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Show FILIPINO INSURGENTS OF SOUTHERN SAMAR MASSACRE COMPANY C, NINTH U. S. INFANTRY. Of a Company of SeventyvTwof FortyEight are Killed and Eleven of the TwentyFour Survivors Wounded Attack Made While Men Were Eating Their Breakfast, the island aggregated about 300. The Filippinos carried on a guerrilla warfare, war-fare, and operations against them were difficult.. The disaster to company C occurred, it is believed, while it was engaged in an expedition to clear the country of roving bands of these insurgents. The fact that the Americans were attacked while at breakfast indicates the daring and pluck of the insurgents. The war department Sunday received re-ceived the following dispatch from General Chafft at Manila: ' 'Twenty-four men, company C, Ninth regiment, United States infantry, infant-ry, wounded, have just arrived from Balangigo, remainder company killed. Insurgents secured all company supplies sup-plies and all rifles except twelve. Company Com-pany was attacked during breakfast morning September 28th; company seventy-two strong; officers, Thomas W. Connell, captain; Edward A. Bump-us, Bump-us, first lieutenant; Dr. R. S. Gris-wold, Gris-wold, major surgeon, escaped.' "CllAFFEE." The news created a sensation in offl cial circles at Washington. It was the first 6evere reverse that has occurred for a long time. Still the officials were not uoprepared for news of just this character from Samar, in which the revolution started by Aguinaldo still continues. Samar is a country about as large as the state of Ohio, and the American forces of occupation number in all between be-tween 2000 and 2500 men. These are distributed among various posts in the island, a large number being located at the more important centers. Spain never made any efforts to occupy Samar, Sa-mar, and it only has been for probably three months past that the United States has undertaken that work. The latest report made by General Hughes to the wax department was that the number of insurgent rifles in |