ARRIVAL OF THE DIX

Arrival of the Dix.

The United States freight transport Dix. formerly the Samoa, arrived from Manila via Nagasaki yesterday. Her only cargo was the remains of 325 officers, soldiers, sailors and civilians who died in the Philippines and have been sent here for final interment. Four of the bodies are unidentified, owing to the marks and numbers having been removed from the graves by some vandal. The remains of

Lieutenant Howard M. Koontz, Forty-fourth Volunteer Infantry;
Chaplain J. Leland, First Tennessee Regiment;
Lieutenant D. D. Pasco, Eighteenth Infantry;
Lieutenant Max Wagner, Twenty-sixth Volunteer Infantry, and
First Lieutenant Charles R. Ramsay. Twenty-first Infantry,

were among those brought home.

The cabin passengers on the Dix were:

A. N. Rhodes. J. E. Bell,
A. F. Dunkerton. F. P. Dean,
Walter Marcey,
J. Scoane,
H. R. Dickman,
A. J. Harvey,
S. J. Burch,
W. S. Sigourney,
C. W. Iredale,
B. J. Lucey and
E. C. Hopkins, paymaster's clerks;

Dr. Lee B. Wallace and
Oscar J. Miller, contract engineer.


San Francisco Call, September 6, 1901, Page 7