The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-06-12
AMERICANS IN CONTROL
Swept the Coast Towns Clear of
Insurgents.
MOST OF THEM ESCAPED
The Filipino Occupation Of the Province
OF Cavite Has Been Broken.
A Day of Hard
Fighting.

| plno occupation of the province of Ca
Vlte has been broken and, as the result
| of the present movement, the Ameri-
cans now control the important coast
towns of Paranaque and Las Pinas,
while a long line of insurgent trenches
facing our south lines has beeen
| cleared
The insurgents have again proved
their facility as dodgers, between 5000
| and 1000 warriors who seemed destined
| to be captured having disappeared, the
majority sliding away under cover of
the night after fighting the Americans
| all day. Some others came to meet
our troops with protestations of friend
| ship.
| The 18th infantry lost one man killed
and six wounded; the 9th infantry one
man killed and five wounded; the 14th
| infantry three wounded and the 1st
| Colorado volunteer regiment eleven
wounded
Yesterdays work was the hardest our
army has seen. The battlefield
stretched out across the entire isthmus
from Laguna de Bay to the harbor.
While the troops We're advancing the
| army gunboat Napidan, in the river
| near Taguig shelled the enemy, killing
| several of them. The monitor Monad-
mock and the gunboat Helena shelled
| Paranaque and Las Pinas all day with
the full power of their batteries.
The rebel sharpshooters kept in hid
ing until the American lines had passed
and then attempted to pot stragglers
| from the trees. Thanks to their poor
. | m RI Z a n
| suit
| The whole country proved to be a
| succession of small hills with boggy
ground between the high, thick grass
and bushes in the hollows, which
greatly added to the difficulty of the
| advance. but gave shelter that saved
many from the enemy's bullets. Our
men threw away their blankets coats
and even haversacks, stripping to the
waist and trusting to luck for food
+ Water could not be obtained and there
was much discomfort after the can
teens were emptied. F
| At the outset, the Colorado, the 9th
infantry and the 21st infantry forced
4 the line Of insurgent trenches, wheeled
to the left and drove the enemy toward
the lake. During this vancouver the
Filipinos, in concealed trenches on the
right, opened an enfilading fire. but the
brigade, partly owing to the high grass,
had few hit. The 9th infantry crossed
around to the right, f1anking the
trenches, driving out the Filipinos and
killing many of them.
The Colorado regiment advanced to
the lake. Two companies encountered
the trenches on top of a knoll, where
the Filipinos stood waist high above a
trench pouring volley upon the ad-
vancing Americans. The Colorado
troops charged and drove them out.
Lieutenant Colonel Moss being wound
In nod tY,fn fhn
trench.
In the meantime General Wheaton g
column advanced one and half miles
toward Paranaque, where the Amer1-
cans found a strong trench on ridge,
out of which they drove the Filipinos
by hard fighting.
The enemy tried to flank the dis
} mounted troops of the 4th cavalry ac-
ccmpanying Major General Lawton,
and at the same time they made their
, advance, throwing a skirmish line to
flank the 14th infantry. But they were
easily repulsed, the American artillery
coming to the crest of the hill and she'll
ing them.
About o'clock in the afternoon Gen
eral Wheatons brigade, headed by
} General Lawton, who, in his white
clothing and helmet, on big black
horse, was a shining mark for the enc
, my's sharpshooters, circled to the south
of Las Pinas, encountering large
force of Filipinos in the shelter of the
, trees. General Lawton had a narrow
, escape In the first volley of the enemy
the horses of three of his staff officers
we're shot from under them. The Colo
, RADIO regiment bore the brunt of this
attack and dispersed the Filipinos.
Hardly had they finished off that lot
} when large force appeared in the
rear, which the 9th infantry and a part
of the Colorado regiment drove away.
BY this time nearly the whole division
was around Las Pinas. The Americans
camped for the night south of the town
and in the midst of a heavy rain.
At 6 o'clock this morning General
Wheaton advanced upon Las Pinas
with a troop of cavalry, the 21st infant
5 ry, the Colorado regiment, part of the
} 9th infantry and two mountain guns.
crossing two streams and entering the
town without firing shot. He then
advanced upon Paranaque.
The women and children and. for that
s matter, many men, remained IN the
town. No houses were destroyed,
though many We're torn by the shells
from the warships. Everywhere the
Americans found white flags flying,
So far as can be ascertained, the Fill
pino loss is about so killed, about $40
wounded and 20 taken prisoners. The
whole country is networked with
trenches and the enemy scurried from
: shelter to shelter.
To-day long trains of commissary
wagons are carrying provisions to the
United States troops along the road
which only yesterday was the strong
I hold of the enemy, and the natives who
yesterday We're probably carrying guas
J are to-day doffing their hats and grow
cling before the Americans with effus-
i've greetings of welcome.
The Colorado regiment returned tC
barracks in Manila tonight. AS the
ragged and dusty men marched past
the Luneta, the fashionable gathering
place for Manilans, they were heartily
} cheered.