Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1899-07-20
AMERICAN LOSSES
IN THE PHILIPPINES
Six Hundred and Ninety-Three SOL
diers Have Lost Their Lives
Since the War Began.
WOUNDED IN ACTION, 1851
Fourteenth Infantry Leads i'm Num-
Der of Killed, Nebraska Reg
iment Sccond--- Deaths
From Disease.

Washington, July 1s.-The prospec-
tive early return of some of the regi-
ments of volunteers that have been
lighting in the Philippines gives addi-
t1onal interest to resume of the cas-
ualties in the insular campaigns. Full
records of the losses by death, wounds,
sickness and otherwise, since The be-,
ginning of operations there early in
the summer OF 1898, show that the
Minnesota regiment was most suscep-
tlble to the baneful influences of the
tropical climate, thirtyfour of these
volunteers having expired in the hos
pitfalls up to the Fourth of July. Ore
gon was next, with twenty-four, and
Nebraska third, losing twenty-one men
from sickness. The Nebraska regiment
lost more men killed in action than
any other organization engaged, eX-
cept the Fourteenth infantry, twenty
six members losing their lives at the
front from that state, against twenty
eight of the regulars.
Deaths f'avoritc Regiment.
n comparative showing of the regi-
ments which lost heavily, as compiled
from the official reports, is as follows:
Killed-Fourtcenth infantry, 20; Nc
braska, 26; Kansas, rs; South Dakota,
25; Washington, 10; Third artillery,
10; Oregon, IA; Pennsylvania, 13;
Eighteenth infantry, 10; Montana, IL;
Twenty-second infantry, 8.
Wounded-Nebraska 1872; Montana,
1872; Kansas, 1874; Washington, 1909;
Third artillery, %; South Dakota, 81;
Minnesota, so; Oregon, rs; Pennsylva-
MIA, 60; Twenty second infantry, Z;
California, Sc.
Exclusive of the deaths ON the trans
ports the total number of men to lose
their lives in the Philippine war was
603. OF this number $50 were killed
or succumbed to wounds or disease.
The number of wounded i'm action was
1901. Five committed suicide. one, the
colonel of the Tennessee regiment,
died of apoplexy in an engagement,
and nineteen were accidentally
drowned. In detail, the report from
June 80, 1898, when the first military
expedition landed at Cavite, to July 4,
1899, shows the following casualties:
Deaths Killed in action, 2s3;
drowned, 10; accidental deaths, IA;
suicides, $; apopleNy, /; sickness. 275;
wounds, 90; total deaths, $50.
Othe1s-Wounded, l,59li missing, 4
total casualties, 9,2s4.
Volunteers Suffered Most.
Nearly twice as many volunteers as
regulars We're killed, although the vol
unteer regiments were only one-third
more numerous than the regulars. The
volunteers We're, however, engaged for
a longer period than the regulars, nu-
merous regiments of the lattV not
having arrived in the Philippines until
some Of the most serious engagements
had occurred. The number Of regulars
wounded was 513, against LOIS yolun-
teers. Sickness carried off twice as
many volunteers as regulars, the re-
spective totals being $50 and 95. Tabu-
lated as to branches of the service. the
showing of killed and wounded is as
follows:
Regulars Killed, ia; died of
wounds "a; died of sickness, 95: total
dead 233; wounded, 513.
Nolunteers-lIill 16p; died of
wounds, IS; died of siclsness, $50; total
dead All; wounded, 1,o7s.
Among the regulars the Twenty
third infantry lost Is by disease and
the Fourteenth 10. A tabulated state
ment of the losses of organizations by
disease follows:
Regulars = Twenty third infantry,
IS; Fourteenth infantry, 10; Eigh
teenth infantry, 10; Third infantry, s;
Fourth infantry, S; Twenty-second in
fantry, s; hospital corps, Z; Twentieth
s; Third artillery. 4; Sixth
a; Twelfth infantry, 4; sig
nal corps, 2; Ninth infantry, 2; First
cavalry, /; Seventeenth infantry, 1;
infantry, j; Twenty first
/; total, 95.
Volunteers Minnesota, "a; Oregon,
"a; Nebraska, 21; South Dakota, 16;
Colorado, IS; California, 10; Montana,
10; Idaho, s; Washington, s; Kansas,
6; Pennsylvania, $; Tennessee, s;
North Dakota, 4; Iowa, 81; Utah, z:
.: Aston battery, i; Nevada,
l.; unknown, 9; total, $50.
II is noticeable that the only casual
ty in the Nevada troops was the single
death from sickness shown in the fore
going. None from that state were
either killed or wounded.
The proportion of volunteers to die
from wounds was nearly three to one
ltS tAS III OtHCI 1NC-
braska leads in this feature, having
lost twelve men from wounds.
Montana lost ten men from injuries,
and Kansas and Washington eight
each. The greatest loss among the
regular army men was in the Third ar
tillery, five members of which died
from the effects of their wounds. The
following shows the losses by states
and regiments from this cause:
egulars-Thrd artillery, 5; Third
infantry, 3; Fourth cavalry, .; Four
tenth infantry, .; Seventeenth infan-
try, 2; Twenty-second infantry, 2:
Twentythird infantry. 2; Fourth in
fantry, /; Ninth infantry, /; Twelfth
infantry, L: Fifteenth infantry. /;
infantry, 1; Twentieth in
fantry, 1; total, "a
Volunteers Nebraska, 10; Montana.
10: Kansas, S; Washington. s: South
Dakota, S; Colorado. a: North Dakota.
A; California, 3; Oregon. 3; Utah. 3;
Idaho, 2; Minnesota. 2; Pennsylvania.
2; Astor battery, i; Wyoming, i; to-
tai 6S.
Summary of the Wounded.
A summary of the leading states in
the wounded list has been given in
another port en of this article, but the
following is appended to show the eN-