The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-03-07
A VICTIM OF TREACKERY.
Lieutenant KoehIer Lured 10 His
Death i'm Luzon.

] bAtuttnHht Hoehler IuFPu 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 3 up to March 4, the date
of the last engagement The only officer
killed was Lieutenant KOehler, who, on
March 4. was led into an ambush at
T!nuba, a small village six miles north of
Tarlac by supposed friendly native His
death was avenged by the burning of the
village and the killing of twenty-four in
surgents. Two officers were wounded The
list Of casualties is as follows:
Killed-Luzon, Company II, Fortieth Infantry,
Abay Province February H. William Martin;
Eleventh Cavalry, Troop 4. Saraya, January 10.
William X. Blanchard; c. indian, Seventh, James
Freeman; Third Cavalry. d, san Juan, February
26, Mark Burns; Ninth Infantry, Tinuba, March
I, First Lieut.. Edgar F. Koehler, at a. m;
Thirty-thrd Infantry, A, Tangadan Mountain, De
ccmber Z. James A. Whalen; Panay. Nineteenth
Infantry, A, PatBongon February -, George j.
Morris; Sixth, {, Frederick F. Parker.
Wounded -Luzon, Forterh Infantry, Company
G. Albay, sth, George Donaldson, thorax, severe
Twelfth, H. James Underwood, thigh, slight;
CJmalig, Twenty /, Thomas A. Kill
ough, thorax slight; Eleventh Cavalry, c. sal
aiuva, January ~, William Wright, foot severe;
+. John ". Hatfield, sergeant. leg. moderate;
Herbert Eikins, head, severe; Naic, Ninth /, John
W Maxwell, leg, moderate; Hilaug, seventh NJ,
George Net aTter, sergeant. arm, moderate; Ihir
ty-seventh Infantry, MagdaIeua, Fehralry Z, B,
frank Leers, wrist, severe; Twenty A, sam
NanLeers captain, forearm, very sight; Mllalay;
I"tnty-tourh Cayinti. March ,, +, Albert /.
Doop. thigh, severe; February 2s, VI, Andred
Hagland, forehead, slight Twenty fourth Infantry,
san Luis Ysbela December g, F, Matkt c. Nance,
pevis. severe; Naguian, seventh F, AIonzo b.
Kelly musician, thigh. slight; II, Charles Wilson,
scalp. siehti James Bentley. scalp. slight; lhr-
ty-ninth Infantry, Sampaloc Taydb1s. January
%, +. Simon HUDSON thigh, slight. san Pabl,
Twenty first. George f. Quinn. corporal, shoulder,
severe, F. Otis II. Sidener, abdomen. slight G,
LanIer Schley, corporal, leg, moderate; Maurice
7. Lindsay hand. slight; Panay, sixth Infantry,
Macato, February p, G., Frank c. Bodies, first
lieutenant, moderate OTIS.
The following record of Lieutenant
Koehler was given out by the War De-
partment yesterday:
Born in Illinois July g. 1859, and ap-
pointed from the Army Private and cor
poral Eighth Infantry November, 1891, to
November, 1894; second lieutenant Elev-
enth Infantry, October 81, 1891; transfer
red to Ninth Infantry, September o. 1897;
first lieutenant Fourteenth Infantry, May
u, 1898; transferred to Ninth Infantry
September 16 1898 His service was as
follows. He joined his regiment in De
eember, 1894 and served at Whipple Bar
racks, Arizona, to October. 1895; at Fort
d Chesne, Utah TO April 1886; at Fort
Apache Arizona, to October, 1896; at Fort
Logan II. Roots, Arkansas. to July, 1891
at Madison Barracks, New York, to April,