The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1901-10-10
INSURGENTS
ARE ACTIVE
ISLAND OF SAMAR SCENE OF
TRAGEDY. AMERICAN SOL
DIERS SURPRISED.

IhAGEDI. AMERICAN SOL
IERssURPRIsED.
ONE COMPANY ALMOST WIPED OUT
Survivors Report Disaster-An the OH
GERS Killed Bodies Horribly Mutiiased
Gen. Hsxhes Preparing 70 Attack In
sargents-Natives Possibly discouraged
by Assassination OF MeKfniey.
Manila, Sept. ga disastrous
fight between United States troop,
and insurgents occurred yesterday In
the Island Of Samar, near Balangiga..
A large body ofinsurgents attacked
Company c., Ninth Infantry, only
twenty-four members of the COM
pany escaping. All the others are
reported to have been killed.
The company were at breakfast
when attacked and made a deter
mined resistance; but the over
whelming numbers of the insur-
gents compelled them to retreat.
OF the survivors, who have ar
rived at Basey, eleven are wounded.
According to the latest returns the
strength of the company was sew
enty two. Capt. Thomas w. Con-
nell, First Lieut.. Edward A. Bum
pus, and Dr. R. S. Griswold, sur
geon, officers of the Company, are
among the number killed.
Late advices give borrowing de-
tails Of the slaughter. 1t seems that
the president of the town, claim
ing to be friendly, led the assault in
person.
On hearing Of the slaughter Col
onelsIsaac Derussey, Of the Eleventh
Infantry, started for the scene inn
mediately with battalion. The
body Of Captain Connell had been
tied at the heels, saturated with
kerosene and partly burned. Forty
five bodies had been burned in a
trench, leaving seven unaccounted
for. The charred remains of many
were recovered. In many instances
the bodies had been mutilated.
Three hundred Macabebes will also
be dispatched to the scene of the
massacre on board the Legaepie,
which is delayed by typhoon.
Capt. Edwin V. Bokmiller, of the
Ninth Infantry, reports that Gen.
Hughes is assembling force to at
tack the insurgents. The insurgents
captured all the stores and ammuni-
tion Of the company, and all the
rifles except twenty six.
| News of the disastrous fight be-
tween troops of the Ninth Infantry
and the insurgents in the Island of
Samar yesterday was sent promptly
by Gen. Hughes, commanding that
island, to Gen. Chaffee at Manila,
and by him transmitted to the War
Department. It reached the de.
partment during the early hours
yesterday, and Adjutant General
Corbin, realizing its Importance, at
once made it public, after sending a
copy to the White House. Gen
Chaffee's dispatch, which agrees
with the Associated Press dispatch
is as follows:
Con. Chssffee's Brief Report.
| ''Manila, Sept. 20.
l"Adjutant General, Washington.
"Hughes reports following from
Bassey, Southern samar: United
States Infantry-eleven wounded
have just arrived from Balangiga
remainder company killed. Insur
gents secured all company supplies
and all rifles except twelve. Com
pany was attacked during breakfast
morning September %; compan!
seventy-two strong; officers, Thoma
w. Connell, captain; Edward A
Bumpus, first lieutenant; DR.. r. s
Griswold, major surgeon, escaped.
i 'sCHAFFEE."
Later dispatches from Gen. Chaffe
confirmed the newspaper report
that the officers of the compan,
, were killed.
II The news created sensation il
FL official circles. It was the first sc
> we're reverse that has occurred for
!, }Iong time. Still the officials wer
, not unprepared for news of just thi
!, character from Samar, where tn
q revolution started by AgunaldO still
y continues. Samar is country abou
i, as large as the State of Ohio, an
i the American forces Of occupatio
I number in all about 1000 and $50
men. These are distributed anon
various posts in the island, larg
number being located at the mol
important centers
Island but Recently Occupied.
II Spain never made any effort
occupy Samar, and it only has bee
for probably three months pa
L that the United States has unde
, taken that work. The latest repol
:. made by Gen. Hughes to the WI
" Department was that the number I
insurgent rifles on the island aggr
= gated about 800. The Filipinos ca
;, ried on a guerrilla warfare, and o.
- erations against them were difficul
~ The disaater to Company G, Of tt
= Ninth Infantry, occurred, it is b
lieved, while it was engaged in
r expedition to clear the country
rowing bands of these insurgcnt
:. The fact that the Americans we
y attacked while at breakfast indicat
le the daring and pluck of the insu
!, gents.
Immediately upon receipt of Il
y dispatch Adjutant General COrb