The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-10-09
SHARP FIGHT AT NovELETA.
INSURGENTS MET AND DEF-oATEu
IN TWO PLACES.


Americans Had Three Omcers ana
Nine Men WOunded-One of thc
Officers Was MortaIIy Hurt--Na.
rines Did Good Fighting and the
Gunbonts Also CO-operatetk-In.
surgents Fired From Trenches
and Houses.
Noveleta. Island of Luzon, Oct. s.-Gen.
Schwan's column, consisting of the Thir>
teenth Infantry. battalion OF the Four.
teenth, two troops of cavalry, Capt. Rel
ley's battery of the Fifth Artillery. ana
Loves scouts, advanced from Bacoor this
morning and occupied Cavite Viejo ana
Noveleta.
The American loss was three officers and
nine privates wounded one Of the officers
being mortally hurt The loss OF the enemy
IL unknown, but the bodies OF three Fill
pinos were seen.
There were two sharp fights near Nov-
eieta' Lows scouts first encountered the
enemy near Cavite Ve1o and soon pus
them to flight, continuing their advance.
Capt. Saffold's battalion of the Thir>
teenth Regiment, with two companies Of
the Fourteenth and number of TaRalo
scouts, Capt. McGrath commanding the
troops from the Fourth Cavalry and Cant.
Reilly's battery, came up on the enemy
IN strongly entrenched position on the
road between Cavlte Viejo and Noveleta.
A fight lasting half an hour followed.
resulting in the enemys being driven
back The American forces sustained com.
siderable losses in this engagement, the
haipO baf
along the road.
The column then pressed on TO Noveleta.
which they found deserted. and will res
main there tonight.
Good Work of the Marines.
The marines and naval forces co-oper-
ated with the troops. The Runboats
Wheeling, Petrol and Callao lay off the
shore near Noveleta and threw shells into
that town and Santa Cruz for an hour.
preparing the way for the marines to land.
Two battalions consisting of 45O marines.
under Col. Elliott. advanced along the pen.
insula from Cavite to Noveleta. The only
way was by narrow road through
swamps.
A mile beyond the marines outpost the
column was suddenly received with a vol
ley from trenches across the road Al
surgents were driven from the trenches.
the marines wading through rice fields in
turning the flank of the enemy, who Ie-
treated to strong sand forts across the
creek dividing the peninsula, destroying
the bridge across the stream. The ma
rines waded through more rice fields, ford
ed the river in water to their shoulders and
carried the forts, meeting with feeble re-
sistance the first encounter having diss
heartened the enemy.
Squads were sent to Noveleta and burned
the town and the huts all along che road,
from which the enemy commenced the
firing There a junction was formed with
the scouts, who had been sweeping the
swamps and thlckets. Thence the ma
r.ues returned TO Cavite thoroughly ex@
hausted
Lawton Not In Command.
Lieut.. Wynee. with 3-pounder did good
execution during the advance. Gen Law
ton was not in personal command of to-
day's movements.
Capt. cowles' battalion of the Fourth
Infantry, while reconnoitering to-day,
found a body OF several hundred insurs
gents near San Nico,as. After a brisk
fight, lasting three quarters of an hour,
the enemy was driven off In this en-
gagement the American casualties were
four men slightly wounded
Six of the enemy were killed, but this
number of wounded is not known.
The bad condition OF the roads made the
progress of the artillery slow.