Akron daily Democrat. [volume] (Akron, Ohio) 1892-1902, 1899-05-09
REBELS MADE A dash.
Daringly Ran a Train Near
San Fernando.
TORE Ur TRACKS AND ESCAPED.
Nebraska Regiment Asked Temporary
Relief From Duty - Gunboats Bonn
barded Two Towns-Otis Reported on
the Situation-Dead and Wounded.

MANILA, May 9.-The Filipinos sur
priseed the United States forces at San
Fernando with daring trick on Sun
day. \ railway train with an engin
1t each end was run almost TO the Ameri
c.ln outpost and i'll plain sight of tn,
town.. Before they could be reached
gang of natives sprang off the train
tore up several lengths of the railwa,
track, boarded the train again an(
steamed away so quickly that ther,
Was no opportunity to capture the raid
erS.
The Nebraska regiment was asking
for Il temporary relief from duy. Only
l,5 men of this regiment We're left a
the front.
MANILA. May 9.-The arny'S gun
boats. Laguna de Bay and Cavadonga
under command uf Captain Grant
which started up the San Fernando
river inr Guagua on Sunday,a was pre-
sumed to establish there base of sup
plies for the troops engaged in the
northern campaign, returned Monday,
General Mac Arthur having failed tC
connect with the expedition. The gun
boats found rebels entrenched at Sos
moan and Guagua, OH the water fronts
of the towns. The vessels steamed past
the works, shelling the occupants and
driving them ont.
Landing parties from the boats en-.
tered both towns, capturing at Sosmoan
a Spanish captain i'll uniform, who was
ostensibly b prisoner i'll the hands of
the rebels, and also IL native officer.
Us,t In, hn
small gunboat were found to be burn
ing, and the natives were evacuating
the place i'll consequence of the bonn
bardnIent,
At Sosmoan the landing party cap
tured a number OF Filipino flags and a
quantity of arms, chiefly bolos, bows
and arrows, besides IL lot of band i'll
sTrunents, which the men played as
they marched back to the boats.
1t was thought probable that Captain
Grants expedition would return up the
San Fernando river after having been
reinforced on recently purchased light
draft Spanish steamers.
WASHINGTON, May 9.-The war de-
partlnent has received from General
Otis a dispatch giving the situation in
the Philippines, some parts of which
have been omitted by the war depart
ment ill making it public. The dispatch
as given out Was as follows:
MANILA, May s.
Adjutant General Washington:
Situation as follows: Lawton at
Maasin and Balinag. Scouting parties
to north and east. Macarthur at San
Fernando. X 4
Population; of country between Manila
AMI northern points held by troops re-
turning to home. Appear cheerful and
Army gunboats operating
in rivers. Have cleared country west of
Macarthur of insurgents.
Signs of Insurgents weakness more ap-
parent, daily. OTIS"
The war department. also received the
following calblegram from General Otis:
Casualties not heretofore reported:
Killed: Thirteenth Minnesota, May
!, l., Private Fred Buckendof.
Wounded: Thirteenth Minnesota, H,
Private James Barrett, shoulder, mod
crate.
Second Oregon-A, Captain H. L.
Heath, leg, slight
sixth artlllery-D, Private William
Betzold, arm, slight.
Fifty Iowa, 5th-PIivste George
Shannon, hip, slight
Twentieth Kansas-H, Private Ar
thur K. Moore, hand, severe.
First Washington, April 27-H, Pri-
vate William Schermerhorn, arm, slight.
General Otis also reported the follow
ng deaths:
Variola, May ), Edward Vaughn, |
private, Company c, Fifty-frst Iowa;
Nay !, John f. Smith, private, L,
infantry; drowned, April
%, William l.. Higgins, corporal B,
Einth infantry: Harris W. Mallory,
private, B, Ninth infontry; septicemia
rom polgamon, 80. Myron Starnes,
sergeant, p. First Nebraska; gunshot !
wound. accident, May /. James S.
1ynch, private, G, Ninth infantry;
Wounds i'll action, May 4, John G. |
tooper, private, +, First Nebraska; ty-
'hoid fever. 4, Guy Nebergale, private,
:. Twentieth Kansas lucrative colitis, |
ohn n. Moore, sergeant, K, Fourth in
antry.