The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1899-06-12
After an All-Day's Battle With the
American Troops
A Majority Of the Rebel Forces Slide
Away Under Cover Of Night.
Their Occupation Of the Province
Of Cavite Broken, However, as
the Result of the Last Engage
ment and the Americans in Pos
session Of the Important Coast
Towns.

MANILA, June 11-S:1O p. m.-The
Filipino occupation Of the province of
| Cavite has been broken, and, as the
| result OF the present movement, the
| Americans now control the important
coast towns of Paranque and Laspinas,
while a long line of insurgent trenches
| facing our south lines has been cleared.
The insurgents have again proved
| their facility as dodgers, between 3,OOO
and 1900 warriors, who seemed des-
| tined to be captured, having disap-
peared, the majority sliding away un-
der cover of the night, after fighting
the Americans all day. Some others
came to meet our troops with prOtesta-
tons of friendship.
The Thirteenth Infantry lost one man
killed and six wounded; the Ninth In
fantry one man killed and five wound
ed; the Fourteenth Infantry three
wounded, and the First Colorado Vol
unteer Regiment eleven wounded.
Yesterdays work was the hardest
our army has seen. The battlefield
stretched out across the entire isthmus
from Laguna de Bay to the harbor.
While the troops were advancing the
army gunboat Napidan, driven near
Taguig, shelled the enemy, killing sew
eral Of them.
The monitor Monadnock and the gum
spinas all day, with the full power Of
their batteries. The rebel sharpshoot :
ers kept in hiding until the American
lines had passed, and then attempted
to pot stragglers from the trees. Thanks
to their poor craftsmanship, this was
without result.
The whole country proved to be q
succession of small hills, with Doggy
ground between the high, thick grass,
and bushes i'm the hollows, which great
ly added to the difficulty of the adj
vance, but gave shelter that saved
many from the eneTny's bullets. Our
men threw away their blankets, coats
and even haversacks, stripping to the
waist and trusting to luck for food.
Water could not be obtained, and there
was much discomfort after the can
teens were emptied.
At the outset the Colorados, the
Ninth Infantry and the Twenty-first
Infantry forced the line of insurgent
trenches, wheeled to the left and drove
this maneuver the Filipinos in con-
cealed trenches on the right opened
an enfilading fire, but the brigade,
partly owing to the high grass, had
few hit.
The Ninth Infantry crossed around
to the right, thanking the trenches.
driving out the Filipinos and killing
many of them. The Colorado regiment
advanced to the lake. Two companies
encountered trenches on top of a knoll,
where the Filipinos stood waist high
above trench, pouring a volley upon
the advancing Americans. The Colo
RADIO troops charged and drove them
out, Lieutenant Colonel Moses being
wounded in the arm as he jumped into
the trench.
In the meantime. General Wheaton's
column advanced one and half miles
toward Paranque, where the Ameri-
cans found a strong trench ON a ridge,
out of which they drove the Filipinos
by hard fighting.
The enemy tried to flank the dis
! mounted troops of the Fourth Cavalry,
accompanying Major General Lawton,
and at the same time they made their
advance. throwing a skirmish line to
flank the Fourteenth Infantry. But
these We're easily repulsed, the Ameri-
can artillery coming to the crest of
the hill and Smelling them.
About 3 o'clock in the afternoon Gen.
eral Wheaton's brigade, headed by
General Lawton, who in his white
clothing and helmet, on big black
horse, was shining mark for the enc
my's sharpshooters, circled to the south
of Laspinas, encountering a large force
of F'ilipinos in the shelter Of the trees.
General Lawton had a narrow escape.
In the first volley of the enemy the
horses of three of his staff officers were
shot from under them.
The Colorado regiment bore the brunt
of this attack, and dispersed the Fill
pinos Hardly had they finished Oft
that lot when larger force appeared
in the rear which the Ninth Infantry
and a part of the Colorado regiment
drove away BY this time nearly the
whole division was around Laspinas.
The Americans camped for the night
south of the town and in the midst Of
q heavy rain.
At 6 o'clock this morning General
wheaton advanced upon LaSplnaS WIN
a troop of cavalry. the Twenty first
Infantry. the Colorado regiment, part
of the Ninth Infantry and two mount
ain guns crossing two streams and en-
tering the town without firing a shot.
He then advanced upon Paranque. The
women and children. and, for that mat
ter, many men, remained in the town.
No houses We're destroyed though
I many were torn by the shells from the
| warships. Everywhere the Americans
found white flags flying.
| So far as can be ascertained the
| Filipinos loss is about fifty killed,
| about $50 wounded and twenty taken
prisoners.
| The whole country is networked with
| trenches, and the enemy scurried from
shelter to shelter.
To-day long trains of commissary
wagons are carrying provisions to the
United States troops along the road
which only yesterday was the strong
hold OF the enemy, and the natives who
yesterday were probably carrying guns
are to-day doffing their hats. and grow