Jasper County Democrat, Volume 3, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 April 1900 — HUNDREDS FALL IN LUZON. [ARTICLE]

HUNDREDS FALL IN LUZON.

Vast Week of Filipino War Moat Deadly of Its History. Last week was one of the bloodiest of the Filipino war since the first day’s fighting around Manila. Authentic reports, mostly official, show a total of 378 Filipinos skilled, twelve officers and 244 men captured and many more wounded* The number wounded is hardly guessable, Considering that the Filipinos entirely lack hospital facilities a great majority of the wounded will dip. the week’s work finished 1,000 insurgents. The American loss was nine killed and sixteen wounded. Two sergeants and ons private were killed in ambushes while escorting provision trains. . The insurgents have been aggressive in almost every province of Luzon. Gen. Pio Del Pilar’s band, numbering 300, which was out of sight for three months, the leader being reported killed, has reappeared in its old field about Ban Miguel. Pilar is supposed to be ip command again. He gave the American garrison at San Miguel, consisting of three companies of the Thirty-fifth infantry, with a Gatling, a three hours’ fight during a -night attack. The loss of the insurgents in this engagement is not included in the foregoing total, as they removed their dead and wounded, hut presumably it was considerable. Twenty Filipinos in the province of Batangas attacked Lieut. Wonde, who, with eight men, was sooting near San Jose. The lieutenant and five men were wounded and one private was killed. Sergeant Ledoius of the Thirty fifth infantry was badly wounded in an ambush near Baliuag. Lieut. Balc-h of the Thirty-seventh infantry, with seventy men, had a five hours’ fight with 400 insurgents in the Nueva Caceras district. - Twenty of the insurgents were killed. Col. Smith of the Seventeenth infantry, who captured Gen. Montenegro and brought him to Manila, is in the isolation hospital suffering from smallpox, presumably caught from the Filipinos. Col. Smith’s command captured 180 officers and men with Montenegro. One hundred escaped Spanish prisoners from the province of Tayabas, south Luzon, have arrived at Manila. The insurgents have 400 more Spaniards in that district. Recently the Filipinos destroyed several rods of the railroad line near Paniquo in an unsuccessful attempt tc wreck a train.