Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1899-07-28

MANILA, July 81, 7:40r. m.-An ex-
petition composed of troops from San
Pedro Macati, Pasig and Morong, under
Brig. Gen. R. H. Hall, yesterday cap
tured Calamba, an important trading
town on the south shore of Laguna de
Bay.
There were two hours of sharp fight
ing, during which four soldiers were
killed and twelve wounded.
The trenches commanding the harbor
were under water but the swampiness
of the land made the work harder. The
troops boarded cascoes Tuesday night.
The force comprised 400 of the Wash
ington volunteers, $50 of the 21st In
fantry, $50 of the Fourth cavalry and
two guns of the First artillery. These
and the gunboats Napidan and Costo
assembled opposite Calamba Wednes-
day afternoon. Crowds of people in
carts and on foot were seen rushing to
the hills.
Natives escaping from Calamba in
canoes said a hundred insurgents held
the town. A force under Captain Nc
Grath, Of the Twenty-frst infantry, and
Captain Eltonherd, landed east of the
town, but found a river intervening.
Captain McGrath and Lieut.. Batson
swan the river under a fire from TWEEN
ty Mauser rifles. Having crossed the
stream, the officers procured a casco to
ferry the troops over.
The insurgents retreated through the
town, shooting from houses and bushes
as they fed to the hills. Three mem
bers of the Washington regiment waded
from cascoes through swamps, often
shoulder deep, while group Of Flip
mos concealed in hay stacks were
shooting at them, until the Napidan TO-
cused her six-pounders and gatling
guns on the stacks for few minutes.
Most of the work was done before the
Washington volunteers could reach the
town.
The Filipinos left three dead. OF the
casualties on the American side, two of
the killed and three of the wounded,
were members of the Fourth cavalry,
and two killed and eight wounded be-
longed to the Twenty-frst infantry.
There was much shooting by Amigos.
who emerged from the bushes with
white flags.
After the fight dozen men, holding
up their hands and shouting, Castillo
hos, met the American cavalry. Even
Spanish soldiers embraced the Ameri-
cans Historically. There were fifty
Spanish prisoners at Calamba, Of whom
some were civil officials and some were
soldiers. They had been given the
choice of joining the Filipino army or
becoming servants to Filpinos, and
chose the army, intending TO surrender
at the SYST opportunity. Most of the
civilians reached the American lines
during the fighting but the insurgents
took others away with them in their
retreat. Gen. Hall captured twelve Fill
ipinos with guns.
Major Henry ". Lawton, Prof. Dean
C Worcester, Of the American Philip
pines Commission; Mrs. Gen. Lawton
and Gen. Lawton's son accompanied the
expedition on board a launch and sat
cody in an unprotected boat close 10
the shore during the fighting, the ouI-
lets splashing about them.
To-day Gen. Hall brought to Manila
the Spaniards whom the expedition had
released from captivity OF more than
a year.
Lieut.. Larsen, commanding te Napi-
dan, to-day found a long missing Span
ish gunboat which had been covered
with bushes and fish nets so as not 70
resemble a vessel The Filipinos hay-
ing met reinforeements and thinking
that the Americans had evacuated the
town, descended from the nils to-day
intending TO re-occupy CalamDa. Gen.
Hall easily drove them back
Gen. Hall will leave a garrison al
Calamba.
The soldiers in and around Manila
are now we'll housed in permanent
quarters or Neipe houses, which are
built on a bamboo framework, and are
cool and dry. Even in the outworKs
the soldiers had comfortable palm nuts
before the rains set in and except fof
the intense heat were very comfortable.
RECRUITING OFFICE OPENED.
Speca d me Register
WESTON. ". Va, July 2T.-Captain
Howard Atkinson arrived ar noon To-
De- and nr,ened his rserIIiIing o4flce ID