Bridgeton pioneer., 1899-02-09
COLONEL w. c. SMITH.

[Who died of apoplexy during the bat
Gatling guns and her heavier battery
Hundreds of Filipinos undoubtedly
crawled into the canebrakes and died
there like stricken deer.
The Americans are working nobly in
are bringing hundreds of suffering reb-
els into the hospitals for treatment.
The natives are unable to understand
the humane motives which prompt the
victors to succor the wounded of the
enemy.
The correspondent is informed that
some members of the hospital corps
have made the startling discovery that
there are several women in masculine
uniform and with hair cropped among
the dead.
The chief of the Ygorotes, the Filipino
natives who fought so gallantly in the
face of our artillery fire with their bows
and arrows, is in a hospital suffering
from a shattered thigh. He admits that
he never saw modern artillery and was
ignorant of its effects until he and his
followers met the disastrous fire of Sun
day morning.
Very Angry Chief.
He is exceedingly angry at the Taga-
les because they placed his men in
front of the American battery, and he
intimates that the YgoroteS will avenge
this treachery when the survivors re-
turn north.
1t is regarded as significant fact
that many of the Filipino officials of
this city disappeared from Manila as
soon as hoStilities commenced. Some of
them are supposed to be still hiding
here.
Hundreds of women refugees are
pouring into Manila from all directions,
as the villages around Manila have, as
rule, been destroyed by the troops
The farther the Americans extend
their lines the more the need of means
of transportation increases. The Ameri-
can commanders have already been
compelled to impress horses and We
hicles on all sides, to the inconvenience,
naturally, of the civilians.
All the public conveyances, at this
writing, have either been impressed or
have disappeared in some manner or
other. Street car traffic, however, has
been resumed, and the cars are running
regularly, though the streets are almost
deserted.
There are few native stores OPEN
and white flags, in the nature of towels
pillowslips and aprons, tied to bamboos
adorn the windows of the native resi-
dences everywhere. But in spite of
these emblems of peace scores of
Filipinos, under the cover of darkness
fired from these same windows on the
American patrols.
General Hughes has the interior situ-
alton absolutely in hand
A Filipino colonel came out from Ca
loocan under a flag of truce Several
American officers promptly went to
meet him, but when the parties met the
Filipinos opened fire The Filipino colo
mel thereupon apologized for the bar
barous conduct of his troops and re-
turned to his line under fire.
The American troops are being
promptly furnished with supplies of all
kinds. Hospital attendants are supplied
up to the firing line and, in brief. ali the
wants of our troops are met Immediate
ly by the different military depart-
ments whose duty it is to attend such
matters.
Aguinaldo, the rebel leader. issued
two proclamations on SATURDAY. and
Sunday. The first declares the Amerj-
cans opened the fight and calls upon The
Filipino congress to suspend the consri-
tuition. The second says, 1--WE have
fought our ancient oppressors without