The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1899-04-26
regiment with the Utah light artillery OF

regiment with the Utah light artillery on
tho right
The rapid firing on the train opened the
bali at 1880 a. M, about a mile from the
river. their popping alternating con.
tinuously with the boom OF the 6-pounders.
The Montana regiment and the Utah
battery az the same time retired to tho
jungle, from which the Insurgents who
were occupying large, struggling viii
LACE of huts. poured heavy volleys. In
1 he course of an hour the Americans had
forced passage through the woods to the
open space in front OF the river and tho
artillery, immediately on wheeling into
the open. begun shelling the Filipino
trenches.
In the meantime company X. Twentieth
Kansas, led by Captain Beltwood per-
formed one Of the most brilliant achieve
msnts OF the campaign. The n gment
was being held in reserve and company X
charged q distance OF q quarter Of mile
over corn field to the hank Of the river,
near the bridge where the insurgents from
trench were peppering the armored
train, then about 200 yards. down the
| track. The company found shelter IN a
ditch. Colonel Frederick Funston called
Tor volunteers to cross the river and the
colonel himself, Lieutenant Ball a private
az company and Il private OF company
E, Trumpeter Barsheld and Corporal
Ferguson OF company / crawled along thu
iron Orders.
| While this was going on the men OK
company X from the ditch were fusilladlng
the trenches in the endeavor to divert ut
tention, but the Filplnos got the range
fran trench down the river. and their
bullets soon spattered the water under the
structure.
| Having reached the broken span. the
small but valorous party of Americans slid
down the caisson. swan Il few yards to
the shore and crawled up the bank, the
little colonel leading the way to the
/ trenches, revolver in hand, while the few
remaining Filiplnos bolted.
| Colonel Funston said afterwards; 1T
was not much to do We knew they could
not shoot straight and that our boys would
attend to them while we were crossing
General Hales troops on the right had
the hardest fight They followed the north
! bank of the river nearest the town from
! the east, with the First Nebraska regi-
ment on the left and the First South Ia
kota and the Fifty-frst Iowa lcyond.
The country to be traverscd was mostly
Jungle. hut the Filipinos stood their
ground even in the open spaces.
! General flale's right Joined General
| Wheaton's left soon after noon, a curve m
the river enabling the Americans TO pour
an eu1lading fire into the enemy's trench
Kansas troops announced that the Amep-
cans had crossed the river
General Halcs men began to ford thC
Chico. a branch OF the BagbaE. stretching
to the northeast The general himself
plunged in up to his neck and the regi-
ments, all carrying lags, noundcrod auros'
the stream. The guns of tte Utah hSi
artillery were dragged over next anc
formed an extended line to advance upon
The trenches before Calumpit. from which
The Nilpinos We're pouring continuous
vollcys.
The armored car had one nan Isl led ant
two wounded The Kansas regiment az
three wounded during the charge, AMI ~
Utah light artillery had ono man kliler
aud two wounded. Most OF he other cas-
ualtes bofel the South raltota regiments
Y rs difficult 10 estimate the inpurRap
losses. but they are no fewer than seventy
killed many Of them By tbc artillery.