The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-03-09
American Forces Make Desperate
Attack on Moro Outlaws
Stronghold.
ARTILLERY HOISTED
800 FEET BY ROPES
Army Casualties Include Is Men
Killed and So
Wounded.

Fifteen enlisted men were killed, four
commissioned officers and thirty 1.-TWO
ENLISTED men were wounded and ma
val contingent operating with the mill
tary sustained thirty-two casualties.
The Moros lost 600 men killed.
Major General Leonard Wood, COM
mander of the division of the Philip.
pines, reports as follows from Jolo, CAPT.
1tal of the Sulu islands:
"A severe action between troops.
naval detachment and constabulary
and hostile Moros has taken place at
Mount Dajo, near Jolo. The engage
ment opened during the afternoon Of
March and ended in the morning Of
March 8: The action involved the cap
ture Of Mount Daio, lava cone 2,16O
feet high, with crater at it's summit
and extremely steep. The last 400 feet
were at an angle of 60 degrees and
there were fifty perpendicular ridges,
covered with growth Of timber and
strongly fortified and defended by an
. invisible force of Moros
1.-The army casualties were fifteen
enlisted men killed. four commissioned
officers and thirty-two enlisted men
wounded. The naval casualties NUM-
bered thirty-two. Ensign III. d. Cooke
Jr., of the United States steamer Pam
panga, commanding the Pampanga
fort, was severely wounded, and Cox
vain Gilmore was severely wounded in
the elbow
1.-THE censtabulary casualties were
Captain John r. White, wounded in the
thigh, severely; three enlisted men
killed and thirteen wounded. Captain
Tyree Rivers sustained slight flesh
wound in the thigh; Lieutenant Gordon
was slightly wounded in the right hand;
Lieutenant Wylie T. Conway of the
Sixth infantry was slightly wounded in
the left eye.'
"All the wounded are doing well.
Colonel Joseph w. Duncan of the
| Sixth infantry directed the operations.
All the defenders of the Moro strong
hold were killed. Six hundred bodies
were found on the field.
THE action resulted in the extinc-
! tion of a band of outlaws, who, recog-
nizing no chief, had been raiding
| friendly Moros, and owing to their de-
stirred up dangerous condition of at
fairs.
The artillery was lifted by block
and tackle distance of 500 feet into
a position on the lip of the crater
'Brigadier General Bliss and myself
were present thruout the action. The
| attacking columns were commanded by
Major Omar Bundy, Captain K. a. Law
ton, Captain Rivers, Captain l.. NJ,
l AOou1C1, OdpIdlu VuG0ldCulIu duu I1Ou'
tenant johnson.
"The officers and men engaged high
| ly commend the Moro constabulary, who
did excellent work, their casualties num-
! bering seventeen out of the force OF
forty four engaged.
cit is impossible to. conceive q
stronger natural position than that at
| tackled.
Another Account.
/ Another account of the fight near
Jolo states that 600 outlaw Moros were
killed in the crater of the precipitous
volcano five miles from Jolo. The Amer
leans lost eighteen killed and fifty-two
wounded, including Captain Rivers OF
the Fourth cavalry, Lieutenant Agnews
of the Sixth infantry, Lieutenant Cor
don Johnston of the signal corps, En-
sign Cooke, commanding the Pampan'
ga fort, and Captain White of the con-
/ stabulary. The attack was under the inn
mediate command Of Colonel Duncan Of
the Sixth infantry. The fighting lasted
two days among the lava ridges, which
had been strongly fortified by the
/ Moros.
The Troops Engaged.
Of troops stationed in the Philippines
at the war department. shows that on
Jan. 20 the following troops were sta
toned on the island of Jolo: Com
panies / and L, Fourth cavalry, and the
Twenty battery field artillery.
Companies /, x, l. and M Of the Tween
tieth infantry had been stationed at
Jolo, but are understood to have been
| relieved by a battalion of the Sixth
infantry, commanded by Colonel Dun
can in January. Colonel Duncan was
| the senior officer on the field, save Ma
ior General Wood and Brigadier Gen
eral Bliss.
i Assuming that the organizations
were up to their normal strength, there
were about 400 soldiers in the action,
beside the naval contingent, the
strength of which is so far unknown,
1t is believed, however, that owing to
the sick list and other causes there were
probably not more than 400 of the mill.
tary engaged. The strength of the con.
stabulary is also unknown.
4 Where the Fight Was.
The official dispatch does not enable
the authorities here to place exactly the
known on the island of Jolo is well
some distance removed from the capital
which is on the seacoast. There is
however, near the city Of .Jolo, distant
closely, save for the crater, the descrip
ton of that in the official dispatch
The mountain was controlled by two
dattos-Calbi and Joakinine. the latter
. one of the chieftains who signed the
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