The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-10-10
STORY OF THEIR ESClP[
TOLD BY ONE OF LIEUT.. GILMoRE.S
PARTY, NOW IN ST.
PAUL
STORY OF SEAMAN. EDWARDS
Narrates How They Made Their Way
From the Filipino Camp
at DunIass to the
Coast.

One of the survivors of the Gilmore
party, who were taken prisoner by the
Eilininos L. p Adwards, is in the city
visiting his cousin, H. E. Craft. on his
way home to his father and mother, in
Indiana, where he has been absent for
more than four years.
Edwards was discharged in San Fran
cisco two weeks ago, having remained in
the navy since he escaped from captivity
last December. He and two others were
lucky enough to escape from the Fill
pinos some three weeks before the rest
were again safely within American lines
He speaks very interestingly of his
escape.
Dec. 5, the Filipinos learned that Col
Hare was at San Jose and we were
quickly hustled off again ito the south
Then they found out that Lieut.. Bachelor
was in the neigbborhooa and we start d
northeast to a little savage village called
Dunlass. We got there rather late in the
night and were put into three small
bamboo huts. There We're gtwenty-six of
us. Bruce, of the First Nevada cavalry,
and O'Brien, British subject, and /, had
been planning to escape for some time
and We thought our chance had come.
The windows were open and there was
only one man TO guard us OF course
there were a great many nbt far off, but
midnight Tino and his army bcgan to
march past and the detahcments were
not completely out of the way until near
ly dawn. Bruce and O'BTian watched
their chance and slid down the
pole that SUPP ported one56 corner of the
hut. / went down the little ladder. The
sentry asked what I was dc&lg and 7
tod him that ! wanted to fill the jar
with water. We have. never been abe
to understand why a guard. was not sent
after US, but nobody followed and we got
down to the creek. When VIC got there.
to say the least, we had lost our bear,
ings. but without wasting any time we lit
out into the brush and timber, We ma de
about three miles and then lay down in
a guich as we were all sick and pretty
weak. While we lay there on the noun
tain side, we could see the soldiers sour
rying all over the. pains looking for Us,
believing. suppose, that we would at
tempt to get back the way we came
Our plan was to get ttotlies Vigan river
and steal a raft and float down to the
sea in the night, as ii was only about
twenty-five miles from there to the coast.
AS soon as it got dark we lit out for the
river
Eve got to the little village of Bangued
about midnight. We We're very much
surprised to find that white flags were
hung from the houses indicating that our
troops were not far away and that the
natives were preparing proofs Of their
loyalty I wanted to start right down
the river, but O Brien thought it was too
late to start because we would be dis
covered ham way to the sea when day
light broke. Finally we decided to go to
an old Filipino who had befriended us
during our three months captivity there.
When we got to the house we found
three. generations waiting TO knife lis,
thinking that we were ,Spaniards. We
told them as quick as we could who we
were and the old gentleman fed US and
started us for Col. l4are's troops We
got there all right, making the trip in
less than thirty hours
Adwards and his companions stayed
with the detachment and helped Hare to
locate the captiVes, nd2tIifee. weeks later
to capture them. The old Filipino who
helped them is now jailer for the Ameri-
cans at the same town, where he has al
ways lived tJfc