Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 April 1899 — HALE’S BRIGADE MEETS ENEMY. [ARTICLE]

HALE’S BRIGADE MEETS ENEMY.

In the Encasement, Six Americans - Arc Killed and Twelve Wonnded. Manila advices say that Gen. Hale’s brigade, consisting of the Nebraska, lowa and South Dakota regiments, with three guns, which left Maloios Monday, followed the west bank of tbe Rio Grande rivet to a ford. Many small bands of ivbels were encountered, and during the afternoon the Americans discovered several hundred of. the enemy entrenched near Pulilan, north of Quingano. Our troops attacked the rebels, losing six men killed and twelve wounded. Gen. Hale’s troops claim that nearly 200 dead natives were counted along tbs., country traversed. Among the dead was a Spanish captain. The South Dakota regiment bore the brunt of the fighting and had five men killed and nine wonnded. The temperature was 04 and severs! cases of suustroke were reported. Gens. McArthur and Wheaton, with the Montana regiment, advanced to the left of the railroad and the Kansas regiment moved forward to the right, north of Maloios. They bad with them a long supply train, with armed cars in front, carrying two Gatling and rapid-fire guna and the six-pounder which did such execution at the capture of Maloios. -The insurgents attempted to d&troy the railroad bridge outside of Calnmpit and succeeded in badly warping the iron framework. As soon as the soldiers left the Filipino capital natives began flocking in, as they did at Santa Cruz, before the last boat of Gen. Lawton’s expedition had tailed. Tbe American army is compelled to abandon all towns when an onward movement is commenced because of insufficient men to garrison them. This gives tbe Filipino leaders a framework upon which to spin stories of American defeat. The American commanders have left great stores of rice at Maloios, which they have been distributing to the natives and Chinameu daily, of whom there were 200 to 800, nearly all of whom remained during the occupation, but who followed the American army out of the place or who took? trains going In the direction of Manila, fearing that, the natives would, kill them. These refugees included soma of the wealthiest dtiaens of tha place.