Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1898-07-12
HOW SPANIARDS FIGHT.


BrAos Bullets and Explosive Bullets Used
Delight 10 shoot wounded Men and TO
kire Anto the Field Hospitals.
Atlanta, Ca, July 1.-Two hundred
and tnlrIy-hve sick and wounded sol
diers reached the general nospital at
Fort MCPHERSON To-Day from tampa.
Among them were several OF the rough
ri0ers ana many members OF the sew
enIy-nrst New York regiment. The
most seriously wounded are Captain
Ducat and Lieut.. Lyons, of the Twenty
fourth infantry, whose families are now
at Salt Lake, UtaA. 1.ne doctors are
much encouraged by the condition OF
the men tO-nlsal and say they Will re-
cover.
Many of the wounded men give thrill
ing accounts of the great ngnt or July
l, and from several sources unsolicited
comes the information: the Spaniards
use explosives and brass bullets"
Dwight Galloupe, chaplain of the
Twenty-fourth infantry of Newark, n.
j., is suffering from internal hemor-
rhage, but he will recover He told
story OF the utter disregard OF the
Spaniards for the Red Cross flag.
''On the afternoon of the third said
the chaplain, Il was visiting the wound
ed in a hospital tent near the place
where the fight was the hottest. A lieu
tenant, whose name do not know, was
in the other end of the tent, looking
after some of his men. Suddenly a
shell came through the tent and ex-
ploded. That Ot1cer was torn into
shreds. l was hurled fully fifty feet
and injured as you see, and every man
in the tent was thrown from his cot.
1.-The Spaniards took especial delight
in firing upon our field hospital. We
had to move it seven times on that ac-
count. One OF the surgeons was killed
while dressing the wounds of a soldier
In the hasty retreat which the enemys
fire made necessary from the first hos
pital, lOt Of cur wounded were left
behind and all of them were killed"
Several of the new arrivals say the
reported sufferings Of the Spanish SOL
dlers is greatly exaggerated
THE Spanish soldiers get better food
than, ours do said one of the men.
1.-THE children of Santiago are suffering,
but the soldiers are getting the fat of
the land.
They are hard fighters" he continued,
''but very treacherous. Once during the
early part of the battle, a white flag was
thrown up on one Of their batteries.
Our men approached it as a matter of
course, but they were shot down when
they drew near.
Captain Ducat, of the Twenty-fourth
infantry, is shot through the thigh and
his right leg is partially paralyzed.
Propped up on cot he told an Asso-
ciated Press representative a story of the
fight, which resulted in the wounding of
himself and his first officer. Lieut.. Lyons,
and the loss of many privates.
On the first day of the fight near FL
Caney, Lieut. Lyons, with Is men, set
out to take a stone blockhouse at the
top of steep hill. Safely housed behind
the stone walls of the house sixty Span
iards poured murderous fire on the
plucky Americans as they entered the
narrow path leading up the hill. Step by
step the men forged ahead. their COM
rades falling every minute. BY the time
the top of the hill was reached but % of
the band remained. With a shout they
forced their way into the coveted strong
hold and in a desperate hand to hand
fight, with revolvers, succeeded in scat
tering the Spaniards. Captain Ducat and
Lieut.. Lyons received the wounds at
close range. OF the Is men but 20 answer
ed the roll call.
Johnny" Bigelow, of the Ninth infant
ry, brother Of Poultney Bigelow, is
wounded in four places-a part of his
jaw being torn away
All are bitter in their denunciation of
"eXplosive'' bullets.