The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-09-25
FILIPINOS HAD A KRUPP GUN.
AMERICANS DESTROYED 1T AFTER
A LIVELY FIGHT.

Bnmbardment at Subig Bay Follow
ed by the Landing of Marines, who
Exploded 1t With Gun Cotton.
one American Wounded in the
FiSht-DiscOvery That 1t Was a
krupp Gun Was IA Revelation.
Movement Well Executed.
Manila, Sept. 24-The United States
cruiser Charles lon, the monitor Monterey
and the eunboats Concord and Zafiro with
marines and tlue jackets from the cruiser
Baltimore, left Cavite Sept. is, and as al
ready cabled, proceeded to Subig bay, to
destroy an .nsurgent cannon there.
owing TO the bad weather the operation
was stroned until yes erday when the
warships for lhree hours tombarded the
town of Olangapo and the entrenchments
where the gun was situated.
Men from the Char eston, Concord ard
Zafro were then landed under heavy in
surgent fire, proceeding to The cannon,
which was utterly destroyed by gun cotton,
and then returning to the warships.
The Americans had one man wounded
during the engagement
While waiting in Subig bay for better
weather the Americans deserted Filipino
relnforcements moving toward Olangapo.
Al $40 o'clock a. M, yesterday, the Mon
terey began the advance upon the town,
which was about three miles east of the
monitors anchorage.
The Charleston, Concord and Zafiro fol-
lowed. At 7;25 the Monterey opened fire
with her secondary and main batteries,
the Charleston and Concord joining imme-
diately. AT 7:3S o'clock the insurgents
cannon answered, the first shot passing
close to the Monterey's smokestack. The
gun was fired twice only.
The American bombarding then became
general. AT $3.50 the Monterey advanced
TO a range of six hundred yards, using ner
main battery. Two hundred and fifty men
were landed about eight hundred yards east
of the cannon at II o'clock under a severe
shore Mauser fire.
1t Was IL krupp Gun.
The men from the Charleston were the
first to reach the beach, but the Concord
men were the first to the gun, which they
reached at 111O o'clock. The cannon was
found to be a 16-centimetre Krupp gun,
presumably obtained from the Spaniards.
Meanwhile the warships continued to
shell The shelving beach on the east and
west side 10 silence the insurgent fire upon
the sailors from the trenches skirting the
be2 ,.
Gunner Olsen exp,oded fifty pounds OF
gun cotton, in three discharges, in the
cannon, which had suffered from the fire
of the warships. The Americans then re-
turned to the boats, the firing inland be-
ing kept up to protect the embarkalion, The
Concords men were the East to leave the
shore and the wa ships were reached at
12.5l D. m.
Cadet Brnzer, with the Concord's
launch, armed with a Gatling, did excel
lent work on the left of the landing party.
Capt Myers, of the marines captured
muzzle-loading field piece. Lieut.. McDon-
aid was in command of the landing party
and the movement was splendidly eXecut-
Ell and controlled.
The numbers of the Filipinos there could
not be ascertained and no dead We're seen.
The Monterey fired for four hours
twenty-one shots from her 10-lnch guns
and seventeen from her Pinch guns
The town, which was riddled with shells,
TOOK fire at several points.