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Show FILIPINOS MUTILATE BODIES OF MASSACRED AMERICANS. Half-Bnrned and Mutilated Bodies of Soldiers Found on Battle Grounds-President Grounds-President of Town Led Fight. The Manila American publishes a telegram giving- an account of the fight in which a majority of the men of company C, Ninth regiment, were killed near Balangiga on September 28th. The fight was long premeditated, premedi-tated, and the Filipinos were called to commit the slaughter by the ringing of church bells at daylight. They got between the soldiers, who were breakfasting, break-fasting, and their quarters. The insurgents in-surgents were mostly armed with bo-los, bo-los, but they had a few rifles with them. The latest advices from the island of Samar gave harrowing details of the slaughter of the members of company C, Ninth United States infantry. It is stated that the president of the town, claiming to be friendly, led the assault in person. On hearing of the slaughter, Colonel Isaac D. Deurssy of the Eleventh infantry, in-fantry, started for the scene immediately immedi-ately with a battalion. The body of Captain Connell had been tied at the heels, saturated with kerosene and partly burned. Forty-five bodies have been buried in a trench, leaving seven unaccounted for. The charred remains of many were recovered. In many instances the bodies had been badly mutilated. Evidence Discovered that the Mine, of Nome were Worked Many Years Ago. Evidences have been found which establish that the mines in the Kou" garok district, near Nome, were worked many years ago. A coffer dam built of rock on No. 3 Gold Run, and a similar one on No. 3, and a benrock drain 500 long on No. 14, bear undis-putable undis-putable evidence of that fact. These discoveries were made at a considerable depth from the surface. 1 he walls of the drain can be traced distinctly for a distance af 500 feet and bear every indication that the stones of the wall were placed one upon another an-other by human hands. Those who have given the matter close study say the mines were worked by Russians wiiile Alaska was under lease to the Russian Fur company. |