The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1899-05-31
A WARSHIP'S GUNS BOOM
TIE MONADNOCK is BOMBARD-
ING PARANQUE
INVOCATION BY CHAPLAIN or POWERFUL
The Catholics Celebrate High Mass for the Dead
at The Paco Cemetery. The Body Of
Captain George H. Tiey
Sent 10 Ioo.


rial Day was celebrated at Battery
Knoll, where Scott's guns were plant
ed against the Filipino trenches in the
first days fighting at Manila. Nearly
three hundred soldiers are buried
there on bleak mound surrounded
by rice fields, rough boards marking
the graves, which are ranged in fvc
nnbrollen rows. Beyond these are
Spanish block houses and bamboo
hedges which were mown by shells
from the American guns.
The few soldiers who could be
spared from the trenches came to
Battery Knoll, dusty and bronzed,
bearing flowers with which to strew
their comrades graves. A silk flag
was placed above each mound. The
day was as mild as a New England
spring day, when, just before sunset,
few hundred Americans gathered
in a circle around Battery Knoll. III
blue and brown uniforms. Among
the soldiers were groups of American
ladies and brown-faced natives peer
ing curiously at the unwonted spec
tacle from points near by. The guns
of the monitor Monadnock, bo,nbard-
ing Paranaque. doomed I Significant
reminder of the nearness of war.
just as the Sixth artillery banl began
dirge, the thunder of the Monad-
nock's guns ceased, while taps sound
ed from the bugle.
Col. Charles DENLY, of the United
States Philippine commission. pre-
sided at the exercises. He spoke
briefly of the peculiar solemnity Of
the day to Manila. The chaplain of
the British cruiser Powerful made an
invocation. Chaplain Pierce. of the
Twentythird infantry. and Chaplain
Cressey. of the Minnesota volunteers,
delivered orations, and the soldiers
sang appropriate hymns.
After taps had been sounded the
soldiers took the flags from the
graves to send to relatives OF the
dead.
Similar services were held over the
dead i'm the Paco Cemetery this after,
noon. Colonel DENLY being the orator
on this occasion.
The graves We're decorated with a
vast quantity of magnificent flowers.
High mass for the dead of the Ro-
brated at the paco Cemetery in the
morning. Orations We're delivered by
Fathers McKinnon and McOuade and
Chaplain Stevenson Of the Idaho
regiment, Il Methodist and Peter
McQueen. a Congregational clergy
man of Boston.
Most of the business places of Ma
Mia were closed i'm observance of the
ftnxr H},n
e'Gn flags were displayed at half mast.
The graves of the soldiers and sailore,
at Cavite and Iloilo were also deco.
rated today.
HOW TILLEY WAS SLAIN.
Washington. May 30.-The two follow
ing dispatches We're received at the War
Department today and give the first
details of Captain Iilley's death on the
Island of Negros that have been re-
ceived since the first announcement Of
that fact in a message from Major
Thompson to Chief Signal Officer Gen
eral Greely. The most important add:-
tional information is that Captain Til
ley's body has been recovered anil i>
buried at Iloilo and that General Smith
is in possession of the town where tho
u
from General Otis indicates that the
Captain of the cable vessel and TWO 9TH
err men were also victims of the ambush.
but 1T does not make it clear wh thor
they eventually escaped or whether rhey
were killed and their bodies not recoy-
cred. The dispatches follow:
'lloilo. May Both.
AdJutant General. Washington.
captain George H. Tilley. Il. 8. ".
Signal Corps. was killed at Escalante,
east coast Island of Negros by ins,r-
gents Saturday, May 9th, at cleven
O'Clock Il. m.. details not known: buried
at Iloilo, May 30th.
tSigned IVAN yEI.LAH>'
Manila. May 30th.
"Adjutant General. Washington
Gable cOmpany's vessel placing cahje
between lloilo and Cebu ran 10 Esco
lante, East coast of Negros 10 remove
old cable connections: Cantam riuey.
signal corps, accompanied and with
town, natives making friendly demon
stratons' While there ambusncd. Can
tain and one man escaped II vessel in
launch: 1'illey and two men taking to
water and not rescued: vessel then, re-
ported at Iloilo: General Smlta Informed.
who immediately took Is men and pro.
ceeded to Escalante. He reports til,
morning that body Captain Tilley found
floating in river; marks of violence On