The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1900-01-09
GILMORE ~ MANILA
Rescued When Dying of
Hunger antI Exposure.
WAS TREATED CRUELLY
Save by AguihaIdo Himself
Stofyof the Resc ue.

Manila, Jan. S.NLieutenani j. C. Gil
more of the United States GU nboat York
town, who was captured by lie insurgents
| hast April near Baler, on the coast of
L uzon. and rescued a few days ago by
Colonel Luther r. Hare the Thirty
third volunteer infantry, sa today in the
| apa .rtment of his sister, ME- : Major Price,
at the Hotel oriente, in Nj anila, and told
I charitable story of his eight months
cap tivity, ending with his-t lramatic deliv-
eraI .ce from a death that jeemed inevita-
BILE The steamer Venus came into the
harb or Saturday evening fr ON vigan, pro-
vince of South Ilocos. W tn Lieutenant
Gilm Ore and nineteen q her American
prisO hers, including seven Of his sailors
from the Yorktown. Lieut. enant Gilmore,
after reporting, came ash1 re and hoDbled
along with the aid of d cane, to the
Hotel Oriente, where An lerican officers
and Aadies were waltzini; through the
halls to the strains of "Aguinaldo's
March," Although tanned 'and rudy from
exposH e, he is weak and nervous, show
ing the result of Ion hardship. He
speaks warmly of Aguin aldo and very Bit
ter agah nst General Tir %, declaring that
while in the formers il Eisdiction he was
treated plendidlX, but that after he fell
into Tino s hands. he So nered everything
Colonel Hare and / lieutenant Colonel
Howse, the latter of the Thirty-fourth
volunteer infantry, re Scued GIlmore's
party on December IS, near the head
waters of the Abalut river, after they had
been abandoned by the dlipinos and were
expecting death from the savage tribes
around them When the rescsIing force
reached them they We're nearly starved
but were bulldeng RATS in tn hope of
getting DOWN the river tor the'coast. Lieu
tenant Gilmore made the following state
ment to a. corregpondent of THE Associated
Press:
1.-THE Ffipinos abandioneds US on the
night Of December is. We had reached
the Abalut river near it's soupce that
morning. and the FiliIfnos .rafted US over
We then went down stream. along a
rough trail, guarded by a company of
Filipinos That night we were separated
from this guard, and another company, |
armed with MaESers, was put in charge |
of US l suspected something and ques- |
toned the lieutenant in command. He |
said: 4 have Orders from General Tinto |
to shoot you all, but my conscience for
bids. I shall leaveN you here
''I begged him for two rifles to protect
US from savages, adding that would give
him letters to the Americans who would |
pay him well and keep him from harm
He refused this, however, saying that he
would not dare to comply. Soon after
ward he left with his company,
1--WE had seen ssome ,savages in war
paint around US and wei prepared to fight
them with cobble stonts. the only wea-
pons that were available to US. The next
morning we followed the trail Of the Fill
pino soldiers, feeling that It was better
to stick to them than'to be murdered 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 forlorn hope, but 1 knew
the river must empty into the sea some
where. 1 was so weak myself that I did
not expect to get out, but thought some
of the men could.
ION the morning Of December IS, while
we were working on the RATS, the Ameri-
cans came toward u.s. yelling. One of my
men shouted: They are on US He was
flashing a raft of bamboos. I, however,
knew it 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 Filpinos.
That was the finest body of officers and
men I ever saw"
Lieutenant Gilmore could not speak en-
Enthusiastically enough about the 40 picked
men who had rescued him and his party.
The command spent the day in making
RATS Colonel Hare thought Lieutenant
Gilmore too weak to live through the trip,
but there was no alternative. They shot q
many rapids, the men losing all their eff
fects and Lieutenant Gilmore some valua-
BILE papers. Only fourteen out of the
thirty-seven RATS survived The first nights
experience and eighty men were practic-
all unable to walk when Vigan was
reached. Describing the fight from Ben
guet, when the Americans approached,
Lieutenant Gilmore said:
THE FiIipinos, completely terrified. left
Benguet on December 7. They hurried
the prisoners from town TO town, often
retracing the trail, not knowing where
the Americans would attack. After being
almost without food for three days they
killed several horses and we lived on horse
flesh for several days. I did not have a
fun meal from December until reached
Vigan. Indeed. the rescuing party lived
largely upon rice without salt. There was T
one day I was reduced to chewing grass
and bark. While we were in the hands 4
Of General Tino's men he issued an order
that any person aiding an American by