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Show EIGHTEEN SILLED, 53 . ' WOUNDED ON AMERICAN . SIDE; 600 MOROS DEAD i WASHINGTON, March . The official offi-cial -account' of - the tight near Jolo is contained . In the following cablegram received at ' the War department this morning: . .' "Military Secretary, Washington: Following ' condensed from' Maj.-Gen. Wood's vdlspatch i from ' Camboanigo, March t: .".;.-,' f- -. v - ; '.'Troops, naval detachment,, constabulary. constabu-lary. Col. Joseph W. Duncan, command-tart command-tart trtckMer& f orM SCAltbns'Jn crii ter on Mount Dajo, near Jolo. 'Action lasted afternoon' March 8 until morning morn-ing March . Mount Dajo. S100 feet high, last 400 feet angle 60 degrees, lava ridges, heavy timber. , Artillery lifted by block and tackle 300 feet. : ": . " JMoros depredated from stronghold for past eight months and resisted to the death. About 00 killed. Maj.-Gen. Wood and Brlg.-Gen. Tasker H, Bliss were present throughout action. , ' Killed Army, fifteen enlisted men. .Wounded Capt. 'Tyree Rivers wounded wound-ed In thigh, slight: First Lieut. Gordon Johnston, wounded in shoulder, serious; seri-ous; First' Lieut. Ernest H. Agnew. j wounded In head, slight; First Lieut, i Wll T. flonwav. eve. sllrht: thlrtv- two enlisted mem Names enlisted men killed and wounded will be reported later. la-ter. ' ;.' '- "Navy Wounded, Ensign P. S. Cook, wounded In foot, serious; Coxswain Gllmore, elbow slight; one seaman, slight. I "Constabulary Killed, three enlisted; John R. White, wounded Ira thigh, serlr I "Total killed, eighteen; wounded, fifty-two. . , I "Troops naval detachment and constabulary con-stabulary all highly recommended, i ' "ANDREWS," "In Absence of Division Commander." Troops in Philippines. ;- -, I The last list of troops stationed In the Philippines, at the War department shows that on January 20 the following troops were stationed on the Island of Jolo: ; Companies I and L, Fourth cavalry, cav-alry, and the Twenty-eighth battery field artillery. Companies I, K, L and M of the Twentieth infantry had been stationed sta-tioned at Jolo, but are understood to have been relieved by a battery of the Sixth Infantry, commanded by Col. Duncan, In January- Col. Duncan was the senior officer on the field, save Maj.-Gen.. Maj.-Gen.. Wood and Brlg.-Gen. Bliss. . ed by Gen. Wood's determination to exterminate ex-terminate them at any cost. If they could not be otherwise exterminated. Probably 400 In Action. , . Assuming that the organizations were up to their normal strength there were About 490 soldiers, in the action besides Jhe .- naval contingent, the strength of which Is so far. unknown. It Is believed, be-lieved, however," that owing to the sick list 1 and ' other causes, there probably J ere not more than 400 of the military ngaged. The strength of the constabulary constab-ulary is also unknown. Location of Battle. ; . ' ' I The official dispatch does not enable the authorities here to place exactly the scene of the combat. The only crater cra-ter known 'on the Island of Jolo. Is Well toward the center of the island and some distance removed from the capital, cap-ital, which Is on the seacoast. There IS, however near the city of Jolo, distant only five miles, a mountain answering closely, save for the crater, the description descrip-tion given in the dispatch. This mountain moun-tain was controlled by two dattos, Calbl and Joaklnlne, the latter one of - the chieftains l who ' signed the famous Battes" treaty. The mountain W very steep and at its apex Is a Moro fortress Which had never been trodden by white troops. .. '..'.'.' .. -.. ; No Fear of Spreading. ; ; ; Lieut-Gen.' Bates, chief of staff, who had extensive service In the southern islands of the. Philippine group, and is ell acquainted with the Jolo country. Has no fear that this last trouble extends ex-tends throughout the group. In the Srst place he says there Is no homo-eneity homo-eneity among these . island troops; s rong jealousies exist, and It has been impossible for them to cohere in oppo-s oppo-s tion to the whites. It Is also believed here, from the offl-c offl-c al dispatch, that the Moros attacked were really a set of robbers, and tha( t: e action was undoubtedly precipitant y - .' ' a " ' v - ; ' v ,. -. A . " - .: . i .' |