The Red Cloud chief., 1899-02-10
F|l|P|NOS ARE. IN FLIGHT.
Aguinaldo's Forces in Full Retreat
or Incapacitated for Service.
OFFER LITTLE OPPOSITION.
the Insurgents-Into the Canebrskes
Dewey's warships.

MANILA, Feb. s.-The Americans
are in complete control of the situa-
ton within a radius of nine miles of
Manila. Their lines extend to Mala-
bon on the north and TO Paranaque on
the south, fully twenty-five miles
long.
While a few detached bodies Of the
enemy offer desultory opposition the
main body Of the rebels is in full re-
treat and utterly routed.
OF the hordes of troops originally
drawn up in battle array against the
Americans fully one-third are already
incapaciated 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
neal Pasas, aud that eighty seven
were inferred between Paco and SAN
tana.
A converted river gunboat did ter
rible execution among h rebels,
sweeping both banks of the river with
her Calling guns and her heavier
battery. Hundreds of Filipinos
crawled into the canebrakes and died
there.
The Americans are working nobly
in their efforts to find the wounded,
and are bringing hundreds of suffering
rebels to the hospitals for treatment.
The natives are unable to succor the
wounded of the enemy.
Members Of the hospital corps have
discovered that there are several
women, in male dress and with hair
cropped, among the dead.
The chief of the Ygorotes, the Fill
pino natives who fought SO g~ailantly
in the face OF our artillery fire, with
their bows and arrows. is in a hospital
with a shattered thigh. He admits
that he never saw modern artillery
and was ignorant of it's effects until
he and his followers met the disas-
trous fire of Sunday morning.
The chief is bitterly incensed against
the Tagalos for placing the Igorotes
in front of the American battery, un-
der the pretense that they were sen
to occupy n post of honor. He init
mates hat the Ygorotes will avenge
this treachery when the survivors re-
turn north.
FILIPINO OFFICIALS DISAPPEAR.
1t is regarded as a significant fact
that many of the Filipino officials of
this city disappeared from Manila as
soon as hostilitics commenced. Some
of them are supposed to be still hiding
here.
Hundreds of women are pouring into
Manila from all districts, as the viii
lagos around Manila, as a rule, have
been destroyed by the troops.
The further the Americans extend
their lines the more the need of mean:
of transportation increases. Thu
American commanders have already
) been compelled to impress horses anC
vehicles on all sides to the inconven
fence, naturally, of the civilians
All the public conveyances hav'
either been impressed or have disap
peared in some manner or other
Street car traffic, however, has bee
resumed, and the cars are %runnin,
regularly, though the streets are al
most deserted.
= WHITE FLAGS NOT TRUSTED.
There are a few native stores opcr
and white flags, in the nature of tow
els, pillow slips and aprons tied I
j. bamboos, adorn the windows of tn
v native residences everywhere. But, /
spite of these emblems of peace, score
d of Filipinos, under the cover of tn
darkness, fired from these same wiz
dows yesterday evening on the AmeI
lean patrols.
At o o'clock last night there was
D. general fuailsde in the Quiapo an
20 Binon districts.
al The inhabitants Of the city general
,r believed that a battle was raging
their doors, and lights were exit
guished inside the dwellings and a IN
jority of the people were in n state
;s terror. Under the circumstances 1t
remarkable that no casualties were r
i. ported. Several shots were fred acro'
y. the river during the excitement.
e. General Hughs has the interior sit
alton absolutely in hand.
ARTILLERY COVERED KANSAN
:. Inc aultTlCdus now nave tnt stcd
~ car line to Malabon and $50 marin
with four Maxims have been land
~ from the feet on the beach, north
VI the city. The Third artillery, up
the main road, and the Utah bate
in a cemetery, covered the advance
the Kansas troops. Among the IL
'u portant points captured by the
F" forces was a strong embrasured ear,
~ work within sight of C~aloocan.
y, The signal corps were compelled
run their lines along the firing Ii
during the fighting, and consequent
'"' there were frequent Interruptions
communication owing to the cutti
Of the wires, and the signal men we
ordered to kill without any hesitar
Gle anyone who attempted to interf,
'he with the lines.