The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-02-25
PRISONER OF THE FILJPI NOS.
Soldier, Captive for Eleven Months,
writes of HardshipS Endu Ted.
From the Oakland Cab Enc Qirer.

Writes of HardshipS Endu Ted.
From the Oakland (Cal) Enc lirer
Mr.. and Mrs. C. o. Huber of his city
have received "a letter from the tr son,
Harry c. Hube T, which is the first since
he was taken cal ,tive by the F'ilipiuos over
a year ago. Yol ing Huber, who was res
cued by the Anne. dcan forces, writes from
Manila as follows:
Manila, P l., Jan, Z, 1907 am safe md
well and with the Americans once m pre-
after eleven months imprisonment with
the insurgents. l cannot express my fe FL
ings of being free once more. AS / To- ok
think of some of the perilous positions
have been in, 1t almost scares me. March,
ed and starved for days at Gme--barG-
footed and almost nake1-throuJh
swamps rivers aud over mountains, to be
captured by the brave boys in blue IN the
heart of the mountains Of Cargo yam,
where we had been abandoned and left
TO die. I will give you a detailed account
of my experiences, though l ann so full of
excitement that l can hardly write.
You know that Sonrda1sen and myself
went out on Jan. q, 1883, to take some
snap shots. I had permts ion of the st sW-
ard in charge of my ward to leave the
hospital AS 1 was on right duty | had
no trouble in securing I emission to go.
We took the 9 o'clock Il ain for Malolos,
but at the third station, waiyan,
we we've arrested and take of the train
and had an interview with the command
ante of the town.who was cry hostile and
threatened to kill us, but he thought bet
ter of it, made out some PAL rers declaring
US American spies, and sent us to MalolOS,
where we expected to have an interview
with Aguinaldo and that he would set Us
fl zee, but when We arrived there we were
III ,own into a dirty, dark cell with Fill
min . murderers and robbers, end given
cen, $ Mexican money and plat of rice a
dav to live on. They took our hats, shoes
and most of our clothes. Prisoners were
broug ut In most every day. One week
they Tought in six engineers of the
United States army, but they ere releas-
ed. 1 t. I'd one of them to report us if he
got in b, fore we did. I did not get much
chance tn talk to him because we were
guarded 20 closely. and were in opposite
cells. but hey got in safely and reported
US. as ! wa afterwards told.
Cried "kilI the Americans"
The war br oke out Saturday night Feb
4 On Sunday afternoon a wounded gen
eral was broJ gilt in on bloody litter,
and this cause great excitement among
the populace OF the town, who crowded
around the Jail, crying Kill the Amer-
cans" We were moved from our cell into
another where there were two other
Americans and a Canadian, William
Bruce and Il. Holn1yma, a Nevada cav,
elryman, and ID. Ia own a civilian, who
afterward proved traitor Upon two
different occasions W q had made a plot
to escape on Feb. Ii through the win
dow of our cell which was defective. and
every one of us would have been killed,
but through his treaeh cry We We're dis
covered in time, again on March H. ia
San Isabel, three of the boys got away,
but before Albert and could get out
ne called the guards, ar d each of u,
had a gun I .ced at ouI' chests. The
other boys We're captured next day in
town few miles below. .,~r
ON March q the Americans were ad-
varcing so rapidly that we we re marched
out of Malolos on the run ana whenever
one of us slowed up we vera punched
along with the butt end of a gun. We had
three days of this Without anyt hing 10
eat before we arrived at San IsaA 70, the
new capital.
Joined by GiiImore's Parts.
on the 10th day of April a new prise ner
came ina. Bishop of the Third Artillery.
He was captured on outpost just outsiNe
OF Malolos. We staid up all night getrine
the news. / con assure you that | felt re-
ltewed when he told me that our names
hid been found written on the back of
the Malolos jail. on the 22nd of Aprh
Lie Ut Gilmore and his outfit came in. r
suppose you know all about him and his
case He and his crew were ambushed
in Be lore in a small creek while try
ing TO locate the church in which forty
seven Ipanierds were confined, who had
not SURF endered to the Filipinos up to that
time. T. e had four men killed and three
wounded out of crew of fifteen
On May Sd we had to move again. as the
Americans were getting too close TO us We
were on the road over month before ar
irving at Vis'an, where we were immedl-
ntely put ilyto close confinement under
orders Of Gem, Tino. and he threatened 70
shoot any ont' who had any communion
ton with us at all We were there three
months and illen taken to Bangued in
the province o. Aka. We had the lib
erty of the town there for about a rnonth
because they knew il was impossible for
US 60 escape. Nov. 20 fourteen more prls-
oners came into Bangued from the lower
provinces and We got word that the Amer
leans had landed in Vigan Our liberty
had been taken n ON us the dav before
the new prisoners arrived by order or
Gen. Tino. and we We're al put into close
confinement again uLtil Dec. S. when We
started for the mountains, twerty-six In
the party, and the Am, 'ricens were push.
h'@ "s ~ hard bal Nc had TO make