Kootenai County Republican. (Rathdrum, Idaho) 1899-1903, 1900-01-12
GILMORE PARTY n MANILA
SAILORS WERE LEFT TO DIE.
were Finally Resoued-Were Nearly
starved-sAys AxuimnldU Was
G""d to Them-l.5eu Gil
mOre's StOry-A Pitiful Tale.

Manila, Jan. l0.--Lieutenant j. c. Gill.
mole oi the United States gunboat York
town, who was captured by the insur-
gents last April near kiler, ou the coast
OF Lnzon and rescued few days ago
by Colonel Luther X. Hare OF the Thir
ty-thlrd volunteer Infantry, VAS in the
apartment OF his sister, the wife OF Major
Price, at the Hotel Oriental, sunday,
in Manila, and told a remarkable story
OF his eight months in captivity, ending
With his dramatic deliveranee from a
death that seeined inevitable.
The steamer Venus came into the har-
Dor irom Nigan, province OF South llocos,
with Lieutenant Gilmore and ~ other
American prisoners, including seven oi
his ,aaiors from the Yorktown. Iieuten-
ant Gilmore, after reporting, came ashore
and hobbled along with The aid of cane
To the Hotel Uriente, where American
officers and ladies were waltzing through
the halls 10 the strains OF ".Aguinaidos :
March
Although tanned and ruddy from expo
sure, he Is weak and nervous, showing
the results oi long hardships. He speaks
warmly of Aguinaldo and very bitterly
against General Tino, declaring that
while in the formers jurisdiction he was
treated splendidly, but that after he fell
into Tinos hands he suffered everything.
Colonel Hare and Lieutenant Colonel
Howse, the latter of the Thirty-fiith vol
unteer infantry, rescued Gillmores party
on December s near the headwaters OF the
Abalut river, after they had been aban-
doned by the Filipinos aud We're expecting
death nom the savage tribes around
them. When the rescuing force reached
them they were nearly starved, but were
building RATS in the hope OF getting
down the river TO the coast.
Lieutenant Gilmore made the following
statement to a correspondent of the Asso-
ciated Press: The Flipinos abandoned
us on the night OF December 10. We had
reached the Abalut river near its source
that morning and the Eilipinos RATED Us
over We then went down the stream
along q rough trail, guarded by a com.
pany OF Flpinos. That night We were
separated from this guard and another
company, armed with Mausep, was put
in charge OF U.s. ! suspected something,
and questioned the lieutenant in com.
mand He said i have orders from
General Tino to shoot You all, but my
conscience torbids. shall leave you
here
Il begged 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.
de refused this, however, saying he would
not dare to comply. Soon afterward he
left with his company. We had seen some
savages in war paint around US and We
prepared to fight them with cobble stones,
the only weapons that were available to
US. The next morning We followed the
trail OF the Filipino soldiers, feeling that
murdered by sasages, but We could not
catch UP with them. Then | ordered the
men to build RATS, in the hope OF floating
down the river Ii was a sorlorn hope,
but | knew the river must empty into
the sea somew here. was 20 weak myself
that | did not expect to get out. bat
thought some OF the men could. On the
morning of December :, while we were
working on the RATS, the Americans came
toward Us, yelling. One Of my men
shouted: They are after US. lie was
lashing bamboos. l knew it was the yell
OF Americans. The re-cuing troops
though, We had Filipino guards and
called to us to lie down 80 they could
shoot the Elipinos. That Was the finest
BODY OF officers and men | ever saw.
Lieutenant Gilmore could not speak
enthusiastically enough about the lao
picked men Who had rescued him and
his party.