The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1899-03-28

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staff of Brig. Gen. Miller, at noilo,
somehow got in front of the firing line
and was shot in the side, dying almost
instantly. A German, who accompan-
led him, was wounded.
The American casualties Sunday
were much lighter than those of Sat-
urday, the total losses thus far report
cd since the engagement commenced
being As killed and 145 wounded. Gen.
Wheaton entered Malinta, which is
village of huts, at 1 o'clock Sunday
afternoon. The United States gun
boat Helena and other gunboats have
been Smelling Malabon, about a mile
northwest of Caloocap for several
hours.
The insurgents made a fierce re-
sistance to the American advance up
the railroad at Malinta. In addition
to the fatal wounding of Col. Egbert,
several men of the 22d infantry and
several of the Oregon and Kansas reg
iments were killed.
Evidently anticipating a bombar
ment by the fleet, thousand rebel S va
Gated MalabOn Sunday night, leaving
few to burn the town. Gen.
Wheaton's brigade, composed of the
I'd Oregon regiment and the 22d and I'd
infantry stretched out along the rail-
road from Caloocan to the Tuliahan
f.O,
drawal owing to the natural obstacles
and to the strong opposition. A column
of smoke at daybreak was the first in
timation of the enemy's intention, but
others followed at various points, all
soon blending in dense ballOon-shap-
ed cloud. The flames of the burning
rice mills and large buildings could be
plainly seen from Caloocan despite the
strong sunlight.
By IL o'clock In the morning the
only building of Importance not de-
stroyed in the center of the town was
large stone church, but even at noon
fresh fires were started among the
native huts in the outskirts of
E:alabon, although the general exc
dus took place much earlier. Many
of the rebels sought refuge in the
suburbs of Navotos and Casag, or were
driven inland by the shells of the
Helena, Callao, Ningdapan and Laguna
de Bay.
In the meantime Gen. Wheaton's
brigade held the railroad to the river,
but was unable either to repair the
bridge, which had been destroyed by
the enemy, or to advance, owing to the
opposition and the hills on the other
side.
The calculations of both Gen. Hale
and Gen. Harrison Gray Otis, whose
brigades constituted Gen. MacArthur's
division, were much interfered with
by the character of the country in
front OF both, and the enemy was able
to take advantage of this so that the
operations against Novaliches and Polo
were delayed, though the right wing
of the division swung out, sweeping
the enemy in a northwesterly direc-
ton.
Gen. Wheaton's headquarters Satur-
day night was half-mile south of the
river on the railroad. The opposite
bank was protected by block house
and intrenchments.
Occasionally the artillery and in
fantry fired across the stream. Final
| ly the engineers moved a construction
train up to the bridge, the iron frame
work of which remained, and began to
replace the floor.
While this was going on the I'd Ore
gon regiment crossed the river on the
left and the 22d on the right, with
four companies of the Esd infantry
supporting the latter regiment. A
rising clear ground stretched away a
distance of half mile to Malinta,
situated on it's crest.
In front of the village were strong
Filipino intrenchments, but no Fill
pinos were to be seen. Apparently
they had fed. The 22d regiment ap.
preached diagonally, with Gen. Wheat
on and his staff close behind, and
scouts closely observing the ground,
When the Americans were within
about 800 yards of the intrenchments
the Filipinos suddenly volleyed heav
lily. The 22d infantry, which was hold
ing the center, suffered considerably
but, with the Oregons on the left ant
the Kansans on the right, in the woods
the fighting was kept up for half al
hour, the 22d infantry advancing VI
the slope through the thick grass un
der the hottest fire.
Gen. Wheaton and his staff were al
the time under rain of bullets. Col
Egbert, who was in the thickest of thu
fighting, was shot in the abdomen
He was placed on a stretcher and al
attempt was made to carry him to tn
cars. but he died on the way.