Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1899-06-05


$50 r. M.-Gen. Halls column. in the
movement upon the Morong peninsula,
completed a circuit of over 20 miles ov-
er rough and mountainous country
having two engagements with the in
sursents, one of them severe and keep
ing up an almost continuous fire
against scattered bands Of rebels for
nearly "A hours, from 4 o'clock Satur-
day morning, when the column left the
pumping station.
The F'ilipinos were driven in every
direction and the country through
which Gen. Hall passed was pretty
thoroughly cleared. At 10 o'clock. this
morning, the column reached a point
a few miles from Taytay, where Gen
Hall was met by Gen. Lawton, who had
already entered the town and found it
deserted
Gen. Halls objective point was Anti
polo. 10 miles off, and there was de-
sultory firing all along the line of
march The gunboats could be heard
Smelling the hills in advance of the col
umn.
The column, after driving the reb-
els from the foothills near Maria Chino.
about noon, yesterday. with a loss Of
but two or three slightly wounded,
proceeded with all possible haste to-
ward Laguna de Bay, the 4th Cavalry
in the lead. the Oregon Regiment next
and the 4th Infantry, last. Al o.
clock, these three regiments fought
their second battle Of the day and it re-
suited like the first in the complete
rOut Of a large Filipino force located
in the mountains and having every
advantage Of position.
In this fight the American loss was
four killed. three of the 4th Cavalry
and one Oregonian and about Is wound
ed The Filipino loss could not be as
certained, but the terrific fire which
the Americans poured into them for
half an hour must have inflicted severe
punishment. In this engagement our
/ troops made one of the most gallant
charges of the war; and the enemy
was forced to flee in the greatest dis
order
! It was the intention to press on TO
Antipolo last night. but this was found
! impossible owing to the fights and the
constant marching for more than
II hours. with nothing to eat since
morning and no supply train in sight.
| The troops. moreover. suffered from
trated and all greatly exhausted. con
| sequently they bivouacked for the
night on the second battlefield.
| The cavalry. the Oregonians and two
companies Of the 4th Infantry had just
crossed a small creek. about ; o'clock
! yesterday afternoon. and entered upon
a sunken road from which they were
emerging up in a small valley surround
ed on all sides by high and heavily
wooded hills, when the rebels, conceal
ed in the mountains on the three sides
| Of the plain. opened hot fire and sent
showers Of bullets into the ranks Of the
| Americans. The latter deployed i'm
mediately in three sections.
Then followed a charge across the
rice fields and bitches and up the hill
sides, from which the shots came all
the time pouring in terrific hail. while
the air resounded with the constant
rattle of musketry.
The 4th Cavalry being in front suffer-
ed the severest loss. when the attack
opened, two of their killed being ser
geants. and the other private. The
Oregonian killed was a private.
The natives were unable to stand the
vigorous firing of the Americans and at
the first sign of their wavering the cav
airy, Oregonians and 4th Infantrymen
broke into wild cheers and charged
still faster up the hillsides. pouring in
voiiey after volley until the enemy left
the places where they We're partially
concealed by the thicket, fled over the
summit in the widest confusion and
disappeared in the surrounding valleys
After the fight was over, the firing
continued by the Americans for over
an hour in clearing out the bush and
driving away the struggling Filipinos
The troops, after camping for the
night on the battlefield. started. at
this morning for Antipolo where 1t was
expected strong resistance would be
made. Antipolo is a place far up in
the mountains where the Spaniards had
said the Americans could never cap
ture. 1t has cost Spain the lives Of 800
troops.
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