The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1899-02-07
,OUR LOSSES
\ AT MANILA.
General Otis Sends a Casualty
A. Report to Washington.
THIRTY EIGHT ARE DEAD
And Forty-two Wounded as a Re-
suit Of the Fighting.
.INsUR9ENT LOSSES VERY HEAVY.

.INsURGENT LOSSES VERY HEAVY.
Two Thousand Killed, Thirty-five Hundred
Wounded and Five Thousand Taken
Prisoners-Filipinos Declare Our Troops
Precipitated the Battle to Force Ratifca.
tion Of the Peace Trcaty-Everything Is
Now Quiet in Manila, and Minnesota
Volunteers Are Doing Excellent Police
Work
Washington, Feb. 7-The important
news in Washington yesterday was the
ratification of the peace treaty and the
casualties in the latest battle of Man.
lila. The lists were long in coming,
fact explained by the cutting of the
telegraph wires along the American
front, which prevented early reports
from the division commanders. In the
meantime came short cablegram
from Admiral Dewey that caused some
temporary commotion by creating the
impression that hostiHties had been re-
newed by the insurgents. Up to the
close of Office hours, however, nothing
had come from General Otis to con-
firm this inference, and such cable
grams as did come from him touched
upon other matters entirely, so 1t was
assumed that there was no foundation
in fact for the apprehension.
When General Otis casualty lists
began to come over the cables they
were somewhat confusing, probably
due to the fact that there are 10 diff
ierent lines between Manila and Wash
fngton. The immediate effect was to
cause some errors to be made in the
reported list of killed. After great
difficulty the officials of the war de-
partment arranged the lists into
single list, which shows total of 3S
killed and AZ wounded
The killed, with the regiments to
which they belonged, are as follows:
First Montana: Corporal Hayes and
Private John Serensen. First Colo
RADIO: Privatcs c. c. White (supposod-
ly drownedD. Elmer T.. Doran and
Charles Carlson. First South Dakota:
Privates Horace J. McCracken, Fred
w. Green and William j. Lewis. Four
teenth infantry: Lieutenant James
Mitchell, Corpora!s Guy S. Soden and
Henry f. Thompson, Privates Jesse A.
Hale, Maurice l.. Seaman, Louis V.
Dietz, James Harvey Knight, Charles
Il. Douglas. Frank H. Issinghausen,
Charles A. Setz, Alphonse Bonner and
Peter M. Stormont. Sixth artillery:
waite w. A. Goodman. First Idaho:
. .at;er Ed -MeCenville, Corporal Frank
r. Calwerel, Privates James Frazer
and George w. Hall. First California:
Privates J. ]. Dewar, Tom Bryan and
Joseph Maher. First Washington:
Corporal George W. MCGOWAN, Pri-
Yates Ralph w. Simonds, George B.
Reichardt, Frank Smith, Matthias II.
Cherry, Sherman Harding, Edward II.
Perry, Walter ~ Hanson and Arno II.
Moickel. Colonel William G. Smith.
of the First Tennessee died of apop-
Iexy at the head of his command on
the firing line Feb. 6.
I III the list of wounded are six men
OF the Tenth Pennsylvania regiment.
They are: Major +. Brierer, flesh
wound In arm, slight; Lieutenant Al
bert J. Buttermore, flesh wound, slight;
Sergeant Joseph Sheldon, slight flesh
wound in the thigh; Private Hiram
Congr abdomen penetrated, serious;
Private Edward Caldwell, lung pene-
trated, serious; Private Default, flesh
wound, slight.
[ AS to the change in conditions
wrought by the ratification of the
treaty there Is variance OF views,
and Adiulant General Corbin and Sec
ond Assistant Secretary Adee, of the
state department, were giving the mat
sster attention yesterday with the idea
bf being able to send full instructions
for his future guidance to General
Otis Immediately. The extreme view
on one side is that until the Spanish
government ratities the treaty it is not
of legal effect According to that view,
therefore, the United States govern
ment is estopped from proceeding be-
yond their lines at Manila for the
time. By the other extreme view the
United States government is free to do
1ust az 1t plcGses in the entire group Of
islands, and will therefore proceed at
once to complete the military occu-
pancy of the islands. Perhaps there
IL Qualification for this last view In the
fact that the Filipinos were Spanish
subjects nominaliy when they broke
the terms of the protocol, and thereby
released the United States from its OBJ
servance. The medium view, and that
which Is likely to be followed is that
General Otis 10 justified in doing any
thing that is necessary to protect his
army. and all American and foreign in
terests in Manila, even though this
obliged him to assume the offensive
and to go outside Of the old lines in
pursuit of the insurgents, who may be
seeking to reorganize and rccoup from
their late defeat.
1t Is no secret now that the authori-
ties here we're preparing to arrest
Agoncillo just as lie fed. but prob
ably they are not sorry that he got off
safely and thus relieved them from the
performance Of disagreeable task
he Is now in Montreal. The conduc.