The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1899-02-10
HEAVY REEiEL LOSS.
Careful Estimates Place the Fili-
pinos KILLED at T wo Thousand.
MANY ARE. WOUNDED , AND CAPTURED.
Bri"f Oathne ot the q inh,rt.-rhe a meri-
csnH Deternin.d Mn To gaze the thli-
ptnasa Chance sd Recuperate-
0tis Iabtes { ssualLiVs.

have been, driven Oa TX ten miles. Dur
ing the.Auh ting The United Statesman
ships shelled u sran l. loaded with in
surgepts Owing 10 the area embraced
in the scene Gs Sa Lurday nights and
sundays engagemeI IT, .semi-circle OF
fully miles, detai Is regarding fight
ing have been ext re Iaely ,diticalt to
obtain SO fur AS oan be,gathered, the
brush 90 IN me f.eed 9 S.a5 on saturday
evening. bv the tiri ng of NtAbraska
sentry at Santa Nb ,,a ipon Eilipnos
who were drh ber ly crossing the
line. after repeatt Il warnings. with
the evident iHteu Liou OF drusvi ag our.
6re.
TIE first Shot fro n the. Amerioan
sentry wac. evide ltly, acrepted as a
pre- arranged >igI AL. for il was fol-.
lowed almost i'm ne liately by tor.
ri lie fusillads agoI q lhe eralire, Fili pino
| line, on thH sOuGh a1de Of the pasig
river. The. Auntri IAN sutpusts re-
turned the fire pDth such vigor that
the Filipino lire wa. /. che 4 ed until the.
azrival of reinEsee,nents,
At ten o'qiQaB< tae tisng was. re-.
ssmed, tau American firing ine con
sisting Of the T%ird lrtillssN the.
Kansas AND Mon ;,Ana 'sgimsnts, the
Minnesota regimunt, the Psnnsylya-
uians, the. Nebraslsans, lhe Utah bat.
| terry, the Idahcs. the WnBhingtons.
the Calif-nians, abe ourth cavalry,
| North DalSotarG~ the Sixth, artillery
and Fourteenth ;nfantry. The kilipi-
i nos concentrated thei7 forces at three
points--Caloocab. Sansa Mesa and Gal
Y ingalan-- main Ia ned an intermit-
4 tent euSillade for some hours. They
brought artillery inao. achion At Gal
ingalan at l0:SG but only one gun an-
noyed the Americans to e.ny appredia-
BILE extent The Third artillery ST.
len led the Galingalsn battery hyfiring
two, guns simultaneously, which was
followed immediafaly, b,ye voliays f-om
til . iptantryA
| At about MIDNIGHT, there. was II lull
in, the firing, lasting uatil abont S-4S
ia rn., when the whole Filipino line
reopened fire. The Americans poured
a. terrific tlre into the darkness fOr 20
minutes and tn en- there was another
lull until daylight when the. Ameri-
, cans generally advanced. Dnping the
, night. in response t5,Adniral Dewev's
I signal dashed across from CaVite. the
/. I United States cruiser Charleston and
, the ganboat Corenrd, stationed at
q. MalabOn, poured a deadly Dire from
!, their ,econCary batteries into the Fill
p piuo trenches at CalooCan.
t Afler daylight, the. United States
( duulle turret going monitor MOnad-
T. uoa,e opened fire off Malate and kept
$ sIaiing the 'il lipiuos left Aank, while
- t., other vessels sheued the right
e astuk for several hours by one o'clock
- lle Americans had apparently com
Il p.rlcjy routed the enemy and had
e .uayn the villages of Palawpong,
80 Santa Mesa, raco, santana, san Pedro,
Macorte, Pandocan and Pasai and had
IT, destroyed hUndrCG OF native huts apd
y had secured possession of the water
l- nam reservoir, distance of over SIX
n miles. The TauuesSees joined the ir-
d ing line at tea o'clock ON Sunday
u morning, aud assisted in capturing
- Santa Mesa. One of the most notable
d eEents OF Sundays work was driving
l.: the FilipInos out of their stronghold AT
q Paco by the reserve, a few companies
Y Of Calfornians commanded ty Col
.- DuboGc. The main road TO thcvillage
= was lined by native huts full of ni-
c pino shnrpsh ooters. After thev had
Z been firing upon Gen. King and his
sum lAllAlnk Il uIlNtIs duu uIluB Oh
n an ambulance of the Red Cross society,
1t Col puoOce ordered the huts 20 be
c cleared and burned. The Filipinos
e concentrated at Paco church ard con-
~ vent where they made "A determined
II stand In the upper stories. The Amer
l. leans captured 80 of the rebels, and
r during the fighting about the church
q 20 of the rebels were killed,
81 Another intensely exciting incident
occurred during the engagement The
$ Washiugtons and ldahos and eompa-
'e uies X and NJ, OF the Calitornians,
II made charges across the rice fields be-
Is tween Paco and santana in the face of
p terrific fusllade. The ground over
which they passed is covered with dead
DO and wounded natives The former are
ID being buried in groups of ive or six
e. about where they lay, and the latter
he are being brought to the hospital. II
o. was at this stage of the fighting and al
,h Caloocan that the Filpinos suffered
We their heaviest losses.
Tn The scene'at Manila when the alarm
:" was given on Saturday night was wild
ne " exciting. The American soldiers al
oe the theaters and at the circus were
es called out, the performances wer,
no stopped, Flipinos scurried everywhere
d. and the rattle of musketry and tn,
ne booming Of cannon outside the city
WAS plainly heard. On Sunday i'm
ee meuse crowds of people visited the
er water front and gathered in the high
est towers to watch the BON bard
ler ment There were no street cars ol
ow carriages 10 he seen, and the streets
n a were almost deserted.