The age-herald., 1898-07-27
STRANGE WOUNDS
 BY MAUSER BULLETS

more interesting than those on the Oli- vette, Senaca and Solace rolled into one. There is more variety to the wounds; they give better idea of the effects of war conditions, while at the same time modern surgery under it's best conditions has bad good chance to signalize itself As in the case of the Olivette, the sur geons on board the Relief are hearty in their praise of the first aid' packages which the war department has furnished to the troops. The medical officers, with out exception, say that to these packets and to their intelligent use is due the sur- prisingly low amputation record. The list is higher than that on either of the hos pital ships which has reached this port, but the general run of injuries is more se- we're.
 The Olivette brought men who had been placed aboard within a few hours after they were wounded. The Relief brings men who had lain wounded and unat- tended for hours and sometimes days, in the forests or in the field hospitals. The wounds which were treated by the sur geons of the olivette were nearly all asep- tic when they came to the operating table; with the patients on the Relief an asceptic wound was a curiosity.
 It will be long time before some of the wounded on the Relief are able to be about. There is no joke about these Mauser bullet wounds. Both the surgeons and the wounded men look serious when they speak of them.
 The worst case on the ship yesterday and it is one that in a little while will live only in records-is that of George Reardon, of Company E, of the Sixteenth infantry. Reardon lived most of his life on the shores of New York bay, but he looked out through a port hole over the darkening sea last night, knowing full well that he will never set foot upon shore. Reardon was lying down when the bullet struck him just under the left shoulder blade, ranged downward and came out low down beneath the ribs on the right side. In it's course it injured the spinal cord, the lungs and the liver. Reardon is dying.
 Oscar Baucom, of Company G, Second infantry, shot a Spaniard and felt so good about it that he turned to tell the captain. A watchful Spaniard promptly plugged Baucum under the right ear with Mauser bullet. When the ambulance corps picked him up it was found that the bullet had entered his neck between the jugular and carotid on the right side and had emerged in a similar location on the other side of his neck. Beaucom had faint ed and the ambulance corps decided that he was dead and left him alone. Later he came to and was taken to the hospital. His wound was clean cut, not one of the vessels was injured, and last night he was able to sit up in bed
 The surgeons are puzzled by his case, because an expert anatomist, working with deliberation, would find it very hard to pass even needle through the track of that bullet without injuring the great ves- sells or nerves.
 Fred Schockley, who belongs to the Tenth cavalry, Company D, is called the most interesting case on the ship. Schock- ley was lying down to shoot when Span- ish bullet struck him in the very center of the top of his head. That bullet ranged downward, passed through the brain. missed the medulla oblongata by the thick ness of sheet of paper, threaded its way down the mans neck and finally landed in the small of his back.
 There has been no probing for the bull let, but it's track seems to have taken it
  heart and stomach. Schockley is pretty weak, but he is perfectly cheerful, and says he feels better. He will probably re- cover.
 The loss of the silver filling from one of his teeth IS the principal thing that bothers John Senecal, of Company G, of the Twenty-second infantry Senecal was struck under the left shoulder blade by bullet which ranged upward passed through bit of his lungs and into his neck passed out, entered his jaw, knock ed the filling out of a tooth and then made a hole through his cheek.
 J. F. Taylor, of Company D, of the Tenth cavalry, was carrying a wounded officer out of action, when Mauser bullet struck him in the back The ball passed through his lungs, liver and stomach, and came out an inch above the place where Fitzsimmons hit Corbett. Taylor said he was hungry yesterday, and wcs inclined to complain because the surgeons would not let him eat meat.
 Homer J. Turner, of Company E, of the Tenth cavalry, was another man who raised his head too high above the trenches Mauser bullet struck him in the center of the forehead and came out behind. Turner said last night that he didn't remember being hit. He was able to talk freely and will recover. His wound is one of those looked upon nec-
 
 William Bollmar, of Company H, Eighth infantry owes his life to his own presence of mind He was struck by bullet in the right femoral artery-the chief blood sup ply of the leg-and the vessel was entirely severed Ordinarily this wound is fatal within five minutes on account of the ex- cessive hemorrhage Bolmar, however. rolled up a corner of his coat, stuffed it into the wound made a tourniquet rom his shirt and succeeded in stopping the flow. Circulation through the limb has been induced sideways and Bollmar's leg will be saved.
 Henry Darby. of Company D, Thirteenth infantry was shot through both lungs, the bullet entering his back and passing trans verse through the body. After an enor- nous blood clot had been removed from his lungs by a surgical operation which would have made an old-style surgeon faint Darby proceeded to get well. He is still weak, but can sit up and talk. THE QUEEN CANNOT GIVE WAY From Harper's Magazine.
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