The National tribune., 1899-05-04
ance of the American advance are being

ance of the American advance are being
made.
Not a shot was fred either side on
Sunday, although no formal suspension
of hostilities had occurred.
Admiral Dewey cabled the Navy De-
partment Monday that he had received
apparently reliable information that 10 Of
the missing crew of the Yorktown, in
cluding Lieut.. Gilmore, are prisoners at
insurgent headquarters. There were Is
members of the party that went ashore at
Baler, and as only 10 are accounted for in
Admiral Dewey's dispatch, it is feared
that the other five were killed in the
attack upon the landing party. The
identity of the nine men with Lieut.. Gil
more in the hands of the insurgents is
not known in Washington.
Calumpit was invested on the 25th.
The Fiipinos were heavily intrenchad.
Gen. Hale's command advanced over un-
protected corn and rice fields, all the time
exposed to CALLING fire from the enemy
in trenches that had been dug at the
junction OF the Bagbag and Rio Chico de
La Pampanga Rivers.
The volunteers finally reached the
banks of the river, where they fought the
Filipinos, who were only 80 yards distant,
for half an hour.
The Iowans were deployed to the right
to flank the trenches, and when this
movement was executed the NebraskanS
and South DakOtans swan the river,
drove the enemy from their positions and
pursued them for half a mile before they
were recalled.
Before this was accomplished, however,
Mai. Young, with the guns of the Utah
Artillery, dashed through a village that
had been burned and protected the Ne
braskans and South Dakotans as they
made their way across the river.
Little resistance was met with on the
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trenches on this part of the line and de-
ployed to the right to support their COM
rades against the advance of Gen. Hale 8
brigade. When Gen. Wheaton reached
the river he halted. The Filtpinos re-
treated.
By the 2sth Lawton had reached Norza-
gary and Angat, his two columns united,
and had driven the enemy to the north
and west. The same day Con. Mac
Arthur resumed his advance, and entered
Calumpit after an allday fight, during
which the enemy killed three and
wounded II Americans. The fighting on
the American side was confined to Gen.
Wheaton's brigade.
On the 9th the operations against the
enemy were resumed with undiminished
activity and vigOr, and with small loss to
| the Americans the Filipinos were driven
| to San Fernandino, some nine or 10 miles
| to the northwest of CaIumpit. The battle
I
which was on the south bank Of the Rio
| Grande de la Pampinga, and a strong
| force of insurgents on the north bank Of
the river.
At 10 o'clock the insurgents still held
the three miles Of trenches along the
river. At this time Col. Funston, goth
Kan, determined that it was necessary
to give our men an opportunity to get to
closer quarters. He called for volunteers
to cross the river. Two men were selected
and they jumped into the river and swan
across. Col. Funston had obtained long
rope, and this the two mon carried with
them, no easy task under any circum-
stances, but particularly hard and dan
gerous when the line had to be slowly
dragged through the water in the face of a
heavy fire from the rebel trenches. The
bullets fell all around them, but neither of
them was hit, and they landed safely on
the opposite bank, and there secured their
end of the rope to q tree.
A raft had been hastily constructed,
and on it Col. Funston, with two COM
panies, crossed, the rope being used as a
guiding line to hold the raft against the
current. Several trips were necessary to
land the men, but they all got ashore
unframed.
The Kansans were formed and ordered
to attack the trenches with an enfilading
fire. This was more than the rebels
could stand. and the backbone Of the
defense was broken, the main body of the
Filipinos retreating northward, while