The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-11-20
WORK Of FILIPINO SHOT
STAFF AT ST. JOSEPH'S HOSPITAL
Is TRYING TO UNDO
IT
STORY OF A SAVAGE AMBUSH
Capt. Albert Steinhauser, of New
Tim, Relates the
story of His
Injury.

Capt. Albert Steinhauser, at st. Jo-
seph's hospital, is progressing rapidly.
The most serious wound, in his left leg,
has drawn up the tendons somewhat, and
will prevent him from walking much, but
by careful treatment the doctors hope to
save the stalwart officer from perma-
nent injury.
Capt. Steinhauser, who halls from New
Ulm, is captain Of Company B, of the
Forty-ffth volunteers, still in service in
an outlying province of Southern LuZon.
A week tomorrow it will be just six
months since the fatal ambuscade when
Company B walked into a trap, and their
captain was shot in the arm and once in
the leg, and still kept the command of
his company, only to be shot again, this
time in the knee, while hurrying forward
This last shot brought him to his knees,
and he fell to one side of the road and
was afterwards carried away. The fight
was long ago, and the captain is out of
danger, but he is as anxious as ever to
cut loose from doctors, nurses and medi..
cines and get back to his company.
The volunteer enlistment will expire
next June, and it is pitiful to hear tue
man without knee and with half a
thigh declare that he is ready to get
back on the hike" if only the order
would come
Yesterday he was willing to say some
thing of his experiences, but was very
reticent about expressing an opinion -
such as some less discreet returning ofti-
GERS have not hesitated to flourish broad
cast. He was wounded May 49, After
some urging he offered to say something
of the event:
''In the early part of January, about
the I'd or Sd, 1 believe, we were ordered
from Caloocan, where we had been do
ing outpost duty for several weeks and
went to Pasig, where we Joined the Whea-
ton expedition, going south through Cavite.
Later, by boat, we went to a southern
province of LuZon, and, together with the
Fortieth, took possession Of the capital
without much trouble. After that we
were busy patrolling the country May
"A a proclamation was issued, giving
terms of surrender, the price that would
be paid for guns, etc, and our company
went to post the circular up. We put
one up at Labo, five or six miles out,
and had started ahead half mile when
we ran into the ambush.
1--WE did not know until then that there
was an armed body so near, but later
We learned that Gen. Mikado-I think
that was his name-with sixty rifles and
over 200 bolo men had learned Of his OPP
portunity and laid in walt for us. We
were going along the road when the
shots broke out. There was no shelter
except some underbrush and we fell to
the ground and made the most of it.
Luckily, the bolo men did not get
chance to get their work in. The first
shot I got was in the leg, and only
seemed as If some one had hit me with
rock.
1.-The company had spread out pretty
will, and started to go forward Then
was shot in the knee It seemed as if
a tremendous bolt of lightning had
struck me, and I stumbled a few steps
and fell out of the way at the side of
the road We stayed right with them,
and finally drove the enemy Off We
made no attempt to go ahead and paste
UP the peace proclamation, but fell
back ways to deserted church.
We only had one hosp tai corps man to
help us, but he worked faithfully and
accomplished wonders. What little anti
secptics we had on hand gave out and
he had to get along with hot water, but
he did very well and kept his head level
He was cool and never appeared to
notice the struggling bullets. BY the
way, his name was Picha, a st. Paul
boy 7 believe. He certainly did remark
ably we'll
I believe the Filipinos arc peacefully
inclined people, but are more afraid of
the insurrectos than they are of the
Amerfcanos. There can be no doubt but
that many of their ranks are scared into
duty there with frightful stories told
them about the Americans and what they
will do to them if they are not killed
off or forced out of the country.
Some people have an idea that the
Fflipinos are ignorant, but some of them
are truly cultured. I have known some
educated and polite Filipino citizens. even
in the remote villages, but on the other
hand, there is the lazy, good-for-n nothing
element prominent Tt seems impossible
for them to do much work on account
Of the climatic condition which Will sap
the energy Of anyone. Not any of them
try to accumulate wealth.
Why, we had man who wanted to
work for five pesos a month. We said
we would give him at least ten. and
fifteen if he would learn to cook in the
bargain. Do you suppose that fellow took
the trouble to learn 10 COOKE Well, I
should say not-but he would go off to
a cock fight and lose five or six dollars
and never let it faZe him a Bit