Battle Over Work Sparks Street Clash and Rebel Losses
Reported clashes erupt as forces resist department efforts amid immense property damage. Native factions allegedly retard department work and a street battle unfolds with rebels suffering losses.
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Newspaper
The Dakota Huronite
Location
Huron, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
Mar 02, 1899
Page
7
Reported clashes erupt as forces resist department efforts amid immense property damage. Native factions allegedly retard department work and a street battle unfolds with rebels suffering losses.
Mania February 24. Immense damage from fires believed started by insurgents last night. Defective apparatus hindered fire brigade as natives damaged gear. Fighting in streets. Americans quashed uprising. Insurgents killed, several American soldiers wounded. Large market burned. Between 600 and 700 residences and businesses destroyed. Hundreds of homeless natives in streets complicating patrol duties.
Overnight blaze sweeps the Dondo district destroying houses and acres of land. By daylight punitive actions are decreed and American forces, exhausted, clear the district of all natives after brief resistance.
Four Negros Island commissioners conferred with Major General Otis in Manila. They reported the American flag already raised on Negros and that inhabitants are ready to accept any American proposals. Otis promised acceptable government and advised locals not to fund rebels.
Fearful residents report rebels reached Manila authorities with arson and gunfire. An incendiary blaze in Calla la Coste district roared under a stiff breeze as police, soldiers, and Santa Mesa volunteers battled to contain it for hours. Fires spread and natives were driven from streets amid gunfire and crowds. Captain Robinson and three others wounded as Thirteenth Minnesota and other units reinforced. Thousands homeless, widespread panic and curfews noted.
Chairman Jones of the Democratic national committee formed an advisory committee to aid the national campaign. The group, including Jones, features Stephen M. White California D J Campau Michigan Norman Mack New York John P Altgeld Illinois and George Fred Williams Massachusetts. headquarters will be in Washington.
The commission finds the medical department unprepared at war outbreak and hampered by contracting administration, lack of inspectors, poor camp and hospital reporting, and insufficient nursing staff. It notes greater than expected demand for care and limited supply mobility, with cure hampered by hurried army assembly and funding gaps. Sioux Fatus, 8. D., Feb. 25 reports Yankton land sales show rapid settlement with 168,000 acres opened and only 15,000 left vacant.
In Cleveland on February 23, Robert E. McKisson secured renomination at the Republican primaries defeating Judge Carlos M. Stone by more than 7,000 votes. The contest pitted Hanna supporters against McKisson in a tight local campaign.
In Sacramento on February 23 a group of young men organized a colony plan to settle on Guam. They intend to raise staple island crops and establish a self supporting community there.
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