Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1901-11-14

He Was Struck Down by Many Bolos,
His Head Served From His Body and
Partially Burned to Render the Face
UnrecognizabIe.
VICTORIA. B. O., Nov. 13.-Among
the arrivals by the steamer Empress of
China from the Orient was Lieutenant
T, 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
negro troops who had been stationed
there, and when the Ninth arrived it
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
village presidenUe came to Captain Con-
nell and before The padre declared that
1t would take 100 more native laboreTs
to do certain work.
soldiers Taken UnaWares.
"Just before daybre the natives
with bolos to cut underbrush began
coming into camp. Then the massacre
began. The last underbrush man killed
the sentry. When the church bell rang
the soldiers went to breakfast below the
floor that held their arms. The insur-
gents separated; half went up stairs and
and shot down the men there and the
other half went in the messroom and
murdered the unarmed soldiers by force
of numbers. Not one of the survivors
turned his back upon the scene of car
mage. Their officers fell, their comrades
were slaughtered and a terrible ven.
geance executed on the enemy. They
then saved themselves and their wound
ed men.
"COnnell apparently was awakened in
his quarters by the attack Of the pour
ing In. He was alone, so he jumped
from the window down among the
guards, but the guards had all been
slaughtered. He was struck down by
many bOlOs almost as soon as he reached
the ground. Not satisfied with killing
him, the assassins hacked his body into
bits, severing his head, on which they
piled paper and sticks of wood, setting
nizable The body, however, was 1den-
titled by Lieutenant Drouillard's de-
tachment, which came from Basey.
Fought Like Heroes.
"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
natives who closed with the Americans
before they had recei their death
wounds. Some of the nj We dead were
buried by their own ere, before they
fed, but Colonel DeRussey ordered 100
more to be thrown into a trench.
ga rife in the hands of the insur.
gents rendered terrible account. A
sergeant, who is now in the Tocablan
hospital, killed the faithless presidente
who led the attack With six men he
fought his way to the headquarters
building to see if they could rescue or
pick up q stricken comrade.
Saved Post Colors.
despite the mad rushes of the savages
that surrounded them they were able to
secure the post coIors. Then the men
fought their way back to the beach,
where q knot of comrades were defend
ing their wounded comrades.
Lieutenant Allison says there are r.
900 troops in Samar He says there
have been a number of flibustering ex-
peditions fitted out in Singapore and
Hongkong, mostly by Germans, which
in some cases have succeeded in landing
their contraband arms and ammunition,
but many captures have been made by
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