Evening star., 1899-02-06
THE MANILA FIGHT


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a total of ffty-four Killed in the battle of
Saturday night and Sunday.
The second bulletin is as follows:
MANILA. February G, 1899.
Adjutant General, Washington.
Additional casualties-Killed in action:
Fourteenth Infantry-Corps. Guy B. So
den, E, and Henry F. Thompson, NJ; Pri-
Yates Jesse A. Hale A; Maurice L. Seeman,
A; Louis V. Dietz, D; Jas. Harvey Knight,
Charles w. Douglass Frank H. Issinghau-
sen Charles A. Seitz and Alphonso Bonner,
NJ, and Peter NJ. Stormont, I.
Sixth Artillery-Private w. A. Goodman,
d.
First 1daho-Maj Ed. McConville, Corp.
Frank R. Calwerel, B; Private James Fra
ger, c.
First California-Privates j. J. Dewar, X ;
Tom Bryan, H. and Joseph Maher, NJ.
First Washington-Corp. George w. Nc
Gowan, A; Privates Ralph w. Simonds, A;
George B. Reichart, Frank Smith, Matthias
II. Cherry, e; Sherman Harding, Edward
H. Perry I; Walter n. Hanson, L, and
Arro H. Noickel, H
Wounded in action:
Fourteenth Infantry-Sergt. Samuel E.
Boakler, 1; Corp. James Neary, NJ; Musi-
clan Joseph w. Osberger NJ; Private Dixon
A Everett, A; Michael Kennedy, Augustin
Berry, F; Benjamin A. Harbour Hugh P
Mcclellan. Herman Steinhagen, o. B.
Wright, 1; William Sloat, K Arthur L. Os-
leurn, Richard Hughes and Albert E. Barth
NJ
Died of w9pnds--Lieut James Mitchell,
14th Infantry, at 2:65 pm. February 6; Pri-
vate George w. Hall, G, 1st Idaho.
Col. Williant c. Smith, 1st Tennessee, died
Of apoplexy at the. head of his command on
firing line FebruarF5. OTIS.
Blue and Gray Fell Together
Col. WILLIAM c. Smith of the 1st Tennes-
see Volunteers, whose death from apoplexy
during the fighting at Manila is reported in
today's dispatches. is native of Peters
burg, Va, and served In the confederate
army under Gen. Lee during the civil war
in which he attained the rank of major
Since the war he has been engaged in bus
mess as an architect in Nashville, Tenn,
and became one of the most, prominent citi-
zens of that place. He leaves a widow and
four children. He was sixty-two years of
age.
Maj. Edward McConville, commanding
the I'd Battalion of Idaho Volunteers who
was also killed at Manila, was born in New
York. He served in the Union army
during the civil war ard was mustered out
as second lieutenant. He was in COM
mand of the North Idaho Volunteers dur
ing the Nez Perces war in 1877, and after
ward was superintendent of the Union
Training School at Fort Tapwai, which po-
sition he held when appointed major of the
1st Idaho Volunteers.
| One striking thing about the supple
mental dispatch was the announcement Of
the death Of Lieut.. Mitchell of the 14th In
fantry, occurring at '2:05 pm, February
u. The cablegram, which must have been
at least five or six hours in transmission
from Gen. Otis, arrived In Washington
shortly before noon on the same date. an
unusual Illustration of the vast difference
in time between this side of the earth and
the antipodes.
First Lieut.. James Mitchell, 14th Artil-
lery, is the only officer of the regular army
killed in the engagement of SATURDAY. night
so far as the official reports show up to
date. He was a native Of Ireland and has
been in the army since December 1867 He
enlisted as a private in the 7th Cavalry
and after seven years service in the signal
corps was appointed second lieutenant in
the signal corps in August, 1885
Subsequently he was transferred to the
10Th Infantry, and became first lieutenant
of the 14th Infantry in August 1892 He
accompanied his regiment to Manila as
part Of the first expedition that went to the
country from San Francisco, under Gen.
Greene, early last summer.