The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-04-27
FINAL STAND
At CALUNP|T
AguinaId0s HoIdes Are Fighting
With Desperation
THE AMERICANS ATTACKING
From All Sides the Assault is
Being Made.
SEVERE AND BLOODY FIGHTING
Rebels Are Well Drilled, Well Armed
and Well Equipped.
THEY ARE USING ARTILLERY
Seem Unable to Concentrate Their Fire
and Most of the Shells Go ~
Whizzing Over Heads of
Our Troops.
Rebels Are Well Drilled, Well Armed
and Well Equipped.
THEY ARE USING ARTILLERY

Manila, April 26.-Aguinaldos army today
is defending Calumpit energetlcally, which
is said to indicate that the rebels are finally
making that place their last ditch or stand,
which the Americans expected them to
make at Malolos.
The Filipnos are employing artillery.
They brought two guns into action in the
trenches today before Calumpit, firing
shrapnel, which burst over the heads of
General Wheaton's men without effect.
The fighting was resumed at o'clock this
morning. During the night the American
engineers repaired the Bagbag bridge, thus
enabling our troops to cross the river.
General Wheaton's brigade advanced in
extended order, with the Kansas regiment
to the west of the railroad and the Montana
regiment to the east of 1t, and took up
position covering one and half miles on
the south bank of the Rio Grande On the
opposite bank were fortified trenches, from
which few American soldiers would have
been able to defy thousands, so strongly
were they constructed.
Found Trenches Deserted
The Americans found the trenches on the
south bank of the river deserted.
which they could pick off the Filipinos
whenever one of them showed his head.
When the rebels began firing two puffs of
smoke simultaneously from the trenches on
each side of the railroad track showed they
were using cannon which was a genuine
surprise to the Americans. Several shells
burst close to General Wheatons staff,
but 1t seemed that the Filipnos failed to
aStpr the machinery n madam
they were unable to obtain the right range.
Young's Utah battery was ordered into po-
sition on the center of the Kansas regi-
ment, and at II o'clock the rapid guns hid
been ferried across the river and came into
line.
AT noon the rebels were still pouring a
heavy fire in the direction of the Ameri-
cans, who returned it spritedly. Two
Americans were killed and seven were
wounded.
To Flank the Rebels
At about this time General Hale's bri-
gade was advancing east of the line, appl-
rently to cross the river and attack the
rebel trenches in the flank, as the Amar-
cans did yesterday.
General Lawton is meeting with the
greatest obstacles in the character of the
country. His troops have only had a few
skirmishes thus far resulting in five of the
men being wounded. But he had been
forced to put his men to work building
roads, and the transport service is giving
much trouble, bullocks dying of the heat
and exhaustion and the Cinnamon having
to be employed in pulling some of the carts.
Therefore the general has not been able to
cover the ground he hoped to cover.
The natives flee before the expedition,
but they swarm back to their huts as soon
as the American troops have passed.
A few Filipino sharpshooters are harass-
ing the American flankS.