The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1899-07-22
AMERICAN LOSSES 3
IN TIE PHILIPPINES
Six Hundred and Ninety-Three Sol
diers Have Lost Their Lives
Siace the War Began.
WOUNDED IN ACTION, 1881.
Fourteenth Infantry Leads in Num-
Der of Killed. Nebraska lseg-
iment Second--. Deaths
From Disease.

Washington, July 1s.-The prospec-
tive early return of some of the regi-
ments of volunteers that have been
fighting in the Philippines gives addi-
tional interest to Il resume Of the cas-
%ualties in the &insular campaigns. Full
records of the losses by death, wounds,
sickness and otherwise, since the be-
ginning OF operations there early in
the summer of 1898, show that the
Minnesota regiment was most suscep-
tible to the baneful influences Of the
tropical climate, thirty-four of these
volunteers having expired in the hos
pitfalls up to the Fourth of July. Ore
gon was next, with twenty-four, and
Nebraska third, losing twenty-one men
from sickness. The Nebraska regiment
lost more men killed in action than
any other organization engaged, en-
cept the Fourteenth infantry, twenty
six members losing their lives at the
front from that state, against twenty
eight of the regulars.
Death. lravorite Regiment.
A comparative showing of the regi-
ments which lost heavily, as complied
from the official reports, is as follows:
Killed-Fourteenth infantry, 80; Ne
braska, 26; Kansas, 25; South Dakota,
20; Washington, 10; Third artillery,
10; Oregon, IA; Pennsylvania, ls;
Eighteenth infantry, 10; Montana, IL;
Twenty-second infantry, 8.
Observation-Disclosures, 1872; Montana,
1872; Kansas, 1874; Washington, 100;
Third artillery, 90; South Dakota, 81;
Minnesota, so; Oregon, 76; Pennsylva-
mia, 60; Twenty-second infantry, q;
California, Sc.
Exclusive of the deaths on the trans
parts the total number of men to lose
their lives in the Philippine war was
Cos. OF this number $50 We're killed
or succumbed to. wounds or disease.
The number of wounded in action was
1891. Five committed suicide, one, the
colonel of the Tennessee regiment,
died of apopleXy in an engagement,
and nineteen were accidentally
drowned. In detail, the report from
June 80, 1898, when the first military
expedition landed at Cayite, to July 4,
1899, shows the following casualties:
Deaths - Killed in action, 2S3;
drowned, 10; accidental deaths, IL;
suicides. s; a%popleNy, L; sickness, 275;
wounds, 92; total deaths, $50.
Othe1s-Wounded, 1891; missing, A.
total casualties, 2,2S4.
Volunteers Suffered Most.
Nearly twice as many volunteers as
regulars were killed, although the vol
unteer regiments We're only one-third
more numerous than the regulars. The
volunteers were, however, engaged for
n longer period than the regulars, nu-
mcrous regiments of the latter not
having arrived in the Philippines until
some of the most serious engagements
had occurred. The number of regulars
wounded was 513. against LOIS yolun-
teers. Sickness carried off twice as
many volunteers as regulars, the re-
spective totals being $50 and 95. Tabu-
lated as to branches of the service, the
showing of killed and wounded is us
follows:
Regulars-Killed, ia; died of
wounds, "a; died of sickness, 95; total
dead. 233; wounded. 513.
Volunteers-Killed, 169; died of
wounds, IS; died of sickness, $50; total
dead, All; wounded, 1,O7S.
Among the regulars the Twenty
third infantry lost Is by disease and
the Fourteenth 10. A tabuluted state
ment of the losses of organizations by
disease follows:
Regulars - Twenty-third infantry,
IS; Fourteenth infantry, 12; Eigh-
tecnth infantry, 10; Third infantry, s.;
Fourth infantry, S; Twenty-second in
fantry, s; hospital corps. Z; Twentieth
infantry, 5; Third artillery, 4; Sixth
artillery, A: Twelfth infantry, 4; sig
nal corps. 9; Ninth infantry. 2; First
cavalry, i; Seventeenth infantry, l.;
Nineteenth infantry, 1; Twenty-first
infantry. 1; total, 95.
Observation-Disclosures, "a; Oregon.
"a; Nebraska, 81; South Dakota, TO-;
Colorado, Is; California. 10; Montana,
10; Idaho, s; Washington, s; Kansas,
6; Pennsylvania, o; Tennessee, s.;
North Dakota, a; Iowa, 3; Utah, q;
Wyoming, 2: Aston battery, 1; Nevada,
Il; unknown, 2; total, $50.
1T is noticeable that the only casual
ty in the Nevada troops was the single
death from sickness shown in the fore
going. None from that state were
either killed or wounded.
The proportion o; volunteers to die
from wounds was nearly three to one
regular. AS in other casualties, Ne
hraska leads in this feature, having
lost twelve men from wounds.
Montana lost ten men from injuries,
and Kansas and Washington eight
each. The greatest loss among the
regular army men was in the Third ar
tillcry, five members of which died
from the effects of their wounds. The
following shows the losses by states
and regiments from this cause
Regulars-Third artillery, 5; Third
infantry, 81 Fourth cavalry, 2; Four
tenth infantry, 2; Seventeenth infan-
try. 2; Twenty-secoud infantry, .;
Twenty-third infantry. .; Fourth in
fantr.y, 1; Ninth infantry, l; Twelfth
infantry, 1; Fifteenth infantry, L;