The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1899-07-28
VICTORY REPORTED
Calamba Captured After Two Hours of
Sharp, Hard Fighting
THROUGH MUD AND WATER.
fOur American Soldiers We're Killed
and Twelve Wounded.
THE FlLlPIN0S LEFT THREE DEAD.
Insurgents Reiterated Through the Town
and Fled to the Hills.
FIFTY SPANISH PRISONERS RELEASED.
Cnlnmba Is on Lngunn de Day. About
Thirty Miles Southeast
of Manila.
HE FILlPINoS LEFT THREE DEAD.
Insurgents Reiterated Through the Town
and Fled to the Hills.
IfTY SPANISH PRISONERS RELEASED
Cn1ambn Is on Lngunn de Day. Abou,
Thirty Miles Southeast
of Manila.

Manila, July 81 7;40 p. m.--An expedi-
ton, composed of troops from San Pedro,
Macati Pasig and Morong, under Brlgadier
General r. H. Hall, yesterday captured
Calamba, an important trading town on
the south shore of Laguna bay, after two
hours sharp fighting, during which four
soldiers were killed and twelve wounded.
The trenches commanding the harbor were
under water, but the swampiness of the
land made the work harder.
The troops boarded the cascoes Tuesday
night. The force comprised 400 of the
Washington volunteers, 450 of the Twenty
first infantry, $50 of the Fourth cavalry
and two guns of the First artillery. The
gunboats Napidan and Cesto assembled OPP
poslte Calamba. Hundreds of people in
carts and on foot were seen rushing to
the hills Natives escaping from Calamna,
town. A force under Captain McGarth and
Lieutenant Matson swan the river Hav-
ing crossed the stream under fire the Of
ticers procured cascoes to ferry the troops
the town, shooting from houses and bushes
as they fed to the hills Three members
OF the Washington regiment wadedthrough
swamps, often shoulder deep, while a
group of Filipinos concealed in hay stacks
were shooting at them until the Napidan
focused her six-pounders and Calling
guns on the stacks for a few minutes.
Most OF the work was done before the
Washington volunteers could reach the
town.
The FilipInos left three dead.
OF the casualties on the American side
two of the killed were members of the
Fourth cavalry and two killed and eight
wounded belong to the Twenty first in
fantry.
There was much shooting by Amigoes,
who emerged from the bushes with white
flags. After the fight dozen men holding
up their hands and shouting "Castalinos,
met the Americans. Even Spanish SOL
diers embraced the Americans Historically.
There were fifty Spanish prisoners at
Calamba, of whom SOME were civil officials
and some were soldiers They had been
given the chance oil joining the Filipino
army or becoming servants to Filiplnos
and chose the army intending to surrender
at the first opportunity. Most of the civil
ians entered the American lines. General
Hall captured twelve Filipinos with guns.
Major General Henry Lawton, Prof Dean
w. Worcester OF the Americana Philippine
commission accompanied the expedition
and sat coolly in an unprotected boat close
to the shore during the ighting, the bull
lets splashing about them.
Today General Hall brought to Manila
the Spaniards whom the expedition released
from capture of more than year.
Lieutenant Larson, commanding the Ma
pidan today found long missing Spanish
gunboat, which had been covered with
bushes and fish nets, SO as not to resemble
a vessel The Filipinos, having met rein
forcements and thinking the Americans had
gone descended from the Mills today, IN
tending to reoccupy Calamba. General
Hall easily drove them back. General Han
will leave garrison at Calamba.
Washington, July 27.-calamba is a
town on Laguna de Bay, about thirty
miles southeast of Manila. 1t is much
further south than the United States troops
have vet penetrated on land. II is in the
nroyince OF Laguna. II has population
of IL .476, and Is twenty-seven miles from
Santa Cruz on the east shore OF the bay.
lis character Is not considered of any stra-
tegical Importance except as part of the