Sistersville oil review. [volume] (Sistersville, W. Va.) 1896-1901, 1898-08-31
Tales Of Heroes.

Tales Of Heroes.
Camp Wikoff, Montauk Point,
N. Y, Aug. 22.-Tom Brady, OF
the Ninth, an Iowa boy originally,
was at San Juan. At 3 o'clock on
the morning of the Ist OF July, he
received two pieces of hard tack.
1t was thi-ty-three hours later when
he touched food again.
Fighting his way up to Bloody
Hill that afternoon. hungry, faint,
tortured with thirst but obeylng
orders, Brady saw a man ahead OF
him go down, shot through the
heart. Almost instantly another
man fell on the dead one, shot
through the shoulder.
Brady took the second one and
laid him on his back. The wounded
man looked up and saw buzzard
blinking in tree.
The Mausers were clipping all
around u.s." explains Brady, now
convalescent here, "but this wound
ed chap says to me, pointing at the
brzzard: Kill him. I brought
the beast down in a jiffy. Thanks
said the fellow I was obliging, the
blood coming from his lips, he
can't eat, either I left him, the
dead man and the dead buzzard
there and went on. D."
BRUTAL SHARPsHoOTER SHOT.
Stories like that are to be picked
up here every moment if one wishes
to halt and listen to a soldier boy.
Blair, a regular, said to be OF the
Seventeenth, was shot through the
groin at FL Caney. July I. Two
wounded men of the Seventy-hrst
New York fell beside him in worse
shape than he. They could not
move. He could little.
| A Spanish sharpshooter on their
right had the range of them as they
lay there, their comrades having
pushed on. Although down, the
three men where his target.
Spit" and one OF the bullets cut
lock of hair from Blair forehead.
Spit" again, and one of the
New Workers winched as his
shoulder was cut.
Blair for time could not locate
the fellow, but finally discovered
him 800 yards distance up a tree.
He was incautious and displayed
himself in taking aim. Blair had
his gun beside him, and with one
shot brought him down.
ANOTHER TOUCH OF HEROIsM.
Then, wounded as he was in the
groin, he crawled 600 feet to his
enemy to get his canteen of water
and 900 feet back, not touching it
himself, and pouring it down the
threats of the two New Workers.
He died holding the drink to the
lips of one OF them. His only re-
mark as to his journey was:
Pm a regular. You fellows
have homes"
One of the New Workers surviv-
ed to return home and tell the
story of this heros end.
Rev. Henry w. Brown, San
Antonion preacher, was chaplain of
the rough riders at the front. His
testimony to their characters is:
81 never heard a vulgar or in
decent story told by these men.
When poor Hamilton Fish was
buried on the hills and I said, Let
US pray without any further word
every man removed his hat and
went down on his knees in the mud
remaining kneeling throughout the
prayers. They needed no word of
command to do that. Ny vest
ments were scattered, and I offici-
ated at the funeral of Fish in over
alls and grey shirt"
The Olivette which has been ly-
ing off Gardeners Bay since yester-
day, with nearly 200 sick on board
was ordered today, to go to Boston
at full speed and deliver her human
freight to the hospitals there. The
transport had no yellow fever
aboard and DR.. Magruder reports
the men in better condition than
any that have recently arrived.
The men were not allowed on