The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1899-02-09
FULL CONTROL
Americans Have Things Their
Own Way for Miles Around
Manila.
Some Filipinos Still Show Fight
but Most Of Them Are in
Full Retreat.
Converted GunbOat That Did
Terrible Execution Along
the River.
Ygorootes Object to the Trick
Played Upon Them by
FilipinOs.

MANILA. Feb, ..-3:43 p. m.-The
Americans as this dispatch is sent, are
in complete control Of the situation
within a radius Of nine miles of Manila.
| Their lines, extending to Malabon. on
the north and to Paranaque on the
south are fully twenty-five miles long.
While a few detached bodies of the
enemy offer desultory opposition, the
main body Of the rebels is III full re-
treat 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 scat
tered in every direction.
The terrible loss of the Filipinos may
be gathered from the fact that sixteen
of them were buried in one rice field on
Monday, near Pasas, and that eighty
seven We're inferred between Pace and
Santana.
Gunboat Did Terrible Work.
A converted river gunboat did terrible
execution among the rebels, sweeping
both banks of the river with her Cat
ling guns and her heavier battery
Hundreds of Filipinos undoubtedly
crawled into the ane-brakes and died
there
The Americans are working nobly in
of 70 nd loI i
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 startling
discovery that there are several women,
in male dress and with hair cropped,
among the dead.
Never Saw Modern Artillery.
The chief of the Ygorootes. the Fill
pino natives who fought so CALAMITY in
the face Of our artillery fire, with their
bows and arrows, is i'll a hospital, with
shattered thigh. He admits that he
never sew modern artillery and was
ignorant Of its effects until he and lis
followers 1..et the disastrous fire Of Sun
day morning. The chief is bitterly in
censed against the Tagalos for placing
the Ygorootes in front Of the American
battery under the pretence that they
were sent to occupy post of honor, and
he intimates that the YgolDotes will
avenge this treachery when the survi.
vors return north.
1t is regarded as significant fact that
many of the Filipino officials of this
city disappeared from Manila as 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 villages
around Manila, as rule, have been de.
stroyed by the troops.
The further the Americans extend
their lines, the more the need Of means
of transportation increased. The Amer.
lean commanders have already been
compelled to impress horses and vehicles
on all sides, to the inconvenience, nat
urally, of the civilians. All the public
conveyances, at this writing, have
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.
General Hughes has the interior sit.
uation absolutely in hand.
The Thirteenth Minnesota troops had
a most difficult task to perform during
the fighting. Acting as police the Min
nesota soldiers arrested many Filipinos
and disarmed many more. AS result
of their vigilance, where there had been
numerous. attempts to assassinate Amer.
lean officers during Saturday there were
none Sunday. Absolute order was
maintained by the Minnesota regiment.
The scene at Manila when the alarm
was given Saturday night was wildly
exciting. The American soldiers in the
theatres and at the circus were called
out and the performances were stopped.
Filipinos scurried everywhere and the
rattle Of musketry and the booming Of
cannon outside the city was plainly
heard. The residents of the outskirts
of Manila flccked into the walled city
with their arms full of articles. All the
carriages disappeared as if by magic,
the street cars were stopped, the tele-
graph lines were cut and the soldiers
hurriedly but silently marched out of
the city to the stations assigned them.
Fired Under Truce.
A Filipino colonel came out this
morning from Caloocan, under flag Of
truce. Several American officers
promptly went to meet him, but when
the parties met the Filipinos opened
Are. The Filipino apologized for the
barbarous conduct of his troops and re-
turned to his lines.
Iowa ut San Francisco.
SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 8.-The battle.
ship Iowa is entering the harbor.