Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-04-19
men
AMBuSHED
They Were Attempting to Res.
cue Spaniards
HELD BY THE FILlPlNOS
Fate of Fifteen of Them is Unknown
and There is Much Excite
ment in. Washington
HELD BY THE FlLlPlNOS

washington, April 1o.-l Ak navy ~
partment has given out the following dis
patch from Admiral Dewey:
Manila, April 1S.-Secretary OF Navy
Washington: Yorktown visited Balema,
Luzon, east coast of Luzon, P. L., April
y, for the purpose of Iescuing and bring
ing away the Spanish force, consisting OF
so soldiers, three officers and two priests
who were surrounded by 400 insurgents.
Some of the insurgents, armed with
Mauser rifles i s. " by natives. Lieut..
J.. C. Gilmore, while making
ambushed, were fired upon and CAPTURED.
Fate unknown, as insurgents refused to
communicate afterward. The following
are missing: Chief Quartermaster Wal
ton, Boatswain Ellsworth, Gunner's Mate
J. Hygard, Sa~ilmaker's Mate Nandolt,
Seamen w. H. Rynders and c. w. Wood
bury, Apprentices d. w. A. Nenllle, "A. }.
Peterson, Ordinary Seamen f. Brisolese'
0. G.. Mcdonald: Landsmen l.. I. Ed
wards, F. Anderson, j. Dillon and q. "A.
Morrissey. DEWEY
The dispatch from Admiral Dewey
caused much excitement in naval circles
as soon as it's contents became KNOWN.
1t was received late in the lay ana con-
siderable delay was occasloned by the
blindness of some of the cipher words. IL
was impossible to completely decipher It,
and the asterisks indicate the unintel-
lisible words.
Lieut.. Gilmore, the officer referred TO
as captured, is we'll known in Washing
ton, having been stationed here FOR some
time, and his wife's family live here. de
was born in Philadelphia July III, 1904
and was appointed a naval cadet from
! Arizona September, 1871. He reached MS
present grade Of lieutenant in 1891. His
| main services had been on the Monan-
| ghela, Marion, Bancroft, Vesuvius and
Machias. besides considerable service on
the boards. Just a year ago he reported
to the st. Paul, then commissioned as an
| auxiliary cruiser, and served on that
| vessel under Captain Sigsbee
the war. On January IA last he was or
dered to the hospital ship Solace, which
was about to sail for Manila, and on ar
rival there was assigned by Admiral
Dewey to the Yorktown.
The others mentioned in the admirals
dispatch are shown by the naval records
as follows:
William Walton, chief quartermaster,
enlisted at Chez Foo, emma; porn III
Mannheim, Germany.
John Ellsworth, coXswain, enlisted at
Mare Island, Cal: born in Portsmouth,
N. H.
LYMAN Paul Edwards, landsman, en-
listed at Mare Island, Cal; born in Peru,
Ind.
John Dillon, landsman, enlisted at
Honolulu; born in Galway, Ireland.
Paul Nondoit, s~aillnaker's mate, enlist
ed at Mare Island, Cal; born in France.
Charles Albert MOrlissey, landsman,
enlisted at Mare Island, Cal; born in
Columbus, Neb.
Ora B. Mcdonald, ordinary seaman, en-
listed at Mare Island, Cal; born in Cam
mel Valley, Cal.
William II. Rynder, coxswrain, enlisted
ait Mare Island, Cal; born in Amsterdam,
Holland.
Silvio Brisolez. landsman, enlisted at
San Francisco; born in San Francisco.
Albert Peterson, apprentice third class,
enlisted at San Franclsco; born in Oak
land, Cal.
Orrison Welch Woodbury., canaan en-
listed at Gloucester, Mass; born in Lynn,
Mass.
Densell George Arthur Veneville, ap-
prentice second class, enlisted at Mare
Island, Cal; born in Dudley, England.
Fred Anderson, landsman, enlisted al
New York; born in Buffalo, N. Y.
Edward J. Nigard. %gunner's mate third
class, enlisted at Nav York: born in War
saw, Russia.
The capture of the Yorktown's men was
discussed with much feeling in nava
circles. The misfortune was felt will
added keenness, as the navy has pridet
itself thus far on immunity from re.
, verses. The adlniraPs dispatch of today
was the first knowledge that the depart
ment had that the Yorktown had gone
, ON the special mission TO relieve thu
) Spanish garrison at Balema, That thu
} capture should have been effected while
, the American forces We're on a mission o
mercy toward the Spaniards rather tina,
) in the prosecution of a campaign Leads
!, to the belief that Spain will have no fur
!, Their grounds for questioning the goot
faith with which the Americans wer
5 seeking to relieve the condition Of tn,
; Spanish prisoners.
! Although the dispatch gave nc indica
I ton that Lieut.. limo and his men los
) their lives, yet great anxiety was arous
} ed by the mystery surrounding their fat
! while i'm the hands of an uncivilized enc
I my. This is the first capture of an,
) American, military or naval, so that it i
} unknown how the insurgents would trea
Z our men. If civilized methods We're pur
4 sued an exchange could be quickly eff
fected, as Gen. Otis has a large numbe
, of Filipino prisoners, but the insurgent
Z have been averse thus far to e~xcilangin
Spanish prisoners and this raises a ques
. ton as to what they would do with tn
, Yorktown's men.