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Americans Capture Fortified Town

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Parent Issue
Day
17
Month
March
Year
1899
Copyright
Public Domain
OCR Text

Seventeen Americans Wounded but the Filipinos' Loss Was Very Heavy.

Manila, March 16, 3:55 p. m.- The strongly fortified village of Caitai, northwest of Pasig, was captured today, after a desperate fight, by the Twentieth regular infantry.

The Americans lost 17 wounded while the rebel loss was heavy.

The insurgents at the outposts and in the trenches beyond Caloocan fired several volleys last night upon the Kansas volunteers and a part of the Fourth regulars, desiring, it is supposed, to discover if the American line had been thinned by the movement of Gen. Wheaton's command.
The Americans in the trenches replied warmly to the fire.

H. Y. Beecher, Co. A, of the Montana regiment, was killed in the engagement.

A battalion of the Twentith regular infantry routed a small band of Filipinos on the Laguni road and some sharpshooters who were firing from a house over which a French flag was flying were dislodged.

A gunboat entered the lake and silenced a one-gun battery in the foothills.