Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1899-04-29
SEVEN Of OUR
SOLDIERS SLAIN
Colonel Stotsenberg, Of the First
Nebraska, Falls in a Fight
With the Filipinos.
LIEUTENANT SlSS0N ALSO KILLED
LIEUTENANT SISSON ALSO KILLED
Two Nebraska Privates and Three
Sixth CavaIrymen the
Other Victims.
SEVERAL IOWA BOYS WOUNDED
Fifty-First Regiment Sees It's First
Fighting in n Hot Encounter
at Quingua 80 Fiiipinos
Finally Routed.

Manila, April "a, $3.50 U. Mn an
near Quingua, about four miles north
east of Malolos, seven Americans were
killed and forty-four wounded. The
following were killed:
COLONEL JOHN NJ. STOTSEN-
BERG, of the First Nebraska regiment,
formerly of the Sixth cavalry.
LIEUTENANT SISSON perhapT
Lieutenant August &. Sisson), of the
same regiment.
TWO PRlVATES, Of the Nebraska
regiment.
THREE PRIvATES, of the Fourth
cavalry.
Most Of the wounded belong to the
First Nebraska regiment. The Fill
pinOS rctreatcd with small loss.
The engagement developed into a
disastrous though successful fight.
The insurgents had a horseshoe trench
about "A mile long encircling a rice
field on the edge of a wood.
Major Bell, with forty cavalrymen,
encountered a strong outpost. One of
his men was killed and five were
wounded by a volley. The Americans
retired, carrying their wounded under
fire and with great difficulty, being
closely pursued, n fog enabling the en-
envy TO creep mp to them.
Two men who were carrying Il com
rade were shot in the arms, but they
continued with their burden.
Major Bell sent for reinforcemcnts
to rescue the body OF the killed caral-
ryman, and n battalion Of the Nebras-
ka regiment under Major Milford ar
rived and advanced until checked by
volleys from the cncmy's trenches.
The Americans lay about 500 yards
from the trenches, behind rice burrows,
under fire, for two hours.
Several men were sunstruck, n dy-
ing from the effects of the heat as they
lay there waiting for the artillery to
come up.
Finally the Second battalion arrived
and then Colonel Stotsenbcrg, who had
spent the night with his family at Ma
Mia, came upon the field. The men
Immediately recognized him ana
raised u cheer.
St%otscnbcrg Killed.
Colonel Stotscnbcrg, deciding 10
charge as the safest way out OF the
difficulty, led at the head of his rcgi-
ment. He fell with "A bullet in the
breast, dying instantly about 200 yards
from the breastworks.
Lieutenant Sisson fell with n bull
let In his heart, the bullet striking him
near the picture OF a girl suspended by
a ribbon from his neck.
In the meantime the artillery had
arrived and shclled the trenches.
~ IgI.s.A. .1AAI Y.,til fhn No
braska troops were right on the
trenches, then they boltcd to the sec
ond line of entertainments, a mile
back.
The Nebraska regiment lost two pri-
Yates killed and had many wounded,
including two licutenants. The Iowa
regiment had several wounded.
The Utah regiment had II officer
and three men wounded.
Thirteen dead Filipinos were found
in the trenches. Their loss was com
paratively small on account of their
shelter.
The Americans carried the second
trench with small loss and are holding
the town tonight.
Colonel Stotscnberg had won a rcpu-
as one of the bravest fighters in
the army. lie always led his regiment
and had achieved remarkable popu-
larity with his men since the war be-
gun, although during his first
.rolonelcy the volunteers who were not
used to the rigid discipline of the reg
ular troops, though him n hard officer.
The loss of the Nebraska regiment
in the campaign is the greatest sus
Nv INV rppimppt and tp1ny'S
disaster has greatly saddencd officers
and men, who promise to take fierce
vengeance in the next fight.