The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1899-04-14
TREACHERY OF TAGALS
Get in Behind Our Lines at Manila
as FriendIies and Then
Attack.
MAKE THEIR ASSAULT AT NIGHT.

Attempt to Tear Up Railway Track That
Did Little Harm = Five of Our Men
Killed and Fifteen Wounded While Ten
of the FiIipinos Die as the Result of
Lively Night Fighting.
Manila, April 11-Santa Cruz was the
Filipinos stronghold on Lake Laguna
de Bay until the expedition under Gen
eral Lawton, which started from here
Saturday night struck it. Then it fell
into the hands of General LaWtons ex-
peditiCn after some sharp, quick, fight
ing, forming one of the most interesting
and important battles Of the war The
plans of the American commanders
worked perfectly with the exception
that the progress of the expedition was
delayed by the difficult navigation of
the river. The troops partly surround
ed the city while the gunbOats Laguna
de Bay, Napidan and Oeste, under the
command OF Captain Grant, of the Utah
battery, shelled the city and outlying
trenches. General Lawton and his staff
accompanied the troops, some times
leading charges in Indian fighting tao
tics, which eventually resulted in the
complete rOut of the rebels with the
smallest amount of damage to the city
and slight loss to the Americans.
Manila April 12.-At about midnight
Monday the rebels cut the telegraph line
at several places between here and Ma
lolos and signal fires were lighted anG
rockets sent up along the foothills to the
right of the railroad Later the enemy
attacked the outposts of the Minnesota
regiment between Bigaa and Bocavie,
five miles south of Malolos, killing two
men and w0unding fourteen. Simultan-
eously the OutpOsts of the Oregon regi-
ment at Marilao, the next station on the
way to Manila, were attacked, with the
result that three Americans were killed
ard two were wounded. The loss of the
enemy was ten killed and six wounded
The Americans also captured two pris-
oners.
Came INTO the Lines as Friendlies.
Troops were concentrated along the
railroads as quickly rs possible and the
rebels were driven back to the foothills.
The rOadbed of the railroad was dam
aged but it was repaired almost imme-
diately, and traffic was soon resumed
through to Malolos. It is supposed
that many of the rebels were natives
who entered the region in the guise Of
friendlies. They had seemingly secreted
arms in several places, and fired on the
Americans from the bushes at so close
a range that they could be heard talk
ing. One of the FilipinOs yelled in Eng
lish: I'VE will give you ID Ameri-
cans enough of this before we are
through The rebels undermined the
railroad at MarilaO and unspiked the
rails in an effort to wreck a train, while
the railroad gang participated in the
fight. The work of the rebels was dis
covered and repaired before train ar
rived. General Wheaton is preparing
to punish the Filipinos.
Casualty Report from Santa Cruz.
The military gunboats Napidan and
Laguna de Bay have succeeded in en-
tering the Santa Cruz river and have
captured a small unarmed Spanish gun
boat and three launches which they dis
covered there The military gunboat
Oeste has brought thirty-two rebel
wounded, one dead Filipino and six
wounded Americans to the hospital. It
is now known that ninety three insur-
gents were killed during the capture of
Santa Cruz Our loss was ten wounded
slightly, except two; one has since died.
Lieutenant Filling was the only officer
wounded slightly in the hand. The enc
my retired eastward and Lawton is in
pursuit