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Show UTAH SERGEANT KILLED. Captain Grant's Gunboats Run Into a Nest of Insurgents. Manila, May 15. The tlnclad gunboats gun-boats Laguna de Bay and Cavadenga and a launch, under Captain Grant,ran Into a nest of insurgents concealed In the bushes on both sides of the Rio Grande river, three miles above Calumpit, Cal-umpit, yesterday afternoon, and were received with heavy volleys at short range. A sergeant belonging to the Utah battery was killed and one private pri-vate was wounded. Opening with their rapid-flre guns, the Americans killed twenty of the natives and wounded several others, filling the jungle with a hail of shot for half an hour, until the enemy fled. |