The age-herald., 1900-01-08
THE STORY OF THE RESCUE When Hope Had Gone the Amer.
 ica' s Dps Arrived. PRlSOf IN PITlABLE PLIGHT Off ay That Aguinaldo Treated Kindly, but General Tino Was . ital in the Extreme, Refusing
 Them Even Food

Manila, January 7.-S:3o p. m.-Lieutenant J. c. Gilmore, of the United States gun. beat Yorktown, who was captured by the insurgents last April near Ba1er, on the coast of Luzon, and rescued a few days ago by Colonel Luther R. Hare of the Thirty-third Volunteer Infantry, sat today in the apartment of his sister, Mrs. Major Price. at the Hotel oriente, in Manila, and told a remarkable story of his eight months in captivity, ending with his dramatic de- liverance from death that seemed in- evitable
 The steamer Venus came into the harbor last evening from Vigan, province of South Ilocos, with Lieutenant Gilmore and nine- teen other American prisoners, including seven of his sailors from the Yorktown. Lieutenant Gilmore, after reporting, came ashore and hobbled along with the aid of cane to the Hotel Oriente, where Ameri. can officers and ladies were wakzing through the halls to the strains of "Agui- naldo's March, >. Although tanned and ruddy from ex- posture, he is weak and nervous showing the results of long hardships He speaks warmly of Aguinaddo and very bitterly against General Tino, declaring that while in the formers Jurisdiction he was treated splendidly, but that after he fell into Tino's hands he suffered everything.
 Colonel Hare and Lieutenant Colonel Howz, the latter of the Thirty fourth Vol- unteer Infantry, rescued Gilmore's party on December 1s near the head waters of the Abalut river, after they had been ahan- doned by the Filipinos, and were expecting death from the savage tribes around them. When the rescuing force reached them they were nearly starved, but were build ing rafts in the hope of getting down the river to the coast.
 Lieutenant Gilmore made the following statement to correspondent of the Asso- ciated Press:
 Giimore's Story 'The Filipnos abandoned us on the night of December 16
 We had reached the Abalut liver, near it's source, that morning, and the Filipinos rafted over. We then went down the stream, along a rough trail guarded by a company of Filipinos That night we were separated from this guard and another company, armed with Mausers, was put in charge of us. I suspected something, and questioned the lieutenant In oor,noona 1ro said: ''I have orders from General Tino to shoot you all, but my conscience forbids. shall leave you here'
 'I begged him for two rifles to protect us from savages, adding that I 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 would not dare to comply Soon afterward 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 sol- diers, feeling that it was better to stick to
 
 we could not catch up with them. Then I ordered the men to build rafts in the hope of floating down the river It was for lorn hope, but knew the river must empty into the sea somewhere I was so weak myself that I did not expect to get out, but thought some of the men could
 "On the morning of December 1S while we were working on the rafts, the Ameri- cans came toward us yelling One of my men shouted tyre on usr He was flashing raft of bamboos. I, however, knew 1t was not the yell of savages, but the yell of Americans The rescuing troops thought we had Filipino guaAds and called to us in English to lie down so that they could shoot the Filipinos. That was the finest body of officers and men I ever saw"
 Could Not Praise Enough
 Lieutenant Gilmore could not speak en. enthusiastically enough about the TAO picked men who had rescued him and his party
 The command spent the day in making 
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