| Show AMERICANS GUT THEIR WAY OUT Lillton Has tho Hottest Engagement Engage-ment of tho Wholo War WHOLE FORCE CALLED OUT TA Companln tf r Un Twcnlydrtl Iftsy l Wen Nearly Swwtoiit HAD TO RALLY THE MEN orgmi were lIhn lIkfn aiN Till k a They Hill fiol Hilly A11ted W tilnlon Juno llTht following at am has Ivan rtcelvcJ from tlen Ot Il all I Jun UAdJutint acntral VA Wotton Lanloni troooi had 00 T i itotiinent today with gateway In lit i entrenchment nt crotetm Z T rlvir near llaooor Cavlt i hat driven enemy with heavy I ur ronualllei tom thirty Inv a In-v 10 t In this southern section nol I 1 until threatentd attack In It i j fore on MantUt now eeatterttl I i retreat I doubtful It they mike ft h r Hand OTIS I Uvv tUVI bMIAClLH rX I U otlrs Cp time at jjjjII1 01 the Ivar Near Lai 1lui Manila June II 906 p mon L nton unexpectedly stirred up one ut v llvcllcit tngagcmenti ot the wr r nth of Lam linn this morning upon Y h M salon American Held gun engaged In the first artillery dol EStatat a ntlplno battery concealed I 1 it1 Jungle companies r and I lit 0 Tw ntynrit Infantry were nearly su undVd by a large body of Inu I l nil but the Arncrliani cut their way 1 nltli heavy losses The United States lurrrthlp Monad 1 i k and that gunboat Helena and Zrro trained their butlerle on Hate Ha-te and the rebel trench near lAm ir3 all morning Ilacoor net one a nra but tht native ttopi > ed the I id of the name DurIng the night an Iniurmnl cannon > 11rd Hire time at tile Americans 1 Iho outskirts of lAs Pines n La w ton this morning took a I allm ut the fourteenth reglnu a 1 in i companion at the Twtnlyni rc nt to lorI the rebel battery w 1 thin two gum of Hit Hltlh anil I and four mountain artisan viorm I I against at ill hundred yards 1311 c The rebels had a Urge gun If a nhlih they were firing homo trall canister and bomb loaded with all 1 and two tmaller gum rii Ir ihootlng vvoi molt accurate Th lint lot of canister buntillreclly li front of Hcottl gum and another rwrcd the leg of a private In the r urtnth I Infantry Htveral iholi IM k the edge of the town The country Inverted Wee aa bail u II > t u poiilblt to Intestine being mainly lie TS mud and water fringed vilth luibii An soon as the nrhllllll opened ito AnirU am w eic attacked by hidden US m > n on all aides I even the ainlga 1 or friendly native In the houses ot Its I nn shooting In their rear The c n allies of the Twentynm regiment a rrauihtng along tho bench ulth 1 si tulilo round apparently a L Mful of rebels w ho retreated Tile o n of the TWDtnnl followed And 011ctilY the reUli I viwned a tortilla c r on the Iroopi from the aides nl star Tho soldiers withdrew lo I the itri cdgt finding what shelter they cO1 and won picked un rapidly After their ammunition was nearly ei to I W d the companies of the Twenty cIt retreated I but Uen lAwton dallied 41 n and rallied the men A little I Jp made a desperate Hand den 141 ston Ma 1 Hlarr und Ileut Dono IlLn end Lieut conolly taking rifles If11 tin wounded men fired at the > r naF bringing down ionic of the It i stiarpihoolen from a ire finally th rtrldgii were all gone anti they A ITJ to break through tin r TJ i flank carrying the wounded 10 the main body uf the troops LI I ut Donovan v > hoe leg wai heck or floundered for a mil through il bog I tailing fall men In the race ot a I y superior forre r n Lawton cmma flghllne until rMT I menu could bo brought Two b lion of the fourteenth regiment Lr I no battalion ut Ilia Ninth felt IIDI war < hurried to the front and In 10 tht afternoon the battle Woo returned I The Monadnock anchored clot to the > flora and her heavy cuna pounded the ebeli conllnuouil while the nullifier arihlpi iteming 1 along ilia inore Vou red bullets from the raptl nr gun It Ih enemy The Filipino fqices engajred ppan to have been the throw and beet ntmii lawl I body ot men whkh baa met our t cam The American were comrelleit to idvince alonav narrow road andover and-over mall brMt commanded by I eaiihworkt Un feet Ihkk At daylight IMIay Hit rebeli at Ca vII Vlejo dropped two ihelU from able a-ble tmooth liort nun moanled In tmt if the church In the navy yard Thinly Th-inly dinrue don I was iitHnitrlnc the top of the hug ihear on tine Mere 1 Th gunbeala Ctllto Manila and Moqutto then proceeded lo dlimount Mum After breakfast the rebel opened nit along the bttxh to Ilacoor After tlltnclng the Ug gun nt Civile Vlejo the gunlmti ran clot along the ihore Iwrnbarillng the rebel 1 petition I peti-tion The rebel replied with tine nre and With the tire of tome mull piece o f artlllefy Bo vigorous wa the ene nyi tire that at lito Am the gunboat lelena Joined the mall gunboali already 1 al-ready ruimeil and the Princeton Monterey Mon-terey and MoiMdnaek from their an horigea dropped ece inil big shells imoag the rebel This apparently only 1 erred lo Incite Hit rebels ai they kept up an Inceteant fire of muklry and 1 artillery polar Iht mouth of the Jtapute river two miles north ot Haccor The Are of all levin warehlpa wa eorwen treated on than I 1lal thetlly ntlw noon when the upper bar pneenttO the ap pmranc of being the metric of a great naval battle Th Insurgents were eventually foresail lo abandon their guns i after holding out for about four hours only 1 la b confronted by Oen Lawtoni fore on Und and In little rear where there was heavy lighting Dermot the dtettutllen of several 1 building Along the water t front thj ft feet of tht uemlMMment U not known Th only meant of oncoming the rAW wait by a mill Whist whlth rho Filipino commandtil with trench tureadlng V shaped whence they e uU concentnlu their nr un the brUa They Alto land the Advantage t > f the troves and Jungle M the Americans could hardly nee a hid I When rho bottle won renewed there vitro reinforcements our battery havIng hav-Ing illenred the enemy gun the American wading < waltt deep 1 In tile mud ot DM poll lUti atkl louring II steady 1 volley of musketry at the rebeti drove their opponent Ixyond the liver The armlet Uy facing each other acruM the deep llream driving UM memy > ra llcally out of tight while the men In blue And khrakl lild In the main bushes many nf them without any ihelfer for three hour without a Ilion moment I-lion In the firing liour Inc bullet it tile enemy ai flit ni they rpuld load The thousand rine blnvdel Into i continuous roar which was vaitly dif ferent from the Inlrmtltent skirmish like rattle of most cf the cngagtmenti One iMltallon AIr another Uen Lawton suminoneil um Loot 1lnlUt UII til only enough troopi ft rrterve wen left In Iho town lo prevent the Filipino from attacking the Americans In the rear which mass feared ai they were creeping around our Ift through the wood delivering a nanklng nn > which put a great itrnln upon the endurai ot the America who were floundering In the mud aero the river while on the right the Filipinos sharpshooters hidden In the irtet were peppering our non Hut thank lo the poor markimanihtp of the rebeli our lee 1 wn not ai great nl U would l halt been If the flllplnoi had that itralght An army however hn milliliters I fought under n nraaler handicap or more courigeouily than did I our regular a majority ot whom were comparatively ipeaklng rwrulii who could hut Wan pirdonnl for retiring re-tiring In the fact of lueh a florae Are from their eipoted poillloni The 1our twnlh reglmtnCUy lu l the right of the bridge and In front of them wa he I Twelfth reglmtnl wllh UK Ninth on the right and Tw nlynnt up the road facing the bridge vihleh was the key lu the iltuallon On the bridge were the bodlt 1 or IWO Americana who had attempted 1 at-tempted to rush aeraii and many wounded men were carried from Ilia open ground before too bridge I Afttr nrlng In volley for a short time ilia Amerleonl were ordered to lire when and when they could e the enemy H was every nun fur hlmtelf and the lieit the men could do wn 10 aim nt the faint mll arlilng from the rebel amuktlel Powder lien Ijiwluni though exhausted by Iho morning lIihl rnllleU by enter will per and was Ilia commanding nguro In Ihn battle Ho went along the line dirtding I and ouraglng tile troops Uon Vhcatnn and den Overahln were equally courageous In act the general were among Ihetew men on the batlltfltM I who refu til lo Ilk better under the hotltit fire The only appmch tn the n htlng nrounJ was by n narrow winding road when the rebvl bullet dretnifl thickly wounding several of our mm At 4 < < oclock those was an ballet lull In I the fighting and an arlllklry extant galloped I back to where two gum of ilia mountain battery bat-tery I were waiting In rMtrva and shouted Bring up that 1 gun Th nrgMnt allies tumbM huol ltl from hip berm Twenty wounded l meet were carried to a cawo native boat walling on the Infects which wait rowed is Iwronaiue It It I Impottlbw at pretttit to estimate the number orrtllplm dm 4 There life many 0a bodies 1 In the flights UM Amerlcini travtrMd Title natlkentld Incidentally was formtrly five teen of atrtral of the greatwt tlrugglt 1 bt twetn the Ppialmordm and he I Illlplnot The Kaptt was conellred Impregna Mt an1 hundraib ot Upaniarda and Illlplnot hart beires kllM vital 10 nihllng over the Paine bridge > In former awl ttti for IU iKimiilitn In Juno IW7 lentrali Plo dtl Illtr and True MIMI a wait I of war on Hi side of Ih Filipino Fili-pino by defeating the Hnanleh army Ihtra on lho eve of n Jetlelve Ultle carrying 1 native mllltUk with them and Hereby breaking the chain of defen around SlanlU II llllle tlllB Manila Juno II 1le p IITh fight trial nt 10 Planes contlmM holly all day long Ion lAwton c lIed out theM the-M hotif fore of l w mtn and at I oclock Ile wi only 114 lo puth the It turgtnli back W yard to the Kapoti liver where titer are entrenched The lnturgnti restated dtiperattly and ag attentively They attempted to turn Ih left flunk cf Hi American troop Th 1 American tot 1 U I conttrvallvtty nil mated at Astir TIM Mill continue |
