Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1900-08-21
FIGHT against ODDS
Small Bands Of American Soldiers
Often Ambushed by the Fill.
Pine Soldiers.
Thirty of Uncle Sans Troops Kill
Two Hundred Of the
Insurgents.
Enemy Often Have Advantage Of
Well.Constructed Forts Other
News.

that some of the 80 garrisons the Unit
ed States troops maintain in these is-
lands would sooner or later be sur
rounded by the enemy and attacked
With such determination that the Amer
lean soldiers would be powerless to re-
sist the onslaught. This has happened
at Catubig, island of Samar, and the
detachment of the Forty third volun-
teer infantry, the troops in question.
lost nineteen of its thirty men. The Of
licial report follows:
In the Catubig engagement, in which
the insurgents numbered about 600 men,
With 200 rifles and one cannon, our men
gave an heroic account of themselves by
killing more than 200. Our loss was
nineteen killed and five wounded. The
detachment was al the time quartered
in the convent. AT . a. IN. April 10 all
most simultaneously fire was opened
upon it from the hills ON both sides as
We'll as from every available part of the
town. 1t continued all day and night,
and Was vigorously resumed at 5 a. m.
the following morning, Al s a. m. the
cannon began firing nails, pieces of
chain and iron scraps,
This sort of attack continued until
the third day, when a large number of
the insurgents got into the adjoining
church. With ten volunteers Sergt.
.Geoise charged on the church, killing
large number of msii but he could not
hold 1t. From the windows of the same
the insurgents threw a quantity of hemp
saturated With Kerosene against the side
of the convent and thus ga 1t on fire. AS
this building soon became untenable,
the detachment attempted to escape 10
the river and cross it, and here occurred
its first considerable losses. All of the
men of the detachment except Sergt
Hall, Corp. Carson and fifteen privates
attempted to get into boat. and in so
doing they We're killed. Sssrgt. Hall and
his men began intrenching themselves
near the river and there that little band
held out, under Corp. Carson. two days
longer in the face of most adverse cir
cumstances until rescued. Sergt. Hail
ard tMos others We're killed and two were
wounded during tina, psrioG.
Not the least heroic incident of the
engagement was the rescue by
Lieut. Sweene. and ten men When the
steamer was about one mile from the
town he found the river biockaded with
trees that We're lastled together. These
were removed and the ascent continued
TO within few hundred yards when he
learned for the first time that there wass
an engagement taking place. The
Steamer VAS put at full speed and in q
few inonl.nts Mas i'll a rain of bullets.
Leaving three ,nellon board. he started
iosembark his detachment on two small
boats, bn, before finishing this corpor-
ga VAS lot IN the side and a private in
the leg. He finally made landing and
WIS then compelled 10 fight his way
across open ground to Corporal Carson's
trench, seventy Ave yards distant In
doing this Private Clancy was shot in
the foot.
Lieut.. Sweeney succeeded in burying
those Of or dead that could be found
and in resenng all that We're left alive.
He aays:: The streets were covered With.
dead insurgents. The town Wa ) fortified
eversaIlere. particularly along the river
front, where he insurgents used bags
9f rice and airt; hemp Was also USED for
prea sttNorks
This detachment lost all i,s quarter
master and co,ninissary supplies. tho
il had tilt. good judgment TO save all iss
Ammunition and practically all tsrif,ess
The men shot getting into the boat had
20 much ammunition on their persons
that they ifalas dlately Wen, 10 the bot
tom oil til riveg
The foifaMsng is a complete list of
the Killed aad wounded:
Killed 7-ssefgta Dustin L. George and
William ]. Hall, corporals Herbert a.
Edwards and John F. j. Hamilton. Cook
Burton = Hess Musician Burton II.
Wagner, Ptivaf !, Tretiie Pomeow. Otto
y. I.ousa Stela,ano Apperti. Joseph
Nosil, John + Kuhn, Ralph III. zin.
Edward kiainai8. Chester "A. A. Conklin,
/ Waiter + t'os3ias. Joseph j.. Kerina.
4 Henry Dumas, Philip Sailing and George
Ia, Slack.
4 Wqulided-le tiyates Lester sRushworth
I Harry G. Lee. Michael j. Farron, com
4 pany II; CORPORAL White company f.
land Private Janus H. Clancy All Will
8probably recover. aItho their WOUNDS
fare badly infaetsti owing to lack of med
fical aftentisn,
1t ia a iaistake to suppose all the
lJlshtins gong ~ nowadays in the Phil
@lpplnfs il iiaaiaSb hacking. Take for ex-
1tlnnle the work Of the ADD infantry on
i l.eNte Island An expedition against
Sen. MnJtfa stronghold Was made by
-four columns 81 this regiment. during
which tn. Americans carried three dis
I5tinct linEs OF iMtrenchmenta crowning
1hilhofa aitploaehable only over such
/ steep aseHnts that the enemy rolled
4 powders down upon the advancing
4 troops.
Swap.
One evening nj the Devonshre club a
New York friend was talking to Phil
/ May Of Punch about his youth.
lou seem pretty well contented with
the world. You haven't the appearance
of a man who knows what unhappiness
\ means.
Invent ] q responded the artist.
with his odd little chuckle. "Lct me tel!
you a very short and very true story.
1 Not half a dozen blocks from where We
are sittin. met n younsstcr one day
with q big slice Of bacon between two
hsliccs of bread III his hands. was chr.
4 rying handsome walking stick. The
boy locked at my cane enviously. and
looked at his bacon hunsrily. Our eyes
met, and without speaking word, VIC
swapped, ard l needed the bread and
bacon much more than lie needed the
cane. "-London Truth.
He Hind n Reason.
MotherWhy, Tommy, you don't meaz
TO say you took second piece OF pic
when you We're visiting, do you? Why