Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1900-01-12
MORE FIGHTING.
Brief Account of Recent Engage
mcnts in the PbiIippincs-Lieut.
Gilmore Tells of His Rescue.

Manila, Jan. s.-Reconnaissances
out of linus, Cavite province, Sunday
morning resulted in the loss of three
Americans killed and 90 wounded.
The enemy's loss is estimated at GO
killed and so wounded. Col. Birk-
himer with n battalion of the Twen-
| ty-eighth volunteer infantry, advanced
toward Noveleta. Maj. Taggart, with
two battalions of the same regiment,
moved toward Ierez Das Marinas. A
part of the Fourth infantry was en-
gagged south of linus.
Manila, Jan. s.-Gen. Schwan's col
umn, advancing to the south, occupied
! Binan. One American was killed and
three were wounded. Nine of the ene-
mys dead were found on the field after
| the fight. A number of rifles were cap
tured and several prisoners were taken.
johnson, deserter from the Sixth
United States artillery, clothed in
majors uniform was found among the
insurgent dead at Noveleta yesterday.
Gen. Wheaton. is moving toward Perez
Das Maripas.
Manila. Jan. s.-Lieut. j. c. Gilmore,
of the United States gunboat York
town, who was captured by the in
surgents last April near Baler, on the
east coast of Luzon, and rescued a
few days ago by Col. Luther r. Hare,
of the 1hirty-third volunteer infantry,
sat Sunday in the apartment of his
sister, Mrs. Maj. Price, at the Hotel
Oriente, in Manila, and told n re-
markable story of his eight months in
captivity, ending with his dramatic
deliverance from n death that seemed
| inevitable.
Although tanned and ruddy from ex-
posure, he is weak and nervous, show
ing the results of long hardships. He
speaks warmly of Aguinaldo and very
bitterly against Gen. Tino, declaring
that while in the formers jurisdic-
ton he was treated splendidly, but
that after he fell into Tino's hands he
suffered everything.
Lieut.. Gilmore made the following
statement to correspondent:
| "The Filipinos abandoned us on the night
| of December 16. We had reached the Aba
| lut river. near its source, that morning and
| the Filipinos RATED us over. We then went
| down the stream, along rough trail,
| guarded by a company of Filipinos. That
|
| and another company, armed with mausers,
was put in charge of u.s. / suspected
something and questioned the lieuten-
| ant IN comm9ad. He said: Il have orders
from Gen. Tino TO shoot you all, but my
| conscience Yorbids. / shall leave you here.
| i begged him for two rifles TO protect us
| from savages adding that l would give
him letters to the Americans. who would
pay him well and keep him from all harm.
| He refused this, however. saying that he
| N nj n a n "a "a I'd
he left with his company.
I'VE had seen some savages in war paint
| around us, and we prepared TO fight them
with cobblestones the only weapons that
were available to us.
"The next morning we followed the trail
of the Filipino soldiers, feeling that II was
better to stick TO them than to be MUIR
dered by ssvages but we could not catch
up with them. Then I ordered the men &c
build RATS in the hope of floating down the
river. 1t was forlorn hope. but knew
the river must empty into the sea some
where. i was so weak myself that 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 Americans came toward us yell.
ing. One of my men shouted: They
are on us He was lashing raft
OF bamboos. l, 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 F'ilipinos That was the fines
body of officers and men l ever saw"
Lieut.. Gilmore could not speak enthu
| siastically enough about the 40 picked mer
who had rescued him and his party. The
command spent the day in making
RATS. Col. Hare thought Lieut. .Gillmor,
too weak to live through the trip, but ther,
was no alternative. They shot many rap
ids. the men losing all their effects anC
Lieut.. Gilmore some valuable papers
Only Il out of 81 RATS survived the frs
nights experiences and so men were prac
tically unable to walk when Vigan wa:
r reached.
Describing the flight from Benguet wher
the Americans approached, Lieut.. G!llmor,
said: THE Filipinos, completely terrified
left Benguet on December Z. They hurried
the prisoners from town to town, often re
tracing the trail, not knowing where tn,
Americans would attack. After being al
most without food for three days the!
killed several horses, and We lived on horse
flesh for several days. I did rot have
full meal from December unit. reached
| Vigan. Indeed the rescuing party livet
largely upon rice without salt. There wa
one day when l was reduced to chewing
grass and bark.
while We were in the hands of Gen
Tino's men he issued an, order that an.
person aiding an American by food o
money should be treated as a criminal
One citizen of Vigan, Senor Vera, wa
probably killed for befriending us. w
/. would have starved but for the klndnes
of some of the presidents of the towns an.
some of the Filipino colonels, but other
treated us brutaliy Wherever there wa
a prison we were kept there. When ther
, was no prison they would lodge us in
convent. We suffered greatly from wan
of exercise as well as lack of food"
, For weeks Lieut.. Gilmore was covere
with bois and in great pa. 1. When tn
Filip!nos found the Americans were ap
preaching the treatment became better
There was a sign painter in the party an
he painted advertisements on the rock
, throughout the retreat with other EN-
blems, like a skull and the word 'Venge
ance," by means of which the American
were able TO follow.
; tine Filipino treatment of the Spar
iards," said Lieut.. Gilmore, was bruts
in the extreme. The insurgents had oil
u