The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1899-09-29
DROVE REBELS FROM PORAC
OUR ATTACK FROM TWO SIDES MET
WITH LITTLE RESISTANCE.

Some Prisoners Taken, Rut Most of the In
surgents Got Away Through tho Thick
Bush - Our Loss Only Five Wounded
The Town Had Been Strongly Entrenched.
Spteal Gable Dessatch 10 THE sun.
MANILA. Sept. 2S.-Two battallons OF the
Ninth Infantry. one gun from the Third Artil,
lery and q detachment OF engineers. under
command OF Gen. Wheeler and Col. Liscomb.
left Santa Rita this morning and marched
northwest toward Porac. which the rebels &C.
cupied. The Thirty sixth Infantry. Troop +
OF tho Fourth Cavalry. one gun Of the Third
Artillery under Capt. Hobbs. and n detachment
OF engineers under Lieut.. Woton, left San An
tonic in the same direction at the same time.
The two commands met few lies from Porac
and combined In m ovement against the rebel
forces there. Gen. Macarthur was in COM
mand
There was a running fight. but the American
troops marched steadily forward in the hot
sun. crossing eight streams and driving the
enemy before them. At 9:30 o'clock, after
marching six and one half miles. Porac was
reached and captured. The enemy was strongly
entrenched. but made a weak resistance. be-
ing somewhat taken by surprise.
The Americans had five men wounded The
ensmy's loss 10 not known. A captain and
commissary OF Gen. Mascardo's army were
among the prisoners captured.
While this movement was being made from
the south large part OF the rebel force was
kent engaged by our divisions at and near
Angeles. to the northeast Of Porac. Lieut..
Kenly opened fire to the left OF the railroad
near Angeles with two cannon and one
Hotchkiss gun. Smelling the insurgent
trenches at range Of 1000 yards.
Lieut.. Bridges with two armored cars shelled
the trenches to the right OF the track with
Hotchkiss and Calling gun. The insurgents
stamreded to the eastward and entered extern
sive Entertainments. from which they opened
fire on a battalion OF the Twenty-second Infan-
try under Major Baldwin which had crossed
the river under cover Of a heavy fire from tho
artillery. The Twenty second advanced 100
yards beyond the river and engaged a large
force Of Filipinos in the trenches for half an
hour The Twenty-second afterward re-
turned to Angeles without having suffered
any casualties. The artillery continued firing
until Z O'Clock.
During this firing Gen. Wheaton. with the
Twelfth Regiment. a battalion OF the Seven
teenth and four guns OF the First Artillery.
left Angeles and was enabled to get four miles
to the west. the move being successfully
masked The majority OF the insurgents in
front OF Angeles had congregated to the north
east. expecting an attack from that point.
guard under Brigade Surgeon Shields en-
countered 150 insurgents leaving Porac and
dispersed them. Wheatons column then pro-
cecded three miles further on to Monabang
where snother small rarty OF insurgents were
encountered and dispersed. The column then
turned to the right TO Dolores. three miles
north Of Porac. company OF the Seventeenth
Infantry under command OF Lieut.. Morrow
captured nine prisoners and eight rifles.
Successful pursuit of the insurgents was i'm
possible. owing to the fact that the grass
was twelve feet high in some places. The
enemy escaped at several places between our
divisions. MacArthur's from tbs south and
Wheaton's from the north. because It was I'M
possible In the thici grass TO completely sur
round them as had been planned.
The American column afterward returned to
Angeles. \ new base OF operations has now
been secured and the country on our left flank
has been completely cleared OF rebels.