MASSACRE OF AMERICANS.
FILIPINOS KILL 18. ONLY 21 MEN ESCAPE. STORES AND AMMUNITION CAPTURED. By Telegraph—Tress Association- Copyright Manila, Sept. 80. ' force of Filipinos, at the island of Samar, made an attack on a company of American infantry.
The Americans were breakfasting at the time, and were apparently taken unawares.
The attacking force was a larger ono than those attacked. The Filipinos overwhelmed the Americans, there being forty eight of the latter killed, and eleven Vj[ere wounded. Only twenty-four of tlio Americans escaped. The Filipinos captured tlio stores and ammunition.
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Gisborne Times, Volume VI, Issue 225, 1 October 1901, Page 2
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