The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1898-08-21
THE LOSSES IN THE WAR
Occurred Chiefly in the Fight
ing at Santiago.
AMERICAN LOSS is SMALL
More Lives Sacrificed in n Single
Hattie in the Civil War Than the
Total in the Conflict With the
Spaniards Only One American
Naval Officer Killed.

spaniards - Only One American
Naval officer Killed.
We have still to learn exactly what the
number is of killed and wounded in the
recent fighting at Manila and in the ad-
vances on Porto Rico but they will not
add greatly to the total as made up at
the time the protocol was signed. Aside
from these the New York Times gives an
estimate of Spanish anG unofficial state
ment of American casualties:
THE double total is probably less than
that of single battles in our civil war.
The Spanish casualties are, of course, far
greater than ours, but are difficult to es-
innate because of conflicting reports The
first defenders of Spanish honor to fall
in the war were undoubtedly killed at the
bombardment of Matanzas on April q,
the war having been declared by Congress
TO have commenced on April 81
Shortly after this the cruiser New
York fought some Spanish cavalry at Ca
banas, thirty-eight miles west of Havana,
without sustaining loss, and on May l
Dewey won his world-famous victory off
Manila. after stopping for breakfast when
halfway through. The loss on the Span
ish side footed up 400 killed and over Goo
wounded. The American casualties con-
sisted of the wounding of six seamen.
Among the Spanish wounded were the
two commanders of the Castillo and the
Don Antonio de Ulloa and the executive
officer of the Reina Christina. The cap
tain. chaplain, clerk and boatswain of
the Reina Christina were killed. A few
days later Dewey captured the gunboats
Leyte and Callao and the Spaniards cap
/ tured the American bark Saranac
| The Vicksburg and the cutter Morrill,
] engaged the Santa Clara batteries off Ha-
! vana on May without sustaining injury
| Four days later came the fight in Car
] denas Harbor, in which the only Ameri-
/ can naval officer TO be killed in the war
met his death The cruiser Wilmington.
/ torpedo boat Winslow, and gunboat Hud-
I son had entered the harbor TO attack
! some Spanish gunboats. In the fight
/ shell burst aboard the Winslow. killing
/ Ensign Worth Bagley and four others.
! The Spanish losses in Cardenas included
/ one medical officer, three sailors, two
women. three children, killed; wounded
! unknown.
THE day of this skirmish was also the
day on which the cruiser Marblehead. the
gunboat Nashville and the auxiliary
cruiser Window attacked some Spanish
troops behind improvised breastworks at
Cienfuegos. One seaman was killed and
/ another was so badly hurt that he died
later. Capt Maynard and Lieut.. Gamer
on Winslow both of the Nashville. were
slightly and Robert Volts of the Nash
vile, Herman w. Kuchneisted. John
Davis and John T. Doran OF the Marble
| head, and William Levery were seriously
| wounded. Many other Americans received
| trifling wounds. The Spaniards lost 300
| killed and many hundreds wounded.
'Sampson's bombardment of San Juan
de Porto Rico an engagement satisfac-
tory in its results. took place the next
day, the Iowa. Indiana. New York Ter
ror, Amphitrite, Detroit. Montgomery.
Wampatuck and Porter joining in the at
tack. The enemy responded with heavy
fire, killing Frank Widemark. a seaman
on the New York, and the gunner's mate
on the Amphritrite. and wounding seven
The ships were uninjured. The Spanish
governor general reported the casualties
in the town as eight killed and thirty
four wounded.
"A second minor attack on Cardenas took
place in which seven Spaniards were re-
ported wounded, and on May 81 Commo-
dore Schley bombarded the Santiago for
tifications. firing on MORO Castle, La 20
capa. and Punta Gorda. Our forces were
unscathed and the Spanish loss was re-
ported heavy. On June Sampson took
a turn at the forts, silencing them with
out sustaining loss. On the Spanish side
Col. Ordonez, Capt. Sanchez, Lieut.. Yri-
Ear, and officers Perez and Garcia were
wounded. An ensign and five sailors
were killed and sixteen sailors wounded
One infantryman was killed and twenty
wounded.
Five American ships bombarded Cal
manera in the Bay of Guantanamo, on
June 7, and forty marines went ashore
there from the oregon three days later.
Then they were Joined by coo more ma
rjnes from the troopship Panther, under
Lieut. Col. Huntington, and the Marble
head. Vixen and Dolphin ran up the bay
to fire on the Spanish earthworks. The
first battle of the marines took place
June H. when Assistant Surgeon John
blair Gibbs of Richmond Va, Sergt
Charles H. Smith, and two privates were
killed. The Spanish loss is unknown In
the next two or three days fighting, in
which the marines did gallant work
Serst. Mai Henry Goode and Privae Tau
man were killed and five privates wound
! ed There were also some Cuban casu'
alties.
"Sampson's next bombardment of San
| tigo resulted in the killing of an ofncel
and three men, and the wounding OF ar
officer and twenty men. On June IL the
: Yankee fought a Spanish gunboat OF
Cienfuegos, and Scion p. Kennedy, OF
this CITY was wounded. Three days late
the Spanish general. Joval, was killed il
a naval attack on Santiago. gunner
was killed at target practice on the Yam
kee by an exploding shell.
'TThen Shafter effected a landing in Gu
ba and moved upon Siboney, and the ar
my took up its share of suffering anf
danger. The daring and famous charg'
of the Rough Riders and the Tenth Cav
airy and First Cavalry on Sevilla Heights
near Siboney, when 1000 American
fought twice their number, took place OF
June "a. The killed included Capt. Allyn
K. Capron, Sergt Hamilton Fish. Sergt
Marcus D. Russell, all of the Rough Ri
ders: Capt. Maximiliano. Corp. White, o
the Tenth Cavalry; Corp Doherty. an
| ten privates. Major Crow Lieut.. Col. al
exander O. Brodie, Capt. McClintock, an
Lieut.. Thomas, of the Rough Riders, AM
Major Bell Capt. Knox and Lieut.. By
J ram of the First Cavalry were Wounds
and forty-six other soldiers. The Span
ish lost 2S5 killed and wounded.
'~The Texas shelled the Santiago bat
, teries on June %, when six-inch she
killed Apprentice Frank E. Blakely an
wounded seven seamen. Shortly after
: ward Thomas Leyalley, of White Plains
N. Y, died in the Key West Hospital @
appendicitis, caused by overexertion Will