The evening times., 1898-07-18

landed from the steamer O1Vette sat
urday night and established at the Ma
rine Hospital at Staple,on, Staten ISL
and held a regular Ievee yesterday. The
hospital grounds were crowded by old
and newly y-made friends from sunrise un-
til sunset, the hour at which under the
hospital regulations tho grounds are
closed to visitors. Less than tweny OF
the wounded men were in such enfeebled
conditions as to be obliged to remain in
their beds The others passed the day
in roaming about the beautiful grounds,
stretching themselves at full length on
the grass in the shade Of the big trees in
complete abandonment TO rest. Every
man so employed soon became the center
of a group of visitors. to whom he re-
lated over and over again the story of
his experiences in the battles before San
tiag0.
While all the men seemed in excellent
spirits and rapidly gaining in health and
strength, the appearance OF all as lar
as clothing were concerned was almost
deplorable. Most of them We're literally
in rags. and not a few were without COW
ering for their feet Among the whole
one hundred there was not one complete
uniform owing to the fact that as fast
ing lines to the field hospitals their
clothing was cut OF 70 as TO get at their
wounds. and when they werS In condi-
tion 10 be moved they were hastily ciad
In whatever scraps OF raiment came hrst
to hand This in most cases was cloth-
ing taken from the dead on the heih OF
from those who died OF wounds IN the
hospitals. Unfortunately. no provision
was made for clothing the men when they
ON the TRANSPORT. IL II tA-
pected that an abundant supply oil cioth-
ing will be furnished TO them TO-DAY. the
Woman's War Relief Association anu
other similar organizations having VOL
upteered 10 supply all that Is necessary
W hat the mel nseu just no" nioS' -
gently. after clothing. Is suppiies Oh pens'
nencils. postage stampsl and stationery
20 ,h,t they NAV write, to their friends.
Many of the poor fellows. too, are q"''e
destitute of money. fIT
In the bis cheerful ward set apart 1or
the most serious cases Surgeon otoneI'
in charge of the hospital. ana ms dssiS'
ants we're busy all day examining anu
dressing wounds and performing minor
surgical operations All those opefaeu
%, were renorted to be progressing rap
idly toward recovery. In fact- an 'ls
cases in the hospital may be considereu
convalescent. 49, no
In the shade of an enormous tree pc
hind the hospital services were cohduc'eu
in the afternoon by Deacon Henry a
Stewart, Of 81. Paurs Memorial tnurcn,
assisted by several young ladies. Nearly
half the wounded Imens lncihoins sum-
who leaned from the windows OF one OF
the upper wards. took part In the services
and Joined heartily in the singing
Among the visitors WAS Judge John n
Thomas, of Vinita, Indian Territory. VINO
went with his daughter to shake hands
with Sergeant Kline and private N"iNer'
of Troop l. of the Rough Riders. COM
manded. after the death OF captain "a
pron- BY the judges son, Lieutenant
Thomas. Both had thrilling experiences
to tell Sergeant Kline, wiry little man
with light blue eyes. was shot IN the sec
opd fight through the knee cap, the bull
le, coming out through his hip. he was
standing beside Lieutenant Thomas when
the latter fell with bullet through MS
foot The lieutenant at first refused TO De
moved. and lay on the ground cheering on
his men until he was picked up by two
priyates and carried off the field. after
Kline had cut of his trousers ana teo
the string of his Canteen around his leg as
a tourn;ouet :, check the bleeding, in all
proba ability ing the lieutenant's life
In describing the first fight of the Rough
Riders Kline said that II was no ambuS-
cade and that Rooseyeit's men deliber-
ately charged the Spaniards. knowing
that they were probably outnumbered
ten TO one And / want to say right
now" said Kline that the colored troops
cf the Tenth Cavalry backed US up in
splendid style No men could have fought
more gallantly than they did. and If II
hadn't been for their assistance I'm not
sure what might have become of us.
I'VE found when We captured the
trenches that the men had been primed
with liauor in order to make them tight
the harder. for in many Of the trenches
We captured quantities of rum and brandy
in bottles and TASKS. and even barrels OF
wine.''
Private Edward Culver. who belongs to
the Cherokee tribe IN the Indian terri
tory, was struck by the same bullet which
killed Hamilton Fish After passing
through Serst. Fish's head the Mauser
missile struck Culver under the left arm
and traversed his body. lodging in the
muscles of the right side. where II still
remains.
He was thought to be mortaliy wound
ed. but rallied rapidly and Is now far on
the way to complete recovery Culver
lay where he fell for twen;y-six hours.
and managed to fire forty-five shots at
the enemy before he became too weak
from loss of blood. Culver was lying
wounded on the Olivette and from his
berth witnessed the destruction of the
Soan..h nees IT tell you il did me
GOOD" said he ''to see the way our peo-
ple ,w:ped them out. The boys on the
Olivette who were lying In their hunks
got UP and crawled up on deck and cheer
ed until they couldn't stand. l think that
sight did US all more good than all the
surgeons in the army. although l don't
want to say anything against them for
all of US who were hurt received the
very best attention as soon as We could
be carried off the field
Both Kline and Culver. and, indeed, all
the regulars and Rough Riders with
whom 1 talked, agreed in paying the
highest tributes to the bravery of the
boys of the Seventy-flrst Regiment. who
they declared could not have behaved
with greater gallantry. The only trouble
was, they said. that the regiment was
terribly Handicapped by its Springfield
rifles. the smoke from, which drew the
fire of the enemy whenever a voliey was
fired. This was the. cause of the fearful
losses sustained by fhe regiment and the
reason why it became necessary to with
draw them from the firing line.
All of the men had stories to tell Of
Their sufferings for lack of tJbacco.
man lucky enough to possess a pipeful of
the precious weed had to hide himself
and enjoy 1t in secret. One officer ac-
tually paid $l7 for a fwo-ounce package of
smoking tobacco. and the standard quo
tations for single cigarette was two
bits" or twenty-five cents. Those who
had a little plug tobacco saved their
'.chews" after exhausting them as thor
oughly as possible. and carefully dried
them so as to serve for a smoke in .
pipe.
Henry R. O'Malley. OF Company B.
Eighth Infantry. was wounded four times
by one bullet. in the fight at Ell Clney