The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1899-02-11
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.

Americans as this dispatch is sent, are
IN complete control Of the situation
within 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 in 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 were inferred between Paco and
Santana.
Gnnboat 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 cane brakes and died
there.
The Americans are working nobly in
their efforts to find the wounded and
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 gallantly in
the face of our artillery fire, with their
bows and arrows, is in a hospital, with
shattered thigh. He admits that he
never saw modern artillery and was
ignorant Of it's effects until he and his
followers met 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 Ygorootes will
avenge this treachery when the survi
vors return north.
It is regarded as a 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 a rule, have been de
stroyed by the troops.
The further the Americans extend
their lines, the more the need of meant
of transportation increased. The Amer
ican commanders have already beer
compelled to impress horses and vehicles
on all sides, to the inconvenience, nat.
nrally, 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
q most difficult task to perform during
the fighting. Acting as police the Min.
nesota soldiers arrested many Filipino:
and disarmed many more. As result