The sun., 1900-10-16
ACCOUNT OF RESCUE
Of Captain SHIELDS
AND HIS COMMAND
General MacArthur'S Report
Has Been Received at
War Department.
SHIELDS MEN ALL SAFE
information Has Been Received from
Marinduque to the Effect That
Insurgents Have Turned
the Captured Americans
Over to General Hare.

Washington, Oct. 15.-The following
account of the rescue of Captain Shields
land his command from the Filipinos has
hpcn received ut the war department
4 from General MacArthur:
"lnformation from Marinduque just re-
ccivcd that Captain Shields and As men.
4 Company T., Twcnty-ninth regiment
nited States volunteer infantry two
,urporals Company y, Twcnty-ninth reg
4 nrnt; one civilian, American negro,
& prisoners in hands Of insurgents, have
d hcen turned over to General Luther X.
q Hare. More particulars soon giving
&names of killed and wounded"
II According to dispatch from General
&MacArthur dated Sept. 2S, Captain
8ShicldS and 81 men Of Company i of the
#rwcnty-ninth volunteer infantry and one
hospital corps man left Santa Cruz Sept.
II un the gunboat NilalovoS for TOrrijas,
&Nlarnduque, intending to return over
#and To Santa Cruz, and that as nothing
3lnd hccn heard from them up to the date
LII General MacArthur's dispatch it was
supposed that they had been captured by
81 hc natives of the island and carried into
HNhr interior
& The Yorktown and two smaller gun
81 oats carrying two companies of the
Nrhrty-cighth volunteer infantry in addi-
sfion to their regular crews were sent to
NInrinduquc in command of Colonel g. s.
anderson. Thirty-eighth volunteer infan-
ary, with instructions to move relentless
y until the Shields party was rescued.
,I# subsequently General Macarthur in
Formed the war department that Colonel
x anderson had been unable to get any
9pcws Of Shields party and that he had
fcnt the First infantry, under command
Df Colonel Hare, to his assistance. These
rc-cnforcements We're sent from Manila
sDn the 9th inst. The success of the move
incnt is told i'll the dispatch just received
from General Macarthur.
M General Macarthur has notified the
war department that the transports Siam
and Athcnian have sailed for the United
States and that the transport Frederick
has arrived at Manila. The Frederick
carried detuchments G and NJ of the Sew
Ass nth artillery. 3 officers and 81 mon from
SAN Francisco.
Insurgents Lie In Wait.
a press dispatch from Manila says:
".Nmclican soldiers in the Philippines
tlr occasionally captured by the enemy
#nl stories often come i'll of the ambush
2ud killing Of two or three of the men or
A ncly roads. \ recent example i'll PanaS
n >lAnd, which will serve for all the Other
Stands equally well, will show how thos,
FAIRS occur
"lust at the present time the island o.
H3 'anay appears to be more peaceful thai
Tor many months past. Hitherto hardl!
Al luat has come from the coast ports Il
81 loilo without bringing either reports of :
4 ght or rumors of expected trouble Bu
bow the insurgents have even gone SO ia
to return prisoner whom they cap
& uIcd in the early part OF last June, an'
M his, too, with no exchange, although
tcw weeks ago they asked that the maj
In question he exchanged for capture'
# itlns. This the authorities would not nc
s. ode to, and finally the man was Liberated
MAnd has safely reached the American
Mines. The story of his captivity is no
#yct known, but he was captured in thi
way:
IN Captain BOardman Of Company G o
81 he Twenty-SiXth regiment and Privat
Savage of his command were returnn
from pototan to Yanuiay on the even II
Sr June & at dusk and We're riding quiet
3y along the country road beyond tn
Jown of Nina. Boardman was mountc
On an American horse and Savage was o
y native pony. Suddenly. from just il
Ailc the brush near the road, the Amer
4ans were fired upon by three tilpino'
4aptain Bpardman called on Savage {
&akc II rush for him and spurred ahtat
II liz captain charged down the road alon
And miraculously escaped three voll"y
Irum Filipinos in ambush ahead OF nm
Ills horse was wounded at the sccon
Yulley and fell, throwing the captain |
DC ground and knocking his revovt
fom his hand, thus leaving him III
NAlmcd. He erawled into the underblus
4bld managed to conceal himself and
Escape observation. although nuhbt
u1 insurgents passed very close to hit
a9ld continued the search until they wei
Ncailcd by Il bugle signal. Then, Il
fhough severely bruised by his fail.
ilanagcd to make his way to the static
M his company, ut Yanuiay. Savage WI
aIaSt seen by Captain Boardman just If
4r the first volley, and the captain SUI
t6scd for Il time that the private was fo
i8ving him. Later every effort was mac
TO locate Savage until, through spies,
MIS- learned shat he was alive and he
ehptive by the insurgents near Dingl
Mthing more was heard of the m.ssii
S8lder until telegram was received
Sthe regimental headquarters from Maj
4nry, at pototan, dated Aug II. sayi1
LIN Savage had been brought in by Il
i've presidente of Pototan."
Hon. J. Hamilton Lewis of Washin
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