The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1899-06-13
Two Towns Occupied

the enemy's loss is about 400. OTIS.
Two Towns Occupied.
MANILA, June 12.-The Filipino &C.
cupation Of the province Of Cavite has
been broken and as q result of the pres
ent movement the Americans now con-
troll the important coast towns of Para
naque and Las Pinas, while long line
OF insurgent trenches facing our south
line has been cleared. The insurgents
have again proved their facility as dodg-
ers, between 5000 and 1000 warriors
who seemed destined to be captured
having disappeared, the majority slid.
ing away under cover Of the night after
fighting the Americans all day. Some
others came to meet our troops with
protestations of friendship.
The Thirteenth infantry lost one man
killed and six wounded; the Ninth in
fantry, one man killed and five wounded,
the Fourteenth infantry three wounded,
and the First Colorado volunteer regi-
ment, II wounded.
Saturday S work was the hardest our
army has seen. The battlefield stretched
out across the entire isthmus, from La
guna de Bay to the harbor. While the
troops were advancing, the army gun
boat Napidan, in the river near Taguig,
shelled the enemy, killing several Of
them.
The monitor Monadnock and the gun
boat Helena shelled Paranaque and Las
Pinas all day with the full power Of
their batteries. The rebel sharpshooters
kept in hiding until the American lines
had passed and then attempted to pot
stragglers from the trees. Thanks to
their poor Workmanship this was with
out result.
Strip to the Waist.
The whole country proved to be sue
cession of small hills, with DOGGY ground
between the high, thick grass and
bushes in the hollows, which retarded
the advance, but gave shelter from the
enemy's bullets. Our men threw away
blankets, coats and even haversacks,
stripping to the waist, and trusting to
luck for food. Water could not be OBJ
tanned, and there was much discomfort
after the canteens were emptied. At
the outset the Colorado, the Ninth in
fantry and the First infantry forced the
first line Of insurgent trenches, wheeled
to the left and drove the enemy toward
the lake. During this maneuver, the
Nipinos, in concealed trenches on the
right, opened an enfilading fire, but the
brigade, partly owing to the high grass,
had few hit.
The Ninth infantry crept around to
the right, faning the trenches, driving
out the Nlipinos and killing many of
them. The Colorado regiment advanced
to the lake. Two companies encoun-
tered trenches on top of knoll, where
the Flipinos stood waist high above
the trenches pouring volley upon the
advancing Americans. The Colorado
troops charged and drove them out,
Lieutenant Colonel Moses being
wounded in the arm as he jumped into
the trench. In the meantime General
Wheaton's column advanced one and a
half miles toward Paranaque, where
the Americans found a strong trench on
ridge, out of which they drove the
Filipinos by hard fighting. The enemy
tried to flank the dismounted troops of
the Fourth cavalry, accompanying Ma
jor Lawton, and at the same time they
made their only advance, throwing a
skirmish line to flank the Fourteenth
infantry. But they were easily re-
pulsed, the American artillery coming
to the crest of the hill and Smelling
them.
I.awton's Narrow Escape.
About o'clock in the afternoon Gen
eral Wheaton's brigade, headed by Gen
eral Lawton, circled to the south of Las
Pinas, encountering large force OF
Filipinos in the shelter Of the trees.
General Lawton had narrow escape.
In the first volley of the enemy the
horses of three of his staff officers We're
shot from under him. The Colorado
regiment bore the brunt of this attack
and dispersed the Fiipinos.
Hardly had they finished off that lot
when a large force appeared in the rear,
which the Ninth infantry and 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 in the midst of a
heavy rain.
At o'clock Sunday morning General
Wheaton advanced upon Las Pinas
with troop Of cavalry, the Twenty
first infantry, the Colorado regiment
and part Of the Ninth infantry, enter
ing the town without firing shot. He
then advanced upon Paranaque. The
women and children, and for that mat
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