The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1902-05-16
THE bitches FILLED WITH THE
DEAD
Sultans and Leading Datos Killed.
Eighty-four Survivors Surrender-A
Most Gallant Performance

Most Gallant Performance.
! WASHINGTON, May 4.-The War
| Department today received a cable
gram from General Chaffee indicating
that the campaign against Sultan Bay
an, one of the principal Moro chiefs,
! has been completely successful The
result was accomplished by a gallant
assault on the principal Moro fort and
! it's capture after a number of the lead
ing Moros had been killed The cable
gram, which was received this after
noon, was as follows:
"Adjutant- General, Washington: Fol
! lowing is the full substance of Briga-
! der General George w. Davis message
from Bayan: 'Eighty-fOur survivors
Bayan surrendered Internationally
thus morning at o'clock. Sultan Bay
Ian, Raja Muda Bayan, Sultan Panda-
patan and all leading Datos dead, and
many of their followers. Assault on
( the principal fort, which surrendered
last night, one of the most gallant per-
| formances of American arms. Colonel
| Frank d. Baldwin and his regiment
| deserves all praise for hand-to-h hand
struggle in four lines of bitches under
| walls of fort These trenches are lin
/ ed with Moro dead from rifle fire. Have
never seen or heard of any perform
ance eNcelling this gallant fight
d" 1t is nay painful duty to report
that the overthrow of Moro power was
not accomplished without severe loss.
One officer and seven enlisted men kill
ed; four officers and thirty enlisted
men wounded. viii telegraph the list
/ later.
After eighty-four survivors march
Tod 4
understood they were all, eight others,
who had concealed themselves in rub
Dish inside the fort, made a break for
liberty, but they did not succeed. Some
Moro wounded tried to stab soldiers
trying to kill them. II is impossible to
state number of Moros killed; many
lying in tall grass.
" The surrender saves us from siege
and starving out. Impossible to have
carried work without scaling ladders,
which were ready. Intend to retain
prisoners until two or three small ad-
jacent forts are occupied then will
continue to hold as hostages eight or
ten of the principals and release the
others. The forces in line of advance
consisted of four mountain guns, 40
rifles. This fully sufficient. Could not
have used more men adVantageously.
Had we sent strong column it would
only have sweled the casualty list.
" One neighboring DatO has already
represented himself as friend and ] eX-
Il ct a general cOming-in shortly, when
the weight of the blow is known. The
dead sent to Malabank for burial In
light of present knowledge could have
besieged the principal fort and in time
forced the surrender, but that would
probably have resulted in a sortie for
freedom and escape of many. BY at
lacking them they have been complete
ly crushed-the only kind of lesson
these wild Moros seem to be able to
profit by.
Shall invite Sultan Tarlac to pay
me a friendly visit. if he does not tell
us of his initiative. Has fort further
east in. plain sight and of same
strength as was Bayan, on beautiful
tableland thousand acres, fine upland
rice, and urging people to return TO it's
cultivation. The result to follow
this action very important, namely, it
secures respect for United States au-
thOrity in the center of Moro saVagery.'
"CHAFFEE."
MANILA, May 4.-Lieutenant Bovars
OF the Twenty Infantry was
killed in the engagement at the fort.
Captain Moore of the same regiment
was mortally wounded. Surgeon POr-
Ter anu l4ltultlltlll Iltllly w dE ilSl
OF the Fourteenth Infantry, and Lieu
tenant Jossman of the Twenty-seventh
Infantry, were severely wounded.
MANILA, May 5.-Eighty-four Moro
prisoners under guard made an at
tempt to escape today.
At a preconcerted signal they got be-
tween The soldiers forming the guard
and a company at dinner. The latter,
realizing what had happened, fired on
and pursued the MOrOs, killing thirty
five of them and capturing nine. The
other fugitiVes escaped.
The one chance of saving the life of
Captain Moore of the Twenty-seventh
Infantry, who was wounded during the
recent fighting with the Moros in the
Island of Mindanao, is by trepanning a
portion of his skull resting upon the
brain.
The body of Second Lieutenant
Thomas A. Wears of the Twenty-first
Infantry has been temporarily buried
a, Malabang
Hopes are still entertained of saving
the lives of the other wounded Ameri-
can officers.
A soldier has died of cholera on
board the United States transport
Warren, in quarantine here. Her crew
and passengers have been landed by
the United States ship Meriveles. The
Warren will be fumigated and undergo
another five days quarantine.