Omaha daily bee., 1899-12-05
AGUINALDU IN A TIGHT PLACE
General Young Hopes to Find Insur-
gent Leader in Noun
tain Pass.

MANILA Dec. Al p. m.-An Assoc
ated Press dispatch from Dagupan, contain
ing advices later than those from Santa
Cruz, says that General Young hopes to find
Aguinaldo in Benguet mountain pass and to
capture him there. Both entrances to Ben
guet are fortified. Two troops of the Third
cavalry will reinforce General Young in the
pass.
Colonel Hood while reconnoitering near
San Miguel, drove force of insurgents from
Ildefonse, killing several. Five Americans
were slightly wounded.
MANILA, Dec 4.-7:30 p. m.-An Asso-
ciated Press dispatch from Santa Cruz,
province of South IIocos, forwarded by
courier to San Fabian, says that General
Young, with three troops of the Third cav
airy, and Major Peyton C. March's battalion
of the Thirty-third infantry arrived at Santa
Cruz today The Americans left Hamapacan,
province of Union, this morning, expecting
to have hard fight at Tagudin, in South
Ilocos province, but they found on arriving
there that 600 rebels under General Tino
had evacuated thirty hours before. de-
serting an almost impregnable position.
The insurgents had been entrenched at
Tagudin the north side Of the river,
where 100 well disciplined troops could have
slaughtered whole brigade crossing the
river with the men up to the armpits in
water.
The residents of Tagudin received the
Americans outside the town with a brass
band. They had been robbed of almost every
thing by the insurgents and were glad to
welcome friendly and protecting troops.
A similar reception awaited General
Young at Santa Cruz. Prominent citizens,
headed by a band, escorted the American
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ment were offered.
General Youngs command was almost
without food. The men had been living on
the country, which affords but little, and
the horses are completely worn out, most
OF them without shoes.
The inhabitants of Santa Cruz and OF other
towns through which the Americans passed
say Aguinaldo and his entire refugee army
have gone into the mountains eastward since
the Oregon, Samar and Callao made the at
tack on Viguan and landed force there.
In several towns General Young was
shown letters written by Lieutenant Gill
more, showing that he had been kindly
treated by the citizens and had been enter
tanned by them when he passed through
last May.
Reports indicate that all the American
prisoners, some twenty-five or thirty, were
at one time in Benguet province, but it IS
supposed now that they have been removed
into Lepanto province.
General Youngs desire Is to pursue the
rebels into the mountains. There Is no
communication between his small command
and the army of the other American
columns, except indirectly, perhaps, by
sighting and signaling United States gun
boats bound to or from Manila.
Captain Rumbold, with thirty-five men OF
Company G. Thirty second infantry, while
escorting the signal corps laying the wire
from Porac to Florida Blanca. charged and
routed seventy insurgents, killing a captain
and several priyGtes. The Americans found
on the captain the sword and revolver that
were taken from the body of Naval Cadet
Welborn C. Wood, who was killed by the
insurgents while in command OF the gun
boat Urdaneta when 1t was captured in
the Orani river.