The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-03-27
ADVANCING ON MALoLos.
Line After Line of Trenches Stormed
By Americans.


Manila, March 27.-The Americans
have advanced along the line of the
Dagupan railroad, driving the Filipinos
from Manila and NeWcanaYan, where
there We're 1900 inhabitants. Last night
the brigades of General Harrison G..
Otis and General Hale encamped in the
enemy's trenches at Newcanayan and
that of General Wheaton at Malinta.
General Wheaton'S brigade formed a
junction with the remainder cS General
M2cArthur's division at Mahnta, and
the latter, leaving General Wheaton
there, marched along the railroad to
Newcanayan. This place was fortified
and for 800 yards from it there We're
trenches on each side of the track.
These were taken possession of by the
American troops. The movement Of the
Americans Will be pushed in this direc-
tion.
The Filipinos. realizing that the rail-
road is the crucial line, have construct
ed row after row Of trenches running
diagonally on both sides Of the track at
8. distance of q few hundred yards
apart This work was designed most
intelligently and has evidently been
done under the direction of experts. 1t
represents an enormous amount of Ia
Dor. Most OF the rebel positions are
protected by thick earthworks, a ma
provided with loopholes. Some have
sheetiron roofs.
STORMED THE TRENCHES.
The days work of the United States
troops consisted of storming the sue
cesslve trenches. The Filipinos oceu-
pying them were completely hidden.
The enemy poured a strong fire from
every trench until they were disturbed
by a fianking volley. when they would
disappear into the woods and jungle,
only TO make a stand at the next line.
The American loss was remarkably
small, seven being reported killed and
twenty-five wounded. 1t is known that
the Filipinos were SO protected that
they suffered little. No dead insurgents
We're found in the trenches. Forty priS-
oners were taken by the Americans and
it is estimated that the rebel casualties
numbered twenty. The insurgents
broke their guns when they were COM
PEELED to abandon them.
The Helena and the army gunboatS
shelled Malabon and the country be-
yond, while the Monadnock focused all
its batteries upon Paranaque for two
hours for the purpose Of destroying the
military stores there. a great smoke
was caused, but as the insurgents are
in possession of the town, the, results
Of the shelling are not obtainable
The evacuation of Malabon was a pic
turesQue rout. thousands of people, Wo-
men and children loaded down With
household goods. some with their dear
est treasures-fghting cocks-under
their arms, poured across the swamps
in the early morning.
An exploded caisson at the railroad
bridge proved a bar TO the Americans.
Ten soldiers of the Oregon regiment,
while searching for two of those killed
in the earlier fighting, snealed into the
city in the morning and found the place
IN q condition of chaos. The inhabit-
ants, seeing them, fed in a panic, evil
IDENTIFY thinking the American forces
We're in possession. The OregonianS
shot several armed natives and F2Curn-
ed to camp.
The American forces did not occupy
Malabon, but are concentrating their
strength to strike Malolos. Malabon is
a city of desolation. The American SOL
diers have been forbidden to enter the
place for fear that natives may be Turk
ing there.