The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1899-02-10
IN FULLRETREAT
Main Forces of the Filipinos in the Vi
entity Of Manila Put to Rout.
The Insurgents Possess Several Quick. Fir
ing and Krupp Field Guns-Good
Portion Armed With Mausers
of the Latest Pattern.

WASHING TON, Feb. s.-The following
otticlal dispatch from Gen. Otis was re-
celved at the war department Tuesday
morning:
MANILA, Feb. 7.-Adjutant General,
washington: Insurgent army concen-
trated around Manila from Luzon prov
mces, numbering over 90, 600. possess
ing several quicl1-fring and Krupp
held guns; good portion of enemy arm
ca with Mausers of the latest pattern.
Two Krupp guns and great many
rifles captured. Insurgents fred
great quantity of ammunition. Quite
"a number of Spanish soldiers in the
insurgent service, who served the ar
tillery.
Insurgents constructed strong in
trenchments near our lines. mostly in
bamboo thickets. These, our men
charged, killing or capturing many of
the enemy. Our casualties aggregate
$50, Full reports To-day. Casualties
of insurgents very heavy. Have buried
some 500 of their dead and hold 500
prisoners. Their loss, killed, wounded
and prisoners, probably 1000. Took
water works pumping station yester-
day, six miles out. Considerable Skin
mishlng with enemy, who made no
stand. Pumps damaged. Will be work
ed in week. Have number of con-
densers set up in city which furnish
good water. Troops in excellent spir-
its. Quiet prevails. (Signed)
Otis.
MANILA, Feb. S-The Americans, as
this dispatch is sent, are in complete
control of the situation within ra-
dius of miles of Manila, their lines
extending to Malabon on the north,
and to Paranaque on the south, and
are fully Is miles long.
While few detached bodies of the
enemy still offer desultory opposition,
the main body of the rebels is in full
retreat and utterly routed.
OF the hordes of troops originally
drawn up in battle array against the
Americans, fully one-third are already
incapacitated and the others are scat
tered in every direction.
The terrible loss of the rebels may
be gathered from the fact that 100 of
them were buried in one rice field on
Monday, near Pasas, and that 81 were
inferred between Pace and Santa
Anna.
A converted river gunboat did terri
bic execution among the rebels, sweep
ing both banks of the river with her
Gatling guns and her heavier battery.
Hundreds of Filipinos 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 vic
tors to succor the wounded of the
enemy.
A press correspondent is informed
that members of the hospital corps
have made the startling discovery that
and with hair cropped, among the
dead.
The chief of the Ygorates, the Fill
pino natives who fought SO gal
lantly in the face of our ar
tilIery fire, with their bows and
arrows, is in hospital with a shat
tered thigh. He admits that he
never saw modern artillery and was ig-
norant of it's effects until he and his
followers met the disastrous fire of
Sunday morning. The chief is bitterly
incensed against the Tagalos for plac-
ing the Ygorates in front of the Amer
lean battery, under the pretense that
they were sent to occupy post Of
honor, and he intimates that the Ygo-
rotes will aVenge this treachery when
the survivors return north.
1t is regarded as a significant fact
that many of the Filipino officials OF
this city disappeared from Manila as
soon as hostilities commenced. Some
of them are supposed to be still hiding
here.
Hundreds of women are pouring into
Manila from all districts, as the vii
ages around Manila have, as a rule,
been destroyed by the troops.
The further the Americans extend
their lines the more the need OF
means of transportation increases.
The American commanders have al
ready been compelled to impress horses
and vehicles on all sides, to the incon-
venience, naturally of the civilians.
AL the public conveyances at this
writing, have either been impressed or
have disappeared in some manner OF
other. Street car traffic however, has
been resumed and the cars are running
regularly, though the streets