Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 20, Number 102, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 September 1899 — NINE SOLDIERS DROWNED. [ARTICLE]

NINE SOLDIERS DROWNED.

Raft Breaks la Crossing: a River-Gen-a era! Wheeler at Manila. .Monday morning a reconnoitering party of the Twenty-fourth Infantry, under Captain Crane, in crossing the Mateo river the raft on which they were floating split in two and nine men were drowned. The United States transport Tartar, from Ban Francisco, with Genof tbe Nineteenth infantry on board, has arrived at Manila. ....r’ i ‘