Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1899-10-09
MILD SORT OF WAR CONTINUES
NEAR MANILA.
TWELVE AMERICANS WOUNDED
WARsHIPS AND MARINES Coop
GRATED WITH TROOPS.
Three Gunboats SheIIed NoveIeta and
SANTA Cruz for an Hour-Ma-
rines Had to Wade i'm
Water Up TO Their
Shoulders.

NoVELETA, ISLAND OF LUZoN. Oct.
6-General Schwan's column, consisting of
the thirteenth infantry. battalion of the
fourteenth, two troops of cavalry, Cap
'all hei!lys battery Of the Fifth artillery
ana loves scouts, advanced from Bacoor
this morning and occupied Cayite Viejo
and Noveeta
The American loss was three officers and
nine privates wounded. one of the officers
being mortally hurt. The loss of the enc
my is unknown, but the bodies of three
Fllipinos were seen.
There were two sharp fights near Nov
eitta Loves scouts first encountered the
enemy near Cavite VieJo and soon put
them TO flight continuing their advance.
Captain Saffords battalion of the Thir-
teenth regiment, with two companies of
the Fourteenth and number of TagaIo
scouts Captain McGrath commanding, the
troops from the Fourth cavalry and Cap
tain Reilly's battery came upon the enc
my in a strongly intrenched position an
the road between Cavite Viejo and Nov
eIeta. a fight lasting half an hour fol-
lowed, resulting in the enemy being driven
back. The American forces sustained con-
siderable losses in this engagement, the
men peing shot from trenches and shacks
along the road
The column then pressed on to Move
leta' which they found deserted, and will
remain there tonight.
1he marines and naval forces co-operated
WIN the troops. The gunboats Wheeling
Petrel and Callao lay off the shore near
NoVeleta and threw shells into that town
ana Santa Cruz for an hour, preparing the
way for the marines to land Two bat
talions, consisting of 450 marines, under
Colonel Elliott, advanced along the penin-
a fRTv ia
way was by u narrow road through the
swamps
mile beyond the marines outpost the
column was suddenly received with a vol
ley from trenches across the road. a
flank movement was executed and the in
surgents We're driven from the trenches
the marines wading through rice fields in
turning the Hank Of the enemy, who re-
ueated 10 strong sand forts across the
creek dividing the peninsula, destroying
The bridge across the stream.
Inc marines waded through more rice
ilcids, forded the river in water to their
shoulders and carried the forts, meeting
win feeble resistance, the first encounter
having dishearened the enemy. Squads
Were sent to Noveleta and burned the town
and huts all along the road from which
the enemy commenced the firing There a
Junction was formed with the scouts who
had been sweeping the swamps and thick
cts. Thence the marines returned TO Ca
Fite, thoroughly exhausted.
Lieutenant Wynne, with a three-pounder
did good execution during the advance
General Lawton was not in personal COM
mand of tO-day's movement
Captain Cowles' battalion of the Fourth
Infantry, while accommodating to-day
found a body Of several hundred insurgents
near San Nicolas. After brisk fight last
ing thrce-quarters of an hour, the enemy
was driven off. In this engagement the
American casualties were four men slight
ly wounded. Six of the enemy were killed
but the number of wounded is not known
The bad condition of the roads made the
progress OF the artillery slow