New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1902-07-30
Loss N lH Philippines
The First Comnila tion Showing the
Casualties Among Troops il
the Archipel ago.
TOTAL NUMBER or ENGAGEMENTS I ,38I
Only In . Very Few Instances We're
the Americas Troops Forced to-
surrender--Avera& strengfh of
.s.8 the Arm Was go, eaths from
All Causes 4, 155.

Washing on, % The casualties In
the American army in the Philippines
from February 4, 1899, the opening of
hostilities BY the insurgents, until
April 80, 1902, which date is given as
that of the virtual ending Of the insur-.
rection, have been made public BY Maj.
] James Parker, Of the adjutant gen-
erals office, being the first compila-.
ton of the sort relating to the war
fare in the archipelago.
LOSSES from All Causes.
I The losses from all causes are given
as follows:
81 Killed or died of wounds, So officers and
936 enlisted men deaths from disease, Al
omcersand 2,53 enlisted men deaths from
saccidents,s6 officers and 125 enlisted men;
4 drowned, officers and Isl enlisted men,
suicide, 10 officers and u enlisted men; muir
dered. officer and 81 enlisted men: total
deaths, 139 officers and 4,O16 enlisted men:
wounded, 1870 officers and 2, 7N enlisted men,
total Of asst: killed and wounded and
deaths other than by disease. 2S2 officers
and Ais enlisted men; totab 4,470.
Percentage Lost In Action.
IA large proportion of the deaths by
drowning occurred in action or in ac-
tive operations against the enemy.
Maj. Parker makes the percentage Of
killed and wounded to the strength Of
the army 9.7.
There were 1851 engagements with
the enemy, more or less serious. The
larger proportion of these. fights were
attacks from ambush on the American
troops or shrmishes in which only
small detachments took part.
Very Few surrenders.
Tin almost no case in these engage
ments," says Maj. Parker, "did Amer
lean troops surrender or have to res
treat, or have to leave their dead and
wounded in the possession Of the ene-
my, notwithstanding that in many
cases the percentage Of loss was high"
The number Of troops that he'd been
transported to the Philippines and had
arrived there up to- July Is last was
Abs officers and 123,so3 men. The
average strength, taken from month
~ returns for the period of the insur-
rection, was approximately 10000.
School Teachers Murdered.
Washington, July 24.-The war de-
partment has received the following
cablegram regarding the school-teach-
ers who have been missing from Cebu
since June 10: M A Z
"Jol1n E. Wells, 200 Mont gomery avenue,
Providence, r. l.. and his cousins, Louis A.
Thomas, same address; Ernest He9er, 1413
Vine street.. Cincinnati. o.. Clyde A.
France, Berea. O.; missing from Cebu,
were murdered by Ladrones; bodies re-
covered. The leader Of the murderers
killed, eight others captured by the con-
stabularyss''s
Army Post.
Washington, July "a Reports have
reached the war depa rtments that ;ex-
cellent progress is making on the
Manila post. Congress appropriated
$500, 900 early in the year, land 1900
acres Of land on the4Pasig river has
been acquired for the post. The tract
is about three miles long and one mile
wide. Roads have been graded and
macadamized from the river to the
new buildings, and work on the latter
is being pushed rapidly.