The Bellefontaine Republican. [volume] (Bellefontaine, Logan County, Ohio) 1855-1905, 1899-11-17
SHOT AT OFFICERS
Filipino Sharpshooters Di=
rected Fire at the
Commanders.
MAJOR LOGAN KILLED
A Fierce Battle Was Fought
Near San Jacinto on
Saturday.
MANY REBELS WERE SLAIN
The Enemy Was Put To Flight
OatIing Guns Were Effective
May End War.

speci al Gable to Commercial Tribune.
Manila, Nov. 1.-THE severest pun
ishment since the fight at Zapote River,
near linus, was inflicted on the insur-
gents on Saturday morning, through |
the brilliant work of the Thirty-third |
Volunteer Infantry, under command of
Colonel Hare. Several hundred men
in this regiment were recruited in
Texas, and some of them were formerly |
in the Rough Riders.
After the fight, which took place
near San Jacinto, the bodies of seventy
seven dead insurgents were found on
the field. Twenty-nine prisoners forty
| Mausers and fifty-.ix Remingtons were
captured. Seven Americans were
killed Including Major John A. Logan
and fifteen wounded.
General Wheaton received informa-
| tion that the insurgents were concen-
trating in the direction of San Jacinto,
whereupon he ordered the Thirty-third,
with one gatling gun, to capture the
position, which was three miles to the
southeast of San Jacinto.
An advance gaurd of eight Texas
sharpshooters, under the personal di-
rection of Major John A. Logan, en-
countered fusilade from insurgents,
who were we'll concealed in trench
beyond wide, waist-deep bog. AS the
remainder of Major Logan's battalion
of the Thirty third struggled forward
to support him, the enemy's sharp
shooters, who were concealed in the
tops of cocoanut trees and in the trenches
along the roadside, opened murderous
fire.
| LONG SkIRMISH LINE.
Major Cronin's battalion of the
Thirty deployed to the right and
Major March's to to left through muddy
rice fields and bamboo thickets and
formed shirmish line q mile and a
half long. AS the enemy's fire came
from all points in immediate front of
the Americans it was seen that their
fire was fully equal to ours. The in
surgents evacuated the trenches only
after half an hour of the hardest kind
of fighting.
When they finally began to run they
were slaughtered in punches. Many
of the rebels in their flight dropped
: their rifles, which the Americans pick
ed up and smashed. At several places
along the line of retreat the rebels made
stand till the men of the Thirty-third
climbed over the trenches and charged
on them.
Captain Ashburn, with fifteen men,
J unexpectedly flanked twenty-five rebels
and killed ten of them. A second brief
stand was made by the rebels in the
bed of stream about mile from San
Jacinto. A Gatling gun, under COM
mand of Captain Rowland, of General
Wheaton's staff, which it had been i'm
possible to get to the front heretofore,
on account OF the numerous mud holes,
re-enf forced the firing line with good
effect.
| THE REBELS FLED.
The enemy abandoned the struggle
and fled through San Jacinto. Some of
them went toward Magaldan and others
ran east, toward Manaog. The Gatling
gun was used with good effect as the
rebels ran away. The insurgent sharp
shooters continued firing at the point
where t. he first fight started until an
hour after the town was taken. Their
shots were directed upon the field hos
pital.
An officer was shot through the head
and mortally wounded early in the
fight while STOPPING to attend a Cor
poral who had been wounded. A
hospital attendant was killed while
trying to drag this officer to the side of
the road. Shortly afterward at the
same spot a Captain and noncommis-
stoned officer were wounded. All this
was evidently the. work of sharp
shooters, who picked out the officers by
their uniform. Half dozen of these
men were spotted in the trees and kill
ed by our sharpshooters.
The firing on the field hospital men
did not cease, however, until detail
returning from San Jacinto to convey
the dead and wounded to San Fabian
cleared the country of the insurgents.
Major March's battalion was the first
to enter San Jacinto after the place
was captured. A ten-foot insurgent
battlefag was still flying in front of d
church.
FLED ON SHORT NOTICE.
So unexpected was the American ad-
vance that rice was still cooking on q
stove in the insurgent barracks. The
inhabitants had fed, leaving their
household effects behind them. Several
insurgent haversacks found along the
\ road contained ammunition, leggings,
shoes and canned goods.
General Wheaton's inability to con-
meet with General Lawton, owing to
the wretched condition of the roads,
leaves small opening which the in
surgents can possibly get through into
the hills. 1t is believed, however, that