Many of the insurgents fell in the roadway, and the others fled
wildly in every direction. Most of them entered the dense forest,
where the Americans captured nearly a hundred of them after the others
had surrendered, and some were such good runners that they escaped
down the roadway. The whole rebel army presented a scene of wild
confusion. Some of the men knelt and begged for mercy, and some cried
out in a horrible way as they saw the dreaded Yankees advancing. But
it was all over very soon. The prisoners were placed in line, and
marched back along the road, and the dead, of which there were about
fifty, were soon buried. Aguinaldo had escaped in the forest, and no
one suggested that he should be followed. All the officers knew that
such a course would be useless, and most of them were very well
satisfied with what had already been accomplished. The prisoners
numbered more than six hundred, and the dead a hundred more, while
there were about seventy-five wounded. So if what Bill Hickson said
were true, not more than two hundred insurgents could have escaped.
Among the seriously wounded was a man whom Archie recognised
immediately as one of his captors of two days previous, and while he
was looking over the bodies for the other men, he came suddenly to
brave Bill Hickson, lying face downward in the road. He almost
screamed with fear that he might be dead, and when one of the men
hurried up to him he told him who the man was.
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