The Penn's Grove record., 1899-04-14
SANTA Cruz CAPTURED.
General Lawton With a Picked Force
Takes a Filipino Stronghold.
THE NATIVES PUT TO FLIGHT.

The Filipino City Attacked by Land and
watcr-Little Resistance offered to
the Assault - American Loss small
- sixty-eight Killed aud Forty
Wounded on the Other Side.
MANILA (By Cable). General Lawton has
captured Santa Cruz, at the extreme end
OF the lake, He drove the rebels, who were
commanded by a Chinaman named Pao-
Wah, Into the mountains. The Ameri-
cans had six men wounded. The rebels
lost sixty-eight men killed and had forty
men wounded.
Santa Cruz was the Fillplnos' stronghold
on Lake Laguna de Bay and it fell Into
the hands OF General Lawton's expedition
after some sharp, quick lighting, forming
one Of the most interesting and important
battles of the war. About fifteen hundred
picked men composed the expedition,
which was under the personal command of
General Lawton, on account Of the illness
OF General King. These troops partly sur
rounded the city, while the g%unboats
Laguna de Bay, Napidan and n~ste, under
Utah Battery, sbelle edit the cl5 iioutlying
trenches.
At sunrise the assault commenced. The
American line south Of the city stretched
two miles inland, and, with its left sweep
ing the shore, 1t moved north, while the
Fourth Cavalrymen on the point advanced
toward the city, pouring volleys upon the
trenches. Simultaneously the gunboats
lowering along the shore, smelling the
woods ahead OF the troops and driving the
Filipinos inland. The datlings cleared sew
eral trenches.
The whole brigade was divided into
squads Of twelve, and the fighting was car
ried on In the old-time frontier fashion,
from behind trees, crawling through
bushes, or rushing across the open.
General Lawton, with the Fourteenth
Infantry Battaltons, approached a narrow
iron bridge across a creek on the south
border Of the town. Here a company OF
Filipinos was intrenched across the stream
and behind q stone barrlcade at the en-
trance to the bridge. The Americans
rushed forward in single file, in the face OF
a CALLING fire, demolished the barricade
with their hands, and drove the enemy
from the trenches, killing q dozen. !
TIT Filipino soldiers in the town, Sc
GREETED in various buildings and firing from
the windows, gave the invaders an inter
estin9 hour. There was q regular nest of
them In the stone jail, which is edged in by
a wall. This was q veritable pepper-pot.
1uS aLutliSuis oiIblJ = IL RhiAo1 hsChS
the houses, and many warriors were taken
prisoners.
A considerable body Of Filipinos fed
~northward, crossing the open marshes, but
the Gatlings poured upon thom a deadly
hail until they disappeared in the woods,
Staying dozens. Major Weisenberger de-
ployed the sharpshooters along the shore,
and they crept steadily forward, aiding the
Gatlings. Finally u large body was sent
against the enemy in the woods, driving
them toward the mountains. One Filipino,
attempting to make his Escape, slashed
viclously at Major Weisea' =rser, who shot
and killed him.
General Lawton established headquar-
ters at the elegant palace VI the Governor.
and a guard was immediat1 " placed In the
church, as the sacred, edlaces are always
the first object Of hooters. Within an hour
the town was patrolled and all looting rig
idly prevented, Almost all the inhabitants
had fed during the two preceding nights,
and only a few Chinese shopkeepers have
emerged from hiding and resumed bust
ness,