Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 21, Number 65, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 May 1900 — MACHINE GUNSUSEDON REBELS [ARTICLE]

MACHINE GUNSUSEDON REBELS

Eighty Filipinos Mowed Down, While Americans Are Not Harmed. Officers who have arrived in Manila from Neuva Caceras, province of South Camarines, bring details of a fight in which eighty Filipinos were killed. The American outposts reported 360 natives assembled three miles from the town and Gen. Bell sent three detachments of the Forty-fifth regiment, with two Maxims, who nearly surrounded the Filipinos, the majority of whom were armed with bolos and wore carabao hide helmets, coats and shields. The Filipinos were quickly put to flight, leaving the field strewn with armor. Their riflemen were unable to shoot straight and the bolomen never got near enough to the Americans to do any execution. Therefore none of the Americans was wounded. Lieut. Balch, with twenty cavalrymen from the Thirtyseventh regiment, cornered fifty bolomen in if*river and shot every one, the bodies floating away. One soldier had his head struck off with a holo. Gen. Bell’s two regiments are hard worked in clearing the country. They meet with many small squads of bolomen and last week killed a total of 125. Gen. Bell has issued a proclamation declaring, that he will retaliate relentlessly unless this guerrilla warfare ceases and that he will burn all the towns which harbor guerrillas.