Hutchinson gazette. [volume] (Hutchinson, Kan.) 1895-1902, 1899-02-16
DEAD AND WOUNDED KANSANS
Corporal Ricketts, Was y School Teacher
--Mllls Game From wavsrIy


KILLED
PRIVATE JOHN A. GIBBONS, hospital
corps
PRIVATE ALoN2o RICKETTS, Company I,
Twentieth Kansas volunteer infantry,
PRIVATE FRED HALL, Comany /, First
Montana volunteer Infantry,
PRIVATE HARRY MCCLURE, Company II
First Idaho,
WOUNDED
Twentieth Kansas volunteer INF nlry- Cor.
pOral Edward ID, willing, Company II Prlyates
Harry 8, Harris, Company W I, j. Howard,
Company II elmer No. Eunie, Company ~
Jamess, Mills Company NJ David NJ Hork-
man, Company II William O. Barnor, Com
pany vi Bert Samson, Company X John o,
M0rsebarR, Company X Sidney Morrison
Company M Alexander N, Mitchell Com
pany H.
WASHINGTON, Feb, O,--General Otis
yesterday reported the following list
OF Kansas casualties
"Twenticth KansOs-Killcdi First
Lieutenant Alfred G. Afford; Company
II, Private Charles H. Pratt Wound.
ed' Il, Artlficcr Charles A. Kelson,
prlvates Dan Hewitt and John Gillian;
d, Raymond Clark; l. Sergeant jay
Sheldon; prlvates, William McGrAw
and Ernest Frltzi NJ Edward ZIebel,
MANILA, Feb o. Tuesday evening,
~ the Fillplnos at Caloocan were evil
IDENTIFY massing for night attack
upon tho American left wing, COM
panles Il, C and OF the Twentieth
Kansas infantry were ordered to Mt
tack and drive the sharpshootcrs from
u bamboo jungle In front OF the firing
line where they had caused consider
able annoyance all the afternoon, The
battalion, led by Colonel Funston,
charged brilliantly, driving the enemy
like chat, and penetrating to the very
heart Of Caloocan.
First Lieutenant A. G. Afford was
killed while leading his company lilo
was shot In the forehead. Sergeant
Jay Sheldon, Company |, was seriously
wounded. Prlvates Daniel Hewitt, Er.
nest Fritz, John Gillian and two other
members OF Company u were also
hlbUtly MouHueu'
Thirty dead Filipinos were counted
in the brush, and there were many
more wounded,
The gunboats Concord and Callao
kept up an incessant fire from the
bay, the Concord dropping many shells
into the town with telling effect, In
order to avoid accidents from this
source General Otis was compelled to
recall the Kansas battalion, after
burning the outskirts of the town.
Either the shells of the American war.
ships or the natives themselves fred
number OF buildings within the town
limits Presumably this was the re-
suit Of the Smelling. No further ut.
tempt to attack during the night was
made by either side,
TOPEKA, Kan, Feb l3.--Corporal
Ricketts,, Company |, Twentieth Kan
sos, who was killed at Manila yester-
day, enlisted at 0sawatomie. His oc-
cupation is given as school teacher
His father, s. Il, Ricketts,, lives in
stanton.
James $. Mills, Il. company, is 20
years Of age, laborcr and single, His
home was in Waverly, j. H. Mills OF
Lost Springs is his father.
Corporal H. d. willing, Harry s.
Harris, Elmer Il. Eunic, William O.
Barner and David NJ. Harkman are re-
cruits of whom there are no records in
the odjutant generals Office.
MANILA, Feb l3-Thc heat to-day
knocked out many more Of our men
than did the Filipino bullets, especial
ly In the marsh lands north Of Mala-
bon, where the Kansas regiment was
stationed Fully twenty of the Kan.
sans were taken to the hospital.
Among the incidents OF the day It Is
cited that privates Hartley and Fitch
of the Thirteenth Minnesota regiment
were both wounded in the legs by the
same bullet and Private Mitchell OF
Company b OF the Kansas regiment,
while assisting couple of men to tho
rear, was shot in the left arm.
The railroad is now open to COlocan
and supplies for the troops are being
forwarded by rail,