Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1899-04-15
W. VA, SATURDAY APRIL Is, i
MORE SOLDIERS At MANILA. |
The Transport Sheridan Has Arrived
With the Twelfth Regiment.


The Transport Sheridan Has Arrived
With the Twelfth Regiment.
LAWTON MOVING NORTHEHIS
COLUMN ADVANCED TWELVE
MILES AND CAPTURED TWO
| TOWNS-THE NORTH DAKOTA
REGIMENT ENCOUNTERED
SHARP RESISTANCE AND LOST
FIVE MEN IN THE ATTACK ON
PAETE.
Manila, April 14.-113O a. m.-The
United States transport Sheridan, for
merly the Massachusetts, which sailed
from New York Febrna. = 10, having
on board the Twelfth regiment and a
battalion of the Seventeenth Infantry,
has arrived here after a smooth pas
sage.
On the night of April II, Lieut.. Mey-
er disappeared from the ship. The
weather was intensely hot and the
lieutenant was sleeping on deck. 1t is
supposed that he fell overheard. Three
| privates and six children of privates
died from pneumonia.
Gen. Lawton yesterday moved IL
! miles farther north along the lake,
| taking two towns, Dongus and Paete.
| But little opposition was encountered
| from the retreating enemy until the
advance reached Paete, the center of
| the insurgents military government
| in this district. Here the road is
| flanked by hills on each side ON which
the insurgents had constructed big
trenches and also across the road.
| Squads of five sharpshooters each
were sent up the steep hill and through
| the thick brush to flank the insurg-
ents. One squad of the North Dakota
regiment suddenly came to the insurg-
ent trenches, hating when only Is
y
got away unhurt. The tinclad gum
! boats shelled the insurgents position
for an hour. Our loss was five killed
and two wounded, the greatest loss
Lawton has sustained.
Washington, April 1.-THE War De-
partment has received the following
cable
Manila, April IA.
Adjutant General, Washington.
Sheridan arrived. Casualties: Lieut..
Meyer and three enlisted men died en-
route. Health of troops very good
OTIS.
Lieut. Meyer is the man referred to
in the Manila dispatch as having dis
appeared in the night!He is Second
Lieut.. Ralph q. Meyer, appointed from
civil life September 8, 1898. He was
then resident of Ohio. The transport
Sheridan sailed from New York Feb
ruary 10 with the Twelfth Infantry and
Companies A, c. E and F, Seventeenth
Infantry, comprising 81 officers, 1876
enlisted men and Sc women and child
rem. Lieut.. Col. J. H. Smith, Twelfth
Infantry, was in command of the ex-
petition.
Manila, April IA, 7:55 p. m.-Gen.
Lawton is marching north along the
road between the hills and the lake
with the gunboats Napidan and Laguna
de Bay abreast of his troops.
The enemy is retreating northward
On Wednesday the troops crossed the
Paghanjan and concentrated at Lam
bun, at the mouth of the river. After
leaving two companies of the Four
teenth regiment to guard the entrance
of the river the troops marched to Lon
gas and found it deserted. Furniture
which had been dropped in the flight
of the natives was scattered along the
trails leading into the hills.
| Major Weisenberger' sharpshooters
were sent toward Pactos Aneontonia
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nest of rebels in some thick bushes,
which afforded splendid cover. Five
men of the North Dakota regiment
were killed and two were wounded, two
of the former dying after having been
brought to Longas church, where
Father McKinnon administered the
sacrament to them.
The main body of the American
troops while at dinner in Longas heard
the firing and advanced to the support
of the sharpshooters. A scout from a
hill saw the little fight and many white
coats running into the hill, making
them too hot for the enemy.
The Americans entered San Antonio
at sunset without meeting with any
resistance Twenty unarmed prisoners,
bearing copies of the proclamation of
the United States Philippine commits
sion, which they had somehow secured,
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