Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 21, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 December 1899 — FILIPINOS FIGHT AND RUN. [ARTICLE]

FILIPINOS FIGHT AND RUN.

Enemy Battles Stubbornly While Re» treating to Santa Barbara. There has been much severe fighting north of Iloilo since Tuesday. Four Americans have been killed and twentyfive wounded, ■,including three officers. The insurgents are retreating to Santa Barbara. Col., Carpenter advanced toward Santa Barbara, straight north from Jaro, taking trench after trench, the enemy fighting and retreating. Gen. Hughes’ column has steadily been advancing north to gain a position west of Santa Barbara. It encountered the enemy in small detachments. Six to ten Americans were wounded in this column. Col. Carpenter on Tuesday morning opened with battery G of the Sixth artillery on the trenches. The enemy volleyed as the artillery took up position, wounding four. Two companies of the Twenty-sixth regiment, garrisoning Jaro, moved through Capaz, attacking the enemy on the right flank, driving them toward Col. Carpenter. The country between Jaro and Santa Barbara is thickly intrenched, especially near Pavia. The Sixth artillery fired on the trenches and the Eighteenth regiment charged, the enemy retreating to the next trench. The Eighteenth again charged, encountering and attacking a force of bolo men, who were hidden in the long grass and who severely wounded several Americans. During the afternoon the fighting was severe immediately south of Pavia, three miles north of Jaro. The Twenty-sixth’s companies returned to Jaro after the flank movement, having captured three 6-pound smoothbore cannon and a quantity of arms and ammunition. The enemy's, loss was not obtainable, but seven men were found dead in one trench.