Omaha daily bee., 1902-07-01
NINTH INFANTRY ENRoUTEsAsT
Regiment Has seen service In Three
Lands Since this spring
Of 1898.


On the two sections Of a special train
that stood at the Union station from s;i5
to s:i5 and from s:55 to 9:30 last night there
we're lOi soldiers Of the Ninth infantry,
U. S. A., several %ofhcers' wives and W
diminutive F1lipinos from the Island OF
samar. When the sections crept across the
bridge there we're only 400 soldiers aboard,
for Major J. G. Irvine had been taken on at
the station. suffering with acute rheuma-
tism, and sent in an ambulance to Clarkson
hospital, where he will remain until he
regains the use OF his crippled members.
The khaki-clad veterans who rushed to
the restaurant for supper while their regi-
mental commander. General Robe, who sue
ceeded by promotion Colonel Liscum when
the latter was killed at Tien Tsin, was
being formally received by General John
G. Bates, commander Of the Department Of
the Missouri, and his aides, Captain w. NJ.
Wright and Lieutenant V. L. Wills, showed
little the worse for the campaigning OF the
last few years that has been so rigorous
and 30 brilliant as to honorably sustain
tho magnificent record that this regiment
established long ago. They were hungry
and they were four months behind In pay,
but they we're happy. They left samsr in
April, just a little too early for the pay
masters visit; they left Manila in May,
again too early for the paymaster, who dis
gorges every two months, and they left
Frisco last Friday, still without money,
as their papers were at Manila. But they
know the money is coming and they have
pleasures ahead that keep their minds busy,
for they are going back to their old quar-
tiers.
In the first section Of six freight cars,
three tourist sleepers for the soldiers and
two Pullmans for some Of the officers and
their wives, were Companies A, c and D,
going to Fort Niagara. In the second sec
ton. made up OF nve soldiers sleepers,
two Pullmans and a freight car, were Com
panies, e, F, G., H, L, NJ and X, going to
Madison barracks, near Brooklyn, N. Y.
Company l is already there and Company
B is still at Peklp.
They return real heroes, for It was the
Ninth hat furnished Calvin Titus, the
Iowa boy who was first to scale the walls
Of Pekin; II was the Ninth that had earlier
done splendid service in Cuba and 1t was
a company Of the Ninth that endured the
horrors OF a Filipino massacre.
On the train were eight men who were
with Company c when 1t was SO suddenly
and inhumanely attacked at Balangiga. One
OF these eight was Clifford M. MUMMY, FIRST
sergeant, who said last night:
"The people who are creating all this
discussion Of the water cure forget the cir
cumstances that fred the soldiers on the
islands with a determination to apprehend
the guilty natives. While we were at
breakfast on the morning of September %
a native captain OF police treacherously
grabbed the gun from the shoulder OF
sentry No. 2 and fred a signal that brought
from the neighboring bushes between 400
and 500 natives, who shot, hacked and
butchered before we could reach our guns
in the barracks. We fought our way through
them with clubs, stones and case knives,
and when NE finally reached the guns
forty-eight OF our men were dead, twenty
two wounded and only four uninjured. OF
the wounded twelve were able to fire and
between us we managed to fight back those
bowling hends, get the living into boats
and escape. / was one OF those who were
sent back later to identify the dead and
such awful work l never dreamed Of. Those
dusky devils had cut our helpless dead to
pieces, hacked their heads of, thrust por-
tions of their person into the gaping
mouths, rubbed Jam into the wounds. With
this known and with every native feigning
ignorance, is IT so strange that the enraged
comrades OF the dead soldiers resorted to
vigorous and perhaps rigorous measures ia
make the natives divulge the names Of the
leaders? The so-called water cure Is not
dangerous, nor is it agonizing, and Its mos
s~alutary effect is the fright 1t gives the
patient"
In an ambush Company E lost twelve
men and every company in the regiment
has contributed sometime to the history Of
recent warfare.
AS a result Of the Balangiga massacre
Pedro Belanuevava, who isn't nearly al
long no HE name ana &c * ia r-tI
receive an Eng ish school'n g in some privat.
institution in Brooklyn at the expense o.
Company C. When the company had Tough
its way to the barracks the members fount
this little chap inside guarding the guns
for them like the most loyal of Americans
and they won't forget 1t. The other ma.
tive boy is Pedro Pruzon, whom Captain
Burt proposes to educate. He is as dusky
as the other Pedro and just as keen, bu
three years younger.
NAMES ARE TOO MUCH ALIKE