The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1899-05-13
Manila AdVicGs Picture the Re-
bells in Wild Retreat.
AMERICANS ALWAYS VlCTORS
Gallant Charges Made BY the Vol
unteers-RuSheS on Trenches
Killed and Wounded

NEW YORK, May "a cable to the
Sun, dated Manila, May 3, S:55 p. M,
says: The charges made yesterday by
the Kansas Regiment north of San
Tomas We're most CALAMITY executed
under the personal leadership of Gen.
Wheaton and his staff and Col. (Briga-
der GeneraD Funston. The Kansans
We're full of fight and they drove the
enemy almost to San Fernando. Our
troops were then recalled to San Tomas
for the night to wait the arrival of the
wagon train, which had been delayed
by the destruction of bridges by the
rebels.
This morning Gen. Hale, with two
battalions of the Fifty-first Iowa Reg
iment and a Hotchkiss gun advanced
on San Fernando, his men thanking the
town on the right. The Americans were
compelled to wade across two shallow
streams to reach the town. When they
approached San Fernando they found
that the main body of the enemy had
deserted that place yesterday, fleeing
northward. Only a small garrison was
| left to make defense. When our
troops were in the middle of the sec
| Ond stream, which they had to cross,
the Filipinos opened a brisk fire on
them. If they thought to hold the Am
orleans in check they were woefully
disappointed, for the 1owans, with
cheers and shouts, scrambled up the
bank of the river and then matters be-
1 1s,~,,,
| out a moments hesitation the Amer
leans rushed the position held by the
enemy and drove them out. Then they
chased them through the town and
mile beyond 1t was simply a foot race,
| in which the lightly equipped natives
had the advantage, unless they were
halted by the bullets, as many of them
were.
When our troops returned to town
they found that the church, convent,
railroad station and several other
buildings had been burned by the Fill
ipinos yesterday and this mornii1t
The town was strongly fortified, ! :
| if the rebels had not lost heart tie
could have inflicted severe losses Jon
our forces before the place was c'yp-
tured. South of town there wasi
double line of loopholed, Zigzag
trenches, the construction of which
| showed good military knowledge.
These trenches could easily have been
| held for a long time against super
ior force if the defenders had been
willing to fight The fact that they
were abandoned by the main body of
| insurgents is proof of the demoraliza-
ton in the Filipino army. There were
also several old Spanish blockhouses
which could have been utilized for de-
Tense, but they were put to no use.
A Spanish prisoner, who was form
erly provincial officer, was left be-
hind when the enemy retreated. He
stated that Gen. Antonio Luna, the
rebel commander, was wounded in the
chest during yesterdays fighting in
front of San Tomas. He added that
the Filipino troops were completely
ldemoralized and had retreated in great
disorder.
Later in the day Gen. Macarthur
moved the remainder of his division to
San Fernando. The greater part OF
the residence portion of the town is
intact Many of the inhabitants who
fed before or with the troops left all
their household goods behind them.
The American casualties yesterday
were: Killed-Twentieth Kansas
Lieut.. McTaggart and one private;
First Montana, one private; First Ne
braska, two privates.
Observation-Disclosures Kansas, thir-
teen men, including two officers; Gen
Funston, hand, Slight; First Montana
three, including one officer; Fifty-f1rst
Iowa, three; First Nebraska, five; FRS
South Dakota, one.
Gen. Lawton is now at Maasin, five
miles from San Miguel. He captured
at Balinag a number of StOrehouses
which, it is estimated, contain sup
ply of rice sufficient to last the entire
army six months.
Gen. LawtOn has established his
headquarters at Balinag. He has sent
Col. Summers, with two battaliOns
each Of the Oregon and Minnesota reg
iments, beyond 'Maasin, TO capture
large stores which the enemy is re-
ported to have near San Ildefonso
The Filipino prisoners say that there
are many Spaniards at San Isidro and
that the main body Of native refugees
is travelling toward the mountains. The
campaign appears to be entering the
vicinity Of San Isidro. The destruction
OF bridges by the insurgents necessi-
tates the abandonment Of plans to run
, the railroad trains beyond Calumpit
and wagon trains have been substi-
tuted.
The monitor Monadnock bOmbarded
the town of ParanQue this morning.
Lawton reports capture Of over $780,
600 bushels of rice and 265 tons of sug-
ar AT Baluag Value of subsistence
captured at Malolos, s1,500,000. Cap
+ure of rice and corn belonging to en-
envy at other points.