Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1899-11-23
NEWS In GENERAL
LOSSES IN PHILIPPINES.
Six Men Killed with Major Logan Near
San JacintQ.


San Jacinto.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 15.--General Otis
cables: Wheaton reports that on
November 12 there was an engagement
near San Jacinto between the Thirty
third volunteers and 200 entren.hed
insurgents Our loss includes Major
Logan, CALAMITY leading his battalion,
and six enlisted men killed. Captain
Green and eleven men wounded, most
ly very slight. The enemy were rout-
ed, leaving eighty-one dead in the
trenches. His loss is believed to be
800. General Lawton reports from
San Jose that in the vicinity of San
Nicholas, north of Tayuig, Vessels cap
tured thirteen carts with insurgent
war department records, printing press
complete Of insurgent newspaper and
large quantity of rice. The cavalry
are still actively engaged. The in
fantry are pressing on from San Jose
and Araga. The roads are impracti-
cable for wheel transportation. The
horses foraged on rice and growing
rice straw"
General Wheaton was informed that
the enemy was gathering at San ia
cinto for the purpose of preventing the
Americans from controlling the road
from Dagupan north, whereby Aguin-
aldo might retreat. The Thirty-third,
Colonel Howe commanding, and q de-
tachment of the Thirteenth, with a
Calling gun, Rowland commanding,
were sent to dispense them. The
troops encountered the worst roads
ever found in the island of Luzon.
There was succession of creeks
whose bridges the Americans had to
stop and repair and miry bitches and
at certain places men and horses strug-
gled waist deep in quagmires. hun
dred soldiers had to drag the Calling
gun part of the way, the horses being
useless.
The insurgents opened the fight two
miles from San Jacinto, while the
leading American battalion was pass
ing a clump of houses, in the midst of
a cocoanut grove, knee-deep in mud.
The Filipino sharpshooters, hidden in
trees, houses and a small trench across
the road, held their fire until the
Americans were close to them. When
they began firing other Filipinos open
ed fire from thicl1ets, right and left,
further away. The insurgent sharp
shooters picked off the officers first.
Five of the Americans who fell wore
shoulder straps or chevrons, but the
Thirty-third never wavered. It's crack
marksmen knocked the Filipinos from
the trees like squirrels and the Amer
leans rushed the trench, leaving four
dead insurgents there.
The regiment then deployed un er
fire, with Major John A. Logan's bat
TALON in the center, Ma jor Cronie.s on
the right and Major Marsh's on the
left. The skirmish line, which was a
mile long, advanced rapidly, keeping
up constant fire. The Filipinos
made an unexpectedly good stand,
many of them remaining under cover
until the Americans were within
twenty feet of them. Major Marsh
thanked a small trench full of insur-
gents, surprising them and slaughter
ing nearly all of them before entering
the town. The Calling gun killed five
of the force holding the bridge and
swept the country beyond the town,
driving about $50 Filipinos into the
hills. Marsh's battalion, entering the
town first, captured a big battle flag,
which was flying over a convent. The
insurgents are supposed to have re-
treated toward Dagupan. 1t was i'm
possible to pursue them as the Amer
lean troops were exhausted and their
supply of ammunition was low. The
outposts killed five Filipinos during
the night. The body of the Filipino
lieutenant colonel commanding was
found among the killed.