| Show WEDNESDAYS OPERATIONS Utah Battery Shelled the Enemy Retreat of Insurgents New YOk March JOA dispatch to the Herald from laniJa wednesday JaYs The arms advance today had coered more than two miles before anY resistance was offered Insurgents have been found with their throats cut This is understood to Indicate that they were thus pun Ished for refusing to fight It Is now belieVed that the lnmrgnta faith In Aguinaldo is destroyed AG11lnaldo Ir with his famn Is said to be preparIng I 10 nee from Malolos I General IIllcArthur is making ready W Ii 1 > < > > an armored raIlroad car for future operations op-erations At 6 oclock this Wednesdti morning morn-ing the hying column with the Third artillery and the Montana and Kansas volunteers on the left of the railroad and the Pennsylvania South Dakota and Nebraska volunteers on the right hotf ra t if started for Bocave across two miles of open field The insurgents began to fire immediately and contlnued until the troops reached the river at Bocave The American troops never wavered The Xebrasla regl11ent swung in from the extreme left and doubled up the Insurgents left at the river The insurgents in-surgents ran after some rails had been removed from the railroad Wounded Insurgents reported that the enemy had ret ated to Balolos In th Pennsylvania regiment there was one killed andfive wounded The Kansas regiment lost one officer and fifteen privates wounded In the Ion tana regiment fie were wounded and in the Nebraska reglmentone mail was killed and ten wounded The American advance was wonderfully rapid considering con-sidering that the enemy destroyed the bridges and fled There was no resistance at Bigaa The troops advanced rapidly In contracted con-tracted lines to the town of GulgUinto The Pennsyianla regiment crossed the bridge as the advance guard Unex I peetedly the insurgents concealed in I th woods alIead opened a heavy fire Then the Kansas regiment and one I battalion of the South Dakota rushed I over the bridge under fire Two Of I the Utah batter guns and one Colt I rapidfirer also came into action The I I insurgents had made trenches across I the railroad Our loss was several TdlIed and more than twenty wounded I before the Insurgents were driven off |
