The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1899-03-30
Insurgents SWEPT BACK.
Forward Movements of American
Forces Begin in Earnest
ENGAGE FlLiPINOS IN BATTLE
Fighting uader Disad,antages-The Flower
of Aguinaldo's Army Cornered-Ameriean
Loss IL Killed and $50 Wounded.

MANILA (By Cable The m ovement
OF the American troops Saturday swept
the insurgents back towards Malabon.
The insurgent trenches in the edge Of
the woods are four feet deep, and fur.
nish good head cover. The Ameri-
can troops adyanced on double time.
yelling fercsly and occasionally dror
ping in the grass and firing by volIey.
| The natives stood until the Americans
were within 200 yards of their position,
and then broke and ran for the woods.
About thirty of them were killed in the
outskirts, and seventy on the roads.
The Montana and Kansas troops met
the hottest resistance in q strip
fSom which the rebels have
greatly worried the Americans re-
! Gently, during the night time. Ninety
minutes after the start, at 6 o'clock, the
whole front, for a distance of three miles
to the north, had been cleared Cen
eral Hale's brigade had simultaneously
| swept in q northwesterly direction,
routing the enemy and burning the
town of San Fran del Monte and q
| number of scattered huts. The line
was then opposite Novaliches, the ar
tilIery advancing along a good road
from Laloma to Novalich, the wagons
carrying pontoons and telegraph sup
| plies, and ammunition following. The
infantry moved in splendid order
Smoke from the burning huts marked
TIE line of the American advance. Am
| balances and horse litters, led by Chi
whom were few Filiplnos. The Amer
| lo1 o,,l,ro1 boir
injuries bravely. One group of them
was brought ito the hospital singing
Comrades. The Pennsylvania troops
great naked captain of the Macabobee
tribe and one Japanese. All the
pr1sorers were greatly terrified, ex-
pecting to be executed Immediately.
Gen. McArthur's division, consist
ing of the brigades of General Harri-
son Gray Otis, General Hale and Gen
eral Hall. supplemented by General
Wheaton's brigade, advanced at day
light and cut the enemy's forces III
two. They captured the towns of Polo
and Novallches on the lett, and San
Fran del Monte and Maroquina
on the right, clearing the rebel trench.
es in front of the line north
from the river to Caloocau
They also secured possession
of the railroad practically corner
ing the flower of Aguinaldo's army a
Malabon, and in the foothills OF Singa
Ion, twenty miles apart. The troops en-
gagged were the Third Artillery, as in
fantry, Kansas, Pennsylvania and Ne
braska, sWyoming, Colorado, Soutl
Dakota. Minnesota and Oregon volun'
teers; the Third, Fourth, Seventeenth
and Twenty Second Regulars, th'
Utah Artillery Battalion and tn
Twenty Third Regulars. The Ameri
can casualties were light.
The eGtrenchments nearest to Mala
bon suffered the most severe attacks
including cross fire from the insur
gents massed at Malabon. The Mon
tana regiments, near Balintanac, cam
upon blockhouse, disguised as lepe
hospital, across the river. after march
ing through the jungle. Four men wer
killed and II wounded. Gen. Near
thurs Artillery was hampered by til
thickness of the Jungle. Gen. McAl
thurs and Gen. Hale's stats were fire
quently under CALLING fire, and upo
one occasion all of the officers except
ing tho generals dismounted, bein
| overcome by the heat. There wsr
many prostrations during the day.