The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-11-25
HAS GONE TO PIECES
Otis Reports That Filipino Govern
ment No Longer Exists.

Washington. Nov. 24.-General Gus
summarizes the situation in Luzon IL
a dispatch to the war department TO-
dav. in which he says the insurgent
government can no longer claim TO eX-
ist its troops and officials are scat
tered and Aguinaldo in hiding. The
dispatch follows:
"Manlla. Nov. 24-Claim to govern
men: by insurgents can be mace no
longer under any fiction; its treasurer.
secretary of interior and president oI
congress in our hands. Its preslaent
and remaining cabinet officers In ND
ing, evidently in different central Lu-
zon provinces. Its generals and troops
in small bands scattered through these
provinces. acting as bandltu or uls-
persed, playing the role OF amigos
with arms concealed ~,
"Indications are that Agulnatco ud
not escape through the lines oA Id v
Ton nr Wheaton. but fled westward
from Ravambang railway station Iele-
erranhic communication TO DaSupan es-
tabiisbed. probably TO San Fabian, To-
dav Ry relaying nine miles or TRACK
with material at hand, railway com
munication to that point re-estapilsheu'
labor of troops must attend malhle-
nance.
Fuller details of the sharp engage
mont between Carpenters command
and the insurgents in Iloilo reached the
var department today in the folloWlng
dispatch from General Otis:
..Nanila. Nov.N 24-In Panay, 2ist
inst. when Dickman drove enemy Vlcln-
ity Jaro. Carpenter. with two pattahoiis
Eighteenth infantry ana Bflusiiian an .
battery. had severe engagement at "a
via North noilo. His casualties. hve
killed twenty wounded, now in lloilo
1,osnitai: others slightly wounded Win
command: enemy driven north with re-
ported very heavy loss; particulars not
received Carpenter passed on 10 m
surgents' stronghold, Santa Barbara,
which he captured 22nd INST WITHOUT
loss.
der immediate command Hughes, which
Is moving rapidly and operating NORTH
and west of Santa Barbara Apparent
lv Visayans friendly, not taking actlVe
mart: enemy consists of 1000 Tagalos-
General Otis also sends the following
list of casualties sustained since his
last report:
Killed.
In advance on Pavia, Nov. q. Howard
Lowe. sergeant g, Sixth artillery VII
liam s. Addy. T. Eighteenth infantry
n action near Barrio Tenabang, 18th,
Thomas L. Gardner, L, Seventeenth in
fantry-
Wounded.
Charles +. Hapner. Seventeenth. right
thigh. moderate; 10th, John T. Miller, a.
SeventeenNp, right chest and abdomen,
severe; in action at Minduriao Panay,
James NJ. Casey, D, Eighteenth infan-
try. left thigh. slight; in action near
Jaro Panay. Richard Corbett, c, Twen-
ty-sixth infantry. neck, severe; 18th.
lanes f. Roegy, a. head, severe; IN
action at Lanabo, Luzon, Paul Phe-
nuer. F. Eleventh cavalry. left thigh,
moderate: Edward Johnson, head, mod
crate: William w. Hinman, corporal,
riShS leg, moderate.
a later dispatch from General Otis
gives the results of the fighting at
loilo as follows:
Hughes. Iloilo, reports enemy driven
hack into mountains; insurgent capital,
C.)hatus-l, captured. Only serious ac-
lion thar of Carpenter at Pavia; total
casualties five killed or since dead OF
wounds, twenty-seven wounded; cap
tured ten prisoners. eighteen cannon,
elk rises. quantities of ammunition; en-
envy casualties not stated.