Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1898-06-06

| emerged unscathed may tell Of marvelou,
escapes and thrilling encounters, but Aer
| kle tells another story. The order to ceast
| firing had been given, the great guns or
| the Iowa were silenced. men came from thu
turrets to draw q fresh breath Of life an6
some went below as routine course
| Meanwhile the monitor Terror, lying II
| closer than the others. anu falling to sex
| the signals. continued to pour in iron mes.
sengers. Men gathered on the gun decks
| to watch the progress Of the fight Merkle
came up from below and was in tho act Of
putting on his coat when shell plunged
through the air and exploded directly ovel
him. One piece struck Merkle on the right
elbow. tearing out the forearm-this after
the battle was over.
Three men from the greatest Of battle
ships. the Oregon, were among the patients
Of the Solace, who, by the way, have been
transferred to the marine hospital in
Brooklyn-Louis Upson, P. ]. Lynch and
Alonzo Gartley. They were not the only
ones to suffer from the heart-breaking voy-
age OF the Oregon, but they were the most
seriously i'll after the battleship reached
Key West. and it was deemed advisable to
send them to a more favorable climate.
No men are prouder of the grand work of
their ship than they.
by the big ambulance is Wolliam Taylor,
Washington boy. and first class ap.
prentice on the cruiser New York. Tay-
lor's recovery is the most remarkable of
any OF those remarked upon by the naval
surgeons. One day, soon after the bonn
bardment OF Matanzas, through which the
men on the New York passed without the
slightest injury. a revolver dropped from
the belt of Boatswain Mullen and exploded.
The bullet passed through Taylor's right
arm at the elbow, entered the abdomen.
passed up through the liver. grazed the
lung and came out through the left shoul-
der. An operation for laparotomy was per-
formed and Taylor recovered, although
naturally he is still suffering from the eff
fects Of his multiple wound and the opera
ton. Following Is complete list of the
patients On the Solace:
William Watson. oier. Manning.
James b. Scott, seaman, ST. Paul.
Georse Merkle private marine, Iowa.
John Ensle. ordinary seaman. Iowa.
Kari +. Normann, seaman. Wilmington.
Robert Voltz. seaman. Nashville.
J. T. kendig. apprentice. Castine.
+. F. Burhett. coal passer. suwanee.
N. Cooke. coal passer. Machias.
George w. Barber. seaman. Puritan.
Carl Aakenburg. seaman. Algonquin.
W. Simons. quartermaster. third class, Dolphin.
!; In. n: Stanley; gunner's mate, Hornet.
]. Warley. fireman. first class, Mangrove.
William Taylor apprentice. New York
Michael J. Henry, private marine. marine battal-
N. ". Aatonen. guhners mate. FIRST class. Indiana.
aesford. coal passer: Terror
d. o. OCOnnell, private marine, marine battalion
Sydney Trammel, private marine. mariLe battalion.
Thomas Nelson. private marine. marine battalion.
Albert Link machinst. Annapolis
James Mcleod. master-at-arms Newport.
Frank Davis. coxswain Castine.
Charles H. Kelley. mechanic. second class. Nezen-
B: o'Leary. coal passer Marblehead.
Thomas Dodds. seaman. Dolphin.
Edward A. Donahue. private marine. marine battal-
Charles schmitt boatswain's mate. nrst class Dol.
phin.
John Davis. gunners mate. third class Marblehesd.
H. W. Kuchmeister, private marine, marine battal-
ion.
Charles L. Meiss. gunner's mate, osceola.
Robert McFettefs. private marine marine battalioa.
W. Chiies. mess attendant Amphitrite.
Daniel Burns, quartermaster third class. Puritan.
". H. Powell, apprentice. second class. Vixen.
j. McKernan. fireman. second class. Suwanee.
A. H. Howard, fireman. second class. Amphitrite
T. F. Mitchell. hrst sergeant. Annapolis.
j. W. Eek. nrst sergeant marine battalion.
William A: Shaw, mechanic. second class. Machias.
Daniel D. Donovan seaman. Bancroft
Robert L. Grubb. landsman. Winslow.
Edward r. Brothers. fireman. second class Maple.
William Giles. naval cadet. Oregon.
Louis F. Upson ordinary seaman. New Orleans
James 2. webber, ordinary seaman. Montgomery.
Porter.
p. J. Lynch. private marine. Oregon.
Michael H. Cox. seaman, samoset.
H. F. Mackey. seaman. wampatuck.
r. T. Wiss. wateftender. Iowa.
Alonzo Gartley. apprentice second class. Oregon.
OF these ffty-four American seamen four
are afflicted with consumption. Three Of
these are young men, two mere boys. ap-
prentices, and the fourth is James Mcleod,
famous as the master-at-arms Of the New
port, who has worn eight service straps.
He is nearing his last days. Several of the
men are suffering from fractured limbs, the
result of accidents aboardship.
DR.. Thomas F. Streets. surgeon of the
solace. said to-day that all his patients had
improved greatly during the four days trip.
When they left Key West he said, he was
almost certain there would be some deaths
aboard, as some of the men were in an ex-
tremely serious condition. Those who are
afflicted with lung disease made the entire
voyage In swinging hammocks on deck,
and the others took occasion to draw fresh
ocean breezes at all times. 'by day and by
night.
There was a small crowd at the navy
yard when the Solace was warped into the
dock to-day. Several ambulances were on
hand and tine patients. one by one, were
carried out on the stretchers or led down
the gangway by tender hands and trans
ferred to the Marine hospital.