The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1898-06-06
WARS WOUNDED AND SICK
THE AMBULANCE SNIP SOEACE 1R-
RIVEs AT, NEW YORK.

She Has ON Board E'ifty-four Encapaci-
tated Members of the Navy-Four of
the Heroes of the Nashville and Mar
bIehead, who Cut the Cable at Cien-
fuegos, Among Them-Also One
Wounded ut CarGienas and One at
Porto Rico--Some Fearful Wounds.
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New York, June 5.-The ambulance
ship Solace came into port to-day, hav-
ing on board fifty-four wounded and
sick, some of whom had been transfer
red from the American warships in Gu
ban waters and others taken from the
hospitals at Key West. Her after-deck
had been tented off with canvas, and
upon swinging hammoclzs lay half a
dozen or more seriously i'll patients; the
convalescing room was the basking
place of a score or more of the poor fell
lows who had not given UP the fight
without a struggle, while the privilege
of the decks had been accorded all
those who were able to move about or
anxious to watch the green hills as the
good ship moved in shoreward. The
Solace anchored off Tompkinsville,
Staten Island, early this morning. She
left Key West on Wednesday afternoon
last and made the run to New York
without accident of any kind. The sea
voyage was a tonic to the patients.
The Solace, fifty named, with her
white sides and the Red Cross flag fly
ing at her masthead, brought In many
a little band of heroes among the fifty
four. They had gathered together in
little groups on the voyage up many a
time and told again the story of a brush
with the Spaniards or night on watch
at the blockade. And to those who
know, a brush with the Spaniards is
hardly to be compared with the danger
Gus work of scouting in a gale at night,
without lights, off the Cuban coast.
Four of the heroes from the Nashville
and the Marblehead were among the
patients on the Solace--Robert Voltz of
San Francisco and Henry Hendrickson,
John Davis and FL. w. Kuchmeister,
all of New York They are the wound
ed of that gallant band of volunteers
who cut the cable at Cienfuegos nearly
q month ago. 1t is a tale that has been
told before, but that noble effort will
live in history side by side with the
Merrimacs journey into the narrows at
Santiago harbor.
Commander McCalla of the Marble
head called for volunteers to man the
boats. Every hand went up and the
men begged for a call to the place of
danger. Lieutenant Winslow, Lieuten-
ant Anderson and Ensign MaGruder
We're in charge as the seamen swept
the boats with easy stroke in shore.
In the rifle pits two thousand Span
iards had gathered. Shells from the
warships We're directed along the coast
line, and then with every man at his
gun, the Marblehead, Nashville and
that all knew was inevitable. The
small boats made straight in. A few
hundred yards from shore and the men
We're at work. They dragged up the
first cable and hacked through the
heavy strands; then they found the
second. This was the Spaniards' signal
and they opened fire. For half an hour
the gallant sailors worked amid a rain
Of bullets. The American ships were
hurting shot and shell into the enemy,
who nevertheless kept up a fire. The
men in the boats kept coolly at their
work Never for a moment did they
falter Lieutenant Winslow lost three
fingers of his left hand by the explo-
sion of shell, but he is still at Key
West ready now for duty again. John
Reagan on the Marblehead boat was
shot through the chest. AS he fell
Private Marine Cuchmeister, who was
brought here to-day by the Solace,
stopped to assist him. At that instant
rifle ball struck Cuchmeister In the
jaw and passed out of his mouth. The
marine hardly realizing how badly he
was injured. bandaged up his jaw with
a handkerchief and tried to stop the
flow of blood from Reagan's wound, but
poor Reagan died a moment later
Cunners Mate Davis of the Marble
head fell with a bullet in his thigh, a
moment after a one-pounder from
shore had sent a shot close enough to
Craze his arm. Hendrickson and Voltz,
the former from the Marblehad and
Window waited, watching for the storm
the latter from the Nashville, are the
others of that gallant expedition who
will carry the marks of heroism to
their graves. When the revenue cutter
window brought Hendrickson and
Voltz to Key West after the engage
ment, the hospital surgeons said that
both would die. One had three bullet
wounds. Voltz was unconscious for
several days at the barracks hospital
at Key West. But gradually they
brought him around. Now Voltz looks
well. To be sure, he is still thin and
wears the bandages and says his head
troubles him somewhat, but Voltz is
hero like his three mates and there are
many heroes in the American navy.
Hendricksen was shot through the alb
domen. The bullet passed completely
out, so great Is the velocity of these
tiny steel missiles under the new
methods of propulsion. Hendricksen
when seen aboard ship to-day, how
ever, said he would be shooting the
Spaniards again before the end of the
month if there was fight left in them.
The Winslow sent one man here to re-.
mind the people north of that now fa-
nous torpedo boat and of the terrible
engagement at Cardenas, when Ensign
Bagley was killed, the first officer of
the American navy to fall in this war,
with four of his men. He is Robert l..
Grubb, a landsman. 1t was on that
memorable occasion that Lieutenant
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