The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-06-26
VICTIMS OF SPANISH BULLETS
RECORDS OF THOSE WHO WERE
WOUNDED.
Some Distinguished Regular Army
Officers and Prominent Civilians
Several West Pointers On the List

Washington, June 25.-Major James
NJ. Bell, of the First regiment cavalry.
who was wounded, is a veteran of the
civil war. He enlisted as first Heuten-
ant of the Eighty-sixth Ohio infantry
in June, 1862, and served until the close
of the war, coming out as a captain.
He went into the army July %, 1866, as
second lieutenant, and went up the
grades until he was appointed major
OF the First cavalry, May %. 1896.
Captain Thomas j. Knox entered
West Point from Tennessee July 1, 1867,
and e-tered the army as second lieu
tenant of cavalry in June, 1870. He was
made q captain in 1889.
Captain Lloyd S. Mccormick is. also
a West Pointer. He entered the mill
tary academy from Ohio, and was APP
pointed second lieutenant of the Tenth
cavalry. He was promoted TO a cap
tain's rank three years ago.
First Lieutenant Roger Byram was
graduated from West Point June Is.
1883. He was appointed to the academy
from Massachusetts. He received his
command as first lieutenant in 1890.
Edward Marshal, who was wounded,
was one Of the first correspondents sent
by the New York Journal to Cuba. He
YVES a most intrepid and coo!-headed
man in these days, and since has shown
a man of fine education, and has trav-
eled widely.
General Miles said Captain Capron
had been one of the very best officers
iE the United States service, a man
who knew no fear. He was a stalwart
American soldier, broad shouldered and
athletic in build, and a man of most
prepossessirg personal appearance.
Running over the list of dead and
xr.O al h1d
word to say for each one, so far as he
knew them, and among the regulars he
knew almost every man.
Wichita, Kan, June 25.-Lieutenant
j. r. Thomas, who was wounded at
Santiago, is son of Judge Thomas,
who is stationed at Muskogee. He is
ore of the four Judges in service, and
is called war governor. as to him was
assigned the duty of granting all COM
pointed his son lieutenant over the
objection of Judges Clayton and Town
send
Denver, Colo, June 25.-Captain
James H. McClintock, of troop B, rough
riders, who was shot through the right
leg in the battle before Santiago de
Cuba, is from Phoenix, AriZ. He is well
Known through the southwest, and for
many years, until a year ago, was edi-
ed at Phoenix. He was one of the Ari-
zCna delegates to the last national irri-
cation convention, and has held a
number of public or semi-pubiic posi-
lions. On the presidents first call for
troops McClintOck was one of the first
to respond, and later Governor McCord
appointed him captain of troop B, in
recognition of his services in organizing
the Arizona volunteers.
milwaukee, Wis .T1Inp 25-CtliffOrd
Reed, of troop E, rough riders, who was
wounded in yesterdays battle near
Santiago, is 81 years of age, and a son
Of E. A. Reed, business man of this
city. Young Reed is a graduate of
high school in this city. He left for
New Mexico about four months ago,
where he joined Roosevelt's rough rid
ers.
Kansas City, June 25.-Captain T. T.
Knox and First Lieutenant George L.
Byram, wounded near Santiago, were
at Fort Riley, Kan, with the
First cavalry when the war opened. |
Both are Well known in this city. Knox
has a record as a fighter. Byram is a
crack pistol shot, and last spring, at
Fort Riley, gave instruction in revolver |
shooting. He is married.
Denver, Colo, June 25.-Mrs. Byram |
received dispatch today, assuring her |
hat her husband, Lieutenant George L. |
Byram, who was wounded in the fight !
near Santiago de Cuba yesterday, was |
lot seriously injured.
Washington, June 25.-Army officials |
say the name McClintock, contained in |
General Skaters report as well as in |
he Associated Press dispatches, is I'M !
wrong, due, no doubt, TO mis- !
axes in telegraphing. They say the |
name should be Rjtain L. S. McCor- |
nick who belongs temporarily TO the |
First cavalry, to which he was assign |
ID at his own request from the Sew
enth cavalry, recently stationed in the |
southwest. Captain Mccormick is
rem Ohio, and was graduated from the |
military academy in 1876.