The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-02-08
STORY OF THE FIGHT.
The Insurgent Army Is Fleeing in Great
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The Insurgent Army Is Fleeing in Great
| Disorder.
Washington, Feb THE war depart
ment received the following dispatch
| from Otis:
| Manila, Feb. 1.-The insurgent army
concentrated around Manila from Lu-
ION provinces, numbering over 10000,
possessing several quick firing and
Krupp field guns. A good portion Of
the enemy was armed with Mausers of
the latest pattern. Two Krupp and a
great many rifles were captured. The
insurgents fired a great quantity of am
munition. Quite a number Of Spanish
soldiers We're in the insurgents SER
vice and served the artillery.
THE insurgents constructed strong in
'trenchments 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
the insurgents are very heavy. We have
buried some 500 Of their dead and hold
500 prisoners. Their losses in killed,
wounded and prisoners are probably
1000
| I'VE took the waterworks pumping
station yesterday, six miles out, after a
| considerable skirmish with the enemy,
which made no stand The pumps are
| damaged but will be working in
week. We hav number of conden-
sers set up in the city which furnish
| good water The troops are in excellent
I spirits, Quiet prevails.
(Signed) "OTIS."
1890 a. m.--Americans now have a
steam car line to Malabon and 60 ma
rines with four maxims have been land
| ed at Flot Beach, north of the city, The
third artillery on the main road and the
| T. -AN.x.
| the advance of the Kansas troops.
Among the important points captured
was the strong embrasured earth works
within sight of Caloocan.
There was considerable firing from up
per windows of houses in the native
quarter of the city last night, but no
casualties have been reported as re-
suit.
The signal corps We're compelled to
run their lines along the firing line dur
ing the fighting and consequently there.
| We're frequent Interruptions of commun-
ication, owing to the cutting of wires,
land the signal men were ordered to
kill without hesitation any one who at
| tempted to interfere with the lines.
| $40 p. m.-Aguinaldo issued two
proclamations Saturday and Sunday.
The first declares the Americans open
| ed the fight and calls upon the Fill
| ipino congress to suspend the consti-
tuition. The second says: I'VE have
fought our ancient oppressors without
arms and we now trust to God to de-
fend us against foreign foes"
The Nebraskas have recovered the
lost parts of the pumping machinery
of the water works, which assures
speedy resumption of the water sup
ply of the city.
s:45 p. m.-The Americans, as this
dispatch is sent, are in, complete con-
of situation a re- nf
nine miles of Manila. Their lines, ex-
| tending to Malabon on the north and
to Paranqueon on the south, are fully
| rs miles long.
| While a few detached bodies of the
enemy offer desultory opposition, the
| main body of rebels is in full retreat
and utterly routed. OF the hordes of
troops originally drawn up in battle
| array against the Americans fully one
| third are already incapacitated and the
| rest are scattered in every direction.
| $40 p. m.-The terrible loss of the
rebels may be gathered from the fact
that 16 of them were buried In one
rice fed Monday near Pasas and 81
were inferred between Peco and San
| tana.
A converted river gunboat did terri
BILE execution among the rebels, sweep
ing both banks of the river with her
| Calling guns and heavier battery.
| Hundreds of F'ilipinos undoubtedly
crawled into the cane brakes and died
there. The Americans are working
nobly in their efforts to find the
wounded and bringing hundreds of suf-
| fering rebels to the hospitals for treat
ment. The natives are unable to un-
| derstand the humane motives which
| prompt the victors to succor the wound
ed of the enemy
The correspondent of the associated
| press is informed that the members of
the hospital corps have made a start
ling discovery. There are several wo-
men in male dress and with their hair
cropped among the dead.
The chief of the Ygorotes, the Filipi-
no natives who fought so CALAMITY in
the face of a heavy artillery fire with
their bows and arrows, Is in the hos
pltal with a shattered thigh. He ad-
mits he never saw modern artillery and
was ignorant of it's effects until he and
his followers met the disastrous fire of
| sunday morning. The chief is bitterly
incensed against the Tagalos for plac-
ing the Ygorotes in front of the Amer
lcan battery, under the pretense they
We're sent to occupy post of honor
and he intimates that Ygorotes will
aVense this treachery when the surviv-
ors return north.
1t is regarded as a significant fact
mat 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