The evening times., 1898-05-09
THE AMERICAN WOUNDED.
Two Officers and Six Seamcn In
jured in the Manila Fight.

Only eight Americans received wounds
in the battle of Manila. on May /. They
were Lieut.. Frank W. Kellogg. Ensign
dinger, Barlow, Covert, O'Keefe. Ricciar-
delli and Snelgrove. all of the cruiser Bal
| timore. None was seriously hurt
Lieut. Frank Woodruff Kellogg. was
born in Waterbury, Conn. July %. lS5.. He
| was appointed a cadet midshipman di-
reotly by the Secretary of the Navy, and
was graduated from the Naval Academy
in ISL. His first service was on the
| Portsmouth, in January, 1882. and in Au-
gust of that year he was attached to the
coast survey of the steamer Drift. He
3. 1883 and a full ensign in 1854. In 1855,
he was attached to the Yantic. and in
1889 he came to Washington for service
in the Naval Observatory.
| Soon after he was assigned to the Rich
| mond. and a year later 10 the Monon-
gahela. He became a lieutenant. Junior
grade May ;, 1892 He went to the Pa
cific Coast. January Is. 1898 and served
| a year on the San Francisco, returning
in 1891 to Washington and going on duty
| at the Naval Observatory and in the
| Washington navy yard. He took
course in the War College in May. 1895.
April 8. 1896. he received his commission
as full lieutenant. and was attached u
the Marion two months later. He was or
dered to the Baltimore. February IL. 1897.
and was serving under that order during
the engagement of last Sunday.
Ensign Noble Edward Irwin is a typical
young American naval officer of stalwart
build and full of daring, tempered with
cool judgment. He is very popular in
Washington, where he only recently
served in the Navigation Bureau as one of
Admiral Ramsays assistants. He was
born in Greenfield. Ohio September 90
1869. and was appointed in the Navy from
the twelfth congressional district by Mr..
]. ]. Pugsley. September g. 1857. While
cadet he made cruise on the San Fran
cisco in 1888, and was graduated as a mid
shipman in June of the same year. He
received his appointment as ensign July
l. 1893, and was Immediately attached to
the Newark. He remained on duty in the
South Atlantic station on that vessel and
on the Yantic and the Lancaster to
March, 1896, when he came to Washing
ton an aid in the Navigation Bureau.
Last August he made a trip through the
West as far as Detroit recruiting sailors
for the Navy, and 1t so happened that
some of the men enlisted by him on that
trip were among the injured in the battle
last, going directly to the Baltimore.
Michael John Buddinger is one of the
coxswains of the Baltimore, being trans
ferred to that ship from the independence
from Mare Island October 20 last. He
enlisted in the Navy August II last at
Wis, and is native American. His next
of kin is John NJ. Buddinger, of No. 4S
De kalb Street, Chicago
Robert L. Barlow is a landsman, on the
Baltimore, enlisting August 10. 1897. in
Chicago. He is twenty-five years of age
and was born at Barlow, Mass, where his
next of kin lives, in the person of H. H.
Barlow.
Richard P. Covert. ordinary seaman. on
the Baltimore. was enlisted at Milwaukee,
Wis. August Is, last. He was born at
Racine. Wis. twenty-eight years ago. and
his next of kin is George H. Covert, No.
427 Wisconsin Street, Racine.
William O'Keefe, seaman. enlisted May
20. 1896. and he is also one of the Balti-
more's coxswains. to which ship he was
transferred from the Philadelphia at San
Francisco. He is thirty years old. was
born at Newark. N. j., and his next of
kin is a cousin. ]. L. Leary, No. "a Bren-
nan Street. San Francisco.
Rosario Ricciardelli. as his name indi-
Gates, was born in Italy twenty-four
years ago. in the city of Messina. but he
is a naturalized citizen and is now a sea-
man on the Baltimore. He was enlisted
March IS, 1896. and his next of kin is
Francisco Ricciardelli. living in Palermo,
Italy.
Edward Snelgrove was born in Ellens-
burg, Wash, twenty-nine years ago. and
enlisted December 4. 1856. on the Phila-
delphia. He is also a coxswain. who was
transferred to the Baltimore at Mare
Island last Fall. He enlisted at Tacoma,
and his father. W. Snelgrove, lives at No.
A York Place, Tacoma.