The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-07-07
THE WOUNDED SOLDIERS.
News of Their Great Bravery Speak
 Well of Spuniards.

Well or Spuniords.
 Key West, Fla, July 6.-The three hundred and twenty-four wounded he roes of Santiago brought here last night by the Iroquois are doing well and none is in danger. They are dis tributed between the marine and con- vent hospitals and an unused cigar factory which had been previously fit ted out for such purposes. All officers and some of the men are quartered at the convent hospitals where the nuns are doing fine service as nurses. At all piacs the utmost care and skilful medical and surgical attention is given the wounded men. The Iroquois en- tered the harbor about 5 o'clock last evening and through some ones negli- gence went aground on a sand bar, where she remained for three hours, brace of government tugs struggling to free her, while from the rails of the stranded ship peered bronzed faces of wounded men, eager to step once more on American soil.
 Eventually the steamer slid off and was docked. News of her arrival had brought to the dock a motley crowd of curiosity seekers, mostly Cubans. There was not sign of enthusiasm even among those very persons for whom the disabled soldiers had received their hurts-not a cheer nor handclap The sight of the stalwart fellows
 blacked by the tropical sun, bruised and scratched by Cuban jungles and wrapped in bandages which covered but did not conceal their wounds as they shambled and struggled along the roads, had in 1t much of pathos. It was II o'clock before the last of those able to keep their feet had been safely disembarked. Most of those suffered from wounds in the arms and hands. About thirty-flve, whose wounds are in | the lower parts of their bodies, had to be carried off on stretchers. Fifteen, who are suffering from mild 2ttack 1 of measles, were left on board the l steamer and will probably be taken back to Cuba when the Iroquois re- l turns.
 l The debarkation was not completed
 until early this morning. Most of | these men laugh at their wounds. They went to go back, for they have tasted real fighting and are hungry for more. | It was learned to-day that as they fell .,t Go, fhn l porals hustled them to the rear, but in l nearly every case the moment make 1 shift bandages were swathed about | their wounds they pushed again to the | front until 1t eventually became neces- l sary to strip them of their cartridge | belts. Said one of. them to-day in tell l ing this of the others: Damn it, they 1 had to stay back, then. They had nothing to fight with.''
 They talk of the two days bloody | battle in the most unconcerned way l imaginable. All are loud in their
 praises of the fighting qualities of the
 Spanish troops, but say their losses | must be enormous. Of our own dead and wounded extravagant figures are
 given by many, but wiser heads place | lHe liS uISS loi IllG LNo u@S2 ii6iithAA6 GU
 between 1,2O0 and 1,50o perhaps 300 of
 whom were killed. At the hospitals
 suits of pajamas were served out to
 the soldiers and they lounge about the
 rooms in the airy garments, reading | the latest newspaper tales of their own
 prowess and chaffing each other there 1 on. Indeed, many of those whose
 wounds are trifling have been uncon-
 cernedly walking about the streets with no apparel than these scanty
 sleeping garments. The Iroquois will
 probably return to Santiago within a day or two.