Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1899-08-19
LIVELY FIGHTING
AROUND MANILA
General Young's Troops Occupy
San Mateo After a Hot Brush
With Filipinos.
SIXTEEN KILLED AND WOUNDED
Twcnty-Three OF the Enemy Left
Dead ON the FicId---Rcbcls
Take The Aggr, 3 ,iyc
Mt Calump 10,

Manila, Aug. 1j.-S:40 d. m-The in
surgents have taken the aggressive in
he HcighborhoOd OF the railway. On
saturday night they linsuctessfllly at
tackled san Luis, on the Rio Grandr,
near Calumpit, which is g%arrisoncd by
two companies Of the TwentY-secOnd
infantry! The Americans had one man,
"a sergeant, killed and two priyates
wounded.
Yesterday morning q similar affair
took place ut Gringue, four miles west
og Malolos, where another small garri-
son Is stationed as a safeguard against
possible attack on the railroad. \ spc-
cial train took reinforcements to Ma
lolos and GuiguiDto, just north of
Bulacan.
Americans occupy san Matco.
Manila, Aug 14.-3t10 p. ma re-
connoissance Yesterday by troops Of
General Samuel b. NJ. Young's brigade,
with the object Of discovering the
whereabouts of the enemy near San
Mateo, northwest Of san Juan Tescr-
voir, about ten miles from Manila, re.
suited in the occupation OF San Mateo,
The American loss was three killed
Nv III N''b NpAlliAl'Ns 1ilNlllNllilE "
lieutenant OF the Twenty-iirst infan-
try. The Americans approached San
Matco i'm three columns. Major CrOnin,
with fifteen men Of the Twenty-tifth
infantry, advanced from Noyalichcs,
five mi es west of San Mateo. Captain
Rivers, with lO0'men Of the Fifth IN
-fantry, aud Captain Parker, formerly
licutenin colonel Of the Twelfth New
York volunteer regiment, with $50
men Of the T~wcnty-first and Twenty
fourth infantry and the Fourth cav
airy, approached in two column from
the south,
Major Cronin experienced many diff
culties arising from the condition of
the country and failed to effect Il juno.
tion with Captain Rivers west of San
Matco. as had been planned.
Captain Rivers, advancing, took an
outpost Of the enemy two miles south
west Cf San NIateo. He then encOun.
tered strong resistance among the
hills. the enemy firing from excellent
positions. Having failed to connect
with Major Cronin, and seeing that the
town was alSady occupied by the
Americans, Captain Rivers Withdrew,
covering llIN Nllll'lld Nhl ny " ''"' y
volley. He lost a sergeant killed. Cap
tain Parker, OF advancing, found the
enemy strongly e"ntrenched on the far
side of some rice fields, about a mile
wide and covered with deep mud.
Pushing forward rapidly, he routed
the FilipinoS after forty minutes fight
ing. and then continued the march
upon San Mateo, which he entered
without serious resistance about 1880
In the afternoon.
Major Cronin entered the town
about 1890. The Americans still oc-
cupy the place. Our men were eN-
hausted by the heavy marching.
Twenty-three of the enemy are
known to have been killed.
CoIoIcd Troops Fight Well.
This is the first action in which
Colonel Burt's colored troops partici-
pated. They behaved well, but their
leaders had difficulty in holding them
back.
General Young accompanied Captain
Parkcr's column and was under fire
throughout the engagement. 1t is es-
timated that the enemy numbered be-
tween 800 and 400 men.
While the Seventeenth infantry,
during last Tuesdays battle, was APP
preaching Calutut along the road the
troops Saw a group of fifty Filipinos
outside the town under n flag Of truce.
Some. who were in white clothing,
held up their hands to signify that
they were unarmcd.
Captain Hart, with n detachment,
advanced cautiously to a point within
200 wards of them. when the Filipinos
picked mp their guns and fired a vol
ley. The Americans dropped into the
bushes unhurt ON the first movement,
and returned the fire. At the first fire
the Filipinos ran off.
Word was received from Lieutenant
II. c. Gilmore, of the United States
gunboat Yorktown. who with four
members of the crew Of the gunboat
was captured by the insurgents last
April near Bacolor, on the east coast
of Luzon. The message, which comes
through Spanish prisoners, is II the
effect that the officer and his men are
at Vigan. in the province of South llo-
eos. on the west coast of LuZon. All
hut two are well. Lieutenant Gilmore
is allowed a house and a servant and is