The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-03-07
A VICTIM OF TREAChERY.
Lieutenant KOehIer Lured TO His
Death in Luzon.

long list of soldiers killed and wounded
! in the Philippines was received from Gen
eral Otis by the War Department yester-
| day. 1t includes not only those injured in
| recent engagements, but covers the period
| from December up to March 4. the date
| of the last engagement. The only officer
| killed was Lieutenant koehler who on
March a. was led into an ambush at
| T:nuba, a small village ST.: miles north OF
Tarlac, by supposed friendly native. His
death was avenged by the burning of the
village and the killing of twentyfour in
| surgents. Two officers were wounded. The
list of casualties is as follows:
Killed-Luzon, Company H, Fortieth Infantry.
Albay Province February H. William Martin;
Eleventh Cavalry. Troop A, Sariava, January 10,
William II. Blanchard; c, indian, Seventh, James
freeman; Third Cavalry, d, San Juan, February
%, Mark Burns; Ninth Infantry, Tinuba, March
l. First Lieut.. Edgar F. Koehler at a. IN. /;
Thirty third Infantry, A. Tangadan Mountain, De
cember I, James A. Whalen; Panay, Nineteenth
Infantry, A, Patnongon, February Is, George J.
Morris; Sixth C, Frederick F. Parker.
Wounded-Luzon, FOrtieth Infantry, Company
G, Albay, sth, George Donaldson, thorax, severe;
Twelfth, II, James Underwood, thigh, slight;
Camalig, Twenty f, Thomas A. Kill
ough, thorax. slight; Eleventh Cavalry, c, Sal
aiava, January 49, William Wright, foot severe;
+, john ". Hatfield, sergeant, leg. moderate;
Herbert Elkins, head, severe; Naic, Ninth /. John
W. Maxwell, leg, moderate; Hilang, Seventh NJ,
George McCarter, sergeant, arm moderate; Thir-
ty-seventh Infantry, Magdaleua. February Z, b.
Frank Leers, wrist, severe; Twenty eight, A, Sam
Nanleer, captain, forearm, very slight Mljaiay;
Twenty fourth, Cayinti March 2 F., Albert l..
Dooci, thigh, severe; February 2S, NJ, Andred
Haeland forehead slight; Twenty fourth Infantry,
San Luis NSibela. December 8, F. Mackt C. Nance,
peivis, severe; Naguilian, seventh +, Alonzo Is.
Kelly, musician, thigh, slight; II, Charles Wilson,
scalp sight, James Bentley, scalp slight; Thir
ty-ninth Infantry, Sampaloc Tayabas, January
20, +, Simon Hudson. thigh, slight; San Pabl,
Tweni -hrst, George +. Quinn. corporal shoulder.
severe; +, Otis ii. Sidener. abdomen, Slight; G,
Lanier Schley, corporal. leg. moderate; Maurice
7. Lindsay, hand, slight; Panay, sixth Infantry,
Macato, February "a, G, Frank C. Boes first
lieutenant, moderate. OTIS
The following record of, Lieutenant
Koehler was given out by the War De-
partment yesterday:
Born in Illinois July ., 1869, and ap-
pointed from the Army. Private and cor
poral Eighth Infantry November, 1891, to
November, 1894 second lieutenant Elev-
enth Infantry. October 81 1894; transfer
red to Ninth Infantry, September ~, 1897;
first lieutenant Fourteenth Infantry, May
u, 1898: transferred to Ninth Infantry,
September 10, 1898. His service was as
follows. He Joined his regiment in De-
cember. 1894, and served at Whipple Bar
racks, Arizona, to October, 1895: at Fort
Dt Chesne, Utah, to April, 1886; at Fort
Apache, Arizona, to October, 1896; at Fort
Logan II. Roots, Arkansas. TO July, 1897;
at Madison Barracks, New York, to April,