Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1899-11-16

Running-sIany Prisoners Taken.
Manila. Nov. 12-The landEag IF the
American troops at San Fabian Tues
lay was the most spectacular affair
oT It's Kind since Gen. Skaters disem-
~oarkation at Daiquiri. The co-Opera-
ZION of the troops and the navy was
complete. The gunbOats maintained a
terrific bombardment for an hour.
While the troops rushed waiSt-deep'
through the surf under Il heavy but
badly aimed rifle fire from the insur-
gent EenChes and charged right and
left. pouring vOlley after voIley at the
fleeing rebels. Forty Filipinos were
captured, mostly nOn-commisSioned
Officers. -everal insurgent dead and
dve wounded were found In a building
which had Suffered considerably from
beeloOpSe-dryaT d en- en- sh ct sh Inn
the bombardRent. The town was
we'll fortified,
Then tue transports arrived In the
gulf they found the gunboats Prince
ton, Bennington and others waiting.
After consultation with Gen. Wheeler,
Commander Knox. of the Princeton,
and Commander Sheridan, OF the Ben
ningtOn. anchored on The shallow two
miles of shore. The gunbOats formed
a line inside, the Helena. Callao and
Manila close In shore. With the first
gun bOmbardment the small boats
were filled rapidly without confusion
by Maj. Cronite's battalion of the
Twenty-third infantry and Capt.
Bucgh's battaliop Of the Thirteenth in
fantry. While the lines Of boats
moved s%horeward the
Poured
the full force Of their batteries into the
trenches, soon causing the insurgents
TO fee through the burrows dug back
Of the trenches. About 200 men held
their places until the keels Of the
boats grated on the shore, when their
maCser bullets commenced to sing
overhead.
The battalions formed in good order.
Capt. Buck, with pierce'S and Patton's
companies pursued the insurgents on
the left into the bamboo thisketS. On
the right was a frail foot bridge across
the river leading TO the towns. Gen.
Wheaton. personally commanding. or
/ NNAtt q NAAa sc 11ASCS AN ms tAAA
Capt. Rowland. of his stat. led Cole
mans and Elliott'S companies Of the
| Thirteenth and Shields company OF
the T~wenty-third, who behaved splen-
| didly under their frs fire. into the
town. which was found to be nearly
deserted. except by the aged and some
SpaniardS who had hidden in the buff
falo willows, and who came shouting
delightedly toward the Americans.
Two companies OF the Thirty-third had
a skirmish along the DagUpGn road
with the retreating Filipinos. Maj.
| Shields. Of the staff, with his CON-
mand. captured several insurgents.
The troops camped in the rain during
the night and in the morning Gen.
Wheaton established his headquarters
in a church. Quartered his nlen in the
houses and sent the
Captured FiIipinos
beyond the outposts with orders o
| To return. The inhabitants describe all
the roads as practically impossible,
and say they believe Aguinaldo has a
secret boat in the Tonga river, near
Longpo. for use in flight when he finds
lis capture inevitable. Wednesday
was devoted to reconnaissance. Maj.
Logan went n%Orthward to Santa Tom-
as and burned the Filipino barracks.
| Can't. Bucks Thirteenth went to San
Jacinto and disposed of small bands.
| Marsh's Twenty-third went toward
Magellan. on the Dagupan road, and
had several sharp fights with small
parties. They killed eight men, brought
In twenty prisoners and had five men
wounded. The San Tomas road seems
to be the only possible means OF re-
treat for n large body north from
Tarlac, and Gen. Wheaton commands
IL, The insurgents of this section are
| going TO reinforce Tarlac.
Capt. Chenoweth and L~ieutenants
| Davis. Van Horne and Brantford, with
! two companies of the Nineteenth regi-
ments. accommodating northeast OF
| Malabacal, attacked and routed a bat
| talon of insurgents, killing twenty
| nine of them. Three Americans were
wounded.
II has been raining hard throughout
the week. handicapping Generals Law
| ton and Macarthur. The transporta-
ton is the chief difficulty.
Mai. Bell has been engaged in an
other exuIoit with the insurgents.
While scouting with five scouts and
two men OF the Thirty-sixth infantry
| and Lieut., Hawkins and twenty men
of the Fourth cavalry, he crept behind
n trench containing 100 Filipinos. rode
them down and killed and wounded
twenty men and captured six. He also
...ubf honl- thirty MauspfS.