The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1899-02-10
AN EARLIER ESTIMATE.

J Hong Kong, Feb. G.-The latest
advices have been driven back ten
miles and their losses are estimated
at 1900 killed or wounded.
II During the fighting the United
States warships shelled train loaded
with insurgents.
Col. VIM. G.. Smith, of the First
Tennessee infantry wasln the thickest
of the fight when attacked by ap-
poplexy and foil from his horse,
Manila, Feb. 6.-7:15 p. m.-.Owing
to the area embraced in the scene Of
Sundays engagement, a semi -circle
9of fully II miles, details regarding
individual fighting have been OK
tremely difficult to obtain. SO far
as can be gathered, the brush COM
menced at 8:45 on Saturday even
ing, by the firing of Nebras ka son-
try at Santa Mesa upon Filipines
who were deliberately cross ing the
line, a'ter repeated warnings, with
the evident purpose Of drawing our
fire.
The first shot from the A,nericun
sentry was evidently accepted as a
pre-arranged signal, for it was fol-
| lowed immediately by a terrific fusll-
q le along the entire Filipino line on
the north side of the Paslg river.
The American outposts returned
the fire with such vigor that the
{, Filipino fire was checked until the
arrival of reinforcements.
- All the troops in the vicinity were
@ hurried ont and the Filipinos ceased
firing for half an hour, while their
own reinforcements came up.
At 10 o'clock tho fighting was
resumed, the American firing line
consisting os the Third artillery, the
Kansas and the Montana regiment,
the Minnesota regiment, the Penn
sylvauians, the Nebraskans, the
Utah battery, the Idahos, the Wash
ingtons, the Calfornians, the Fourth
s cavalry, the North Dakota volun-
a 'teers, the South Dakota and Colorado
regiments, the Sixth artillery and
the Fourteenth infantry.
The Filipinos concentrated their
forces at three places, Caloacan,
Sunta Mesa and Galingatan, and
maintained an intermittent fusillade
for some hours.
They brought artillery into actiou
at Galingatan at 1870, but only
one gun annoyed the Americans te
any appreciablo extent, howitzer
on the road boy oud Santa Mesa. The
=, Third artillery silenced the Galinga
tan battery by firing two guns sim
ultaneously, which was followed i'm
mediately by volleys from the infan
try.
At about midnight there was
lull in the firing, lasting until 3:4;
a. m., when the whole Filipino lin
reopened fire into tho darkness 70
20 minutes and then there wa
another lull until daylight who1
the'Americuns generally udvaroed.
During the night, in response t
Rear Admiral Dewey's signals fashe
across from Cavite, the Unite
States cruiser Charleston and tn
gunboat Concord, stationed at Malf
bon, poured a deadly fire frol
their secondary battery into the FL
ipino trenches at Caloacan.
After daylight tho United State
monitor Monadnock opened fire O
Malate and kept shelling the Filipir
left flank, while the other vesse
,shelled nc enemy's right flank fl
several hou,s. ..
BY 10 o'clock the Americans hi
Z. apparently completely ronted II
,enemy ard had taken the villages
}Palapons Santa Mesa, Paco, Sa'
ttana, San Pedro, Macorfe, Pandoc'
and Pasol, had destroyed hundre
OF native huts and had secure pc
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