The record-union., 1899-08-17
MacArthur's Forces Have a Sharp
Fight at Angeles,
Capturing the Place and Forcing the Fill
lplnos to Flee NOrthWard.
The Losses on the American Side
Two Killed and Twelve Wound
ed, While the Casualties to the
Enemy is Estimated at Two
Hundred.

MANILA, Aug. 16.-(5:20 p. m.)-
The insurgents have been concentrat-
ing two days before Angeles. 1t is
officially announced that Colonel Smith,
with two companies of the Twelfth
Regiment and two guns of Battery II
of the First Artillery. under Lieutenant
Kemley this morning attacked $500
strongly intrenched insurgents at the
southern approach to Angeles and
drove them back after a sharp fight,
the American troops losing two men
killed and twelve wounded. The insur-
gent loss was estimated at 200 men.
OTIS REPORTS THE BATTLE
WASHINGTON, Aug 16.-Another
sharp engagement between. Mac
Arthur's command and the insurgents
was reported to the War Department
in the following dispatch from General
Otis:
Manila, Aug. 10th.
"Adjutant General, Washington:
MacArthur's troops occupy country
from Candalia to a point near Angeles,
thence toward Porac. taking within his
line Santa Arita, Guagua and Bacolor.
Colonel Smith, with ten companies of
the Twelfth Infantry and two guns of
the First Artillery, attacked to-day the
enemy entrenched in the outskirts OF
Angeles, estimated at $500, driving to
the north and infiicting upon them re-
ported loss of 200 killed and wounded.
Our loss, two killed and twelve wound
ed. On the 11th inst. General Young's
troops, consisting of detachments of
Fourth Cavalry, Twenty-first Infantry,
Twenty y-fourth and Twenty-fifth Infan-
try, drove the insurgents northeast or
Manila through Maraquina, San Mateo,
into the mountains. Returning the fol-
lowing day the troops encountered
column of insurgents 800 strong de-
scending on the road east of Baliuag
for the purpose of taking railway.
Driven by our Baliuag and Quinga
troops and routed yesterday this force
is in full retreat northward, carrying
a number of their officers. Angeles will
be permanently occupied at once.
Our force will hold Angeles. About
200 insurgents appeared this morning
in front of Dolores. a short distance
north of Porac, but they were driven
off by one company of the Twelfth
Regiment, under command Of Captain
Anglum One American was wounded.
"OTIS."
TRANSPORTS FOR TROOPS.
WASHINGTON, Aug. 16.-Secretary
Root has been in consultation with the
officers of the Quartermaster's Depart
ment with a view to inspecting the
movement of the Philippine reinforce
ments, and as a result he this after
noon directed that four additional
transports be chartered. They are the
Puebla, Belgian King, Columbia and
Charles F. Nelson. These four ships
have a capacity of $3.50 men.
The Puebla is now at San Francisco,
and the Columbia at Portland, Or. The
other two vessels are expected to ar
rive at San Francisco in about ten
days, and it is expected that all of
them will be ready to sail for Manila
by September 10th.
1t is Secretary Roots desire that the
entire body of the reinforcements for
General Otis army may reach the Phil
ippines for service during the month OF
October at the latest. and to that end
he has been quietly negotiating for ad-
ditional ships.
1t is now believed that all of the ten
regiments will have landed at Manila
by the time the dry season opens. A
short and successful campaign of this
new army would, of course, obviate the
necessity of sending any additional vol
unteers to the Philippines, and the
plans under consideration at the War
Department are said to be predicated
on that idea, it being the intention
that whatever troops may be recruited
viii be held in reserve for possible con-
tineencies