapsed prematurely of
its own weight.
The Bagdag river, which is about 100
yards wide, at that point, was splendidly
fortified, and the Americans were COM
PEELED to approach across an open space
from which the rebels had cleared every
obstruction to sight. The bank of river,
nigh bluff, was surmounted with
trenches capped with rocks, loopholed and
partly hidden by bushes.
Gen. Wheaton's s brigade approached the
river, along the railroad, leaving the camp
beyond Malolos city. Gen. Hales which
started yesterday, was earlier on the
march and swept westward toward the
laliroad The arnored train was being
pushed by Cinnamon, the Twentieth Kan
sas Regiment advancing in extended or
oer on the left, and the First Montana
Regiment with the Utah Light Artillery
on the right.
Opening of the Ball.
The rapid firing guns of the train "open-
ed ball' at 11:3O O'Clock a. M, about a
mhe from the river, their popping alter
hateiy continuously with the boom of the
six-pounders
Inc Montana regiment and the Utah
AIullery batteries at the same time enter
ea the jungle, from which the insurgents,
VIC "mo We're occupying a large, straggins
Nlhase of huts, poured heavy voleys In
we course of an hour the Americans had
lorced passage through the woods 20 the
open open space in front of the river, and the
'rullery' Immediately on wheeling into the
0peH began she.ling the Filipino trenches.
~ 'he meantime. Company K, Twentieth
haHSas' led by Capt. Boltwood, performed
oiie ol the most brilliant achievements of
& tlS campaign. The regiment was being
elu N reserve, and Company K charged
nls'anee of a quarter of a mile over a
So'"ne.d to the bank of the river near
.ne bridge, where the insurgents from a
,b1I We're peppering the armored train,
@ oaeu ABOUT 200 yards down the track. The
N0iHpdhy found shelter In a ditch
Funston's Daring Feat
,, VOL Frederick Funston called for vol
SteIs Spt1,eIs to cross the river, and the colonel
2. T.'''seH' Lieut.. Ball, private of Company
Rar1e. private of Company e, Trumpeter
med and Corpl Ferguson OF Company
waved along the iron girders.
,,,. '.ie e mis- was going on the men of Com
H., II from the ditch We're fusiladng
ter,.i1'" Ie"enes In the endeavor to divert at
f,"" but the Filiplnos got the range
t,',,n I'm trench down the river. and their
the structure. U''Ne'
Ia ing reached the broken span the
Ja, '-,'.i lut Valorous party of Americans slid
t"H lhe caisson. swan few yards to the
60, ana erawied up the bank, the1ittle
9,O.-I IN .eadins the way to the trenches re-
fihpinos bolte1 '''''s
r,,,J, funston said afterward: "It was not
""'h 70 do We knew they could NOT shoot
to 9nF ana that our boys would attend
while we were crossing"
sale Had Hard Fighting.
N'n- liale's troops. on The right had the,
Iaeat lighting. They followed the north
VI % river nearest the town, from
r.,,, sN With The First Nebraska Regi-
Il ,,. "N We left and ihe First South Da-
.,, 'n1 pae fify-hrst Iowa beyond.
II country fraversed WAS mostly jun
t lAe flhpinos stood their ground
i in ifo open spaces.
iia'e' q right Joined Gen. Wboaton's
'N oi'er noon, curve IN the river