The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1899-02-11
.F|L|P|NOS IN RETREAT.
American Troops in Command in
and Around Manila.
CONTROL SITUATION.
Apparently the Only Question Which
Remains is How to Discipline
the Subjects.

Manila, Feb. 7.-3:43 p. m.-The
Americans, as this dispatch is sent, are
in complete control of the situation with
in radius of nine miles of Manila, their
lines, extending to Malabon on the north
and to ParanaQue on the south, are fully
twenty-five miles long.
While a few detached bodies Of the
enemy offer dcsultory opposition. the
main body of the 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 others are scat
tered in every direction.
The terrible loss of the rebels may be
gathered from the fact that sixteen of
them were buried in one rice field n
Monday near Pasas, and that eighty
seven were inferred between PaCo and
Santa Ana.
A converted river gunboat did terrible
execution among the rebels, sweeping
10th banks of the river with her Cat
ling guns and her heavier battery. Hun
drcds of Filipinos undoubtedly crawled
into the canebrakes and died there.
The Americans are working nobly in
their efforts to find the wounded ana are
bringing hundreds of suffering rebels to
the hospitals for treatment. The natives
are unable to understand the humane
motives which prompt the victors to sue
cor the wounded of the enemy.
Women Among the Dead.
The correspondent of the Associated
press is informed that members of the
hospital corps have made the startling
discovery that there are several women,
in male dress and with hair cropped,
among the dead.
The chief of the Igorotes, the Filipino
natives who fought so gailantiy with
bows and arrows in the face of our artll-
lery fire, is in a hospital with shat
tered 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 Sunday morn
ing The chief is bitterly incensed against
the Tagalos for placing the 1gorotes III
front of the American battery, under the
pretense that they were sent TO occupy,
post of honor, and he intimates that the
IgoroteS will ayenge this treachery Wnen
the survivors return north.
1t is regarded as a significant fact that
many of the Filipino officials of this clty
disappeared from Manila as soon as hos
tilitics commenced. Some of them are
supposed to be still hiding here.
Hundreds of women are pouring into
Manila from all districts, as the villages
around Manila, as q rule, have been de-
stroyed by the troops.
Reign of Terror in Manila.
The further the Americans extend
their lines the more the need of means
of transportation increases. The Amerl-
can commanders have already been com
PEELED to impress horses and vehicles on
all sides to the inconvenience. naturally,
of the civilians. All the public convey
ances, at this writing, have either been
IMPRESSED or have disappeared in some
manner or other.
Street car traffic. however, has been re-
sumed. and the cars are running rcgu-
larly, though the streets are almost de-
serted. There are a few native stores
open and white flags, in the nature Of
towels, pillow slips and aprons tied to
bamboos, adorn the windows of the ma
tive residences everywhere. But i'll spite
OF these emblems of peace, scores of
Filipinos, under the cover of darkness,
fired from these same windows yester-
day and last night on American pa
trolls.
At O'Clock last night there was 4
general fusilladc in the QUiapO and Bi
non districts The inhabitants of the
city generally believed that a battle was
raging at their doors, lights were eXtin-
guished inside the dwellings and Il ma
iority of the people were in a state of
terror Under the circumstances it is
remarkable that no casualties were re-
ported. Gen. Hughes has the interior
situation absolutely in hand.