Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 March 1900 — SOLDIER KILLED FROM AMBUSH [ARTICLE]

SOLDIER KILLED FROM AMBUSH

Treacherous Act of Filipinos—Americans Burn a Village. > A Manila dispatch says that Lieut. Edgar F. Koehler of the Ninth infantry was shot in the abdomen and killed at a village six miles north of Tarlac, where he went in search of some hidden rifles. A Filipino, promising to produce the rifles, led him into an ambush away from his command. The American soldiers in revenge burned the village and killed twenty-four of the enemy. Gen. Bates’ expedition to southern Luzon, consisting of the Fortieth and Fortyfifth regiments, a total of 2,1100 men, has occupied Neuva Caceres, province of South Camarines; Daet, province of North Camarines, and the neighboring smaller towns. The enemy resisted at one point and two Americans were killed, including Lieut. John B. Galleher of the Fortieth regiment. The rebels lost heavily. On Feb. 20 the expedition arrived at San Miguel bay, landed, and in three columns immediately pushed inland, converging upon Nueva Caceres, and attempting to control the enemy’s routes to retreat. At Libmanan, north of Nueva Caceres, the enemy was concealed in the rice fields and resisted a battalion of the Fortieth regiment, which engaged them at close quarters with bayonets. After forty minutes’ fighting the enemy fled and Lilmiauan was occupied. The Americans buried sixty-four of the enemy, ■whose total loss in killed and wounded is estimated at 140.