The Butte inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1901-1912, 1901-11-13
MASSACRE IN SAMAR.
ISLAND HORROR DESCRIBED BY
LIEUTENANT ALLISON.
KILLING OF CAPTAIN CONNELL
Native Laborers With Bolos Allowed
to Come Into Camp to Cut Under
brush, Attack Soldiers While
They Are Eating.
(By Associated PresS.)

Victoria, b. C.-Among the arrivals on
The steamer Empress of China was Lieut..
+. F. Allison OF the United States navy,
who is on his way home from Manila.
Speaking of the massacre of the MEM
bers of the Ninth infantry at Samar he
said the natives had grown to like the
colored troops who had been stationed
there and when the Ninth arrived 1t was
thought by the American troops that the
same friendly feeling would be shown to
them, and the guard was not as strictly
kept as it otherwise would have been.
The night before the massacre the viii
lage presidents came to Captain Con-
nell and, before the padre, declared that
It would take 100 bombres (native labor
ers) to do certain pioneer work.
He did not have the men, and begged
the Indulgence Of the army captain
Honest and true in the legitimate dis
charge Of his duty, Captain Council said:
.Do the best you can. Get any native
who will work, but clear away the UNDER
brush"
Then the Massacre Began.
Just after daybreak the natives. with
bolos to cut underbrush, began coming
into camp. Then the massacre began
The last underbrush man killed the
sentry, the church bell rang, the soldiers
went to breakfast below the floor that
held their arms. The insurgents split,
half went upstairs and shot down, and
the other half went in the mess-room and
murdered the unarmed soldiers by force
of numbers.
Not one of the survivors turned his
back upon the scene of carnage until all
was lost. their officers fallen, their COM
rades slaughtered and terrible VEN
geance executed upon the enemy.
Nan ao1H
Wounded mates.
-Captain Cornell, apparently. was
awakened in his quarters by the. attack
ers pouring in.
He was alone, so he jumped from the
window down among his guards. but the
guards had all been slaughtered.
49, Killing of Captain Council.
Tie was struck down by many bolos
almost as soon as he struck the ground.
Not satisfied with killing him, the as
eassns hacked his body into bits, sever
tng the head, upon which they piled
paper and sticks of wood, setting them
hfire to render the face unrecognizable.
The body, however, was Identified
by Lieutenant Dourllards detachment,
which came down from Basey.
Separated from their weapons, the
rank and file fought like heroes with
weap ons as chance threw in their way.
1t was bitter face that fell the black
a-moors who closed with the Americans
before they had received their death
wounds.
Some of the native dead We're buried
by their own crew before they fled, bu!
Colonel DeRussey ordered 100 more to bt
thrown into a trench.
"A rifle in the hands of the first ser
eeant of the company rendered a terri
bic account. The sergeant, who Is nov
in the Tacoblan hospital, killed the faith
less presidents who led the attack. Will
six men he fought his way to the head
quarters building to see If they coult
assist or pick up stricken comrade
Despite the mad rushes of the savage
that surrounded them they were able t.
secure the post colors. Then they Gu
their way back to the beach, where an
other little knot Of comrades We're de
Tending the Barolos and their wounded
companions"
Lieutenant Allison says there are 700
troops in Samar. He says there nav
been a number of f1libustering expedi
tions fitted out in Singapore and Hon.
Kong, mostly of Germans, which in som
cases have succeeded in landing thei
contraband arms and ammunition, bu
many captures have been made by tn
gunbOatS.