| Show FLIGHT OF TH INSURGENTS Advance of the Americans Towards tile Filipino Capital Manila March 29At daylight General Gen-eral 1acArthurs division advance from Marllao along I the railroad to lHgan live miles distant with the Ne bra ra South Dakota and Pennzyl yania regiments on the right and th Iran as and Montana regiments and the Third artillery on the left General Vheotons brIgade In reserve The American forces met with strong opiJosition in thejungle First one Nebraskan Ne-braskan then one Pennsylvanian and afterwards two of the Montana regiments regi-ments were killed ThIrtyfive erE woundei including one officer of the Kansas regiment The rebels burned the villages as they retreated in bad order toward Malolos The enemy also tore up sections of the railroad in many places and attempted to burn the bridge at Bigaa but the fire was extinguished owing to the timely arrival of the AmericanS The rebels had not finished their trenches along the line of todays march showing show-ing they were not prepared for our advance ad-vance It is believed however that there will be a hard fight before Ma I lobs is taken The Minnesota regiments reinfbrve I the diYi310n today marching from the waterworks during the night to ManIla and going to the front by train The American army advanced at C oclock this morning sweeping onward three miles befora 10 oclock and driving driv-ing the rebels beyond Bocave to thc cast of Bulacan and on the railroad leading to Maiolos Our troops met with but slight resistance The Filipinos fired volleys yesterday evening for the purpose of drawing the American fire and disclosing the loal ity of our positions Two men of the Pennsylvania regiment and one ran behnging to the Dakota regiment wrc wounded The Americans remaIned sIlent sI-lent COUNTRY DEVASTATED The country between llarilao and Manila presents a picture of desolt lion Smoke is curling from hundreds of ash heapsand the remains of tres and fences torn up by shrapnel are to bl seen everywhere The general appearance ap-pearance of the country 1S as if it had been swept by a cyclone The roads are strewn with furniture and ciothig dropped in flight bj the Filipinos Th only persons remaining behind are a few aged pervons too infirm to escape es-cape They camp beside the ruins ot their former homes and beg passersby for any kind of assistance The majority ma-jority of them are living on the generosity erosit of our soldiers who give thoom 4 portions of their rations The dogs 01 the Filipinos cower in the bushes Still terrified and barking while hundreds 01 pigs are to be seen busily searching for food Bodies of dead Filipinos are strand in the shallows of the river or are resting rest-ing in the jungle where they crawled to die or were left in the wale of thE hurrie1ly retreating army These boa ies gin forth a horrible odor but therE is no time at present to bury them The inhabitants who lied from Marl lao and Meycayan left in such a panic that on table our soldiers found spreaa money and valuables and in the roonu were trunks containing other property of value This was the case in most 4 the houses deserted They were not molested by our soldiers but the Chinese Chi-nese who slipped between the armIes are looting wen they can and haw taken poss sson of several houses ovex which they raised Chinese flags some of which were torn down An old woman was found hidden in a I house at Meycayuaran yesterday Just dead apparently from fright and huti gel |
