The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-06-14

the Americans were ordered to fire when
they could see an enemy. 1t was every
man for himself, and the best our men
could do was to aim at the faint mists
arising from the rebels smokeless pow
der.
Gen Lawton, though exhausted by the
mornings fight rallied by sheer will
power, and was commanding figure in
the battle. He went along the lines di-
recting and encouraging the troops. Gen.
Wheaton and Gen. Ovenshine were equal
ly courageous. In fact, the generals
were among the few men on the battle
field who refused to take shelter under
the hottest fire. The only approach to
the fighting ground was by narrow,
winding road, where the rebel bullets
dropped thiekly, wounding several of our
men.
AT o'clock there was an hours lull in
the fighting, and an artillery sergeant
galloped back to where two guns of the
mountain battery We're waiting in re-
serve and shouted:
Bring up those guns"
] he sergeant then tumbled exhausted
from his horse. q -,
Twenty wounded men were carried to
cascoe NATIVE BOAT waiting on the
beach, which was rowed to ParanaQue.
1t is impossible at present to estimate
the number of Filipino dead. There are
many dead bodies in the fields that the
Americans traVerSed.
This battlefield, incidentally, was for
merly the scene of several of the great
est struggles between the Spaniards and
the Filipinos. The Zapote was consid-
cred impregnable, and hundreds of Span
iards and Fflipinos have been killed
fighting over the same bridge in former
contests for its possession. In June,
1897, Gems. Pho del Pillar and Trias turned
a scale of war on the side Of the Filipi-
nos by deserving the Spanish army there
on the eve of decisive battle, carrying
native militia with Them. and thereby
breaking the chain of defense around
Manila.
SEVEN WARSHIPS ENGAGED.
At daylight today the rebels at Cavite
Viejo dropped two shells from a big
smooth bore gun mounted in front of the
church in the navy yard, The only dam
age done was splintering the top of the
huge shears on the mole The gunboats
Callao, Manila and Moquito then proceed
ed to dismount the gun. After breakfast
the rebels opened fire along the beach to
Rakoor.
After silencing the big gun at Cavite
Vtejo the gunboats ran close along the
shore, bombarding the rebel position. The
rebels replied with a rifle fire and with
the fire of some small pieces of artillery.
So vigorous was the enemy's fire that at
9:2G a. m. the gunboat Helena joined the
small gunboats already named, and the
Princeton, Monterey and Monadnock,
from their anchorages, also dropped oc-
casional big shells among the rebels. This
apparently only served TO incite the reb-
els and they kept up an incessant fire Of
musketry and artillery near the mouth
of the Seapote river, two miles north
of Bakoor. The fire of all seven war
ships was concentrated on this point
shortly after noon, when the upper bay
presented the appearance of being the
scene of great naval battle. The in
surgents were eventually forced to aban-
don their guns, after holding out for
about four hours, only to be confronted
by Gen. Lawtons force on land and lin
their rear, where there was heavy fight
ing. Beyond the destruction of several
buildings along, the water front the eff
feet of the bombardment is not known.