The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1901-10-01
Three Officers Included ia the Long
THEY MADE STOUT RESTS TANCE s
Natives We're ID Overwhelming NuabsrS
and the Americans Killed i iiuadrss u 4
and Forty Of Them. Though
Surprise Was i Complete
One, and Troops Wers
at Breakfast.

F'orty-eight American troops, incfudins
three officers. were killed and eleven
wounded In a fight with Filipinos at
Balangiga, on the Island of lamar.
Company c OF the Ninth Infantry was
surprised while at Breakfast by an oyer-
whelming force, and. a,s..ough they made
a determined resistance, Killing 10 OF &
their opponents. only Il members OF the
company escaped, an OF this number
: IL were wounded. Es
The first dispatch telling OF the dis
aster reached the War Department sur.ss
day and Indicated that Captain Thomas
W.. ConrelI, First Lieutenant Edward A..
Bumpus. ard Dr. r. S. GriswoIel si1rgeou
Of the company, escaped, but 1t is now
thought they We're also killed.
Hughes Going TO Scene. sa
fBy Associated Pre,s.1
MANILA, Sept. 30-GeneraI Hughes.
from the Istand of Samar, reports the
arrival OF Sergeant Marley and one
private at Tannan from the fight at Bal-s
angiga. where over forty men of Cons.
pany C, Ninth Infantry, were killed by
insurgents, who attacked the troops while
at breakfast Satnrlay last. The mel4S
who have reached Tannan say that the
officers of the company. who We're at first
reported to have escaped. we're killed
with the majority of the company. The
troops were attacked, while unprepared.
by four hundred Bolomen, OF whom the
Americans Killed about 140. Many Of
the soldiers were killed in their quarters
before they mad time to grasp their
rifles.
General Hughes is going to the scene
Of the disaster and will personally COM
mand the troops.
SLAUGHTER OF TFIE W1HrTEs
a new branch of the Katipnman has
been discovered at TarIac,. capitol OF tnees
province of that name. The object OF
, the society is the slaughter Of whites.
Marcelino Mariville, president OF Banoas,
is the chief of the new branch, which insa
cludes numbers OF the native constabu-
iary. who were recently armed a reg
ular collection has been made by the
organiza ton from the natives. either by
persuasion or threats, and an uprising
had been planned 2or an early date.
The conditions In Tayants Tayabasl
and Ratangas are not reasslrrirg. The
worst form of guerrilla warfare prevails
there. The inSurgent forces are dtstrfb-s
uted, under cover. along every road and
trail and wait for travellers IN amhtsh.s
The ins,rgent leader Cabalfos, who for-5s
merly belonged to General Cailless COM
manel. but who refused to surrender with
Cail1es. is retreatins to the mountains.
Officers Killed.
| (By Associated PressJ
WASHINGTON, September Su.-In ad-;
dition to the enlisted men. three consn1is
stoned officers of Company G, Ninth In-.
fantry. are supposed aow to have been.
Killed in the action In Samar Phflfppfne
Islands Saturday
The officers are: Captain TLomas W.
Counell First Lieutenant Edward A.
sBumpass, Major Surgeon r. s. etr1swofds
a question having arisen as 10 the acs
cnracy Of the cablegrar received at the
War Department yesterday from General
Chaffee, the Gable Company was dfrecteG
to repeat it,. The repetition disclosed
some inaccuracies. which materially
changed the MESA ge. AS corrected, the
| dispatch reads:
CORRECTED DISPATCH
Manila. September g.
10 Aajutant-G General. Y
Washing ton.
.IIughes reports following from Bas-
sey, Southern Samar: Twe1ty-four men.
Company c, Ninth Regiment. United
States Infcntry, eleven wounded 81 have
company killed. Insurgents secured EaiI
company supplies and all rifles aycept
| three. Company was attacked tihrfsEl
breakfast. morning, september 2Stfl com
pany seyenty-two strong: officers, Thomas
w. Conneli. ca plain; Edward "A 81 Ruln-.
pass. first lieutenant DR. r s. e;riswold.
aEFEE:'.
4 DIscREPANCY
The serious discrepan between thu
| original and the corrected dispatches is
| that the latter indicates that the scem-
| missionets officers OF the company ara
missing. perhaps killed shiie the for-
/ mer indicated that they escaped.
The father OF Captain connetf resides
in New York city. He telegraphedst %
| the War Department. to-day that he ls
| in receipt OF a. cablegram from sise quart
| ermaster of the Ninth Regiment. sayina
t that his son had been kisfets Id saet etion-4asa
BOERs BEATEN BACK. q
But They Make Dstermined 40 1II