Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1898-07-12
WOUNDED FROM SANTIAGO.
Unanimous Declaration That spnn-
ish Use Explosive Bullets.

ATLANTA, GA, July 1.-Two hundred
and thirty-iive sick and wounded soldiers
reached the general hospital at Fort Nc
Pherson to-day from Tampa. Among them
are several Of the Rough Riders and many
members OF the Seventy-first New York.
The most seriously wounded are Captain
Ducat and Lieutenant Lyons, OF the
Twenty-fourth Infantry, whose families
are now at Salt Lake, Utah.
The doctors are much encouraged by
the improved condition of the men to-
night, and say they will recover.
Many of the wounded men give thrilling
accounts OF tho great fight Of July lst,
and from several sources. and unsolicited.
comes the information: "Those Spaniards
use explosive and brass bullets"
Rev. Dwight Galloupe, chaplain OF ths
Twenty-fourth Infantry, of Newark, N.
j.. is suffering from internal hemorrhage.
but he will recover. He tells the follow
ing story OF the utter disregard Of the
Spanish for the Red-Cross flag:
FIRING ON HOSPITALS.
ION the afternoon of the 3D." said
the chaplain. 81 was visiting the wounded
i'm a hospital tent near the point where
the firing was hottest. a lieutenant,
whose name / do not know, was in the
of his men. Suddenly a shell came
through the tent and exploded. The ofii-
Ger was torn into shreds, L was hurled
fully fifty feet and injured as you see,
and every man in the tent thrown from
his cot.
'The Spaniards took special delight in
firing upon our field hospital. We had to
move it seven times on that account. one
Of the surgeons was killed while dressing
the wound of q soldier. In the hasty
retreat which the enemy's fire made neces-
sary from the first hospital, "A lot of our
men were left behind, and all of them
were killed"
Several OF the new arrivals say the
reported suffering of the Spanish soldiers
is greatly exaggerated. "The Spanish
soldiers get better food than ours" said
one of the men, "The citizens of Santiago
are suffering, but the soldiers are getting
the fat of the land.
"They are hard fighters" he continued,
but very treacherous Once during the
early part of the battle a white flag was
thrown up on one Of their batteries. Our
men approached it, as n matter Of course,
but were shot down when they drew
near"
BITTER FIGHT AT CANEY.
Captain Ducat, Of the Twenty-fourth
Infantry, is shot through the thigh. and
his right leg is partially paralyzed. Prop
ped up on a cot, he told an Associated
Press representative n story of the bitter
fight which resulted in the wOunding OF
himself and his first officer, Lieutenant
Lyons, and the loss OF MANY privates.
on the first day of the fighting near FL
Caney, Captain Ducat, with seventy-five
men. set out TO take stone blockhouse
1. -.
the men forged ahead. their comrades
falling every minute, and bv the time
the top of the hill was reached but twenty
two Of the band remained With a shout
they forced their way into the coveted
stronghold, and in a desperate hand-to-
hand fight with revolvers, succeeded in
scattering the Spaniards. Captain Ducat
and Lieutenant Lyons received their
wounds at close range. OF the seventy
five men, but twenty answered the next
roll-call.
OF "FOULT" BIGELOW's. |
Johnny" Bigelow. OF the Ninth In
fantry, whose home is at Highlands, op- |
posite West Point, y. Y, and who is a |
brother of Poultney Bigeiow's is wounded |
In four places. a part Of his jaw being |
torn away.
All are bitter IN their oenunciation OF |
explosive bullets.
HOSPITAL TRAIN IN COLLISION.
WASHINGTON, ID. c., july i1.-Sur |
Sternberger received dis |
,atch to-day from Surgeon Richards. stat !
ng that the hospital train bearing the |
to Fort Mcpherson. near At
anta. was in a rear-end collision, six |
miles south OF High Springs, Fla, at
p. NJ. last night. No one was hurt, the
dispatch said. but the private-car was
General Sternberg says the
demolition OF the prfvate-car will not Sc
-iousIy interfere with the efficiency OF |
he hospital train.