Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1900-01-18
CAMPAIGN in LUZON.
SEVERE BLOW INFLICTED ON
THE FiLiPiNOS.
Fight in Which scventy-four Insur-
gents Are Killed = Americans Lose
Four-Lieut. Gilmore Safe i'm Manila

The campaign against the Filipino in
surgents who have been massing in the
province of Cavite during the last few
weeks has been opened by Gen. Bates
in decisive fashion, and a severe blow
has been inflicted on the rebels-not with
out serious loss to the American troops,
however. Preliminary reconnoissances
have been made by Col. Birkhimer with
battalion of the Twenty-eighth volun-
teers and one gun at Novaleta, by Maj.
Taggart with two battalions Of the same
regiment, at Perez das Marinas, and by
detachment of the Fourth infantry
south of linus.
The American force under Col. Birk-
himer was strongly opposed by the rebels,
who were attacked in a strongly fortified
position. Sixty-fve of the insurgents
were killed in their trenches and forty
were wounded. The Americans lost three
killed, including a lieutenant. Twenty
were wounded. Thirty-fve rifles were
captured. Gen. Schwan's command,
which is now at Binang, also had an en-
gagement with the Filipinos, in which
nine of the enemy were killed and twen-
ty-six captured. The American losses in
this fight were one killed and eleven
wounded. Gen. Schwan has been work
ing to the southeast, near Santa Rosa,
along the Laguna de Bay.
Gilmore Safe at Manila.
Lieut.. Gilmore of the cruiser York
town, who was captured by the insur-
gents near Baler many months ago, ar
rived at Manila Saturday night by boat
from Vigan. He was attired in a Span
ish uniform when he landed. Naval Off
GERS are rejoiced at the escape of Lieut..
Gilmore. During most of the time he
was in the hands of the rebels he was
treated very harshly, and he is thin and
weak. He very modestly tells a thrill
ing story of his adventures. He says
that he and his companions were half
starved when they were rescued on Dec.
1S on the Abulut river.
In the fight near Baler, where Lieut..
Gilmore was captured, four of the land
ing party which he commanded were
killed. These were Dillon, Marcy, Nc
Donald and Nygtrd. Three Of the men,
Winders, Vanville and Woodbury., were
wounded. The survivors of the party,
who came to Manila with Lieut.. Gill
more, are Walton, Voudoet, Ellsworth,
Edwards, Petersen, Anderson and Bras
olese.
After the men were captured they were
all taken to San Isidro, where Lieut..
Gilmore, who had been wounded in the
knee, recovered from the effects of his
injury. They were hurried from one place
to another, frequently so weak as to be
hardly able to. move, yet always fearful
of meeting the fate of one who fell by
the wayside and was promptly bayonet-
ed; subsisting on horsefiesh part of the
time and nearly starved all the time;
confined in converts and filthy prisons
between forced marches back and forth,
necessitated by the uncertainty as to
where the Americans would strike next;
unsuitably and insufficiently clothed and
cruelty treated ordered shot and then
left unarmed to the mercy of savages
by captain who had not the heart to
carry out the death sentence, and finally
rescued by detachment of American
soldiers as they were building RATS In
the almost vain hope of floating down
river to the ocean--all this makes story
as thrilling as any ever told by prisoners
of war. Yet there is one feature that
lightens the gloom of it all. Mercy and
kindness were occasionally encountered.
Aguinaldo personally treated the men as
we'll as circumstances would permit, and
the Filipinos in some Of the villages
through which they passed actually jeop-
ardized their lives to make the lot OF the
Americans a little easier. Indeed, Lieut..
Gilmore is of the opinion that one Of
them-Senor Vera of Vigan-was execut-
I'd for befriending them.