The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-11-27
GUERILLA WAR BEGUN
BY FILIPINO LEADERS
Terrible Revenge Taken on All Natives Who Wei
come American Troops.
Army Dsbanded and Small Parties Commit Depredations
Province of ZambOanga in Mndanao Surrenders.

Manila, Nov. 26. IL p. m.-The las
Filipino council of war was held by the
retreating leaders at Bayambang or
| Nov. l3, in the house now occupied by
i General Macarthur. It was attended by
Aguinaldo, Pho Del Pillar. GarciaS Ale
jandrino and some members of the So
called cabinet. Information has reach
ed General Macarthur from several
sources TO the effect that the council
recognized the futility of attempting
further resistance to the Americans
with united forces, and agreed that the
Filipino troops should scatter and
hsould hereafter follow guerilla meth
DDS
The disposition of the generals. with
their approximate forces, is as follows:
General Conception, with $40 men. in
New Egija province: General Macabo-
los. with S25 men, at the town of BIZ
naca. province of Tarlac; General Pho
del Pillar. with 500 men, northeast of
Malolos: General Aquino. with 500 men,
at .Arayat; General San Miguel, with
$50 men. in Zambolos province; Gen
eral Mascardo. with LOO men. in the
mountains west of Angeles, and the
largest force proba bly, under General
Trias. in Cavite province l-.
Reports of ambuscades and skirmish-
IS come from every section of the coun-
try along the railroads. Those districts
seem to be filled with small bands. Yes
terday four men of company ID, Ninth
infantry were foraging beyond Bam-
ban, when twenty Filipinos took them
in ambush, killing one and capturing
the other three.
The Americans resisted for half an
hour. The firing was heard at Bam-
ban and Lieutenant Frazer, with
squad, followed the retreating Filipinos
several miles. They burned the hamlet
where the fight took place. The three
Filipino riffemen ambushed an Ameri-
can surgeon near Capas. He shot one
and the others fled.
Between Bamban and Angeles mule
train was fired upon by the insurgents.
and a Spaniard former prisoner OF
the F'ilipinos, who was with the train.
was shot At Malasiqui the officials
VINO welcomed the Americans were
murdered. This was the only railroad
town which the Americans did not gar
rison. and on the night the troops with
drew a band of insurgents entered,
dragged Antonio Mejia, president of
the town, into the street and cut his
throat, The murderers then assassi-
mated the vice president OF the town
council in the same manner and told
the frightened natives who witnessed
the slaughter that a similar fate await
ed all the friends OF the Americans.
The mayor of San Carlos, who rode in
the carriage with General Macarthur
and Colonel Bell, when the Americans
entered the town amid the cheers of the
people, was murdered the next night.
Military activity continues in every
section. Colonel Bells regiment has ad-
vanced from Bayambang upon Manga
tarem, where. it is supposed there is
large insursent force. TWO battalions
of the newly arrived Twenty-eighth in
fantry have been sent by Cascoes TO
Bacoor, to reinforce She soEth line.
Major Spence, with fifty men of the
Thirty second regiment, surrounded a
village near Bautiston during the night
and attacked the place at daybreak,
a Filipino captain and fifteen
men, with seven rifles.
The latest news from General Young
IS that there are ten cavalrymen and
200 Macabebees with him, most of the
horsemen who started having been
TO drop out because the
horses failed them.
The FiIipinos took the American prls-
oners from Victoria to San Carlos. ON
the walls of the Victoria prison and of
the San Carlos convent are the follow
ing names:
Civilian@George Langford, Thomas
HAYES.
Soldiers-Ha Winfield. Phil Better
ton, ]. l. Salisbury. A N. Gordon, e.
N. Nufft. Frank Stone. John Desmond,
George Sackett, David Scott, Martin
Brennan, Tom Edwards. d. P. Curran,
John Cronin, Charles Baker, c. L. Da-
Wis, Leland Smith
On the walls of the San Carlos con-
vent were also found the following
names: Civilians-Charles Bird, w. j.
Sheehy, z. f. Huber.
Sailors-Edward Burke, battleship
Oregon: C. B. Powers, gunboat Urda-
meta: John j. Farley, B. ]. Greene, Til
den Herbert.