Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1901-01-10
HE KILLED A COUPLE.
Ottumwa Man Makes Filipinos Bite
the Dust in Earnest.
saw SOME VERY BLOODY SCENES

Company Quartermaster Not suppos-
ed to Fight, Has Sporting Instincts
Which Lead Him Into the Fray
Horrible Sights.
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There is at least one Ottumwa man
in the Philippines who is doing his
full share towards putting down the
rebellion. He does not hesitate to
tell of his having killed two of the ma
tives during one of the fights in
which he took part, and he also tells
of sights which cause the blood of
the most stolid to run cold in their
veins.
The letter was written soon after
the November election, and immedi-
ately after the news of William Nc
,Kinley's success had reached the is
land. He writes: Il came within
three feet of not being able to hear
the good news, and thereby hangs q
tale, which might as well tell you
now. You have heard from our anti
everything friends that these noble
6?) people here make honest warfare
and that they are capable of self gov
eminent, ETC., but am here among
them and my story will show you, at
least, what kind of people they are.
On the night of October 20. we
had Just crawled under our mosquito,
bars for the night when an officer
came in with an order for forty men
4 at once, with perfect quiet and every
man to have his bayonet. Now, as
auartermaster, | am not supposed
to do any marching unless the whole
company moves, but this looked like
action and | turned out. After we
got started the captain told me what
was up. A gang of Filipinos had at
tackled ashemp plantation on the
mountain and had cleaned up the
whole thing except one boy. who es-
capped and came into Iriga for help.
Scene of Butchery.
1--WE got to the place about 1870
p. m. after hot climb over rough
trail which our guide took in hopes of
cutting the insurgents off as they left
the scene of their butchery. After
stationing the men so they could rake
them from both sides, the captain
sent me in with four men to see if
the brutes were still in the prem
ises, but they had "vamoosed.' The
search was then begun for the. dead,
ana / hope never again to see the
sights that I saw that night. The
first body lay. in the front yard, a
girl about years of age almost cut
in halves at the waist by bolo A
bolo is a cross between bowie knife
Z and cavalry sabre and it makes
CHASTITY work when handled by these
experts.
He Lived Three Hours.
Hearing groans under small out
building, candle was stuck under
there with his bowels in a heap on
the ground beside him. The floor
was torn up to get at him and the
bowels in the body and bandaged
him, and such is the wonderful vital
ity of these people that he lived sew
eral hours with a wound that would
I have killed white man in three min
utes.
Murderers Hunted for Money.
'The next find was man with his
heal hanging by strip of skin. The
he was then entered and it was
foi to be on fire. Some bales of
hemp in, store room had been fired
but as it does not burn fast when bal
ed, by dragging out the ones on fire
we soon had the trouble fixed. In
side the house everything was torn to
pieces in the search for money, which
all these people hide. In the first
room entered lay man with his face
cut off, throat cut and heart taken out
thru large, irregular hole in tbs
chest. In another room lay man
with his head severed from the body
and his heart removed in the same
manner.
Women Badly Chopped Up.
eve began the search for women
but could find none. Our guides sale
they were. hiding in the h'ss,s.,. and
calling them we soon got an a-.awel
from the hemp patch We found then
in few minutes, two women ant
a little girl They were, chopped al
most to pieces, and were almost
dead from cold and loss of blood
Their wounds were dressed and {
guard was left over them while We
went back to town. A force of ma
tive police went out at once, brought
them in and our surgeon has then
ll} uO III q ldii way " iSSpNSi' rs
Two Were Arrested.
1.-THE gang of devils had split III
on leaving the scene of their work
Four of them were rounded UP by ma
tive police the next day. They show
ed fight; two were killed and the 9th
ers surrendered.
Thru Mountains at Night.
1.-THE next week word was brough
in by natives that the balance of thu
gang had collected in small town il
the mountains Is miles from here in
trenched their position and sen
word for us to come and ge
them. Starting frfom Iriga with g
men, at 10 p. M, we marched on
thru pouring rain The moon cam
up at 1890 and gave us a little ligh
or we could never have made the trip
We marched all night over corduro
roads and thru mountain Bride path