Salt Lake Tribune | 1904-05-12 | Page 1 | Americans Slain by Moros

.HH-1 ' ' ' jH Q 44444444444444 'St I MASIIAi May 11. Lieut Winfield Harper and thirty-nine men of F company of the seven- t ;S I Mth United States infantry were caught on May S in an ambush by several hundred Moros t ?g I'L American officers and lifteen men were killed and live men were wounded. The ambush oc- J 5ir6 1 at Simpatem, on the east shore of Lake Ligusan, island of Mindanao. The officers killed in the ambush were First Lieutenant Harry A. Woodruff and Second f I lieutenant Joseph H. Hall, both of the Seventeenth infantry. Lieut. Woodruff was born in In- ' idianaand entered the service from the State of Xew York. Lieut. Hall was born in Alabama t )j ' I , ffas promoted to his Lieutenancy from the ranks. ' ' ' I' ,f J!Im4-M-MtM-4 Mill 444444444444444444444-44-4444t H M H I H I I t