Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1899-02-18
DEAD AND WOUNDED KANsAns
Corporal Ricketts, Was q School Teacher
Mills Came From Waverly

Corporal Ricketts, Was = School Teacher
Mills Came From vyaverIy.
KILLED.
PRIVATE JOHN a GIBBONS, hospital
corps.
PRIVATE ALoNzo RICKETS. Company I.
Twentieth Kansas volunteer infantry.
PRIVATE FRED HALL Comany I, First
! Montana volunteer infantry.
PRIVATE HARRY MCCLURE Company H
First Idaho
WOUNDED
Twentieth kansas volunteer inf ,ntry-Cor-
poral Edward D. Willing. Company B; Privates
Harry s Harris. Company B; L J. Howard,
Company B Elmer E. Eunie, Company B;
, James s. Mills, Company E; David NJ HOrk-
man, Company H; William C Barnor. Com
pany E; Bert Samson, Company K; John O.,
Morseberg Company K Sidney Morrison.
Company NJ Alexander NJ. Mitchell, Con-
pany B.
WASHINGTON, Feb. General Otis
yesterday reported the following list
OF Kansas casualties:
Twentieth Kansas-Killed: First
Lieutenant Alfred c. Afford; Company
II, Private Charles E. Pratt. Wound
ed: B, Artifcer Charles A. Kelson,
privates Dan Hewitt and John Gillian;
D, Raymond Clark; i, Sergeant Jay
Sheldon; privates, William McGraw
and Ernest Fritz; NJ. Edward Ziebel.
MANILA, Feb. 9.-Tuesday evening,
as the Filipinos at Caloocan were evil
IDENTIFY massing for night attack
upon the American left wing, COM
panies B, c and of the Twentieth
Kansas infantry were ordered to at
tack and drive the sharpshooters from
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 chaf, and penetrating to the very
heart of Caloocan.
First Lieutenant A. c. Afford was
killed while leading his company. He
was shot in the forehead Sergeant
Jay Sheldon. CompanyI. was seriously
wounded. Privates Daniel Hewitt, Err
nest Fritz, John Gillian and two other
members of Company B were also
slightly wounded.
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
OIOSI " dNOI0 from InlS
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 fired
number of buildings within the town
limits. Presumably this was the re-
suit of the Smelling. No further at
tempt to attack during the night was
| made by either side.
TOPEKA. Kan, Feb. 13.-CorporaI
| Ricketts,, Company /, Twentieth Kan
sas, who was killed at Manila yester-
day, enlisted at Osawatomie. His oc-
cupation is given as school teacher.
His father, S. T. Ricketts,, lives in
| Stanton.
James s. Mills, E company, is %
| years of age, 4 laborer and single. His
home was in Waverly. ]. II. Mills of
Lost Springs is his father.
Corporal F. D. Willing, Harry S.
J Harris, Elmer E. Eunie, William c.
Barner and David NJ. Harkman are re-
cruits of-whom there are no records in
the adjutant generals office
MANILA, Feb. 13.-The 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 a couple of men to the
rear, was shot in the left arm.
The railroad is now open to Calocap
and supplies for the troops are being
| forwarded by rail