The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-08-20

July 8. Chief Yeoman George II. Ellis of
the Brooklyn was the only American kill
ed. Three were slightly wounded on the
Texas. The Spanish loss has been estt-
mated at $50 killed and l60 wounded, in
GLIDING 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 subse-
quent mutiuy of Spanish prisoners on the
Harvard six of them were killed and
fifteen wounded. The loss with the Span
ash cruiser Alfonso XII is unknown.
Winthrop Chsnler of this city, a brother
of Col William Aston Chanler, was
wounded in the right arm on July 3, while
landing with force of twenty-five Rough
Riders and some Cubans from the aux
, Hilary gunboat Peoria at Palo Alto.
Gen Miles, after effectlng his landing in
Porto Rico. at Guanica, has had such
gratifying time of It that there We're prac-
tically no American casualties. Capt.
Gihon Barrett and four men, all Sixth
Massachusetts, were wounded in a tight
before Yauco, where four Spaniards We're
found dead and several wounded. ON
Aug. 6, eight privates were wounded at
Guayama. One Spaniard was killed and
two wounded Five men were wounded
at Coamo Aug 8. Three days later, at
Asomanta, Lieut.. J. p. Haines. Fourth
Artillery, and two privates were wounded
and a corporal killed. One man was Kill
ed and an officer and fifteen men wound
ed near Hormigueros.
In the fight at Manila, July 81 the
Spanish loss was estimated at 800 killed
and !. 900 wounded, and we lost nine killed,
nine seriously wounded, including Capt.
Reinholdt Richter, and thirty-eight slight
ly wounded.
The last casualty in the navy was the
death of Emanuel Konlouris, coal passer
on the gunboat Bancroft, who was killed
during a recent engagement with Spanish
rihemen at a point of land jutting out
into Cortes bay.
Corpl. Swanson was killed Friday by
shell in Gen Wilson'S advance in Porto
Rico. Capt. Lee and Lieut.. Names and
three privates were wounded. The Span
sh loss has not been reported.
Gen. Vara del Rey of the Spanish forces
was one of those killed at Ell Caney Gen.
Toral declined to estimate the total span
ish losses there. 1t is safe to say that
their loss in killed in battle on land and
sea is several times our loss in dead. Ac-
cording to estimate at hand the navy has
lost: Killed. / officer and IS men, Unclud-
ing Cadet Boardman, accidentally shot at
Cape San Juan, Aug. 100; wounded oil-
GERS and 40 men. The army has lost. Kill
ed % officers and 231 men; wounded. 81
officers and 1876 men. Total American
loss "a officers and A9 men killed. ~ OIL
GERS and $50 men wounded.
The estimating of the number of Amerl-
can soldiers who lost their lives through
sickness in the war is more difficult
matter, because of the lack of complete
reports from all hospitals At present the
navy department has no SUFFICIENT data on
the matter. AS to the army, $50 deaths
is a conservative estimate.
The land that Spain must add to men
and ships in her column of losses includes
Cuba's 1880 square miles. Porto Rico
contains $3.50 square miles, and is the
healthiest of all the West Indies. Guam
or Guahan, is the southernmost and larg-
est of the Ladrone group. If we select 1t
as our perqusite in that locality we will
get a fertile piece of ground 100 miles IN
circuit, thickly wooded, and provided with
a couple of Spanish forts and roadstead
The Philippines have an aggregate area
of 114,4O0 square miles. We have taken
thirty or forty transports In the course Of
the war.