The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1899-05-31
CAPTAIN TILLY SLAIN.
His Body Recovered and Sent to
noilo For Interment,
TWO PETTY OFFICERS MISSING.

Their BoatAftorward Found In Possess
sion of Filipinos-soIemn Decoration
Day Ceremonies nc tho Grayes Of
Our Dead In the Philippines.
Manila, May 3l.-Brigadler General
South, who was sent with a detach-
ment of troops on board a gunbOat in
search of Captain George II. Tilly OK
the signal corps, reported missing at
Escalante. on the island of Negros,
sent the body OF Captain Tilly to
Iloilo yesterday on board a launch.
The body was found floating in the
river, and there were marks OF vio-
lence on the head. Later In the day
the body of Captain Tilly was buried
with notable ceremony. English
friends of the captain Joined with his
comrades Of the signal corps in ar
ranging for the funeral, and heaped
wreaths of flowers upon the coffin Of
the dead soldier. General South re-
mains at Escalante with his soldiers
to search for the two missing men who
we're with Captain Tilly when he met
his death.
Two petty officers of the eUnited States
hospital ship Relief went sailing in the
narbor yesterday. Their boat was
afterward found in the possession OF
natives near their Paranaque lines by
the Monitor Monadnock. The men
are supposed to have been killed or
captured.
Memorial day was celebrated al
Battery Knoll, where Scott's guns were
planted against the Filipino trenches
in the first days fighting at Manila
Nearly 300 soldiers lie buried there on
a bleak mound surrounded by rice
fields, rough boards marking the
graves, which are ranged in FIVE un-
broken rows. Beyond these are Span
ish blockhouses 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 com
rades' graves. A silk flag was placed
above each mound. The day was as
mild as a New England spring day
when, Just before sunset, a few hun.
dred Americans gathered in a circle
around Battery Knoll, In blue anC
brown uniforms. Among the soldiers
were groups of American ladies', ant
brown faced natives peered curiously
at the unwonted spectacle from points
near by The guns of the Monitor
Monadnock, bombarding Paranaque
doomed a significant reminder of tn,
nearness of war. Just as the Sixtl
artillery band began a dirge the thun
der of the Monadnock's guns ceased
while taps sounded from the bugle
Colonel Charles DENLY, of the United
States Philippine commission, presided
at the exercises. He spoke briefly o
the peculiar solemnity of the day t
Manila. The chaplain of the British
cruiser Powerful made an invocation
| Chaplain Pierce, of the Twenty-Five
infantry, and Chaplain Creasey, of thu
Minnesota volunteers, delivered ora
tions, ard the soldiers sang appro
pirate hymns.
After taps had been sounded sol
diers took the flags from the grave
to send to relatives of the dead.
Similar services were held over tn
dead In the Paco cemetery in tn
afternoon. Colonel DENLY was tn
orator on this occasion. The grave
were decorated with vast quantity c
magnificent flowers.
High mass for the dead of the Ro
man Catholic communion was cele
brated at the Paco cemetery in thu
morning. Orations were delivered b!
| Fathers McKinnon and McQuade
| Chaplain Stevenson, of the Idaho regi
ment, a Methodist, and Peter Mcqueen
a Congregational clergyman of Bos
| ton.
Most of the business places in Man
lila we're closed in observance of thu
day. The American and many foreigI
flags were displayed at half mast. TIT
graves of soldiers and sailors buriet
at Cavite and Iloilo were also decor
ated Yesterday