The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1900-05-24
THE FIGHT AT CATUBIG.
MORE DETAILS OF THE BLOODI
THREE DAYS ENGAGEMENT.
can Army Has sustaIned in AIRY
One Engagement In the Philippine
Islands The streets of the Tow

Washington. May 1s.-The officials q
| the War Department, after waiting +
| nearly a week to hear something frc
| General Macarthur at Manila, conf
| matory Of the press report Of the bloc !
three days engagement at Catub
| which resulted in the heaviest loss
| life the American army has sustain !
| in any one engagement in the Phil.
| pines. yesterday cabled General Ma
| Arthur request for information. T.
answer was received to-day confrmii
| the press reports. and adding some il.
| teresting details. General Macarthur
| transmitted a report from Henry T. A.!
| len, a major Of the Forty-third Voluc
| teers, who commanded the United
| States forces on the island of Samar. ]
appears that the force was divided
| among several ports Of Samar and,
| while details are still lacking, i: is be-
| lieved that this particular force was
besieged a t Catubig and was command
| ed, not by a commissioned officer, but
| by a sergeant, either George or Hal.
| both of whom were killed. Cs.tubiE.
| where the engagement occurred, is u
| seaport town of ncally 10000 inhab
| tantS. General MacArthurs cablegraIl
| is as follows:
| Manila, May 16-With reference to
| your telegram of 18th. The rumored en-
| gagement in Samar reported cablegra1
| of General Otis, May 4ih has been con-
| firmed by reports recently received
| from Henry T. Allen, Forty-third Regi-
| ment, L. S. V. j., commanding Samar
| island. That detachment of thirty one
| men stationed at Catubig, were at
| tackled April 18th by Coo men, with 200
| rifles and one cannon. Our men were
| chartered in q convent, which was fired
the next day by burning hemp thrown
| from an adjoining church The detach-
| ment attempted to escape by the river.
| The men getting into boat were kill
| ed; the remaining men entrenched
| themselves near the river and held out
two days longer, facing the most ad-
| verse circumstances until rescued by
| Lieutenant SWeeny and ten men. Over
| zoo of the attacking party (many Of
| them reported having come from
Luzon isiand, are reported killed and
| many wounded. Lieutenant SWeeny re-
| ports the streets covered with dead in
| surgents.
| liam J. Hail. Corporals, Herbert H.
| Edwards, John F. J. Hamilton; Cook,
| Burton Z. Hess; Musician. Burton r.
| Wagner; Privates, Treffiie POmelow,
| Otto 3. Loose, Stephen Apperti, Joseph
| Noel. John F. Kuhn, Ralph Zim, Ed
| ward Braman, Chester A. COnklin, Wal
| ter E. Collins. Joseph ]. Kerins, Henry
| Dumas, Philip Sailing and George A
| Slack. all Company H, Forty-third
| Regiment, U. S. V. l.
| Wounded: Privates Lester Ruch-
| worth, Harry c. Lee, Michael ]. Faron,
James H. Clancy, Company H, Forty
| third Regiment, U. S. V. l.; Corporal
| White, Company F, FOrty-t third U. S.
| V. l. Copy of Henry T. Aliens report
| forwarded by mail yesterday. Iloilo
| Panay) cable is broken by earthquake
| Difficult to procure more definite infOr-
| nation.
! (SigneD MARTHUR.
| Washington, May 16.-It appears from
| late mail adViceS from Manila that the
| prison officials of Bilibid prison, at Ma
| Mia, under investigation on
| charge of exchanging and releasing
| prisoners and receiving brides. Bilibid
| prison, the largest in the Orient, con-
| tains thousands of prisoners. The
| Americans We're obliged to continue
| Alcalde BenitO and other officials in
| charge because they themselves know
nothing of the prison methods or the
! Filipino language. 1t is alleged that
| prisoners were freely exchanged; that
| natives with money We're allowed to
| employ substitutes to serve their term
| and that various other forms Of corrup-
| ton existed