The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-11-15

| tst~sssss.ssss s:S~ss VI
in our new cemetery. May their roll call
| be their promotion!
A Memory of Brave Gilmore and Mis-
Men.
One of the saddest incidents of the war
IN the Philippines was the capture of
Lieut. Gilmore and his boats crew of the
| United states steamer Yorktown. For
| many Gays their fate was uncertain. Then
II became known that the party had been
ambushed-one or two killed-and captur-
1t sounds like romance 10 read the Sc
quel OF the imprisonment of these valiant
| men. Where they had been taken no one
knew, until Gen. Lawtons forces captur-
ed san lsidro, town to the northwest
OF Manila. Then, as the victorious sol
dlers went through the town, they entered
| the city prison, or quartet" They re-
| leased few natives who had been placed
there for some crime. In a large room in
| the quartet they found several articles
| which had undoubtedly belonged to Amer
lcan sailors, and a further search reveal
| ed on the grimy, soot-staned wall several
| names of the American party of Lieut..
! Gilmore. These names were scratched in
| the once white wall with a sharp instru-
ment, and they were in some cases very
| lleSlble so that only eight names were
| NioelllCtIy ledu' 1hey We're OF the York
| towns men!
Then, on the Sd of April, at the capture
OF San Isidro, these heroes were undoubt-
| edly alive.
on July sixty Spanish prisoners came
| In from the insurgent lines, under truce
| ana We're fed and housed at San Fernan-
90 until the train took them to Manila
| They said that there were several Amer
lean prisoners in Aguinaldo's clutches; that
| they We're cruelty treated, and forced TO
| do mental service for Aguinaldo's officers
| and men.
In my position at San Fernando as s1I.
| peflntendent of the mails l had only 20
| walk mile and could hear the ieerine
| OF the insurgents as they sat on their
! trench walls. AT night the phlt of the
Mauser and the answering phit of the
| krag-Jorgensen were kept up for hours
and many of the Mauser bullets came I'M
| pleasantly near
| 1t was a curious sight to behold the
! fighters so near each other and the order
| holding good in all our lines, to fire over
| their heads. Once in a while soldier Is
| shot; but what does that matter to Cen
OTIS, who should long ago nave been put
in charge of a Dorcas Society.
The mode of warfare ordered from the
commanding general will never bring
peace nor will it bring freedom to the
poor enslaved American prisoners.
Let Gen. Lawton alone, and he would
wipe out OF existence the fanatcal ma
tives who surrounded San Fernando.
Horrors of War.
To one newly arrived in the Philippine
Islands, the horrors of the late fighting
are more pronounced than to one who has
seen the occurrence. On every hand IN
city and village, in mountain and valley.
and about the railway stations, are seen
the devastations and ruin brought on by
the treachery of the Fflipinos, who have
1a1 I1vrt boA
naldo. Words written nor words spoken
can depict the awful scenes of desolation
since the opening of hostilities. Churches
in crumbling ruins, great piles of rice
burnt, thousands of tons of sugar now
ruined by dirt and water and in a store
house from which 1 received furniture for
the postoffice at San Fernando, dozens of
fine pianos, tables, chairs, mirrors ana
furniture of all kinds and qualities utter
ly destroyed.
AS this is the doing of the FiIipinos,
they will feel the loss more acutely than
if our victorious soldiers had looted the
places. And now what is the outcome?
Those who kept out of the insurrecto
army the Pampangas and Macabeebes-
said to be amigos" to the Americans
are in a starving condition. and they are
glad, very glad to come to their victo-
rious conquerors for food-the American
hog, whom they were so lately taught
10 despise by their great General" That
their unfortunate condition is solely their |
own fault is beyond question Like Cuba
and Porto Rico, these people have now to
be fed by this much enduring, famine
helping, charitable country. The Filipinos
who are peacefully inclined-and they are |
but few-are beginning 10 pillow their wa !
terry rice fields and again grow their great |
food staple in sections well guarded, while |
the greater portion of the level rice coun- |
try is useless on account of the closeness |
of the insurrectos and their constant har-
RAISING raids on their own people, from !
whom they take everything to support the |
army of Aguinaldo.
The natives of San Fernando, and they |
number quite q population, have a curl |
Gus way of becoming invisible on certain !
days. On the day before the usual night |
attacks, which used to be a regular week
ly occurrence in June and July of the |
present year, the streets were usually de-
pleted of all males. The next day they |
would appear at their usual vocation, that
of sauntering about. They were slightly |
suspiciOned of having been over the line
helping Mr.. Aguinaldo to fight, but the
general officers had orders, and only the
privates would catch one now and then.
turn back his only garment, a shirt, and
see the bruise of the kicking Remington
or Maucer. These are facts, and they
pillow up many of the bones of their breth-
rem who died on the march to Malolos-''
died either from fright, heart failure or
Krag-Jorgensen.