The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-02-08

ing to the cutting Of the wires, and the sig
nal men were ordered to kill without any
hesitancy any one who attempted TO inter
fere with the lines.
TREACHERoUS BARBARIANS.
A Filipino colonel came out this morning
from Caloocan under a flag of truce. Sew
eral American officers promptly went to
meet him, but when the parties met the
Filipinos opened fire. The Filipino apollo
gized for the barbarous conduct of his troops
and returned to his lines.
The American troops are being promptly
furnished with supplies of all kinds. hospital
attendance is supplied up to firing lines,
and. in brief. all the wants of our troops are
met Immediately by the different military
departments. whose duty it is to attend to
such matters. Artiicer Hayes, of Company
]. of the Colorado regiment. discovered the
missing parts of the pumping machinery of
the water works buried in a coal pile at
Singalon station. The machinery will soon
be in working order again and the employees,
having promised to return to work this even
ins. it is improbable that the threatened
water famine will occur.
The terrible loss of the rebels may be gath
cred from the fact that 100 of them were
buried in one rice field on Monday. near
Pasas, and that eighty-seven were inferred
between Pace and Santa Ana. a converted
river gunboat did terrible execution among
the rebels. sweeping both banks of the river
with her Calling guns and her heavier bat
teTy. Hundreds Of Fihpinos undoubtedly
crawled into the canebrakes and died there.
The Americans are working nobly in their
efforts to find the wounded and are bringing
hundreds Of suffering rebels to the hospitals
for treatment. The natives are unable to
understand the humane motives which
prompt the victors to succor the wounded of
ahe enemy.
The correspondent of the Associated Press
is Informed that members of the hospital
corps have made the startling discovery that
there are several women, in male dress and
with hair cropped. among the dead Fflipinos.
SAVAGE CHIEF INCENSED.
The chief of the Ygorotes, the natives who
fought so CALAMITY in the face of our artil-
lery fire with their bows and arrows. is in
the hospital with a shattered thigh. He adj
mits that he never saw modern artillery
and was ignorant of it's effects until he and
his followers met the disastrous fire of Sun
day morning. The chief is bitterly incensed
against the Tagalos for placing the Ygorotes
an front Of the American battery under the
p~retense that they were sent to occupy a
post of honor. and he intimates that the
Ygorotes will avenge this treachery when
the survivors return north.
IL is regarded as a significant fact that
many of the Filipino officials of this city
disappeared from Manila as soon as hostili-
ties commenced. Some of them are sup
posed to be stnl hiding here.
Hundreds of women are pouring into Ma
Mia from all districts, as the villages around
Manila have, as a rule, been destroyed by
the troops:
The further the Americans extend their
lires the more the need of means of trans
portation increases. The American COM
1nanders have already been compelled to
impress horses and vehicles on all sides, to
the inconvenience. naturally. of the civil
ians. All the public conveyances, at this
writing, have been either impressed or have
disappeared in some manner or other.
Street car traffic, however, has been re-
sumed. and the cars are running regularly,
though the streets are almost deserted. There
are a few stores open, and white flags, i'm the
nature of towels, pillow slips and aprons
tied to bamboos, adorn the windows of the
native residences everywhere, but in spite
of these emblems of peace scores of Fill
pinOs, under the cover of darkness, fired
from these windows yesterday evening on
the American patrols. AT 8 O'clock last night
there was a general fusillade in the Quiapo
and Binon districts. The inhabitants of the
city generally believed that a battle was
raging at their doors. Lights were extin-
Buished in the dwellings and a majority of
the people were in a state of terror. I'm
der the circumstances it is remarkable that
no casualties were reported. Several shots
were fired across the river during the ex-
element. General Hughes has the interior
situation absolutely i'm hand.