LUKBAN
to abandon Lavezares along with 10 men and all those who wanted to come on board the San Bernardino . Seaman returned in the evening with about 25 Chinese and two Spaniards , agents of Warner , Barnes & Co . There were numerous reports brought in by the natives that large bodies of insurgents were in the mountains , some armed with rifles and the remainder with bolos . 7
Calbayog attacked
This was probably one of the boldest attacks on the American detachments yet considering that the Calbayog outpost had more than 100 troops . Gilmore had just arrived by boat at around 3:00 early morning of the 26th . He decided to wait until daylight before disembarking . But by 5:00 , he was awakened by a call to arms and a few minutes later heard heavy firing . He disembarked immediately , and was told the town was attacked by a party of bolomen , one of whom reportedly went up to his quarters apparently to kill the officers there . Fortunately , Gilmore and his adjutant were not there .
In the next room , Lt . Mills and Dr . Welch heard the man go out of the room and through the hall , then heard the thud of a blow as he struck a private who was sleeping in the adjacent room . Unarmed , the doctor rushed out for help and came back with three men . The boloman had in the meantime killed the private , then hid in the room of Gilmore . When they found him , he did not give up easily . He stabbed one man in the arm , and cut off the finger of another as the latter tried to parry a bolo cut directed at his head , went through the gunsling and half an inch into the stock – before he was slain .
A private who served as sentinel at the hospital , a building located between the headquarters , sounded the alarm . He was likewise hit by a bolo , but was able to get to the headquarters where he sounded the alarm . A patrol from the guard went out immediately and , going up a street from the hospital , encountered 12 or 15 of the assailants and opened fire upon them .
The command , in the meantime , was set up between the church and the head- quarters building , with a troop formation of about 100 men . They opened fire immediately , killing five or six bolomen .
Gilmore later found out from arrested prisoners that there were only 19 attackers involved . He suspected that this was a different group of fanatics , not members of Lukban ’ s troops as some of wounded men smelled of alcohol in their breaths . Nine of them were killed , four were treated in the hospital and four were in prison . Two had escaped . 8
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