New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1900-01-17
THRILLING
Experiences of lieut. Gi1mofe and
Party During Eight Months
ID Captiyiittsy,
WERE NEAR 70 DEATH WHEN RESCUED.


of the United States gunboat York
town, who was captured by the IN
surgents last April near Baler, on the
east coast Of Luzon, and rescued q
few days ago by Col. Luther r. Hare,
Of the Thirty third volunteer infantry,
sat Sunday in the apartment Of his
sister, Mrs. Maj. Price, at the Hotel
Oriente, in Manila, and told q rel
markable story Of his eight months in
captivity, ending with his dramatic
deliverance from death that seemed
inevitable.
-: Treated Well by Aguinaldo.
Although tanned and rudy from s' ex-
posture, he is weak and nervous, show
ing the results of long hardships. He
speaks warmly of Agufnaldo and very
bitterly against Gen. Tino, declaring
that while in the formers jurisdic-
ton he was treated splendidly, but
that after he fell into Tino's hands he
suffered everything. Il. {s
sss His Story.
Lieut.. Gilmore made the following
statement to a correspondent:
s'"The Filipinos abandoned us on the nigh:
of December 16. We had reached the Aba
Tut river, near its source. that morning and
the Filipinos RATED us over. We then went
down the stream, along a rough trail,
guarded by company Of Fi1ipinos. That
night we were separated from this guard,
and another company, armed with mausers.
was put In charge of US. I suspected
something, and questioned the lieuten-
ant in, command He said: + have orders
from Gen. Tino to shoot you.a but my
conscience forbids. shall.leave you here
I begged him for two rifles to protect us
from savages, adding that i would give
him letters to the Americans, who would
pay him well and keep him from all harm.
He refused this, however, saying that he
would not dare to comply. Soon afterWard
he left with his company. l
j. I'VE had seen some Savages In war paint
around us, and we prepared to fight them
with cobblestones, the only weapons that
were available'to us. ii IS rzss s@ gsq ITS
1.-The next morning we followed the trail
of the Filipino soldiers, feeling that it was
better to stick to them than to be MUIR
dered by savages, but we could not catch
up with them. Then ordered the men to
build RATS in the hope of floating down the
river. It was a forIorn hope, but knew
the river must empty into the sea some
where. I was so weak myself that did
not expect to get out, but thought some Of
the men could. zT A. + S}
The Rescue. ~.
"On the morning of December Is,
while, we were working on the RATS,
the. Americans came toward us yell-
ing. One of my men shouted: They
are on u.s. He was flashing raft
of bamboos. I, however, knew 1t was
not the yell of savages, but the yell Of
Americans. The rescuing troops thought
we had Filipino guards, and called to US
in English to lie down. SO that they could
shoot the Filipinos. That was the finest
nf of a nc ms w as
Lieut.. Gilmore could not speak enthu-
siastically enough about the 14O picked men
who had rescued him and his party. The
command spent the day in making
RATS. Col. Hare thought Lieut.. Gilmore
too weak to live through the trip, but there
ids, the men losing all their effects and
Lieut.. Gilmore some valuable papers.
Only IA out of 81 RATS survived the first
nights experiences and so men were prac-
tically unable to walk when Vigan was
reached. Id s45T
Describing the fight from Benguet when
the Americans approached, Lieut. Gilmore
said: THE Filipinos, completely terrified.
left Benguat on December7 They hurried
the prisoners from town to town, often re-
tracing the trail, not knowing where the:
Americans would attack. After being al
most without food for three days they
killed several horses. and we lived on horse
flesh for. several days. I did not have a
full meal from December until reached
Vigan. Indeed, the rescuing party lived
largely upon rice without salt. There was
one day when I was reduced to chewing
grass and bark.
" Brutality OF TinO.
:. While we were in the hands Of Gen.
TinO's men he issued an order that any
person aiding an American by food or
money should be treated as a criminal.
One citizen of Vigan, Senior Vera. was
probably killed for befriending US. We
would have starved but for the kindness
Of some of the presiG ents of the towns and.
some of the Filipino colonels, but others
treated us brutally. Wherever there was
q prison we were kept there When there
was no prison they would lodge Us IN q,
convent. We suffered greatly from want
OF exercise as well as lack of food. =
y+."The Filipino treatment Of the Span
iards,', said Lieut.. Gilmore, was brutal
In the extreme. The insurgents had old
Erudges to wipe out against them. Many
talk about the In Cuba, but
] have seen 9paniards dying at tho rate of
two orr three persday of9starvation In the
At Vigan. ] have seen Tagalo Of
fIcerS strike Spaniards n. the face with
whips and reyolyers.'ssgss Il 4
TIE Rsscuea Men.
Among the prisoners arriving with
Lieut.. Gilmore were =. ]. Hubert, Ed
ward Burke and ]. & j. Farley, sailors
from the Urdaneta: Won Galen, Of the.
Baltimore; A. H. Gordon and George