The Washington times., 1902-05-06
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GEN. CHAFFEE REPORTS ON
MINDANA0 CASUALTIES.
List of Killed and Wounded in Attack
on Bayan Stronghold-Lieut.
Wears Career.

Major General Corbin. the Adjutant
| General of the Army. received last night
| from Major General Chaffee at Manila
| telegraphic report Of the casualties sus-
! tanned by the American force In ATTACKING
the stronghold of the Moros ut Bayan.
island of Mindanao. on May 2. 1t shows
tina. the officer killed was Lieut.. Thomas
A. Wears. of the Twenty-seventh lniantry'
| renorted in The Times Manila cable DAY
before yesterday as Lieutenant BoVars.
The casualties were: Killed. one once.
and seven enlisted men, and one enlisted
man mortalIy wounded. wounded; ,ouI
officers and thirty-eight men, inciunins
six whose names were not Verineu, IA,
erai Chaffee's cable containing the hst
follows:
.To Adiutant General, Washington:
.sTbo foIloving casualties, battle Bayan,
Mindanao, May 2:
Killed-First Lieut. Thomas A. Wears i"eh-
ty-seventh United States Infantry.
Corporal Michael Golden ,,
Private James J. McGrath, Company =, i"e"
ty-seventh Infantry. ~
Private William Lorenz. Company IT, i"en''
Private Charles ..eynolds, Company @, Twenty
ty seventh Infantry.
Private John Lapedon, company VI A"e'
seventh Infantry.
Private Alfred J. Callahan.
Private Frederick Cornell.
Wounded-R s. Porter, major and surgeoh'
wounded in high serious -
Capt. James T. Moore, wounded in head.
serious. -, -o
First Lieut. Henry S. Wagner. leg, ana
wounded in abdomen. serious
Sergeant John wheaton. Company p twenty
seventh Infantry, wounded In thigh, serious
Sergeant Eugene l.. Mccarthy, wounded IN
thigh. serious.
Corporal Henry G. Mlington. moderately
Battalion Sergeant Major Albert ii. lgod, ell
ouartermaster Sergeant George ]. Beckley,
Company E, Twenty y-seyenth Infantry, eheeS'
slight.
Gus; Privatcs Frank A. Perry lung, severe;
Arthur Smith, lung. severe; Walter F. Cam.
mors arm, severe; Everett z. Marshall wounded
in leg above knee. moderate; Charley COBB;
wounded in arm. serious; Floyd Croft. wounded
in leg above knee moderate; John NJ Quinn,
ankle, severe: Robert Mccormack. severely: Ed
ward W. Blair. Company II, Twenty ty-seventh In
fantry. legs. and wounded in arm, serious; John
o'Donnel, shoulder. and wounded in thigh. seri-
Gus: Otto p. Avick. wounded IN hand. moder-
ate: Claude Damon, wounded in leg above knee
moderate; Walter E. Eldridge. wounded IN foot,
slight; James p. Smith, wounded in back, slight;
william r. BTocan wounded In thigh. serious;
William Brown, wounded in leg above knee,
serious; George A. Decarr, Company @, Twenty
seventh Infantry wounded in leg above knee,
serious: John Sullivan. wounded in hand. slight
William H. VIM. wounded in arm, moderate;
Joseph A. Adams face, slight: Fred Gross,
wounded in head, moderate; Hermidas Viola.
wounded in hand, serious; John DAILY wounded
in aims. serious: Peter Sullivan. Company b. Z
Twcnty-seventh Infantry. wounded in leg above
knee serious; Joseph Lyons, wounded in shoulder, /
serious: James ]. Haley. mortsy wounded. since [
died: Herbert Chatterton. wounded in leg above /
knee slight: and six other enlisted men wounded, /
names not verified.
Later News-Brig Gen. George ". Davis says !
Lieutenant Wagner's stomach may not be pene-
trated. and Captain Moore, very c.ose call, bui-
let soaring scalp. making trepannin2 neees-
sary; entirely rational CHAFFEE- I
Lieutenant Wears Fine Record.
Lieut.. Thomas A. Wears who was kill
I'd at Bayan, Mindanao. rose from the
ranks to a commissioned grade. He was
born in Canada. He enlisted in the army,
April 4. 1892, and was assigned to the
twenty first Infantry, and served in that
'egiment as private. corporal, sergeant.
md quartermaster sergeant until April 4,
ss9. when he was appointed as second
lieutenant.
Lieutenant Wears obtained his first lieu
enaucy last year and was assigned to
he newly organized Twenty-seventh In
antry. which only recently arrived in the
Philippines. Lieutenant Wears. however.
Iad been on duty with the Twenty-first in
he islands.