The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1899-03-30
NEARING THE END
WAR WITH FILIPINOS WILL SOON
BE OVER.
Fighting of the Past Few Days Has Beer
Fast and Furious and the Insurgents are
Being Gradually Hemmed in-Nhl
Make Their Last stand At Malolos.

New York. March 27.-The end OF
the war with the followers of Aguin-
aldo is in sight. Dispatches received
from Manila state that the American
army now surrounds fully 5000 of the
insurgents and there Is no possibility
of their escape. This was accomplished
in battle fought Saturday. The Amer
lean losses in this engagement are esti-
mated at sixteen killed and 100
wounded.
Fighting began at a. m, when an
advance was begun all along the lines
from San Juan del None to Caloocan.
MscArthur's entire division was in the
| fight, the brigades being commanded
by Brigadier-G Generals II. G. Otis, Hale
and Wheaton. The Nebraska and Col
orado regiments encountered the first
strong resistance. This was at San
Francisco del Monte, and surrounding
trenches. The cavalry outfanked the
enemy, who broke and ran, suffering
severe loss. As our line swung north
west and came to Talighan river,
Wheaton's brigade moved out from
Caloocan and swept the trenches di-
rectly in front, killing hundreds of in
surgents. Our line stretched along six
miles OF the south bank of the river,
with the bridge at Caloocan destroyed.
There were solid lines of insurgents in
trenches on the other bank. Their bull
let's cut limbs from the trees and beat
up clouds of dust, as the Kansas regi-
ment boldly waded across and stormed
the blockhouse of the enemy The
Kansas men almost swan, so deep was
the water. They charged the trenches,
dripping, with the utmost enthusiasm.
1t was such charge as the Filipinos
could make no stand against. They
broke and ran for high ground.
Meantime, Wheaton shelled the
/ trenches on the left. Shattered bodies
of insurgents were lifted in the air as
our shells burst among them. Genera
Macarthur, with his staff and artil
lery, swung in circle to the right anG
cut off the enemy's retreat to Pelo
The signal service kept him in commu
nication with all the brigades as they
moved. The days victory was a glori
Gus one. The fording of the river b,
the Kansas regiment under a terrif
fire was the most heroic and thrillin,
spectacle of the war.
The army was not checked at nigh
by the enemy's strength, but perfecte,
It's lines to prevent the escape of tn
insurgent forces.
The movement was arranged with tn
greatest care and foresight. Genera
Hale's brigade was in front; behind /
were massed H. G.. Otis and Halls
while Wheaton's brigade was in tn
rear. The contending forces numbere
about 1000 each. The enemy wer
strongly entrenched in dense jungle'
In which the Americans were compelle
to force their way, after crossing
large open space, exposed to the flu
strength of the insurgent fire. TIL
effect of this plan was to drive a wedg
through the heart of the insurgen
army and effect its complete disorgaI
ization. This has been practically a
complished, Five thousand of the II
surgents are hemmed in near the vi
, lage of Pelo by Wheaton's brigade o
, the south, where it now rests, wit
MacArthur's force on the northeast.