Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-05-24
GILMORE'S MEN I'LL USED
Barbarous Treatment of Our Sailors Captured
by Filipinos
One of Them Who Escaped and Was
RecaptureG Was Publicly
Flogged.

special cablegram to the New York
Journal from Manila under date of yester-
day says: The first information about the
shocking manner in which the men from
the Yorktown have been treated by their
Filipino captors has been obtained by the
Journals correspondent.
1t is furnished in an exclusive interview
with Gen. Lawton, who found melancholy
evidences, when he captured San lsidrO.
that the American prisoners had been
cruelty abused and subjected to outrageous
| indignities at the hands of Aguinaldo's bar
barous soldiers.
Gen. Lawton. after thirty days of sue
ceSsful campaigning, is resting with 600
men at Candaha. He said to the Journals
correspondent, in describing his victorious
march of a months duration:
TT panied me when We got into San
Isidro to see on the walls OF the prison
there the names of the fifteen Americans
| from the Yorktown.
| From Col. Ray. the Spanish officer
whom we rescued. 1 learned that one of
| the American prisoners escaped from his
| captors. His freedom short-lived, for
| he was afterward recaptured. He was
| stretched on the ground before his fellow
prisoners and twenty lashes were given to
him.
| We found letter near San Isidro, writ
| ten by one of the Yorktowns crew, say
| ing that they We're being kicked. that their
| llfilT was DtiiS puIltI anu lldl lIitN were
! cruelty treated in various other ways. and
| praying their fellow countrymen TO hurry
| to their release.
| The insurgents make a practice of muir
| dering Cinnamon who fall into their hands
| and our men. | suppose, should consider
! themselves fortunate that they have not
| been similarly treated, though the cruelties
! and indignities heaped upon them must be
| hard to bear.
| TT Is my opinion that, once the insur-
| reCtion is over, little trouble will be ex-
| perienced with the natives. who have been
| falsely impressed with their own power by
| their leaders. The native priests have
| given much assistance to me.
! THE country is gran6ly beautiful and
| fertile Few white men have ever pene-
| trated into the mountains account of
! the prevailing fear of the igorotes, who
| inhabit the highlands and whose fierceneSs
| has been greatly exaggerated. These
/ mountaineers are really harmless.
| I'm the provinces of Bulucan and Neu-
| vaecija my men stood well the long
| marches they were forced to make. They
are in healthy condition
| Il must mention my brave scouts. TWEEN
| ty-five in number. | deeply deplore the
loss of Chiefs Young and Harrington. two
| as brave and fearless men as | ever met
The work done by the scouts has been
| equal to that of any regiment in the Philip
| pines.
In all the towns through which 1 passed
established town councils made up of
natives In San Miguel the council elected
| a mayor and | remained there long enough
| to see the municipal government in active
| operation. 1t proved satisfactory.
| Ten of the twenty-five engagements
| fought by us were very severe. My small
| loss was due to the fact that 1 fianked the
enemy each time and came in his
trenches in the rear"