Daily new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1897-1906, 1900-01-08
GILMORE IN MANILA.
Broken Down From His Fear
full Hardships.
MIRACULOUsLY ESCAPED DEATH.
Filipino Had Orders to shoot Party. but
Left Them TO starye or BE Taken by
savages-The Rescue 4 Einaldo Was
Kind-Mistreated by Tino.

MANILA, Jan. S.--Lieutenant Gill
more of the United States gunboat
Yorktown, who came ON the steamer
Venus from Vigan, province of south
Iloeos, with 10 other American prison
ers, including seven of his sailors from
the Yorktown, although tanned and
ruddy from exposure, Is weak and ner-
vous, showing the result of long hard.
ships. He spoke warmly of Aguinaldo
and very bitterly against General Tino,
declaring that while in the formers jur.
isdiction he was treated splendiely, but
that alter he fell into Tino's ha4ds he
suffered everything.
Lieutenant Gilmore, after reporting,
came ashore and hobbled along, with the
aid of cane, to the Hotel Driente, where
American officers and ladies were waltz.
ing through the halls to the strains OF
"Aguinaldo' March
Lieutenant Gilmore, who was cap
tured by the insurgents last April, neaI
Baler. on tie east coast of Luzon, was
rescued by Colonel Luther r. Hare OF
the Thirty third volunteer infantry.
The next day, after his arrival the night
before, i'll the apartment of his sister,
Mrs. Major Price, at the Hotel Orlente
i'll Manila, he told remarkable story Of
his eight months captivity, ending with
his dramatic dehverance from death
that seemed inevitable.
Colonel Hare and Lieutenant Colonel
Howe, the latter of the Thirty fourth
volunteer infantry, rescued Gilmore s
party on Dec. Is, near the headwaters OF
the Abalut river, after they had been
abandoned by the Filipinos and were
expecting death from the savages around
them. When the reseuing 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 follow.
ing statement
"The Filipinos abandoned us on the
night of Dec 16. We had reached the
Abalut river, near it's source. that morn
ing and the Filipiros RATED us over
We then went down the stream, along
rough trail, guarded by company OF
Filipinos. That night we were separ.
ated from this guard, and another com
pany, armed with Mausers, was put in
charge of us. | suspected something,
and questioned the lieutenant III com
maad He said: I have orders to shoot
you all, but my conscience forbids.
shall leave you here.
Il begged him for two rifles to pro.
teet us from savages. adding that
would give him letters TO the Ameri-
cans, who would pay him well and keer
MIN from all harm. He refused this,
however, saying that he would not dare
to comply. Soon afterWard he left with
his company.
1--WE had seen some savages in wal
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 it was
better to stick to them than to be muir
dered by savages, but we could not
catch up with them. Then | ordered
the men to build RATS, in the hope Of
floating down the river. 1t was a for
lorn hope, but l knew the river must
empty into the sea somewhere. | was
so weak myself that / did not expect to
get out, but l thought some of the men
could.
.'On the morning OF Dec Is, while we
were working on the RATS, the Ameri-
cans came toward US yelling. One of
my men shouted "they are on us. He
was flashing raft of bamboos. l, how
ever. knew it was not the yell of saw
ages, but the yell of Americans. The
rescuing troops thought we had Filipino
guards and called to us to lie down so
that they could shoot the Filpinos. That
was the finest body of officers and men
/ ever saw.
Lieutenant Gilmore could not speak
enthusiastically enough about the 140
picked men who had rescued him and
his party.
The command spent the day in MAX
ing RATS. Colonel Hare thought Lieu
teant Gilmore too weak to live through
the trip, but there was no alternative.
They shot many rapids, the men losing