Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1899-02-11
SAYS THOUSANDS WERE SLAIN.
London Account Declares IL Was n
Regular Slaughter.


London, Feb. 6.-The Morning Post
fighting ut Manila:
The immediate cause Of the attack
was an advance by two Flipinos TO the
Nebraska outpost on the northeast of
the city. When ordered to halt they
refused and the sentry fred. An I'M
surgent signal gun was then fred
from block house No Z and an attack
was Immediately begun on the Ne
braska regiment.
The fighting soon spread on both
sides until firing was in progress on all
the ~outposts around the city. The
American troops responded vigorously,
the insurgents fire being heavy and
the attack evidently hurriedly planned.
Firing continued throughout the
night, with an occasional cessation of
from half an hour to an hour at a time.
At daybreak the warships Charles
ton and Callao began Smelling the
north side of the city.
Their firing was followed later by
that of the Monadnock on the south
ern side, the insurgent positions nav
ing been previously accurately located.
tie Illllillo loHH ~ iNI'''NN =" '''N
been heavy. The wounded on the
American side are now reported to
have been 200. Few Americans were
killed. The Americans began a vigor-
Gus advance all along the line this
morning Sunday and were o
pressing back the insurgents in every
direction, maintaining steadily their
advanced positions and capturing the
villages of San Juan, Del Monte, Santa
Anna, San Pedro, Macati, Santa Mesa
and Lomin.
The splendid police system pre-
vented a general outbreak in the city,
though several soldiers were attacked
by natives i'm the streets. Lieutenant
Charles Hogan and Sergeant Wall
were shot by three natives, the former
being seriously wounded and the lat
ter slightly. Lieutenant Colonel Col
ton was attacked by n native with a
sword while riding in a carriage to the
front. lie killed his assailant with his
revolver. A sharphooter within the
American lines shot and killed a ser
geant while he was sitting at a win
dow Of the second reserve hospital.
Colonel William G.. Smith died of apo
plexy. Many of the insurgents were
driven into the Pasig river and
drowned. Several hundred were
taken prisoners.
In n subsequent telegram the fol-
lowing statements were made:
Last nights Saturday and today's
Sunday engagements have proved a
veritable slaughter for the Filipinos,
their killed being reported as amount
ing 10 thousands. The American
forces could scarcely have been better
disposed. 1t is now known that the
attack was fully expected, and that
every preparation had been made to
meet the contingency.
Firing slackened at noon Sunday, |
the enemy being apparently democrat
lied.
The American troops, however, are
fully equipped to meet a possible at
tack tonight.
Aguinaldo's private secretary has
been arrested as n spy in Manila. Per-
feet quiet reigns in the city. More
than a houndred wounded Filipinos
taken from the trenches are being
cared for in the American hospitals.
The Times, commenting editorially
upon the dispatches from Manila,
"The insurgent attack was apparent
~ premeditated and the presumption
is strong that Aguinaldo is responsible
for the bloodshed. The really import
ant point is whether the attack is or
Is not the beginning of an organized
attempt to fling off American rule. J