The age-herald., 1901-11-14
AMERICANS FACE
 DEATH UNARMED Lieutenant Allen Tells of Mas
 Sacre at Samar INSURGENTS ADOPT RUSE
While Soldiers Eat Breakfast FiIipInos, Admitted as Laborers, Make Fierce Attack-The Soldiers Fight
 With Table Knives.

Victoria. B. C., November 1S.-Among the arrivals by the steamer Empress of China from the Orient was Lieut.. F. r. Allen of the United States navy. who is on his way home from Manila. Speak ing of the massacre of the members of the Ninth Infantry at Samar he said the natives. had grown.t 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 them, and the guard was not as strictly kept as 1t otherwise would have been. The night before the massacre the village presidente came to Captain Cornell and before him declared that 1t would take l5O more iaborers to do the pioneer work Just before daybreak the natives. with bolos to cut underbrush. began coming into camp. Then the massacre began. The last underbrush man killed the sen- try the church. bell rang, the soldiers went to breakfast below the floor that. held their arms. The insurgents sepa- rated; half went up stairs and shot down the men there and the other half went in the messroom and murdered the un- armed 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 comrades slaughtered and terrible vengeance exc cuted upon the enemy. They then saved themselves and the wounded men.
 Fate of Cornell.
 Connell was apparently awakened in his quarters by the attackers pouring in. He was alone, so he jumped from the win dow down among the guards. but the guards had all been slaught tered He was struck down by many bolos almost as soon as he struck the ground. Not satis- fled with killing him, the assassins hacked his body into bits, severing his head. upon which they piled paper and sticks of wood, setting them a fire to rem der the face unrecognizable. The body, however, was identified by Lieutenant Drouillard's detachment. which came from Bassey
 Separated from their weapons. most of the rank and file fought like heroes with table knives, stones, clubs and such weapons as chance threw in their way It was a bitter fate that befell the black-a- moors who closed with the Americans be- fore they had received their death wounds. Some of the native dead were buried by their own crew before they fled, but Colonel DeRussey ordered 160 more to pc thrown Into trench.
 First Sergeant's Rifle.
 "A rife in the hands of the first ser geant of the company rendered a terrible account. The sergeant. who Is now in the Tocablan hospital killed the faith Jess presidente, who led the attack. With six men he fought his way to the head quarters building to see If they could rescue or pick up a stricken comrade. Despite the mad rushes of the savages that surrounded them they were able to secure the post colors. They cut their way back to the beach, where another little knot of comrades were defending the Barotos and their wounded compan- ions.
 Lieutenant Allen says there are 1000 troops in Samar. He says there have been a number of filibustering expedi- tions fitted out in singapore and Hong Kong, mostly by Germans, which, in some cases, have succeeded in landing their contraband arms and ammunition but many captures have been made by the gunboats
 Drouilard From Tennessee.