The Oskaloosa herald., 1900-02-22
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Tarlac was reached about o'clock.
just before entering the insurgents out
lpost fired three volleys at us, but we did
not return it, but marched on into the
town against which there was no resist
ance. We expected an attack in the
morning, but there was none. The
enemy had seemingly flown away. Little,
| II any, resistance was shown up as far AS
4 Bayambang, that being shown when we
captured the trains from them. We rest
ed in Tarlac until the 10Th, when we
moved out for Bayambang, at which
place we arrived on the roth. Up to
that place the railroad was intact save
washout at or near Tariac from Bam-
ban
At a place called Moncada four en-
glnes and sixty flat-cars were captured.
although the fat-cars had been burned.
On these we rode into Bayambang. AT
Bayamhang four more engines were
captured, also some good box cars and
tlve or six passenger coaches. Moving
into Bayambang with such little resist
ance and as we were on the the train,
! the colonel cut our battalion loose and
sidetracked the Ist battalion, coupled on
the engine, gave the engineer the word
to turn her loose for Dagupan, and away
we went over track we never saw or
knew anything about On either side of
the cars the men we're lined up with just
enough reem to work their pieces freely.
with orders If we ran into "niggers" to
shoot and yell like Comanches On the
front of the train were placed our two
small guns The engineer had orders If
we saw niggers to throw the throttle
wide open and run into them and then
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We travelled over that road at about AZ
miles an hour Everything went well
until within about two miles and half
from Dagupan, when the two from cars
were ditched. No damage done and
Everybody hilrious We marched into
Dagupan and found everything quiet, no
insurgents in sight anywhere We now
have all the railroad and what rolling
, stock that wasn't destroyed
We returned and stayed in Bayambang
until the Goth, leaving there that morn.
ing about o'clock for this place wherein
there was one company of the sgd, they
having been here two or three days. On
the morning of the 27th, about 7 o'clock,
we left here to capture some artillery
which we heard was in the mountains
As we reached the foot hills we saw the
enemy. Hating, route was picked,
where we could cut them off, We found
good trail Taking up the march I'M
It'll a o'clock, hating for supper Turn
/ ing in, we slept until I o'clock a. m,
when we had good breakfast and left
at 2 100 to march over the mountains and
head off the enemy AT 200 the moon
was coming up and we had beautiful
moonlight all night There was cool
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easy by taking slow steady gait. just
at daylight we struck the point we ex-
spected to make After little reconoit-
erlng, we found we were in advance of
the enemy, and moved to the rear about
two miles. Here we had sharp, de-
cisive little scrap of about two hours
duration, in which the "niggers" tried
their artillery with no success. Soon we
had them running in all directions. We
expected to get but six pieces of artillery
When we left we had fourteen pieces of
modern artillery no Mausers ami Rem
ingtons, had captured their arselal and
destroyed all powder and material; we
possibly could by burning and breaking.
Had with us all pieces. including breecn-
blocks for the two modern 6-inch Krupp
guns, captured when Malolos ieli In
fact, we captured their largest arsenal
and all the artillery on this Inc. This
is the most important capture yet made.
! Returning to Mangataren the goth,
we rested for two days, when we heard
there were some insurgents at village
ten miles south of here called San Glenn
ento. Accordingly we left at 7 o'clock,
December I'd, and returned the next day
at 3 o'clock p, m. We found the enemy
mud, in large quantities. 1t was ter
rible hard march, and we found nothing
We are now resting. Expect in a few
days to cross the mountains in the pro-
vince of Zambales, which is on the coast.
This, | think, will be fine and interest
ing trip, for the scenery in these noun
tains is most beautiful
Am well and enjoying myself This is
nice work and have plenty to do When
we came into this town we captured
some Filipino stamps
WILL H. PoINT.