The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-02-23

Manila, Feb. 23.-Immense damage
has been done by fires. which are be-
Heved to have been started by insur-
gents last night. The fire department
has experienced great difficulty in fight
ing the flames. owing to defective appa-
ratus- 1t is reported that the natives
have damaged the apparatus.
There was some fighting in the streets
during the night, but the Americans
quickly Guelled the uprising. \ num-
Der of insurgents We're killed and sew
eral American soldiers were wounded.
A large market place was among the
first to burn. Between 500 and 200 resi-
dences and business houses have been
destroyed. Fires were started at sew
eral points simultaneously, and spread
with great rapidity, resisting all efforts
to control them. Hundreds of homeless
natives are huddled in the streets. max
ing patrol duty of the Americans very
difficult.
\ NIGHT OF TERROR.
Last night was one of terror to thou
sands OF inhabitants of Manila, the reb-
els making good their Oft-repeated
threats TO the extent of burning scores
three men by firing through window;
during the excitement.
At S o'clock an incendiary fire Oc-
CURED in a block Of brick buildings &C
cupisd by Chinese in the Gale la Coste,
in the Santa Cruz district. \ stiff
breeze was blowing and the iniamma-
bility of the structure caused the blaze
to spread with alarming rapidity. The
city fire department was hOpelessly in
competent and the English volunteer
brigade from Santa Mesa was sum
moued and, with a modern engine
pumping adequate streams from the
canal, succeeded after four hours work
in getting the blaze under control
Impediments were placed in the way
Of the hreInen. and the hose was cut
five times. This resulted in all the ma
tives being driven off the. streets, those
in the Immediate vicinity of the blaze
being CoTalled in vacant lots, and
guarded until the excitement was over
In many instances the natives were in
sOlent and paid no regard 10 the orders
given them, and the soldiers were COM
pleted - use harsh measures. The butts
of their titles and their bayOnets were
freely applied
The danger from live electric wires
necessitatad the closing OF the circuit
in the turning region, and the only
light IN certain parts of the city was
that furnished by the blaze.
FIREME,N ATTACKED.
Shortly after midnight another big
fire was started in the LOdo district,
where the natives are thickest; and
when the firemen and soldiers at
tempted to work, q regular fusilade Of
rifle and revolver shots We're fired from
the windows and roofs of buildings.
The firemen. escorted by soldiers.
proceeded to clean out the houses, while
the fire was unheeded. The Thirteenth
Minnesota were reinforced by detach-
ments from the Third infantry, Second
Oregon, the Third artillery and the
Tenth Pennsylvania. Bullets flew in
every direction, in almost every street
in the LOndO and BOnOndO districts,
causing the most intense excitement
Captain Robinson of company c,
Thirteenth Minnesota, and three men
were wounded.
Many timid persons, imagining that
the rebels had effected an entrance
through the American lines and were
advancing into the city, hurried fran
tically from the hotels and houses, only
to be stopped at the first corner by
guard. The sounding of native buSle
call, Immediately preceding the firing.
lent color to the story. Thousands of
Chinese crossed the bridges and plazas
under fire, hurrying with their bundles
TO the Chinese consulate.