The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1900-01-12
THEY ARE FREE At LAST. :.
Gilmore and All Other American
Prisoners Brought 70 Manila.
Tbsy Were Held IS CaptIves Eight Months
b. the Tagals and Ten q story Of
Cruel Treafmsut and Threat
sned Starvation

Cruel Treatment and Threat
snsd Starvation
Manila, Jan. s.-Lieut. J. c. Gill
more, OF the United States gunboat
Yorktown, who was captured by the
Insurgents last April, near Baler, on
the coast Of LUzOn, and rescued few
days ago by Col. Luther r. Hare, Of
the Thirty-third volunteer infantry.
sat yesterday in the apartment Of his
sister, Mrs Major Price, at the Hotel
Oriente, in Manila, and told a remark
able story of his eight months in
captivity, ending with his dramatic
deliTerance from death that seemed
Inevitable
The steamer Venus came into the
harbor Saturday frsm Nigan, prov
ince Of South IlOcOs, with Lieut.. Gill
more and 70 other American prison
erss including seven Of his sailors
from the Yorktown. Lieut.. Gilmore,
after reporting, came ashore and hob
bled along. with the aid Of a cane, to
the Hotel Orieute, where American
officers and ladies were Waiting
through the halls to the strains Of
sAguinaIdO's March,
Although tanned and ruddy from
exposure, he is weak and nervous,
showing the results of long hard
ships He speaks warmly Of Agui-
naldO and very bitterly against Gen.
TinO, declaring that while in the for
meT's jurisdiction, he was treated
splendidly, but after he fell into Ii
Eo's hands, he suffered everything.
Col. Hare and Lieut.. Col. HOwse,
the latter Of the Thirty-fOurth volun-
teer infantry, rescued GiIImOre's party
on December Is, near the headwaters
Of. the Abalut river, after they had
been abandoned by the FiIipinOs and
were expecting death from the saw
age tribes around them. When the
Eescuing force reached them they
we're nearly stary ed, but were build
ng RATS in the hope Of getting down
the river to the coast
Lieut.. Gilmore made the follow
Ing statement to a correspondent of
the Associated press:
The Fiipinos abandoned Us on the
might Of December 16- We had reached
the Abalut river, near its source, that
morning, and the FilipinOs RATED US over.
We then went down the stream along
q rough trail, guarded by a company OF
EZapinos- that night we were separated
from this guard and another company
armed with MauseTs, was put in charge
OF rs I suspected something and ques-
toned the lieutenant in command he
said;
I have orders from Gen. Tho to shoot
you al, but my conscience forbids- I
shan leave you here
I begged him for two rifles to protect
as from savages, adding that would
give him letters TO the Americans who
would pay him well and keep him from
al harm He refused this, however, say
Ing that he would not dare to comply.
Soon afterwards he left with his COM
Psny.
We had seen some savagez in war paint
around US, and we prepared to fight them
with cObble-stOues, the only weapons
that were available to US The next
morning We followed the trail OF the Fill
9pino soldiers, feeling that It was better
TO stick to them than to be murdered BY
saTages, but we could not catch up with
them Then I ordered the men to build
RATS IN the hope Of floating down the
river. Il was a forlOrn hope, but I knew
the river must empty into the sea some
where. was 50 weak myself that I did
not expect 10 get out, but thought some
CT the men could
On the morning OF December IS, while
we were working on the RATS. the Amer
leans came toward rs yelling One OF my
men shouted. They are on Us He was
lashing a raft Of bambOOs. I, however,
knew IL was not the yell Of savages, but
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 body Of officers and
men ever saw.
Lieut.. Gilmore could not speak en-
Enthusiastically enough about the 40
picked men who had rescued him and
his party.
American Prisoners MultiIsted.
Manila, Jan. 7.-Advices from Mag
alang, province of Pampagna, reports
that Capt. Conhauser, with three com
panies Of the Twenty-ffth regiment
(negrO) captured the insurgent
stronghold Comanche, on Mount Ar
ayat. Three Americans were wound
ed, but the enemy's loss is not known.
Three members Of the Ninth and two
OF the Twelfth regiment whom the
insurgents held as prisoners were
shot and mutiIated. Three of the
Americans are dead and the other two
are recovering. Capt. COnhauser set
Ere to the barracks aud the town
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