The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1900-08-17
THE HORRORS
Of CONQUEST.
Veteran Tells How Natives
Are Conquered.
BURNED A WOMAN IN HER BED.
Samples Of the Atrocities of which Mac
Arthur's Men Are Guiity-Orders
That Soldier Must
Obey.

A tale of horror and bloodshed was
told Sunday, says the Cincinnati En-
quirer, at the Fourth street recruiting
station by Alexander Grant, late a
private in company d, of the Sixth reg
iment, United States infantry.
Grant, whose home is at 1886 Vine St.,
enlisted with the Sixth at the opening
of hostilities with Spain, and saw
much service in the Philippines. He but
recently returned from the islands hav-
ing received on the Goth Of May his hon.
orable discharge.
He declared yesterday that the things
he saw on the islands and the orders
he was compelled to carry out, have
sickened him Of all desire for army life.
ATROCIOUS BUTCHERY.
During all my service in the Philip
pines" he said, "about all that compa-
ny d did was police duty on the Island
of Negros, where most of the Sixth is.
Most of the time we were in and around
the town Of Isabella, where we had had
little scrap with band Of Filipinos.
Shortly after that battle or skirmish,
for only one man Of the company was
wounded, and we had been REINFORCED
by some of company K-we got into a
little town some miles west of Isabella.
We were ordered to search the town for
proof against the fellow they call by
some peculiar name in that country
who occupies the position of chief Of
police of the town, as it was suspected
by the officers that he was assisting the
rebels. We secured the town thorough
ly, but were unable to find anything but
few spears and bows and arrows.
Nevertheless, Captain Bundy of my
| company, placed the chief Of police and
some of the men under arrest. They
were about ten in number all told. They
were lined up just outside the town and
told that they had a chance for their
lives. Some of them Topped down on
their knees and began to pray. They
were made to stand up and told to run.
A squad Of men were drawn up in a
firing line, and as the poor, half-naked
devils ran for the bushes, the command
was given to fire. The chief Of police
and half of his men were killed. In the
meantime the rest of company d, and
was one Of them, under command of
Lieutenant Young, was ordered to burn
all the houses in the town.
| BURNED IN HER BED.
"In one of the shacks was an old wo-
man who was lying in her bed sick with
smallpox. One Of the men told the
lieutenant Of this. He said: I don't
give a d.; burn her too
| "An order Is an order In the army.
| The poor old woman was burned Whlle
she lay helpless in her bed, and her
| cries of anguish rang in the ears or the
men many years afterward. On an.
other occasion we were ordered to shoot
men who had laid down their arms, In
the same manner in which the chief OF
police of that town and his men had
been murdered. I tell you, boys con-
tinued Grant, as he turned on the group
of recruiting sergeants who were listen
| ing to him, "it Is too ;,wful to contem-
plate I would not have believed 1t at
all If I had not seen 1t with my own
| eyes, and been compelled to carry out
| those fiendish orders myself Then
again we have been treated like dogs
all the time we have been In the Philip
pines, and everything under the sun
| has been tried to keep the men from
| coming back to the states after they
have been discharged from the service
We were kept from getting away from
the islands as long as possible IN the
hope that we would spend all the money
we had saved and be compelled to re-
enlist. I was discharged on the 20th OF
May and was kept at Isabella Tor ten
days, and again at Iloilo ten days Ion
ger. The excuse being that there was nc
| transport to take me to Manila"