The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-02-10
,Airmishes Between Philippines and the
American Outposts..
THE INSURGENTS DEMORALIZED
They Offer Slight Resistance to Our Troops on the Advance Line.
Philippine Casualties Placed at Four Thousand, Ours It Two
Hundred and fihy-An American Prisoner Murdered
and Body Mutlated-Patrol. in City Fired on-.Phil.
ippino Observation-Disclosures War Proc
acknowledgements at WORK.

Americans, as this dispatch is sent,
are in complete control of the situation
within a radius of nine miles from Ma
Mia. Their lines, extending to Mala-
bon, on the north, n to Paranaque.
on the south, are fully twenty-five
miles long.
While a few detached bodies of the
enemy still offer desultory opposition,
the main body of the rebels is in full
retreat and utterly routed. OF the hordes
of troops originally drawn up in battle
array against the Americans, fully one
third are already incapacitated and the
Others are scattered in every direction.
terrible loss of the rebels may
1be gathered from the fact that $50 of
were buried in one rice field on
Monday near Pasas and that eighty
seven were inferred between Pace and
A converted river gunboat
did terrible execution among the rebels
sweeping both banks of the river with
her Calling gun and her heavier bait
terry. Hundreds of Philippines un-
dOubtedly craWled into the cane-brakeS
and died there.
The Americans are working nObly in
their efforts to find the wounded and
are bringing hundreds of suffering
rebels to the hospitals for treatment.
The natives are unable to understand
the humane motives which prompt the
victors to succor the wounded of the
enemy.
The correspondent OF the Associated
Press is informed that members of the
hospital corps have made the start
ling discovery that there are several
women in mems dress and with hair
cropped, among the dead.
FIRST ACQUAINTANCE WITH AR
TILLERY.
The chief of the Ygorotes, the Phil
ippinO natives who fought so CALAMITY
in the face of our artillery, with their
BOWS and arrows, is in a hospital with
a shattered thigh. He admits that he
never saw modern artillery and was
ignorant of it's effects until he and his
followers met the disastrous fire of the
cannon on Sunday morning. The chief
is bitterly incensed against the Tagalos
for placing YgOrotes in front of the
American battery, under the pretense
that they were sent to occupy a post
of honor, and he intimates that the
Ygorotes will venge this treachery
when the survivors return north.
1t is regarded as a significant fact
that many of the Philippine officials of
ILLS lily uISdppCoIC LIoAl cAAi SS
soon as hostilities commenced. Some
of them are supposed to be still hiding
here.
Hundreds of women are pouring into
Manila from all districts as the viii
lagos around Manila have, as a rule,
been destroyed by the troops.
The further the Americans extend
their lines, the more the need of means
of transportation increases. The Amer
lean commanders have already been
compelled TO impress horses and Vehl-
cles On all sides, to he inconvenience
-AnaturallX of the civilians. All the pub
lie conveSdnces. at this writing, I'VE
either been impressed or have disap-
peared in some manner or other. Street
car traffic, however, has been resumed
and the cars are running regularly,
though the streets are almost deserted.
There are a few native stores open and
white flags, in the nature OF towels,
pillow slips and aprons, tied to bam-
boos, adorn the windows of the native
residences everywhere.
PATROL FIRED ON IN THE CITY.
In spite of these emblems of peace,
scores of Philippines, under the cover
of the darkness, fired from these same
windows yesterday evening on the
American patrols. AT . O'Clock last
night there was a general fusillade in
the QuiapO and Binon districts. The
inhabitants of the city, generally, be-
lieved that a battle was raging at their
doors, lights were eXtinguished inside
the dwellings and a majority OF the
people were in a state of terror. Under
the circumstances, it is remarkable that
no casualties were reported. Several
shots were fired across the river dur
ing the excitement.
General Hughes has the interior sit
uation absolutely in hand.
A SKIRMISH MONDAY EVENING.
Late yesterday General Hale's brig
/ ade advanced and took the waterworks
at Singalon. Four companies of the
Nebraska regiment and a part of the
Utah battery, with two field guns and
TWO HOtchkiss guns, met the enemy on
the hill a half mile out and a sharp
engagement took place, in which the
Nebraskans lost one man killed and
three
AN AMERICAN PRISONER TOR
TURED AND MURDERED.
DR.. Young, formerly quartermaster
sergeant, in the Third artillery, was
wounded, captured and brutally MUIR
dered. and his body when recovered
was found to have been horribly multi
lated.
The Philippines were driven back, re-
firing in bad order and carrying with
them the valves and heads of the steam
. chest and cylinder of the pumping ma
chinery.
General Overshine's brigade advanc-
- ed and took Paranaque, capturing two
field guns. They met with no Oppose
ton.
General McArthur's division advanc-
ed beyond Gagalangin, without loss
the enemy retreating upon Caloacan.
The Americans now have the steam
car line to Malabon, and 600 marines
with four Maxims have been landed
from the fleet on the beach, north OF
the city.
The third artillery, on the main roao
and the Utah battery in a cemetery
covered the advance of the Kansas
troops. Among the important point:
CAPTURED was a strong embraSureC
earthwork within sight of Caloacan.
There was considerable firing from thu
upper windows of the houses in the ma
tive quarter of the city last night, bu'
no casualties have been reported as tn
result
The signal corps were compelled tt
run their lines along the, firing line
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