The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1899-10-12
SChwan's Column Left Bacoor
Sunday and Occupied Cavite
vieiO and Noyeleta.
IvELyE AMERICANS WERE w0uNDED
loves Scouts First Encountered tbe
Enemy Near Cavite viejo and
Put Them to Flight.
IA Another Fight Near Noveista Tn.
American Forces tustainsd Coasid-
erable Lessss, the Men Bsimx
shos From Trenches

NOvrIErA. Island of Luzon. Oct. g.
sen >chwan's column, consisting Of the
.s:h infantry, battalion OF the l4,h
40 troops OF cavalry. Capt. Reilly,
sa,,ery Of the 9Th artillery and loves
Souts advanced from Bacoor Sunday
morning and occupied Cavite Vicjo
snd Novclc,a.
The American loss was three officers
and nine privates wounded. one of the
officers being mortally hurt The
.os Of the enemy Is unknown, but
10. bodies OF three Filipinos were
seen.
There were two sharp fights near
yoveleia. loves sconts first en-.
couDtercd the enemy near Cavite Vie
% and soon put them to fight, contin.
uIng their advance.
Capt Safold's battalions of the 18th
regiment, with two companies of the
An and a number of Tagalo scouts,
apt McGraw commanding the troops
rom the 4th cavalry and Capt Teilly's
battery came upon the enemy in a
strongly entrenched position on the
'oid between Cavite Viejo and Nov
,l.ia A fight, lasting half an hour,
Ollowed, resulting in the enemy being
driven back. The American forces
nssalned con siderable losses in this
engagement, the men being shot from
senehes and shacks along the road.
The column then pressed on to No
u.eta which they found deserted aud |
remained there Sunday night The
1srines aud naval forces co-opcrated
With the troops. The gunboats Wheel
i1g Peirel and Callao lay off the
hOre near Novelata and threw shells
ITO that town and Santa Cruz for an
tour preparing the way for the
Sarines 10 land. Two battalions
'Onsisting OF 40 marines, under Col.
Elliott advanced along the peninsula
rom Cavite TO Noveleta The only
way was by a narrow road through :
WampS
Amile beyond the marines outpost
n. column was sudde My received
With volley from trenches across the
road flank movement was executed
Ad 'he insurgents were driven from
ne trenches, the marines wading =.
through rice fields in turning the flank
the enemy, who retreated to strong
snd forts across the creek dividing
ne peninsula, destroying the bridge
lc'oss the stream. i
4oe marines waded through more
ice he!ds' forded the river in water to :.
S'lf shoulders and carried the forts,
h'e'ing with feeble resistance, the
u" encounter having disheartened
nsenemy. Squads were sent to Nov L
o'" and burned the town and tho
aus al along the road from which the
'lemy commenced the FIRE. There q
'Soc'ion was formed with the scouts :.
'0o had been sweeping the swamps -
''a 'hlchets Thence the marines re- -
'''ned to Cavitc thoroughly exhausted. =,
Lieut. "ynne, with threc-pounder, ~
.1 good execution during the advance. =,
WI Lawion was not in personal com -
''Ad OF Sundays movement -
'SpI Cowles battalion of the 4th
''n'Ty while accommodating Sunday "
''Du body OF several hundred in. ="
gents near San Nicolas After -
''% hghting for three quarters Of an :.
Wy The enemy was driven off. In Ae
engagement the American casual
"were four men slightly wounded. g"
-O' The enemy were killed, but the -
.nOsr :. OF wounded is not known. -
'"' DAD condition of the roads made
y =, progress of the artillery slow.
-"e advance upon San Francisco de at
''oon Is continuing. Gen. Schwan's nj,
''nce guard entered Rosario Monday An
"uing' meeting with slight resist. crs