The Red Cloud chief., 1899-02-10

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1.-TWO Krupps and great many rifles
captured. Insurgents fired great
quantity of ammunition. Quite a
number of Spanish soldiers in insur-
gent service, who served artillery.
insurgents constructed strong in
t~rcnchments near our lines, mostly in
bamboo thickets These our men
charged, killing or capturing many of
the enemy.
"Our casualties probably aggregate
$50. Full reports to-day.
Casualties of insurgents very heavy.
Have buried some 500 of their dead
and hold 500 prisoners.
Their losses killed, wounded and
prisoners probably 1000.
TOOK waterworks pumping station,
six miles out, yesterday. Consider
able diminishing with enemy, who
made no stand. Pumps damaged; will
be working In a week. Have number
Of condensers set up in city which
furnish good water.
Troops in excellent spirits. Quiet
prevails. Otis"
A SHARP FIGHT MONDAY.
MANILA, Feb. Slate Monday Gem
eral Hale's brigade advanced and took
the waterworks at Singalon. Four
companies Of the Nebraska regiment
and a part of the Utah battery, with
two field guns and two Hotchkiss
guns, met the enemy on the hill a mile
out, and n sharp engagement took
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one dead and three wounded.
The Filipinos were driven back, re-
firing in bad order and carrying with
them the valves and heads of the
! steam chest and cylinder of the pump
ing machinery.
General Overshine's brigade adj
vanced and took Paranaque, capturing
two field guns. They met with no OPP
position. General McArthur's division
advanced beyond Gagalangin without
loss, the enemy retreating upon Gallo
can.
Dr. Young, formerly qu~artermaster
sergeant in the Third artillery, was
wounded. Filipinos captured and
murdered him. His body when recov-
cred was found to have been multi
ated.
SLAUGHTERED BY THE NAVY.
After the engagement Of Saturday
night and Sunday was apparently at
end the cruiser Charleston and the
monitor Monadnock poured shells into
the insurgent trenches at Malate,
south of Manila. The Fourteenth in
fantry was forcing the insurgents
back when the war ships opened fire.
The result was shown in the heaps Of
dead found in the trenches.
During one part of the engagement
west of the town the native forces be-
came panic stricken. They tried to es-
cape to the rice fields, but the Laguna,
q captured Spanish gunboat, threw
shells into them, and the Filipinos ran
into the river in droves.
Soon after the fight opened Satur-
day night, Brigadicr General Otis,
with the Twentieth Kansas, First
Montana. Third artillery and the
Tenth Pennsylvania, joined the
brigade Of Brigadicr General Hale,
consisting of the First South Dakota,
First Colorado and First Nebraska.
and, supported by Batteries A and Il
of the Utah Light artillery, under
General Macarthur, surrounded the
city from north 30 south, forming a
semi-circle about the bay.
They were cor joined by Brigadier
General King with the First Califor-
MIA, First Idaho, First Washington
and First Wyoming, which was ac-
~companied by the brigade under Gen
eral Overshine, comprising the Fourth
cavalry, Fourteenth infantry and First
North Dakota. These brigades were
supported by the Sixth artillery di.
vision under General Anderso n.
MOVED DOWN ON THE NORTH
The slaughter at Malate was repeat
ed on the north OF the city. A large
number of the now terrified natives
had fed to the beach upon tho
approach Of the brigade. includ
ing the Kansas regiment, under
= Brigadier General Otis, They soon
fouad themselves in d trap for a gun
: boat had a clean sweep and in an in
: slant she began work. At the sam,
' time the Concord and the Charleston
sent six and eight-inch shell,
ripping toward the shore and the ma
tives' ranks were moved down witt
a appalling rapidity. The Filipinos wer,
torn to pieces by the shells and thi
phase of the fight was soon at an end
COLONEL MOONLIGHT DEAD