The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1899-02-07
OUR LOSSES
AT MANILA.
General Otis Sends a Casualty
Report to Washington.
THIRTY EIGHT ARE DEAD
And FOrty-two Wounded as a Re-
suit of the Fighting,
IEsURGENT LOSSES VERY HEAVY.

I aNAAANNf AAA y hAAAANa
Wounded and Five Thousand Taken
Prisoners-Filipinos Declare Our Troops
Precipitated the Battle to Force Ratifca-
ton of the Peace Treaty-Everything Is
Now Quiet in Manila, and Minnesota
Volunteers Are Doing Excellent Police
Work.
Washington. Feb. THE important
news In Washington yesterday was the
ratification Of the peace treaty and the
receipt from General Otis Of list Of
casualties in the latest battle OF Man
lila. The lists were long in coming,
a 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 a short cablegram
from Admiral Dewey that caused some
| temporary commotion by creating the
| impression that hostilities had been re-
| newed by the insurgents. Up to the
close OF office hours, however, nothing
| had come from General Otis to con-
hrm this inference, and such cable
| grams as did come from him touched
upon other matters entirely, so It 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 19 diff
ferent lines between Manila and Wash
ington. 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 a 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
rado: Privates c. G. White (supposed-
ly drowned), Elmer F. Doran and
Charles Carlson. First South Dakota:
PriYates Horace ]. McCracken, Fred
W. Green and William ]. Lewis. Four
teenth infantry: Lieutenant James
Mitchell Corporals Guy S. Soden and
Henry f. Thompson, Privates Jesse A.
Hale, Maurice L. Seaman, Louis V.
Dietz, James Harvey Knight, Charles
r. Douglas, Frank H. Issinghausen,
| Charles A. Seitz, Alphonse Bonner and
Peter M. Stormont. Sixth artillery:
| Private w. A. Goodman. First Idaho;
Major Ed McConville, Corporal Frank
r. Calwerel, Privates James Frazer
and George W. Hall. First California:
Privates j. J. Dewar, Tom Bryan and
Joseph Maher. First Washington:
Corporal George w. MCGOWAN, Pri-
Yates Ralph w. Simonds, George B.
Reichardt, Frank Smith, Matthias H.
Cherry, Sherman Harding, Edward H.
Perry, Walter N. Hanson and Arno H.
Moickel. Colonel William c. Smith,
Of the First Tennessee, died Of apop-
leXy at the head of his command on
the firing line Feb. 5.
In the list of wounded are six men
Of the Tenth Pennsylvania regiment.
They are: Major e. Brierer, flesh
wound In arm, slight; Lieutenant AL
bert ]. 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 a variance OF views,
and Adjutant General Corbin and Sec
Agofgfonf -
state department, were giving the mat
ter attention yesterday with the idea
of being able to send full Instruction.
for his future guidance to General
Otis Immediately. The extreme view
on one side is that until the Spanish
government ratifies the treaty it Is not
OF legal effect. According to that view.
therefore, the United States goyern-
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
just as 1t pleases in the entire group of
islands, and will therefore proceed at
once to complete the military occu-
pancy of the islands. Perhaps there
| Is justification for this last view In the
fact that the Filipinos were Spanish
subjects nominally 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 10 be followed, is that
/ General Otis Is justified in doing any
| thing that is necessary 10 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 recoup from
their late defeat,
1t is no secret now that the autbnri-
ties here were preparing to arrest
Agoncillo Just as he fed, but prob
ably they are not sorry that he GOT ON
safely and thus relieved them from the
performance OF disagreeable task.
He is now In Montreal. The conduct