Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1898-08-24
COMPARATIVE FIGURES
Number Of Casualties IN the War Were Sinai
Under the cireums,ahces.
IMPROVED RIFLE AND ssoTtltss POWDER
would rresaEe much Heavier Havoc Than
That whirh Actually Occurred
Figure. Of Other battles.

New York. Aur. 2i-A special TO tho
Tribune from Washington saya' the
ilst OF cnnuniti-a Ia the army during
the war with spain has not been care
fully compiled. and IN fact Il cannot be
completed Tor months 20 come, i'r In
cludtd IN II must hc the eases ~ DEAN
In camp from disease which will FAR
putnumber those from the bullets "
IN, enemy. The proportion OF deaths
from disease will probably be larger
than IA the ciyii war
In 1855 an cfort was made 20 aHccr-
tain what that proportion was, which
resulted In showing that the aggregate
number OF deaths among tho Union
troops was sb9.5gs The number OF Of
neoru ana men killed in action was
G,Oss. and the number who died from
wounds received ln action was i3,ln-'
making "a total OF 1000. or a fraction
over 20 per cent uf the aggregate ~
appeared that s2i,5s6 officers ana mon
or more tina nds per cent, died OF us
case. The remainder OF the dealhp
were due 10 various causes. No lower
than iOG officers and i,s3s men wetv
drowned, while gi2 officers ana s,H'-
men died from accidental causes oih'f
than drowning. 49,,
According 10 official and rcml-oilelal
reports which arV Htlll subject 10 70.
Vision and correction, the number OF
onieers and men OF the army Killed va
action since the outbreak 0t hoHillllra
against spain hnH been gNs, ANA lh.
number wounded i.Apo making o. lo,Al
of LIS n ~ probable that additions
L mF al
/ suhscuuent reports. or course MI.
| of the casualties occurred IN the nshl-
ing around Santiago, but even thht
numbrr was not excessively large cun-
s,derlng the Htubbonuess Of the de-
Tense and the fact that Infantry nov
| backed by sufficient amount of nrtll-
/ leiy, was ted against The enemy WI"
was strongly ontrenchcd. Most oi the
/ lighting WIS with small arms anu low
men la the American army, az 'N'''
were killed ct wounded hN shells,
The spanish troops guncralW were
/ armed with MnuFnr rUilrf, weapon
VI long range. They used Hmokless
/ powder and had the advantage ~ posi-
| lion and local knowledge ana made TIE
most ~ them According a. an theory
/ the mortality among tho American
troops ought 10 have been much
heavier. In fact, one might have sup
| InHfu Anut nhlNNllNIAAN W N'Nl''f'
/ alone. rs compared with those uhed
| ny Infantry, hundred years ago og
| oven thlrty-seycn years ago would
| have produced tho result
Tho battle of Breeds hlll-popululy
| called the battle of bunker lilll was
/ fought In tho days Of the Wntlnt"
muskct whom smokelcsH powder wnt
| unknown but the casualties ON both
sides were relatively much heavier
than In the battle around Snntlago'
The Americans dN1 not have moro than
1900 men actually engaged ard tho
| british about twice as mnnN. Tho
| American loss wns no killed and ol
wounded. and the british go killed and
SaS wounded At the battle ~ Nov
| Orleans tho American strength engaged
was about 5000 ana the loss only
! Killed and 70 wounded. while the iirlt-
iHh loss, with about 10000 men engaged
was 700 killed and twice a. many
wounded. \ much heavier TO-
tai loss than that ~ General
Skaters army before Santiago, AZ
New Orleans the British infantry at
tackled an entrenchod position, 40 u
also ala at Breeds Ilul AZ the bat
tle of Belmont 10 1861 the number Vt
the Union troops actually engaged was
2 300 and the number 81 Confederate
between 1000 and 5000, Neither aide