The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-06-06

musketry and cannon made one truly
| believe that war is hell
"On the right General Hale'ss bTagade
stationed on narrow strip of land
formed by the junction of two rivers
also began to open on the rebels. This
brigade had with it three guns of the
Utah battery under Lieutenant F1em-
l ing. Owing to the peculiar turn which
one of the rivers made at this point
General Hale's brigade was enabled to
| put in a strong flank fire upon the
rebels The gugus stood the fire until
the Shells especially those from. the ar
mored car, began to whistle all too
close, and the bullets from the krags
and Springfields to find their way
through the portfolios of the rebel fort,
when they broke and ran.
This was the exact moment the boys
were waiting for, and the Montana boys
of Companies B and F, commanded by
Major Miller, and the Nebraskas, South
| Dakotas and 1owas of Hales brigade
poured in a murderous fire from flank
! and rear. The Kansas and the balance
| of the Montana regiment forded the
river and took possession of the
trenches and Lieutenant Fleming sent
over his detachment of the Utah bat
terry. The railroad bridge had been cut
at the upper span and one end had fai-
| len in the river. The other end still
| rested on the abutment at the Calumpit
| side.
1.-THE track had also been torn up for
| some hundred feeA1oN~the Malolos side
| of the bridge, while the track on the
| Calumpit side is torn up for distance
| of five miles or perhaps more. For this
| reason the rebels were enabled to es-
| cape, the delay attendant upon the re-
pairing of the bridge giving them ample
| time to again place themselves in po-
| sition to offstand, at least for a time,
| the advancing boys in blue and brown.
1.-The losses on the American side,
considering the exposed character OF
| their position, were comparatively light,
| the loss for Tuesdays fight being eight
| killed and SO wounded.
THE advance upon the town of Ca
! lumpit began Wednesday morning at b
| o'clock, when the Kansas and Montana
| regiments again formed in battle array,
ably supported by the artillery. At the
word of command the whole line
| stepped out as one man and again it
| engaged the enemy, who occupied two
! lines of trenches. The rebels were
| driven back with but little trouble, and
| the advance party entered Calumpit,
! which was found to be in ashes. me
| rebels were driven across the no
| Grande de Pampanga and We're found
| by our scouts firmly entrenched in for
| tl1lCatlOnS similar LIlOSS IllGL Will az
| the river below. The insurgents were
| found to be in possession of five can
| non, which they fired some score or
| times without doing any damage. Cen
| eral Wheaton not being able to capture
this position by the useSeof infantry
| alone without sacrificing great num-
| Der Of his men, sent back for artillery,
| and four guns of the Utah battery were
sent to shell the amigos out of their
lvtr hol1 nd where
| Company B lost it's first man, Sergeant
| Thomas Anderson, who was out on q
| scouting expedition with detail OF
men. Prfvates Thompson and Davis,
| both of B company, were also wound
ed on this expedition.
| by the time the artillery arrived it
was already late in the afternoon and
| General Wheaton deemed it wise to
| postpone the attack until Thursday
morning Early Thursday morning fir
| ing was in dulged in between the en-
| trenched rebels and their victorious
| foes with but little damage to either
side. 1t was almost noon before the big
| guns of our artillery began to speak
their loudest and the volley firing and
| the rapid fire of the American Long
Toms almost hushed the previously
regular barking of the Filipino Maus-
| ers.
ut was at this moment that a de-
| tachment of the Kansas and Montana
| regiments crossed the river under
| heavy fire flanked the rebels and drove
| them from their trenches The place
| where they crossed was about a thou
sand yards above the railroad bridge.
| and they crossed on a raft which they
| found near the shore and which the
rebels had previously used for the same
purpose.
THE sight of the Americanos in too
close range was enough to give the
amigos the cold shivers, and they fled
| in disorder from their entertainments.
The small band fired upon them as they
fed and many of the foe bit the dust.
They had run possibly about 500 yards
| when they found out the small number
of the attacking party and attempted
to make a stand But Colonel Wallace
and the balance of his Montana men
were pushing across the dismantled
| bridge as fast as possible all the time
pouring lead into the enemy, and they
| again turned aAd fed.
| They We're followed some distance
| by the boys in blue, who gave them
still further encouragement to pursue
their footrace against time. Some of
| the officers looking through their field
glasses could see that the insurgent Of
| fcers were trying to rally their men,
urging them by threats and blows to
make a stand. But the gugus were not
to be persuaded; they knew a good
thing when they saw it and concluded
that our boys might hand them too
much of the good thing, and so pur-
sued their hurried march.
General Wheaton's brigade contin-
ued the march upon Apalit. the next
stronghold of the enemy. This was
taken with but little effort. and the
rebels reiterated upon San Tomas. In
this position the fire-eaters from the
plains of Kansas and the wilds of Mon
tana are resting upon their respective
laurels, surrounded with al 1.-The COM
forts of a home. For the boys of
Wheaton's brigade are occupying the
nipa huts of the natives at Apalt.
AT 9:15 last Friday morning Colonel
Manuel Arguelo and Lieutenant Col
onel Jose Nernal adjutant general to
General Luna, entered the American
lines at Apalit under a flag of truce,
seeking terms of surrender. They tried
to get Major General Otis to agree to a
of hoe fop