Jasper County Democrat, Volume 1, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 September 1898 — OUR LIST OF KILLED. [ARTICLE]

OUR LIST OF KILLED.

Thirty-three Officers and 231 Men Lost in War with Spain. The official records of the War Department, as far as completed, show that there were thirty-three officers and 231 enlisted men of the army, 264 in all. killed in battle during the war with Spaiu. These casualties include all the lives lost by the army in the battles in the Philippines as well as those in Cuba and Porto Rico. The percentage of officers killed is strikinly large, and is said to be unprecedented in the battles of the world. The contrast is especially striking in the case of the battle of Omduruian, where, although the loss of life was heavy, the list of killed included only one officer of the British army. The wounded, 1,430. The estimate of those killed by disease is placed at 1,300. Lives lost in navy and marine corps: Officers killed in battle, 1; men killed in battle, 13; ipen drowned, 1; men wounded, 38; total, 3.2G7.