Show MANILA NILA IN X FLAMES LAMES f I Feb Peb 23 Immense 23 Immense ahas rr been done dono by fires hi i i ij j irO e bellowed to have havo been it Uy Y insurgents g last lost night r i Ji department has experience experienc- experienc e t in in fighting the tho f e alamos owing Bowing p to defective appa- appa jj i s It t is is reported that theL the tho f L rI Iia i have ye damaged the appat appa- appa t j f Y i s 1 f was v as some s' s me fighting fi in the t e eri ri y tr C et during l t the tho o night but the 1 n s quickly quelled the then j n i Uprising s ng A k num number bel of insurgents n ts r e o e-o o kilI killed d. d and find several Amell t ll i v soldiers s ere rd wounded r A large market place w was among tf the o 1 first r tt burn Between Goo and Too c residents and business P t s s have been destroyed Fires Jires were e osta started t d at several points simultaneously sim situ SY and spread with groat rapidity ap resisting all efforts to 7 central them em Hundreds of homo homo- Joss Joss' Jes nates' nates e are ace e huddled in the ti sti l' l In p patrol duty of t tho ot o- o t t American inh A i N OF OP Or TERROR 7 r t st night ight was ono one of terror to 9 d of inhabitants of Manila th the rebels 9 ts making good their oft- oft 4 threats to the extent of ot J 1 i ping ing scores of buildings iii grounding ding an officer and three men by y firing through windows during the excitement At 8 S o'clock an incendiary fire occur d in a block of brick buildings build- build R ings occupied pied by Chinese in the t Cane Calle la In Coste in the tho Santa Cruz district A stiff breeze was blowing blowing blowing blow- blow ing and the tho inflammability of f the tho I structure caused the tho bI blaze zo to do spread pl ead with alarming rapidity I t t H MS TU io city fire o department was hope- hope i J essely sS lY incompetent and the English volunteer brigade brigado from Santa Mesa was was summoned and with witha a modern engine engino pumping t. t adequate streams from the tho canal I succeeded after four hours' hours work r H n a n getting the tho blaze under control In Impediments pediments were placed in ini i 11 the way of the firemen and the tho j hose was cut five times This re- re 3 suited faulted in all the tho natives being boing driven oft off the tho streets those in the tho ii I im immediate immediato vicinity of the tl-o blaze 3 I j being heing in vacant lots and guarded until the excitement was over cr In many instances the tho natives were insolent and paid no reb regard to the orders given them and the tho soldiers were vere compelled to use uso harsh measures The butts of their rifles and bayon bayonets ts were wore J were freely applied d. d The danger from I live o electric electrio wires necessitated the tho closing of oi the circuit in the burning region and the only light in certain parts part of the city was that furnished bythe by bj bytho the tho blaze FIREMEN ATTACKED Shortly after midnight big bib fire was started in the Lode Lodo district where the natives arc thickest and when the firemen and soldiers attempted t ta to worl J. J J jr t.- t. a regular of rifle volver shots were fired from the windows and roofs of buildings The firemen escorted by soldiers soldiers soldiers sold sold- proceeded ed to clean out the houses while whilo the fire firo was un un- heeded The Tho Thirteenth Minnesota Minne Minno- sota were reinforced by detachments detachments detachments detach detach- ments from the Third infantry Second Oregon tho the Third artillery and the Tenth Pennsylvania Bullets How flow in e every cry direction in almost every o street in tile the Lodo and districts causing the tho most intense excitement Captain 11 Robinson of company C Thirteenth Minnesota and three men were wounded Many timid per persons ons imagining Liat the tho rebels had effected an entrance entrance en en- trance tranco through ugh the tho American lines lints and were advancing into the city hurried frantically from the tho hotels and houses only to be stopped atthe at atthe the tho first corner by a guard The Tho sounding of a native bugle call immediately preceding the tho firing lent color to the tho story Thousands Thousands Thou Thou- sands of Chinese crossed the tho bridges and plazas under fire hurrying with their bundles bundles' to the Chinese consulate |