Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1899-02-10

BATTLE Ar MANILA
The Insurgents attack Ameri-
cans,
FILIPlNOS LOSS HEAVY
Estimated at 1000 Killed and g.,
500 wounded-Americans
Dead 80 or 4o-Deweys
Ships Take a Hand.
Richmond Dispatch, Feb, ~

Richmond Dispatch, Feb. ~
Official dispatches received at Wash
ington yesterday confirm the news tha,
the Filipino insurgents, under the lea d
of Aguinaldo, had opened hostilities
upon the American forces near Manila.
Their attack was inaugurated all along
the American external lines Saturday
night, aud was undoubtedly intended as
a surprise. The Americans were not
caught mapping, however, and we're en-
abled to repulse the enemy with heavy
losses. The insurgents renewed the
attack several times dnring the nigh,
and fought desperately, bnt were una
BILE to mako any permanent impression
upon the American line. Sunday NOR
ming the A merican forces turned the
tables and advanced upon the insurgents
driving them back beyond their original
lines and captured several villages and
defence works. The troops under Gen
Otis w ere ably assisted in this moye-
ment by the vessels under Admiral
Dewey, which did good execution on
the ianks of the Filipinos. The casual
ties among the Americans arc estimat-
ell at rs, of which about thirty Five are
fatal.
Manillu, Feb. 5.-The attack made by
the Filipinos on the Americans last
night has probably taught them a lesson
that they will be long in forgetting. The
natives have also had an excellent op-
portunity of learning the difference in
the fighting qualities of Spanish and
American troops, and their enlight-
ment has been great.
The fighting was not the result of any
aggression ON the part of the Americans
but was precipitated by the action of
two native soldiers who refused to obey
the order of the sentry who challenged
their passage of his post. These two
NATIVES advanced to the outpost of the
Firs. braska Regiment, who are sta
toned to the northeast of Manila. As
they approached the sentry the latter
ordered them to hat They insolently
refused to do So and continued to ad-
vance. The sentry again called upon
them o halt, and. as they paid no at
tention to his order, he leveled his rifle
and fired upon them. The action of
the natives leads to the supposition that
their refusal to oley the sentry was
was part of the preconcerted plan.
No sooner had the sentry fired than
the Filipinos who were occupying block
fhouse No. Z fired gun, which was ev-
identity signal for an attack to be made
on the Americans. The Nebraska regi-
ment was encamped in the vcinitG of
the outpost where the shooting occurred.
Immediately after the firing OF the
signal gun the Filipinos moved against
the Nebraskans, but they were not pre-
pared for the reception they got. They
thought that they would take the
Americans by surprise, but in this they
were grievously disappointed.
The fighting spread on both sides un-
til there was extensive firing going OH at
| all the outposts. Our troops, who had
been expecting trouble were glad to have
an opportunity to square accounts with
the natives, whose insolence OF late was
becoming intolerable. They responded
with alacrty and vigor to the fire OF the
Filipinos, which was heavy. The enemy
occupied the trenches that they had been
digging for sometime past in plain view
of the Americans.
At day break the cruiser Charleston
and the captured gunboat Callao took
up positions and opened fire on the en-
emy north OF the city. Later the moni.
tor Monadnock was ordered to attend
to the Filipinos on the south OF Manila
The American land forces were also in
Z flicting heavy loss oil the enemy. Tn,
}, Americans maintained steadily their ad
q vance, driving the enemy from and cap
t turing the villages ofSan Juan del Monte
Santa Ana, San Pedro Macati, Santi
4. Mesa and Lomia.
Manila, Feb. 6.-careiul estimates
d place the Filipino losses up to date o
r 1000 dead, 3,5GO wounded and 800,
a taken prisoners.