Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1899-11-15

MANILA, November 14.-6 p. H.
The Thirty-third infantry, in one of the
sharpest two hours engagements of the
war with an equal force of insurgents,
five miles from San Fabian, Saturday,
lost one officer and six men killed and
one officer and twelve men wounded.
The Americans captured Twenty-Five
Filipinos and one hundred rifles and
found 81 insurgent dead lying in the
trenches and rice fields Many more
Filipinos, doubtless. were killed or
wounded.
Gen. Wheaton was informed that the
enemy was gathering at San Jacinto for
the purpose of preventing the Ameri-
cans from controlling the road from
Dagupan north, whereby Aguinaldo
might retreat. The Thirty-third, Col.
Howe commanding, and detachment
OF the Thirteenth, with a gatling gun,
Rowland commanding, were sent to
disperse them. The troops encountered
the worst road ever found in the island
OF Luzon. There was a succession of
creeks, whose bridges the Americans
had to stop and repair, and miry
bitches, and at certain places men and
horses struggled waist deep in quag
mires. A hundred soldiers had to drag
the gatling gun part of the way, the
horses being useless. The insurgents
opened the fight two miles from San
Jacinto, while the leading American
battalion was passing a clump OF
houses, in the midst Of cocoanut
grove, knee deep in mud. The Filipino
sharpshooters, hidden in trees, houses
and a small trench across the road, held
their fire until the Americans were
close to them. When they began firing
other Filipinos opened fire from thick
cts, right and left. further away. The
insurgent sharpshooters picked off the
officers first. Five of the Americans
who fell wore shoulder straps or chew
rons. But the Thirty-third never wa
vered It's crack marksmen knocked
the Filipinos from the trees like squir-
rels, and the Americans rushed the
trenches, leaving four dead insurgents
there. The regiment then deployed I'M
Ger fire, with Major John A. Logan's
battalion in the center, Major Cronies
on the right and Major Marsh's on the
left. The skirmish line which was
q mile long, advanced rapidly, keeping
up a constant fire. The Filipinos made
an Unexpectedly good stand, many of
them remaining under cover until the
Americans were within twenty feet of
them. Major Marsh tianked small
trench full of insurgents, surprising
them and slaughtering nearly all of
them before entering the town. The
gatling killed five of the force holding
the bridge and swept the country be-
yond the town, driving about $50 Fill
pinos into the hills. Marsh's battalion,
entering the town first, captured a bat
tie flag, which was flying over con-
vent
The insurgents are supposed to have
retreated toward Dugapan. 1t was i'm
possible to pursue them, as the Ameri-
can troops were exhausted and their
supply of ammunition was low The
outposts killed five Filipinos during the
fight. The body of the Filipino lieuten-
ant-colonel commanding was found
among the killed
The regiment returned to San Fa-
bian Sunday, it being impossible to get
upplies over the roads.
A proclamation of the Filipino secre-
airy Of war was forwarded to all viii
lagos, giving glowing accounts of al
legged Filipino victories and saying that
$500 Americans had been killed and
$4,000 wounded during the war.
The dead and wounded were brought
to Manila to-day. The officers who are
returning say it is impossible for Gen.
Wheaton to attempt a junction with
Gen. Young on account of the roads.
Prisoners say it is reported that Aguin-
aldo, with an army they estimated at
swenty thousand (probably a great ex-
aggeration), is retiring toward Dagu-
pan, intending to leave by railroad for
the northwest Some of them said they
believed the Filipino army had passed
the line intended by Generals Wheaton
and Young to be covered on Agvinaldo's