The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-10-10
COMP ANY
WIPED OUT
Command of 9th
u. S. Infantry is
Slaughtered.
BODIES BURNED
AND MUTILATED
Army and Navy Are Co.Opera.
ting TO Punish the Murder.
Gus Insurgents.

WRANfLA, Sept ga disastrous
W. fight between United States
Va troops and insurgents occurred
yesterday in the island of Samar near
Balangiga. A large body of insurgents
attacked Company c. Ninth Infantry,
only twenty-four members of the com
pany escaping. All the others are re-
portedSto have been killed. The com
pany were at breakfast when attacked
and made a determined resistance, but
the overwhelming number of the insur-
gents compelled them TO retreat. Of
+ the survivors who have arrived at
Basey, eleven are wounded.
According to the latest returns the
strength of the company was seventy
two The survivors include Captain
Thomas w. Cornell. First Lieutenant
! Edward A. Bumpus and DR.. r. S. Girls
void, surgeon.
| Captain Edwin Bookmiller of the
| Ninth Infantry reports that General
Hughes is assembling a force to attack
| the insurgents.
The insurgents captured all the stores
and ammunition of the company, and
all the rifles except twenty-six.
Captain Lawrence j. Hearn of the
Twenty Infantry reports a severe
engagement with Insurgents near Can
delaria, the Americans losing one killed
and two wounded. The insurgent loss
has not been ascertained. The Ameri-
cans captured 10000 pounds of rice and
several hundred rounds of ammuni-
ton.
MANILA, Oct 3.-The latest advices
from the island of Samar give harrow
ing details of the slaughter of the mem
bers of Company c, Ninth United States
Infantry, last Saturday at Balangiga.
They state that the President of the
town, claiming to be friendly, led the
assault in person.
The fight was long premeditated, and
the F'iIipinos were called to commit
the slaughter by the ringing of church
the soldiers, who were breakfa sting,
and their quarters. The insurgents
were mostly armed with bolos, but
they had a few rifles with them.
On hearing of the slaughter, Colonel
Isaac D. de Russey of the Eleventh
Ipfantry started for the scene lmme-
diately with battalion. The body of
Captain Cornell had been tied at the
heels, saturated with kerosene, and
partly burned Forty-five bodies have
been buried in trench leaving seven
unaccounted for. The charred remains
Of many We're recovered. IN numerous
instances the bodies had been badly
mutilated.
Three hundred Maccababes will also
be dispatched to the scene Of the mas
sacre on board the Legaspi
NEW YORK, Oct. "A cable to the
Sun from Manila says: General Chat
: fee has sent a battalion each of the
Seventh and Twenty-siXth Regiments
to Samar, and the severest kind OF
. warfare will be waged against the reb-
els of that district. During the past
; few months the American troops have
been restricted in their operations by
rains, which are still prevailing.
The navy, which is cooperating with
the army, has sent three gunboats tt
Samar. Commander Mark will go tt
China and Japan to arrange for tbs
purchase of twenty steamboats,, which
; will cost $1,000, COO These vessels vii
; be used for the insular revenue ser
vice, and will also provide complete
inter-island communication.
The new civil code became operative
; yesterday.