The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1898-08-21

listed men were wounded. At this time
eighty-four enlisted men, of whom many
have since been found, were reported
missing.
In the destruction of Cervera's fleet on
July 3, Chief Yeoman George H Ellis of
the Brooklyn was the only American
killed. Three We're slightly wounded on
the Texas. The Spanish loss has been es-
timated at $50 killed and 100 wounded, in
Guiding Admiral Cervera himself and
Capt. Eulate. Besides this, in the sinking
of the Spanish cruiser Reina Mercedes,
Capt Acosta, five seamen, and twenty-one
marines were killed, and lieutenant and
eleven men wounded. In the subsequent
mutiny of Spanish prisoners on the Har-
ward six of them were killed and fifteen
wounded. The loss with the Spanish
cruiser Alfonso XII. is unknown
winthrop Chanler, OF this city. a
brother of Col William Astor Chanler,
was wounded in the right arm on July ),
while landing with a force of twenty-five
Rough Riders and some CubanS from the
auxiliary gunboat Peoria at Palo Alto.
Gen. Miles, after effecting his landing
in Porto Rico. at Guanica, has had such
a gratifying time OF it that there were
practically no American casualties. Capt
Gihon Barrett and four men. all sixth
Massachusetts. were wounded in a hgnt
before Yauco where four Spaniards were
found dead and several wounded. on
August g. eight privates were wounded al
C;uavama One Spaniard was killed ana
two wounded Five men were wounded
at Coamo August 9. Three days later al
Asomanta, Lieut.. j. p. Halnes' fourtn
Artillery, and two privates were WouLueG
| and a corporal killed. One man was Killed
and an officer ana hIteeh ihSA
| near Hormigueros.
I'm the fight at Manila July 81 the span
| ;sh loss was estimated at 800 killed ana
600 wounded, and We lost nine killed, nine
seriously wounded. including Capt KEN
holdt Richter, and thirty-eight signify
| wounded.
| ..,The last casualty in the navy was the
death of Emanuel konlourls, VINO was
| killed during a recent engagement with
Spanish rifiemen at point of land 1uttns
out into Cortes Bay
| Corporal Swanson was killed FRIDAY Ds
a shell in Gen Wilson's advance in Porto
! Rico CAPT. Lee and Lieut.. Names and
| three privates were wounded The span
ish loss has not been reported.
| Gen. Vera del Rey. of the Spanish
| forces. was one Of those killed at Ell Ca
new Gen Toral declined 10 estimate the
total Spanish loss there. 1t is safe to say
| that their loss in killed in battle on land
| and sea is several times our loss in dead
| According TO the estimate at hand, the
navy has lost: Killed, l officer and IS
f.! men Cncluding Cadet BOardman. acct
dentaIly shot at Cape San Juan, August
1O; wounded, officers and 40 men. The
army has lost: Killed, % officers and 2S1
men; wounded, 81 officers and 1916 men,
Total American loss, "a officers and 249
men killed, 90 officers and 1856 men
| wounded.
1.-THE estimating of the number OF
American soldiers who lost their lives
through sickness in the war is more diff
ficult matter, because of the lack of COM
| plete reports from all hospitals. At pres
ent the Navy Department has no suf1-
cient data on the matter. AS 10 the army
$50 deaths is a conservative estimate
1.-The land that Spain must add to men
and ships in her column of losses in
| cludes Cuba's 1888 square miles. Porto
Rico contains 1850 square miles, and Is
the healthiest of all the West Indies
Guam, or Guahan, is the southernmost
and largest of the Ladrone group. If we
select it as our perquisite in that locality
we will get a fertile piece of ground 10
miles in circuit thickly wooded, and pro-
vided with couple of Spanish forts and
a roadstead The Philippines have an ag.
gregate area of 114,400 square miles. We
have taken thirty or forty transports in
the course of the war;