The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1899-11-25
AGUINALDO'S
GOVERNMENT
is SHATTERED
Insurgents Can No Longer Lay Claim
to Power in the Philippine
Islands.
LEADING OFFICIALS CAPTURED.
Agutaaldo and other Members Of His
Cabinet Are Fpgutives-aen.
Hughes Exploits.

| WASHINGTON, Nov. A.-Genreal
Otis summarizes the situation in Luzon
in dispatch to the war department to-
day, In which he says that the insur-
gent government can no longer claim
to exist; It's troops and officials are
scattered and AguinaldO in hiding. The
dispatch follows:
Manila, Nov. 24.-clalm to govern
ment by insurgents can be made no
longer under any fiction; its treasurer,
secretary Of the interior and president
Of congress In our hands; Its president
and remaining cabinet officers in hiding
evidently in different central LuZon
provinces: its generals and troops in
small bands scattered through these
provinces acting as bandettl. or dis
persed playing the role Of amigos.
with arms concealed. Indications are
that Aguinaldo did not escape through
the lines Of Lawton or Wheaton, but
fled westward from Bayambang railway
station. Telegraphic communication to
Bagupan established. probably to San
Fabian to-day; by relaplng nine miles
Of track with material at hand railway
communication to that point re-estab-
lIshed; labor Of troops must attend
maintenance"
Severe Engagement.
Fuller details OF the sharp engage
ment between Carpenters command
and the insurgents in Ilollo reached the
war department to-day in the following
dispatch from General Otis, dated Ma
Mia to-day:
In Panay. 21st inst, when DIckman
drove enemy In the vicinity of Jaro,
Carpenter, with two battallons of the
Eighteenth infantry and BrIdgeman's
battery had severe engagement at Pa
via, north of Tloilo. His casualties,
Ave killed, twenty wounded now In 1lo-
ilo hospital, others slightly wounded
with command; enemy driven north
with reported very heavy loss; partie-
ulars not received. Carpenter passed
on to insurgents stronghold, Santa Bar
bara, which he captured on the 22d inst
without loss. Nothing received from
column under immediate command of
Hughes, which is moving rapidly and
operating north and west of Santa Bar
bara. Apparently visayans friendly.
not taking active part, enemy consists
Of 1000 Tagalos."
General Otis also sends the following
list of casualties sustained since his
lat report:
Killed in advance on PavIa, Novem-
ber 2lt, Howard Lowe, sergeant 6,
Sixth artillery; William S. Addyr F,
Eighteenth infantry, In action near
Barrie Tenablng, 11th; Thomas E.
Gardner, L, Seventeenth infantry;
wounded, Charles E, Hapner, Seven
teenth, right thigh, moderate; 10th, John
Il. Miller, Seventeenth, right chest and
abdomen, severe; in action at Min
durlao Panay, James NJ. Casey, B,
Eighteenth infantry, left thigh, slight;
in action near Jaro Panay, Richard
Corbett, C, Twenty-sIxth infantry.
neck, severe; 18th, James E. Roegey, A,
head, severe: in action at Anabo, Lu-
zon, Paul p. Phenuer. F. Eleventh cav
airy, left thigh, moderate; Edward
johnson. head, moderate; William W.
Hlnman, corporal. right leg moderate.
The Fight at Iloilo.
A later dispatch from General Otis
gives the result of the fighting at IlOIlO
as follows:
Hughes, noilo reports enemy driven
back into plountains: Insurgent capital
Cobatuan captured. Only serious act
ion that of Carpenter at Pavia; total
casualties five killed or since dead of
wounds. twenty-seven wounded; cap
tured ten prisoners, eighteen cannon,
six rifles, quantities of ammunition.
Enemys casualties not stated"