The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-07-25
LOSSES OF AMERICANS.
Details of the Fight That Resulted in
the Capture of Tfen-Tsin.


downright 1900 by the Associated Press
TIEN-TSIN. July IA. via Che-Foo. July
16 and Shanghai, July 24.-The Ninth Reg
iment United States Infantry entered the
fight at Tien-Tsin with 43O men. An in
complete list of casualties shows is killed
70 wounded and missing. The marines
loss was killed and is wounded
Major James Regan, Ninth Infantry.
was wounded in the leg; Captain Edwin
V. Bookmiller, Ninth Infantry, in the leg
and groin First Lieutenant Smedley ID.
Butler, United States marine corps, in the
leg; Captain w. B. Lemley, United States
marine corps, in the arm; Second Lieuten-
ant Frank r. Lang, Ninth Infantry, in the
foot.
First Lieutenant Henry Leonard. of the
marine corps carried Lieutenant Butler
from the field under a fierce fire. He was
shot in the upper arm while returning, but
ran and swan a mile under fire, getting
To the rear. His arm was amputated to-
day.
Captain Charles r. Noyes, who had
been slightly wounded in the arm and
leg, swan a mile with only his nose above
water, with request for reinforcements.
the Ninth Infantry, made a dash for re-
Inducements under fire. and received
three slight wounds
Colonel Liscum was shot in the abdo-
men and died half an hour later His last
words were: Keep up firing.
The Ninth was ordered to support the
Japanese, who were receiving an enfilad-
ing fire. After crossing a mud wall half
mile from the city wall, the Ninth shifted,
advancing against the fianking fire and
reached a marsh beside the river at the
southwest corner of the city. A body of
Chinese in a burned village under the wall
just across the river, where they were
strongly barricaded, poured in fire and
whenever an American raised a hand he
was shot. A Nordenfeld gun and two small
cannon were also trained upon them. They
lay in the mud all day without a surgeon
to attend their wounded, who were un-
able to move help the wounded. with
out food and drinking the canal water.
They had exhausted their ammunition ex-
cept few rounds, which were retained
in order to repel charge If 1t should be
made. None expected to escape. A few
reaching the rear reported that half of
the command had been killed or wounded,
including heat prostrations in the esti-
mate.
After the Americans had retired under
cover of darkness they struggled back in
squads all night, pitifully exhausted and
carrying their wounded The American
| hospital was crowded and short of sur
geons there having been no expectation
of such losses.
| To-day squads searched the fields. COL
| lecting the dead and wounded. Colonel Lis
Gums body was escorted TO a boat this
evening by two battalions OF English
troops. with general and a colonel al
| their head. Lieutenant Colonel Coolidge
| who is now commanding the regiment and
| Major Lee were among the pallbearers
he chaplain of the marine corps read the
service at the canal lock. The body will
| be shipped TO San Francisco.
| The total losses of the allies were about
500. The British lost 50. The Japanese esti
mate their killed at so and wounded at $50
| The Russians estimate their casualties a,
| 80. All day long the work OF bringing
| in the dead and wounded was continued
The japanese were the heroes of the bat.
| tie. Their lighting was remarkably brave
and was praised by all their colleagues
seled retreat last night the Japanese gen,
eral said: when my men move IL viii
be forward This morning they charged
| the breaches in the wall made by the ar
| tillery and fought hand TO hand In tn.
streets. Their conduct after the fight wa,
equally good. as they refrained from loot