The Globe-republican., 1899-03-30
hAu|NIA Is Captured.
United States Troops Rapidly Near
ing the Enemy's Capital.
as KILLED AND 145 WOUNDED.
Troops Overcome Great Obstacles and
Fight NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. and. Polo
Fired-Filipiuos Evacuate Towns
and Flee N0rthward-Mac-
Arthur Pushing For
ward Rapidly.

ward Rapidly
MANILA, March 27.-The Americans
have advanced along the line of the
Dagupan railroad, driving the Fill
pinos from Malinta and New Canayan,
where there were 5000 Inhabitants
Last night the brigades of General
Harrison Gray Otis and General Hale
encamped in the enemy's trenches at
New Canayan and that of General
Wheaton at Malinta.
General Wheaton's brigade formed a
junction with the remainder of Gen
eral MacArthur's division at Malinta
and the two, leaving General Wheaton
there, marched along the railroad to
New Canayan. This place was forti-
fed and for 300 yards from it there
were trenches on each side of the
track These were taken possession
of by the American troops. The move
ment of the Americans will be pushed
in this direction.
The Filipinos, realizing that tho
railroad is the crucial line, have con-
running diagonaiiy on both sides of
the track at distance of a few hun
dred yards apart. This work was de-
signed most inteiligently and has ev-
identity beer done under the direction
of experts. l represents an enormous
amount of labor Most Of the rebel
positions are protected by thick earth
works, a majority of them topped with
stones and provided with loopholes.
some have sheet iron roofs.
The days work of the United
States troops consisted of storming
the successive trenches The Filipinos
occupying them were completely hid
den. The enemy poured strong fire
from every trench until they were dis
turbed by fanking volley, when
they would disappear into the woods
and Jungle, only to make stand at
the next line.
The American loss was remarkably
email, seven being reported killed and
twenty-five wounded. 1t is known
that the Filiplnos were SO we'll pro-
tected that they suffered little. No
dead insurgents were found in the
trenches Forty prisoners were taken
by the Americans and it is estimated
that the rebel casualties numbered
twenty.
The insurgents broke their guns
when they were compelled to abandon
them.
The Helena and the army gunboats
shelled Malabon and the country be-
yond, while the Monadnock focused
all its batteries upon Paranaque for
the purpose of destroying the military
stores there. A great smoke was
caused, but as the insurgents are in
possession of the town, the results of
the Smelling are not obtainable.
The evacuation of Malabon was a
picturesque rout, thousands of men,
women and children, loaded down
with household goods, some with their
dearest treasures sighting cocks-un-
der their arms, poured across the
swamps in the early morning.
An exploded caisson at the railroad
bridge proved bar to the Americans.
Ten soldiers of the Oregon regiment.
while searching for two of those killed
earlier in the fighting, sneaked into
the city in the morning and found the
place in a condition of chaos. The in
habitants, seeing them, fled in a panic,
thinking the American forces were in
possession. The Oregonians shot sew
eral armed natives and then returned
to camp.
The American forces did not occu-
py Malabon. but are concentrating
their strength to strike Malolos. Ma
labon is city of desolation. The
American soldiers have been forbidden
to enter the place for fear that natives
may be lurking there.
The Americans found the impor taut
town of Polo and a number of small
villages west of the railroad deserted
and burning. They are advancing
along the railroad
The United States troops, under
Brigadier General Lloyd Wheaton,
captured the town of Malinta beyond
the Tuliahan river, after a sharp fight.
Colonel Harry c. Egbert. of the
Twenty-second regular infantry, was
killed. Prince Lowenstein, formerly
aide-de-camp on the staff of Brigadier
General Miller at Iloilo, somehow got
in front of the firing line and was shot
in the side. dying almost instantly. A
German who accompanied him was
wounded.
The American losses thus far are Is
killed and lf5 wounded.
Alger In Havana
HAVANA, March 27.-Secretary of
War Alger and his party arrived here
yesterday afternoon ON the United
States transport ingalls,. after having