The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, April 22, 1900, Page 3

THE SUNDAY CALL. 8 1eld Prisoner for a Wear by the Filivinos - le fruit for a portion of the time. The the coast. It was a march from town to ment, and all that we knew was General that 1 ever saw in my life town. Sometimes would stay a d . we passed the little band of American soldiers - - or so, but always getting up and moving ver the hill, cheering and on as the Americans pursued us. We wera ted It on three s they caught up with us after L) with about all that was left of the Fili- an Oakland 3 matches, The almost impenetrable pino_arm Gen: no. He was s we coul »sts for weeks. I think the hard o we had to deal with, and it reat N party cried, and he ordered us shot several times, but we with & & ands with everybody F always managed to >, Some of our Hare down, and you L) hardest times were on this ma Our all clothing was nearly worn out and our to my captivity ted es. that we were art o . long-separated family long since gone. Honeyman's It eard Y rs_from ail - - d one of the sailors by the = Culiand oF ol t to fight for the flag - ho came t c world. Every- nd a few € 1d wept in % were as ception, and I thou and was made we we nly 1 and we were all together once more. ~ k- February and March we at Maloios or Santa Isa- ht for a moment thal the American troops was very slow. and ba i be killed then and there. 1 we decided to make an effort to escape. cater Jug! that the rifle was not loaded. for We found a defective bar in one of the were kept eithe they had arms we cc two bolos and some ) s . el educ i g little while he became Interested in windows and dug it out, so that the bel until March 26, when we again heard o got - e Tohace Y4 our camera and he finally decided to send Wwas space enough to squeéze through. We the big guns from the ships and knew Peo-], 5 3 on the mo getting nea arer and the people began to leave M the colonel in charge. The colonel were going to escape that night when the that the arm in charge kept us over night and the civilian went out to get some water and The sounds kep next day examined us, but he could not we saw him talking to the captain of the n egone. wretched €@ What we would be doing inside of guard. In a littie while the comandante lolos. The town THost deserted; the have been got to- the Filipino lines with a camera merely came down and shook the bar, and put us government had alr moved and on e molete suit for amusement. He charged us with be- in another cell. The civilian would not March 21 we were told to get ready to iad and about half ing American sples and made out charges stay with us that night for fear we might ve. and vet e now, I, I can see th new pr seen wo afoot or with their to that effect and detailed a sergeant and do him injury. bout 500 Spanish prisoners were lined ;;’:{}’ o e ke t wrapped in FAgS. )me were dressed thirteen men to take us to Malolos, the we used to get copies of the paper pub- ind put on the march, and we were e Fan eir trousers Capital of the republic. lished at Mal and read the war news in charge of a squad of fifteen Fili- e thicket We were walked up the road, not feeling in that. They used to take the names of We ugreed among ourselves to go in the squad Very comfortable, for we were not quite the American generals and regiments out as slow as possible, in the hope that we as had lost Sure what would come next. We had no of the Manila papers and run the names might be overtaken by the American hat a man arms, Sonnichsen’s revolver having been as having been killed and captured. troops. They were evidently onto our v in thet mountains and cc by one road th eaaily fortifled here we ed and were allowed some We remained th s and the ber is full of es 2 man HlKen from him. It was after nightfall - We got used to those storles after 4 plan, for they used to punch us along T s d when we reached the outskirts of Ma- while, and on February another with bavonets. We got to San Miguel on uring e I e bt In, Joh o' March 31, and on April 2 we reached San the Amer s and then we got the first real scare oner w the trip. The sergeant halted his men. an E by the roadside and ordered the li every man h s ammunition, and every h 2 ail the \unition Jined them Many of them were sick them to load ssure. but they had to stay We stopped was a dark, swampy place boay, for they had cut and it began to look as if we were going pass from him. The pass was o s e o se of supplies an 2 to be stcod up on the roadside and shot to read to give him dom of the closely locked 5 v m’:ymfe Fnunpr?\’: ni’,?“w"jfl 1 eeia Bisod.” We Dboth of us worried s town. but It was made to read “his free- It was on Aprii 16 that O. O. Bishop of great @eal for a few moments, but then wom.” He discovered that and deter- the Third Artillery was brought in es & our march was resumed and we learned mined to make his escape. We all 3 that the loading was done o that they him messages and letters and he started Francisco on the Scan- would be in order when they arrived. out. He got as far as Polo, and there tha 1898, We_got into Ma- We were put in a large room in a prison comandante congratulated him, but made hung onto Colonel Howze wers third and On November 29 brought in. T different time there were twelve tor, ‘Who got inside Isiaro. At the former place we had been sldn’t get out. He had without food for some time and were r rifles. The place where some influence with a Spaniard who was nearly starved. When we asked for food = in the Filipino army and got a the comandante told us to eat air. At s from him. The pass was intended San Isidro we were well treated, but kept under the personal nel Har nel Howze, gers and excitement. In 1 ized peopls, fe was herdly agged from n to prison, ‘were sent to join u: ty twenty-seven During the latte civilian_ who times tried to lessons to 3 Filipiro _That made our par again, hargs v them IN MANILA it wi AFTER | Snd gt them Bed . iy ol HIS RESCUE an soldiers coming ovar the Rl t : by the er the 2 I ran ms of nel Hare. who was in t you all here?” was th lead first thing * 1 replied. Lieutenant Gillmore here? he . and he sald: the Filipino nila on October €, a short time after the and were allowed to sleep in a chair that him stay to breakfast. O'Brien did not prisoner. Bishop had been on & year and during fall of Manila. I was put in charge of a night, and the next day were thrown into Want to stay but had to, and while he duty and was captured In that way. He gged the length of Ward In the First Reserve Hospital and a dirty, dark cell with the worst kind of Was eating his breakfast word came to brought us the first real news of the ad- ¢ worked there until the latter part of Jan- Filipino prisoners. We kept up our bluff arrest him and send him back to Malolos. vance of the Americans. He told us how “Thank God.” They were going to attack the m e ' and was finally e E i g tull in Malol a i n . fve - en we made the trip which re- and wanted to see Aguinaldo to tell him The jails got too full in Malolos an they had lain in the trenches for six village, but we stopped the b - et t r live as fate might de- ur capture. Albert Somnichsen, our troubles, but we ot mighty little sat, March § we were removed to Banta Isa- weeks, but were now on the move and Roas owr fre N e o Sy ey fastnesses of North- a San Francisco boy, and I had become Isfaction in that direction. Then we want- bel, a few miles away. There we were coming very rapidly. five rafts bu nd began our down fte man had great friends, and on January 28 he came ed to see the English Consul; and one day 10dged in a big convent. On March 12, in the Spanish 1o the hospital and proposed (hat we go an American was brousht to our cell, and t‘gfdemgi"\gl e R 10 The A58 begssvto ol x 2 D enm. inside the insurgent lines and visit Ma- we thought at first that It was the Con- 3 - e unboat an S et is had never PeN° ,)os, the capital of the Filipino republic.” sul. It oniy proved o be the man who Bruce were out in the big room showing fng. We had heard too many stories of kept, me patching up thelr sores and I did pyt only one man died from t time I heard not Y. decided to represent ourselves as Eng- afterward betraved us. He was a civillan the guards an American Indian war dance that kind, and we bet the sergeant a bot- : ;‘ M»‘f g BB, de things more com- ~\ye reached Abung on January 1 and ats my American com- Jishmen, for the Filipino hatred of Ameri- and got on the train_at Manila while [rom the Nevada plains. Then we showed tle of vino, or native whisky, that they fofiabie for the crowe = & New Year's dinner from hardtack, bacon ¥ parents in Oak- cans had, already grown to serious pro- drunk and woke up at Malolos. We were them how to waltz, and they showed us would not come. They did not come and ,On June b we reqched Vigan, which isf and coffee. Tt scemed a banquet o us. rmation portions. 'The next morning, at § o'clock, kept in the cell for several days, and then S0me Filipino dances. That was done €0 the next day we made the same bet. That ZAr LD B0 the VOTERErS coast We found Christmas dirner had been eaten on the O nts Honnichsen called for me and dressed in two more prisoners came in, Bruce and {bat we would be permitted to stay up. night Lieutenant Gillmore and his party, f Sy LTerent peobls Rert They seemed way down the river. Weo made our way rovements . qinary clothing. we took the 9 o'clock Honeyman, two members of ‘the Nevada 1 looked around for Bruce and found he numbering eight, arrived. We got the more [rlencly fo us and (id not seem to to “Aparri, and then our troubles wers 2 the Ameri- {rain‘out of Manila. At the first station cavalry. We all kept trying to see some had d“’“’g}’fl”d So had Honeyman and bottle of vino, bit instead of giving 1t to llke the Tagalos very well They were over. We e on the extreme northern m iriendly out we were siopped by the guard, but official, but only once did we see the Sec. O'Brien. The guards wers scattered and the guard we gave it to the sallors, who I JOFRES PROPIS SO0 [NEC00/ng, and end of the island, having triveled near) friendly Filipinos— we said that we were English sallors, and retary of War, and he laughed at our &sleep, and 1 went bac ntlo tbell Sonnich- needed it pretty badly. That made our ;f:T el w}:o o) g < I um.l Senor s entire length. From there we too + s they were brought im 10 Meycauayan, the third station out, a if we were taking pictures “for amuse- Milke our escape. Just then the civillan, = On May 3 things began to get warm for was king to us. ang was ordered shot by January. 6, after having been In captivity Filipino officer, who was on the train, or- ment.” who had warne: ard of our other the rebels and we prepared for another ping us. General Tino for nearly a year. Shortly after Bishop arrived the guards the river. It is that some of us that they had captured a c - vere no s ‘were eap- t 150 prisoners were com. hame of Edwards got pretty sick. TRat Yooq foF 10Tt M7 the rafts were cap ones and twos very small squads. v ercdpe, came in with the guard. He had 5 fore we started I wrot orders notices posted threatenin, 7] v parrt pat: N s 5 cr>m’ o4 .cmd 5 fl;rd‘:ir xmeit;rm :E;H:lt_:u(u‘;{o'w. 'ea‘a‘: u:‘\,u.syumnul;omfl rg‘?u x o”nr“l-asconmd.ln“n' reen the omeir“- (ve&a :n"yéur a‘ :utn'eg Tames otB('h;: finur{nlrt on tho‘-‘w.;li';z -h‘f{yt Yy °§'o°f§1'"n§r'?§".,',’5‘m & i of“m'r'fifl.-n:'i’n‘:é’ é’:’a‘m rxenhc.hd % m; > 1eel. E: . “r- - the guard again. ad nds tle th a plece of charcoal, e were such a sec- that 1 am a little behind the times ried aroused his suspicions. day away from Manila' “We heard the banind us and then we were tled togather. égempfi':':‘ o d ama this time T aaded tion of the country that we did mot know ?fi;’é i’r‘fis‘{"?"}‘;i({':"n r?ea’r?d‘:;nl%'m‘y. g=, but I am now trying to We were taken befors the coman- hig guns of the warships booming, and Bruce, Honeyman and O'Brien were re- f Gillmore and his part: 1 which way to go, even if we had been dante of the town. He was a flerce little then we knew that hostllitles had begun capturell the Rext day. They Bot lost 1n have imes lonrusd that we wers traced by 1o escape, We had no arms and kaew Ty 1 YIS The LY. Wy Mo es 1 wonder how our little band man and when we came into his pres- and that our cmf- were hopeless. It Was the thickets and walked around in a circle those names. that we would havq to fight our way 1when I look back over that year of few months of €nce he had a table in front of him on 4 o'clock in the afternoon when & wound- until they saw a flash in the air and ~ On May 3 began a long march from San bdck, and we did not know whers the captivity it sometimes seems to me as if untains | of TLugon, WhicCh were spread out a rifie; a revolver, ed general was brflugh! in from the front, knew it was a searchlight from one of Isidro to Vigan. We were taken through American troops were. We had come 80 T must have dreamed it all. Then it will e uZ08, g polo, a sword and several knives. He and the rabble in the streets went wild. the ships In the harbor. They were cap- mountains and around the Lingayan Gulf far and so fast that we had lost track of seem as if 1 had been In captivity for 1 almost without cloth- was very angry and picking up :23 rifl They wanted to kill us in revenge. tured near Bocave, eight miles away, and to keep away from the sea. That was everything. many years. But I like Manila and will a time without food he aimed it _at Bonnichsen’'s he an The excitement subsided after a few would have been killed had it not been done because the operations of General _We were kept three months at Vigan. probably return there, but not im the of rice and a snapped it. It was & very startling re~- days and we found that the advance of for O'Brien's pass, They were brought Wheaton made it too warm for them on We lost all trace of the Filipino Goverm- army.