Salt Lake Herald | 1899-03-31 | Page 1 | Advance to Malolos

ADVANCE TO MALOLOS Terrific Engagement In Which Nebraskans Ne-braskans Lost Reavily Manila March 31The Unite State troops rested last night in the jungle about amIle and a quarter from 1la lobs The d ys advance began at 2 ocIoci and covered a distance of I mT1ei abuut two and a half miles beyond the GuiG11imo river along the railroad The brunt of the battle was on the 1ght of thE track Vohere the enemy was apparently concentrated The First Nebraska First South Da kOLa a1d Tenth Pennsauia regiments euciuistered them entrenched on the I bordtl of the woods and the Amen I cans advancing across the open suffered I sUf-fered a telTlftc fire for half an hour I Four men of the Nebraska regiment were killed and thirty were wound Ten men of the Dakota regiment were wounded and mc of the Pennaylvan laos were killed The Americans finally drove the Filipinos Fili-pinos back Although therl wore three I lines or strong CI1trenchments alonc the track the enemy made scarcely any defense there General lcArthur and 1 his staff were walWng on thc track abreast of the line with everything quet when sutlienly they recetved a shower of bullets from sharp tOoters in trees and on housetops but these were i FfIpdiJ dislodged The nemys loS was apparently FmaJI the jungle affording them such 1otelinn that the Americans were un able to Ee them and In firing were gtiJdpd only by the fOund of the FillI pinos shots Tlw American artillery i Sas handhapped for the same reason Last nights long line of campfires made a beautiful sight with the Twentieth Twen-tieth KaneS regnwnt on the left of Gui nto station and the Pennsylvania regimoot elm the right beyond the river The provision train was delayed by broken bridges but the stores of grain and flocks of ducks in the locality fUr rushed ample forage The hospital work is remarkably em cleat as It has been throughout the whole campaign The telegraphers keep abreast of the line and maintain a constant commu nicaticm with the city