The Coeur d'Alene press. (Coeur d'Alene, Idaho) 1892-1907, 1900-01-13
GILMORE PARTY N NAlILA
SAILORS WERE LEFT TO DIE.
Were FtSaliy meseuea-vgsSe nearly
staSved-says ASuinaide Was
Coed 90 The@-Liestsaant Ca
nsSSs's stoSy-A PitIfuI Tale.

Manila, Jan. l0.-Lieutenant J. G. Gill.
more Of the United States gunbOat York.
town, who WAS captured BY the insuF.
genis last April near BaieT, ON the coast
Of LlEon and rescued = few days ago
by Colonel Luther K Hare of the Thir.
sy'thTd volunteer infantry, Was in the
apartment Of his sister, the wife Of Major
Pnee, al the Hotel Oriental, Sunday,
in Manila, and told q remarkable story
VI bis eight months In captivity, ending
sith his dramatic dsliverance from a
death that saeaned inevitable.
The steamer Venus came into the har.
bor from Iisan. province Of south uOoos,
Sith Lieutenant Gilmore and 10 other
Ameitean prisoners, intending seven OF
his saiIOrs ITOm the Yorktown Leutsn.
snt Gilmore. after reporting. came ashore
and h0bbled along AIlh the aid Vt a cane
10 the Hotel OTiente, where American,
oiiioeis and l4dies we've wsItzlng through
the halls To the strAins OF "AguinAldOs
NaTch-'
Although tanned and rudy from expo
SUR, he b weak and nervous, shoWIas
the rssailA OF long hardshipS. lie speAks
warmly OF AguInAido ana very bitterly
against General Tino, declaring that
hiie in the formers Jurisdiction he pas
tTrated splendidly, but that after he fell
into Iinos hands he suffered everything.
Colonel Hare and Lieutenant Colonel
HOSs~, the latter Of the Thirty .hita Va.
uAIseT infantry. rescued CllInoTes party
"a Dsceaa6eT naaT the hsAdAaters Oi the
AbsIuI nNeI, after they had been aban.
toned BY the HnpinoA and were expecting
d'aih ifon the savage uibs around
thGaa- Wien the Tesruing iOns reached
them they Ners nearly starved. but Sep
building rata IN the hope VI getting
aoNS Tie GINeT " the coast
Lieutenant Gilmore made the folio ~ ING
ssateEISRI " . correspondent VI the Aaao-
GATED Press The tiAPAnos AbaAdGneo
~ "a tie night II DsOembSr 10. We had
reached the AbsIai river nsaE ia source
tsat morning and the fiHPlhos RATED IA
over. We then went d0Nh the stream
along = rough trail, guarded by a com.
PAhy q Aliptnoa. That night we were
separated from this guard and anolheI
conPany, armed Sith MAuscIS. Was put
IN charge Vi nN- | suspected something.
and questioned the lieutenant ia com.
mand. lie said, 4 have orders from
General limo TO shoot you all, but nv
constance iOTbada. l shall leave you
here
Il begged for two rihca 20 protect us
from saNAgeA, adding that would give
him letter. 10 the Americana, who would
pay ham Wsll and keep him from all harm.
us refused this, hON ever. saying he would
not dare to comply. SooA aiterward he
left With hia company. We had seen some
saVags> an war paint around us and We
prepared TO hght them with eobhle stoneG,
the only weapons that weTr available To
ia Ihe neat morning we followed the
trail 81 the Filipino soldiers, feeling that
Il ~As better TO stick 10 them than BE-
murdered BY AAyAgeA, but nc could moi
catch up with them. Then I ordered the
men 10 build rata. in the hope Of floating
down the nNeT. IL WAs q fOJiorn hope,
but ! knew the EtveT must empty into
the 80 me~her& WAS - weak myseli
that did not expect TO get out, but l
thought some Of the men could. On the
morning Of Deccmber :, while We wers
~oTk,ng on the rata, the AmeTicans came
toward us, yelling. one Of my men
shouied; They are after VA lie Wa
lSshine bAmboOs. knew Il Was the yell
Of Americans The rescuing troops
thought We had Filipino guards and
called to us to lie down 80 they could
shoot the HliPinoS. That was the finest
body Of officers and men l ever Aw."
Lieutenant Gilmore could not speak
enthusiastically enough about the lao
packed men who had reeSnSi him and
his party.