Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1900-01-13
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Ths Grow Of the Yorktown HAD Been IN
Captivity Eight Hzonths and rhsy Toll
Stories Of Awful Cruelty at the
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Captivity Eight Months and Thsy Toll
Stories Of Awful Cruelty nj the
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Mhniiu; Jan. o.--Lieut. ]. 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 Il. 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 remark.
able story Of his eight months In
captivity, ending with his dramatic
deliverance from death thnt seemed
inevitable.
The steamer Venus came into the
harbor Saturday from Vigan, prov.
ince Of South 1locos, with Lieut.. Gill.
more and 10 other American prison
ers, including seven Of his sailors
from the Yorktown. Lieut.. Gilmore,
after reporting, came ashore and hob
bled along, with the aid OF cane, to
the Hotel Oriente, where American
officers and ladies were waltzing
through the halls to the strains OF
"Aguinaldo'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
mer's jurisdiction, he was treated
splendidly, but after he fell into IT.
nos hands, he suffered everything.
Col. Hare and Lieut.. Col. Howse,
the latter Of the Thirty-fourth volun.
teer infantry, rescued Gillmore's party
on December IS, near the headwaicrs
of the Abalut river, after they had
been abandoned by the Filipinos and
were expecting death from the sav'
age tribes around them. When the
rescuing force reached them they
were nearly starved, but were build
ing 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 Fililinos abandoned us on the
night of December 10. We had reached
the Abalut river near its source that
morning and the Filipinos RATED us
over. We then went down the stream,
along n rough trail, guarded by com
pany of Filipinos. That night we
were separated from this guard and
another company, armed with Maui
sers was put in charge of us. l sus'
pectcd something and questioned the
lieutenant in command. He said: i
have orders from Gen. limo to shoot
you all, but my conscience forbids'
l shall leave you here
81 begged him for two rifles to pro.
tect lis from savages, adding that i
would give him letters to the Ameri-
cans who would pay him well and
keep him from all harm. He refused
this, however, saying that he would
not dare to comply. Soon afterward
he left with his company.
ION the morning Of December Is,
while we were working OH the RATS
the Americans came toward US yell
ing. One of my men shouted, They
are on u.s. He was lashing a raft Of
bomboos l. however, knew Il 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,
80 that they could shoot the Filipinos.
Tint was the finest body OF officers
and men I ever saw"
Lieut.. Gilmore could not speak en-
Enthusiastically enough about the 14O
picxed men who had rescued him and
his party.
The command spent the day in
making RATS. Col. Hare thought
Lieut.. Gilmore too weak to live
through the trip, but there was no
alternative. They shot many rapids,
the men losing all their effects, and
Lieut.. Gilmore some valuable papers.
Only IA ont OF 81 RATS survived the
FIRST nights experiences and so men
were practically unable to walk when
Viran was reached.
"1he Filipino treatment OF the
spaniartls," said Lieut.. Gilmore, "was
brutal in the extreme. The insur'
gents had old grudges to wipe out
against them. Many talk about the
reconcentrados in Cuba, but have
seen Spaniards dying ut the rate OF
two or three per day of starvation in
the hospitals ut WiganA i have seen
Tagalo officers strike Spaniards IN
the face with whips and revolvers."
American Prisoners aultiiatsd.
Manila, Jan. 7.-Advices from Mag
alang. province Of Pampagna, reports
that Capt. Conhauser, with three COM
NAMES of the Twenty-flfth regiment
(negro) captured the insurgent
stronghold Comanche, on Mount Ar
avat. 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 rs prisoners were
shot and mutilnted. Three OF the
Americans are dead and the other two
are recovering. Capt. Conhauser set
Are tn the barracks and the town.
Alter Aetors ~ sunday Psrforn-nesA