Omaha daily bee., 1899-11-15
MAJOR LOGAN FALLS
Son Of Famous BLACK Jack" Shot While
Leading His Battalion.
ONE OF SHARPsST ENGAGEMENTS OF WAR
Six Privates Killed and Two Officers and
Twelve Men Wounded,
tIGHTY-ONe DEAD REBELS IN TRENCHES
Americans Capture Twenty-Five FilipinOs
and One Hundred Rifles.
sHARPsHoo1tRs PICK OFF THE OFFICERS
Thirty-Third Regiment Compelled To
Return 90 san Fabian After the
Battle, IL BcinE Impossible To
Get Supplies over Ronds.

MANILA, Nov. As p. m.-The Thirty
third infantry, in one of the sharpest TWO
hour engagements of the war, with an equal
force of Insurgents Ave miles from san
Fabian, Saturday, lost one officer tMajor
John A. Logan, Ir.) and six men killed and
two officers and twelve men wounded. The
Americans captured twenty-nine FilipinoS
and 100 rifles and found eighty one insurgent
dead lying in the trenches and rice fields
Many more Fiipinos were doubtless killed
| or wounded.
General Wheaton was informed that the
enemy was gathering at San Jacinto, for the
purpose of preventing the Americans from
! controlling the railroad from Dagupan north,
whereby Agunaldo might retreat. The
| Thirty third, Colonel Howe commanding,
| and a detachment of the Thirteenth, with
| a Gatling gun, Rowland commanding, were
| sent to disperse them. The troops encoun-
tered the worst road ever found in the Is
land of Luzon. There was succession OF
creeks whose bridges the Americans had to
stop and repair, and miry ditches and at
certain places men and horses struggled
| waist deep in quagmires. hundred SOL
diers had to drag the Gatling gun part of
the way the horses being useless.
The insurgents opened the fight two miles
from San Jacinto, while the leading Ameri-
can battalion was passing clump of houses
in the midst of a cocoanut grove, knee deep
in mud. The Filipino sharpshooters hidden
in trees and houses and in trench across
the road held their fire until the Americans
were close to them, when they began firing.
other Filipnos opened fire from thckets
right and left further away. The insurgent
sharpshooers picked off the officers first.
Five of the Americans who fell wore
shoulderstraps or chevrons. But the Thirty
. | third never waverSd.
Its crack marksmen knocked the Filipinos
from the trees like squirrels and the Ameri-
cans rushed the trench, leaving four dead
insurgents there.
Lognn's Battalion in Center.
The regiment then deployed under fire
with Major John A. Logan's battalion in
the center. Major Cronjes on the righ. and
Major Marsh's on the left The skirmish
line, which was mile long, advanced rap
idly, keeping up a constant fire.
The Filipinos made an unexpected stand,
many of them remaining under cover until
the Americans were within twenty feet OF
j them. Major Marsh lanked a small trench
full OF insurgents, surprising them ana
slaughterng nearly all of them before Ed
n tering the town. The Gatling killed five
g of the force holding the bridge and swept
! the country beyond the town, driving about
II $50 Filipinos into the hills. Marsh's battal-
o ion, entering the town first captured big
battle flag, which was flying over a convent
6 The insurgents are supposed to have re-
g treated toward Dagupan. 1t was impossi-
il BILE to pursue them, as the American troops
: were exhausted and their supply Of am
n munition was low. The outposts killed five
e Filpinos during the night. The body o
81 a Filipino lieutenant colonel was foun'
re among the killed. The regiment returned Il
r. San Fabian, it being impossible to get sup
lr plies over the roads.
n A proclamation of the Filipino secretar
10 of war in the villages, giving ac
II counts of alleged Filipino victories, say
that $500 Americans had been killed an
- 15, 900 wounded during the war The of
M ficers who returned say it is impossible TO
"a General Wheaton to effect connection wit
~ General Young on account of the bad roads
80 Some of the prisoners said they believe
>, the Filipino army had passed the line In
=, tended by Generals Wheaton and Young
~ be covered on Aguinados rear and tina
= he passed San Fabian, going northwest,
h fortnight ago.
~ -. Colonel Vessels OF the Third cavalr.
"a whle near San Nicolas, north of Tayu;
captured Filipino bull train, loaded wit
records OF the insurgent war departmel
n and the presses and outfit of the newspap'
Independence.
:" CnbIcgram from otis.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 1.-THE followir
has been received at the War departmel
on for General Otis:
or MANILA, Nov. 14.-Rain continues; t!
raj phoon prevailing; nearly four inches tn
lid morning in Manila; more in central Luzo
,e- General Lawton has passed beyond tel
raj graphic communication; nothing from hi
lst since yesterday. Wheaton reports engag
ment 11th inst short distance from 81
far Fabian battalion of the Thirty-third und
Ike Marsh attacked and defeated 400 OF I
nat enemy entrenched; had two wounded; e
he envy left fourteen dead on the field a.
a forty-one rifles. Wheaton is about to a
ish tack San Jacinto result not learhe
the Hughes at Panay, operating west OF ioi
The Cordoya Maasen, Cabanatuan; enemy ma
rly no stand. oiiS'