Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-02-07

Washington, Feb. THE war depart
Otis:
Manila, Feb. THE insurgent army
concentrated around Manila from Luzon
provinces, numbering over 10000, possess
ing several quick firing and Krupp field
guns. A good portion of the enemy was
armed with Mausers of the latest pattern.
Two Krupp and a great many rifles were
captured. The insurgents fired a great
quantity of ammunition. Quite q number
of Spanish soldiers We're in the insurgents
service and served the artillery
THE insurgents constructed strong in
trenchments near our lines, mostly in
bamboo thicketS. These our men
charged, killing or capturing many of the
enemy.
"Our casualties probably aggregate $50.
Full reports today Casualties Of the in
surgents are very heavy. We have bur-
led some 500 Of their dead and hold 500
prisoners. Their losses in killed, wound
ed and prisoners is probably 4,O0O.
1--WE took the waterworks pumping sta
| ton yesterday six miles out, after con-
siderable skirmish with the enemy which
made no stand. The pumps are damaged
but will be working in a week. We have
number of condensers set up in the city
which furnish good water. The troops are
in excellent spirits. Quiet prevails.
(Signed) Otis"
1890 a. m.-Americans now have g.
steam car line to Malabon and 60 marines
with four maiXims have been landed at
Flot Beach, north Of the city. The third
artillery on the main road and the Utah
battery in the cemetery covered the ad-
vance of the Kansas troops.
Among the important points captured
was the strong embrasured earth works
within sight of Caloocan.
There was considera BILE firing from up
per windows of houses in the native quar-
teer of the city last night, but no cas-
ualtes have been reported as a result.
| The signal corps We're compelled to run
| their lines along the firing line during the
! fighting and consequently there were fire.
/ quent Interruptions of communication
| owing to the cutting Of wires and the sig
nal men We're ordered to kill without hesi-
fancy any one who attempted to interfere
with the lines.
$40 p. m.-Agunaldo issued two proc
lamations Saturday and Sunday The
first declares the Americans opened the
fight and calls upon the Filipino congress
to suspend the constitution. The second
says I'VE have fought our ancient op-
pressors without arms and we now trust
to God to defend us against foreign foes'
The Nebra skas have recovered the lost
parts of the pumping machinery of the
water works which assures speedy re-
sumption of the water supply of the city
3:45 p. m.-The Americans, as this dis
patch is sent, are in complete control Of
the situation within radius of nine miles
of Manila. Their lines, extending to Ma
labon on the north and to Paranqueon on
the south, are fully 25 miles long.
While few detached bodies of the en-
emy offer desultory opposition, the main
body of rebels is in full retreat and utter
ly routed. OF the hordes of troops origi-
nally drawn up in battle array against
the Americans fully one-third are already
incapacitated and the rest are scattered
in every direction.
$40 D. m.-The terrible loss of the rebels
may be gathered from the fact 16 of them
We're buried in one rice field Monday near
Pasas and 81 were inferred between Peco
and Santana.
converted river gunboat did terrible
execution among the rebels, sweeping
both banks of the river with her gatling
guns and heavier battery.
Hundreds of Flipnos undoubtedly
crawled into the cane brakes and died
there The Americans are working nobly
| in their efforts to find the wounded and
| bringing hundreds of suffering rebels to
the hospitals for treatment. The natives
| are unable to understand the humane