The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1899-03-29
HEAVY FIGHTING IN
PHILIPPINES.
TOWN OF MALINTA CAPTURED BY
WHEATON AND HIS MEN.
FilipinOS Making a Stubborn Resist
ance, Much Aided by KnOwl-
edge of the Country.
MANY BRAVE AMERICANS KILLED

statement of the American losses IN the
engagement with the Filipinos.
To.day's fighting furnished a speci-
men of the difficulties with which the
Americans contend. The Filipinos
never, except opposite Malsbon, per-
mitted their opponents to get within
several hundred yards of them. They
would fire a few volleys from their
cover, then scuttle back to another
cover repeating these tactics for miles.
Many Of the trenches had gullies and
connecting paths through the cane and
brush, enabling them to retreat IN
seen. The problem the Americans have
to face is to drive or lure the insur-
gents to a fight in force. The trenches
seem thinly manned except in the vicin-
ity of Malabon.
The Americans, fighting q hidden
foe, suffered greater loss in proportion
than did the enemy. Loss OF the Fill
pinos had formerly been estimated
from number of bodies found scatter
ed in the swamp and through the brush.
A larger percentage of the enemy
wounded died than of the Americans,
many Of them perishing from neglect,
the Americans naturally attending their
own men first.
MANILA, March 90, 1875 q. m.-The
Americans this morning found the i'm
portant town of Polo and q number of
small villages west OF the railroad de-
serted and burning. They are advanc.
ing along the railroad.
To-day the Washington volunteers,
who held Pasig yesterday, had an en-
gagement with band of insurgents,
who drove in their outposts.
MANILA, March 26.--7:30 p. m.-The
United States troops under Brig. Gen.
Lloyd Wheaton this afternoon captured
the town of Malints after brief but
brisk fight. The advance upon the
town was made up the line OF railroad
and the resistance offered by the rebels
called forth CALLING fire by the Ameri-
cal troops, inf letting q severe loss on
the enemy. Col. Henry @. Egbert, who
was wounded at San Juan, Cuba, and
who had been here but few weeks, was
at the head of his regiment, the Twen-
ty-second, to. day and was killed. Prince
Loewenstein, who was an aide-de-camp
on the staff of Brig. Gen. Miller at
Iloilo, in some way got in front OF our
firing line and was killed by an Amer
can bullet. A German who was with
him at the time was badly wounded.
Several members Of the Oregon and
Kansas regiments were killed in the
charge and about dozen wounded.
Mslinta is O small village of huts, and
Brig. Gen. Wheaton's advance was
made about o'clock this afternoon.
MALABoN IN FLAMES.
Evidently anticipating lombard
ment by the fleet, thousand rebels
vacated Malabon last night, leaving a
few to burn the town. Gen. Wheaton's
brigade, composed OF the Second Oregon
regiment and the Tweuty.second and
Twenty-third infantry, stretched out
along the railroad from ColoocaD to
the Tuliahan river, was powerltss to
prevent the withdrawal, owing to the
natural obstacles and to the strong op-
position. A column Of smoke at day.
break was the first intim alton OF the
enemy's intentions, but others followed
at various points, all soon blending in o
dense balloon.shsp cloud.
The flames of the burning rice mills
and large buildings could be plainly
seen from Caloocan despite the strong
sunlight.
By II o'clock in the morning the only
building of importance not destroyed
in the center of the town was large
stone church, but even at noon fresh
fires we're started among the native
huts in the outskirts of Malabon, al
though the general exodus took place
much earlier.
SHELLS DROVE REBELS INLAND.
Many of the rebels sought refuge in
the suburbs of Navotas aud Casag, or
we're driven inland this afternoon by
the shells oil the Helena, Calloa, Ming
dapan and Laguns de Bay.
In the meantime, Gen. Wheaton's
brigade held the railroad to the river,
but was unable to either repair the
bridge, which had been destroyed by
the enemy, or to advance, owing to the
opposition, aud the hills on the other
side.
The calculations of both Gen. Hale
and Gen. Harrison Gray Otis, whose bri-
gades constituted Gen. Arthur's divi-
siop, were much intarfered with by the
character of the country in froLt OF
both, and the enemy was able to take
advantage OF this, so that the operstions
against Novaliches and Polo we're de-
laye5, though the right wing OF the di-
vision swung out sweeping the enemy in
northwesterly direction.
THE ADVANCE ON MALINTA.
Gen. Wheaton's headquarters last
night was half mile south OF the river,
on the railroad. The OPT osite bank was
protected by blockhouse and cntrench.
ments. Occasionally the art llary and
infantry fired across the stream. Final
ly the engineers moved a construction
train up t. the bridge, the iron frame
work OF which remained, aud began to
replace the floor.
While this was going or, the Second
Oregon regiment crossed the rivtr on
the left and the Twenty.second on the
right, with four companies OF the
Twenty third infantry supporting the
latter regiment. A rising clear ground
stretched away distance of bali mil
to Malints, situated on its crest, In
front OF the village were strong Filipino
antrenchments. bnt no FIlipnOs we're