Show CASUALTIES AT MANILA Gon Otis Cables Weekly Death Boll in Islands Washington Jan 2Gen Otlss latest lat-est casualty report h as follows D > ath8 since last report Wounded by natives December ICth George A Wagner company F Fourteenth Four-teenth Infantry Drowned accidentally at Racoor No vombcr 13th Patrick TlarU company F iourttonth Infantry Rio Pasltr Manila December 27lh William Ott corporal company D Twentyflrsti i fa try Acute dysentery December 23rd John R Buckner musician company F Thirteenth Thir-teenth Infantry December 18th George W Magaln company K Twentysecond Infantry December 8th Troy Hamilton Hamil-ton troop I cavalry Chronic dysentery December 23rd Andrew S McClelland Thirtythird infantry in-fantry December 31st Joseph H Scltcs c v many K Twentysecond Infantry In-fantry December 2Cth James Shana han company A Twentyeighth infantry infan-try John A Renan company M Thirteenth Thir-teenth Infantry Chronic diarrhoea December 2lth William Crabb company E Fourteenth Infantry December 25th John G Sam company 3 Twentyfirst infantry December De-cember 23rd Michael Kane civilian late company I Twentysecond Infantry Infan-try Typhoid December 28th Andrew L silken troop M Eleventh cavalry December De-cember 20th James Croffcy company D Sixth Infantry December 30th George Pleets hospital steward Variola December 2Cth Hume Dulln company L Twentyfourth Infantry William W Adams company M Thlr tyfourth infantry Pneumonia October 19th John I Williams company H Twentysecond Infantry Malaria December 20th Robert Cut bane company H Sixth infantry Cachcxia December 27th Edward J Kelly Thirteenth nlfantry Acute alcoholism December 23rd MIchaol AldwIn compan D Thirteenth infantry I Gunshot wound In action December 13th WInthrop Richardson corporal troop H Fourth cavalry I I CAPTURE OF ODONNELL t HOW THE TWENTY F FTH TOOK TH TOWN Interesting Account I of the Good Work Done by Black Soldiers in I Northern Luzon fI f 1 fI N0J I Bamban Luzon Nov 20 1S90 Correspondence Cor-respondence of the Associated Press In the advance from Angeles to Dagu pan by our soldiers during the last two weeks the taking of the town of ODonnoll by Col Burls Twentyfifth United Stales regular Infantry is worthy of more than passing mention ODonnell lies some six mijes northwest north-west of Bamban antuoff the railroad from Manila to Dagupan Our main advance missed ODonnell on Its way north < Time Twentyfifth was stalioned at Bamban having arrived there after a hard march from down the track They had missed the fighting all excitement On November 17th i Filipino officer came to the outposts of the Twenty fifth and throwing his Captains shoul derstraps on the ground said expressively expres-sively dOnt want any morjCv iHc was talccn to CoUlimt well rGMQd and well foci I soon was learned that this man had several followers out In the bush also anxious to surrender and only awaiting news of their leaders reception at our hands before vcnturlng in themselves Go out and fetch them said Col 1 Burt Well give each man 15 who turns in a rllle These men came and their eyes stuck out with wonder at their good fortune when the Colonel counted out thirty Mexican dollars for each good rifle surrendered sur-rendered jT Over here about six miles is ODon nell filled with soldiers and arms said the Filipino Captain and 1 you want to send men to surprise and capture the town Ill lead them This was just what he Twentyfifth wanted to do Preparations were made at once and on the evening of the 18th at J oclock J companies B K and E under command of Capt Leon Ilaeuser I I started for ODonnell under the guid I ancc of the Filipino Captain In order to surprise the garrison the Americans went round about and over the CoOl his of tho mountains At 1 In the morning the command sighted a Filipino deserted Fili-pino outpost ontop t of a hill I was The column started again The ncrct Filipino outpost was at a palmleaf shack at the edge of the road Lieut Bales surrounded the house with a detail de-tail of company K Inside men could be seen moving We have the town surrounded said Lieut Bates In Spanish speaking Into aback a-back window two feet from his hear I you surrender quickly wo wont hurt you if yougive an alarm we will kill you I This was too tempting a proposition even to consider Out of the dark windows win-dows the insurgents passed three rifles and three bags of cartridges and even a bowl of rice Then three abject and frightened Tagalos came out to the Americans of friendship with humble protestations At this moment the yellow barking howling curs that Infest every village on the Island gave the alarm There was an immediate move toward the town and a few scattered shots were fired as our troops entered We were in the town now and the colored soldiers showed C grim and great earnestness In their work of gathering In prisoners rifles and bolos Strong black urms caught fleeing Insurgents upon tho streets and hauled them from under beds and beneath houses Native women wo-men screamed In alarm and on their knees offered money and food to our Amrelcan troops At C oclock in the morning the command com-mand started to return bringing with It tho prisoners some 225 rides and nearly 10000 rounds of ammunition loaded on bull carts procured in the town That same afternoon company E of the Twentyfifth returned to ODon noll to Rather in sixtynine more rifles and they destroyed certain Insurgent supplies and an outfit for the reloading of Tine cartridges The 123 prisoners were fed and then released |