Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-08-20
HAVE GOOD FORTS
FILIPINOS IN LEYTE AND SAMAR
STILL HOSTILE.
GARRISON MAKES GOOD FIGHT,
Fo~rty-Third Regiment Has Hard
Work Ahead-Going to Sweep
the Islands.

Correspondence of the Associated Press.
Manila, July 45.-It has been expected
ttita some of thu. rs garriSons the United
States troops maintain in these islands
would sooner or later De surrounded by
the enemy and attacked with such de-
termination and advantage in point of
number and ground that the American
soldiers would be powerless to resist
the onslaught. This has happened at
Catubig, on the island of Samar, and
the detachment of the E'orty-third vol
unteer Infantry, the troops in question.
lost twenty out of it's thirty men. No
one is surprised at this result, consid-
erlns, the circumstances, but surprise is
manifested that a similar fate has not
overtaken other small garrisons in iso-
lated towns.
The official report of the Catubig in
cident is as follows:
In the Catubig engagement. in whic
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 at the time uuartered
in the convent. At 5 p. m. April Is, al
most simultaneously fire was opene up
on 1t from the hills on both sides as well
as from every available part Of the town
1t continued all day and night, and was
vigorously resurned at 5 a. m. the fol-
owing morning. At s a. m. the cannon
began firing nails, pieces Of chain and
iron scraps. This sort Of attack CON
tinued until the third day, when a large
number of the insurgents got INTO t
adjoining church. With ten volunteers
Sergeant George charged on the church.
killing a large number of men. but he
could not hold it. From the windows
of the same the insurgents threw a
quantity Of hemp saturated with kero-
sene against the side of the convent and
thus set it on fire. AS this building
soon became ~untenable. the detachment
attempted to escape to the river and
cross 1t, and here occurred it's first con-
sonderable losses. All of the men of
the detachment, except Sergeant Hall.
Corporal Carson and fifteen priyates
attempted TO get in to a boat
and in so doing they we're
KILLED. Sergeant Hall and his men began
Intervening themselves near the river
ana there that little band held out, under
corporal Carson, two days longer in the
face of most adverse circumstances. nm
til rescued.
sergeant Hall and two others were
Killed and two were wounded during that
peflod. Not the least heroic incident of
the Catuols engagement was the rescue
by Lieutenant Sweeney and ten men.
Wien the steamer was about one mile
from the town he found the river block
AIDED with trees that We're dashed to-
gether. These were removed and the as
cent continued to within a few hundred
yards, when he learned for the first time
mat there was an engagement taking
place. The steamer was put at full speed
and in a few moments was in q rain of
Fbull5ts. Leaving three men on board he
started to embark his detachment on two
small boats, but before finishing this a
corHoral was shot in the side and a pri-
'ate IN the leg. He finally made a land
ing and was then compelled to fight his
way across open ground to Corporal Car
sons trench, IS yards distant. In doing
This Private Clancy was shot in the foot.
Lieutenant Sweeney succeeded in bury
ing those of our dead that could be found
and in rescuing all hat We're left alive.
He says:
THE streets were covered with dead
insurgents. The town was fortified every
where, particularly along the river front,
where the insurgents used bags of rice
and dirt; hemp was also used for breast
works.
This detachment lost all it's quarter
master and commissary supplies, though
1t mad the good Judgment to save all it's
ammunition and practically all it's rifles.
. The men shot getting into the boat had
so much ammunition OIL their person that
they Immediately went to the bottom of
the river.
1.-The following is a complete list OF the
killed and wounded:
Notwithstanding Dustin L. Gfoorge
and William J. Hall, Corporals Herbert
Fl. Edwards and John F.. J. Hamilton,
Cook Burton e. Hess; Musician Burton
X. Wagner; Privates, Trefflie Pomelow,
Otto B.. Loose, %stephano Apperti. Joseph
NOEL, John e. Kuhn, Ralph H. Zim, Ed
ward Braman, Chester A. A. Conklin
Walter E. Collins, Joseph j. Kerins, Hen
ry Dumas, Philip Sailing, and George A,
Slack.
Observation-Disclosures Lester Rush
worth, Harry E. Lee, Michael ]. Farron.
Company H" Corporal White, of Com
pany F. Private James H. Clancy. All
wounds are badly infected owing
to lack of medical attention"
1t is a mistake to suppose all the feht-
ing going on nowadays in the Philippines
is bushwhacking. The Americans con-
tlmue to go against good trenches con-
they even have at times to dislodge the
enemy from stone forts. Take for ex-
ample the work of the Forty-tnird In
fantry has lately been doing on Leyta
island. An expedition against Gen
eral MOjica's stronghold Wds made bv
four columns of this regiment, during
which the Americans carried three dis
tfnct lines of Entertainments growing hill
tops approachable only over such steep
Ascents that the enemy rolled boulders
GOWN upon the advancing troops. In an
other expedition against THE town n
Hhlongas, in southern Leyte, in which
the Forty-Third was assisted by the
navy, the enemy was in a masonry fort
ress whose strong walls successfully re-
sited the shells from the gunboats. 50
Colonel Murray carried the fort by 4
charge in which the Americans lost four
men. The enemy's loss in this fght was
seventy buried, twenty-nine wounded and
fifty captured, besides about Is rifles,
some stores, ammunition, clothing and
five Misunderstanding brass cannon. The
resistance to this attack was prolonged
and stubborn. and many of the enemy es-