Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1899-04-12
CHASING THROUGH JUNGLES.
Gen. Lawton Following Up the Defeat
ed Enemy in the Mountains.

A VICTORY FOR WHEATON-AN
ATTACK BY INSURGENTS WAS
REPULSED WITH HEAVY LOSS.
LAWTON'S INDIAN WARFARE
TACTICS TOO MUCH FOR THE
INSURGENTS.
Washington, April 1.-The War De-
partment has received a dispatch from
Gen. Otis announcing the success of
Gen. Lawton's campaign in the capture
of Santa Cruz. He says that Gen. Law
ton is pushing the rebels into the
mountains beyond the city.
Gen. Otis also informs the War De-
partment that the insurgents made an
attack upon Gen. Wheaton's brigade,
and they were repulsed with heavy
loss.
One dispatch from Gen. Otis reads:
Manila, April II.
Adjutant General, Washington:
Insurgents attacked MacArthur's line
of railway communication last night
in considerable force; repulsed by
Wheaton with heavy loss. Wheaton S
casualties: Three killed, 20 wounded.
Otis.
The following dispatch gives addi-
tional information concerning the fight
at Santa Cruz:
Manila, April II.
Adjutant General, Washington:
Lawtons success at Santa Cruz more
complete than reported yesterday. The
enemy left SO uniformed dead on the
field and number of seriously wound
ed Lawton captured the city without
destruction of property. His loss is
ten wounded, slight, except Two, one
of whom since died. Lieut.. Filing is
the only officer wounded; slight, in
band. The envy retired eastward.
Lawton is in pursuit this morning.
Otis.
The attack of the insurgents upon the
railway north of Manila indicates to
War Department officials that while
Gen. Macarthur was pushing north
bodies of insurgents took to the noun
tains and jungles to the right of the
railway, and have been watching an
opportunity to capture the road at
some point and thus cut off the main
body of the army. to the northward.
The repulse of the natives show that
they had not sufficient force to accom-
plish their purpose.
Manila, April 11.-5:45 p. NAT
about midnight the rebels cut the tele-
graph line at several places between
here and Malolos, and signal fires were
lighted and rockets sent up along the
foothills to the right of the railroad.
Later the enemy attacked the outposts
of the Minnesota regiment, between
Bigaa and Bocave, five miles south of
Malolos, killing two men and wound
ing IA.
simultaneously the outposts of the
Oregon regiment at Marilao, the next
station on the way to Manila, were at
tackled, with the result that three
Americans were killed and two were
wounded The loss of the enemy was
ten men killed and six wounded. The
American line also captured two pris-
oners.
The troops were concentrated along
the railroad as thickly as possible, and
the rebels were driven back to the foot
hills.
The roadbed of the railway was dam
aged, but it was repaired almost i'm
mediately and traffic was soon re-
sumed through to Malolos.
1t is supposed that many Of the rebels
who attacked Gen. MacArthur's line of
communication and who were repulsed by
the troops commanded by Gen. Wheaton,
were natives who entered that region in
the guise of friendlies. They had SEEM
ingly secreted arms in several places, and
fired on the Americans from the bushes
at so close a range that they could be
heard talking. One of the Fihpinos yelled
IN EISlSn.
I'VE will give you damned Americans
enough of this before we are through"
The rebels undermined the railroad at
Marlao and unspiked the rails in an eff
fort to wreck train while the railroad
gang participated in the fight. The work
of the rebels was discovered and repaired
before train arrived.
Gen. Wheaton is preparing to punish
the F'ilpinos.
The military gunboats Napidan and
Laguna de Bay have succeeded in enter
ing the Santa Cruz river and have cap
tured a small unarmed Spanish gunboat
and three launches, which they discovered
there.
The military gunboat Oeste has brought
thirty-two rebel wounded, one dead Fill
Pine and six wounded Americans to the
hospital. 1t is now known that ninety
three insurgents were killed during the
capture of Santa Cruz.
F'ORTY-FIVE LIVES LOST.