Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1899-03-25
The Utah Artillery Was IN he Fighting
line.
BRILLIANT CHARGES MADE.
Enemy's Porcc i- cut In Two-asui-
aaido's Arm. I. cor.
ncred.

Manila, March Is. - The Amer
lean movement today uwcp, the inaur-
gent. back towards Maiabon. The fight
inE wnH fierce.
one hundred natives were killed. The
American casualties were slight.
General MacArthur's division supple
mentcd by General whcaton'a brigade.
has captured the town Of Polo.
I'll. movement o. the American troops
today swept the insurgents back toward
Malabon. General Harrison Gray oua'u
brigade IL In front Of La Loloma. where
there IL a stretch OF mile OF ro,,'h.
open country. The inrurEcnt trenches
IN the edge Of the woods nrc -four {, 4
deep and furnish good head cover.
Tho American troops advanced ON thu
double quick. yelling fcrccly and oc-
caslonaily dropping In the grass and
firing n vollcy.
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 IA
the outskirts and seventy Of them on
thc,roadH.
Tho Montana and Kansas troops mot
the hottest resistance In strip from
which the rebels have greatly worried
the Americans recently during the
night time.
Ninety minutes after the ptart-at 6
o'clock-thc whole front for a distance
Of three miles TO the north Ind been
cleared. General iiale'u briEadc had
simultaneously swept IN a nofthwcnter.
~ direction. fouting the enemy and
burning the town of Ham Francisco del
Monte ana a number Of scattered hutr.
The line was then opposite Noyalcchf,
the artillery advancing aion. a good
road from La Iona 10 Sovnicchr. the
WAGONS carrying nontoonE, telegraph
supplies and ammunition following. Tue
Infantry moved IN splendid order.
smoke from the burning hutn marked
the line OF the American advance. Am
balances and horse ltiern, led by CHI
ncac. brought IN the wounded. among
whom were few FillpinoH. The Amer
leans who were wounded endured their
INJURIES brnvcly, one group which had
been brought into the hospital singing
Comrades"
The pounnyivnnln troop took nine
prisoners. among them "A great naked
captain Of the Mncabcbcc tribe and one
japanese. All the prlaoncn were
ccutcd Immediately.
General McArthur'H division, consist
Ing % the hfirudcu OF General lnrfl-
son Gray Otis, General Hale and Gen.
eral Hall, supplemented by ucneral
Whcaton'H brigade. advanced az day.
iight and cut the cncmy'a forces IN
two. They captured the towns q Polo
and Novalcchc on tile Loft. and San
San Francisco del Monte aud Mariqui.
ma ON the right. clearing the rebel
trenches In front Of the line north from
the river TO caioocnn. They also Sc
cured possession OF the railroad. ptnc-
tically cnrnerinR the flower % Agulnal-
dos army at Mnlnbon nnd IN the foot
hills at Singalo0n. twenty miles apart.
The troops engaged were the Third
artillery Rr infantry. Montana. Kansas
Nebraska. Wyoming. Colorado. South
Dakota. Minnesota and Oregon yolun.
tccrr, the Third, Fourth. Seventh and
Twenty-aecond regulars, the Utah ar.
tiilery battalion. and the Twcnty-thlrd
regiments. The American casualties
were light.
REPORT or LOSS.
New York. March 2i.-Thc World viii
tomorrow print the following Manila
cable under date ~ March 18th.
~ sweeping victory over Aguinnldo's
forces has Just been won by the United
States troops.
"rhe total American loss Is estimated
at about 100. including both Killed ana
wounded.
"The Filipino loss Is between 900 and
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