The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1899-05-31
CAPTAIN .YALY SLAIN,
His Body Recovered and Sent to
loile For Interment.
TWO PETTY OFFICERS MISSING.

Their BOatAherward Found In Possess
sion Of Filipinos-solemn Decoration
Day Ceremonies ut the Graves Of
Our Dead In the Philippines.
Manila, May 31.-Brigadier General
South, who was sent with detach-
ment Of troops on board q gunboat in
search Of Captain George H. Tilly. OF
the signal corps, reported missing at
Escalante, on the island Of Negroes,
sent the body of Captain lilly to
Iloilo yesterday on board q 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 lilly was buried
with notable ceremony. English
friends Of the captain Joined with his
comrades Of the signal corps in ar
ranging for the funeral, aud heaped
wreaths of flowers upon the con1n Of
the dead soldier. General South re-
mains at Escalante with his soldiers
to search for the two missing men who
were with Captain lilly when he met
bis death.
Two petty officers Of the United States
hospital ship Relief went sailing in the
harbor 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 at
Battery Knoll, where SCOTS guns were
planted against the Filipino trenches
In the first days fighting at Manila.
Nearly 800 soldiers lie buried there on
q bleak mound surrounded by rico
fields, rough boards marking the
graves, which are ranged In five I'M
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 New England spring day,
when, Just before sunset, few hun
dred Americans gathered in a circle
around Battery Knoll, in blue and
brown uniforms. Among the soldiers
were groups of American ladies', and
brown faced natives peered curiously
at the unwonted spectacle from points
near by. The guns Of the Monitor
Monadnoek, bombarding Paranaque,
doomed significant reminder OF the
nearness of war Just as the Sixth
artillery band began 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 OF
the peculiar solemnity Of the day to
Manila. The chaplain of the British
cruiser Powerful made an invocation.
Chaplain Pierce, of the Twenty-third
infantry, and Chaplain Creasey, OF tho
Minnesota volunteers, delivered ora
tions, and the soldiers sang appro-
pirate hymns.
After taps had been sounded SOL
diers took the flags from the graves
| to send to relatives Of the dead.
Similar services were held over the
| dead in the Paco cemetery in the
afternoon. Colonel DENLY was the
| orator on this occasion. The graves
were decorated with a vast quantity Of
magnificent flowers.
High mass for the dead Of the Ro-
man Catholic communion was cele-
brated at the Pace cemetery in tho
morning. Orations were delivered by
Fathers McKinnon and McQuade,
Chaplain Stevenson, Of the Idaho regi-
ment, Methodist, and Peter Mcqueen,
Congregational clergyman of Bos-
ton.
Most of the business places in Man
ila were closed in observance of the
day. The American and many foreign
flags we're displayed at half mast. The
graves of soldiers and sailors buried
at Cavite and Iloilo were also decor
| ated Yesterday