The age-herald., 1898-06-06
SICK AND WOUNDED :.
 ON THE SOLACE The Ambulance Ship Anchored of
 TOmpkinSVille, s. I. SOME OF THEIR STORIES Heroes From ships of Sampson's
 .''''' CABLE 2 . S NC AT cIENFuEGoS Seaman HeNtackson Tells of the Winsow's Foolish Mission at Cardenas, Where
 Ensign Bagey Lost His Life--
 Deeds of VaIor.
NC AT ClENFUEGOS

~'S" 1p'hf dut O.-1ne ambulance Sh
 solace came into port today and anchored
 on Tompkinsville, S. l., having on b ard
 fifty-four wounded and sick, some of waoni
 had been tdansferred from the American
 warshrs in Cuban waters and others taken
 from the hospitals at Key West.
 The So,ace-fitly named-with her white
 sides and the Red Cross flag flying at her
 masthead brought in many a little band of
 heroes, among the ffty-four. They had
 gathered together in little groups on the
 voyage up, and many a time told again
 and again the story of brush with the
 Spaniards or a night watch at the
 blockade and to those who knew a brush
 with the Spaniards is hardly to be conn
 pared with the dangerous work of sc ut-
 ing in a gale at night without lights off
 the Cuban coast
 Four of the heroes from the Nashyil le
 and the Marblehead, were among the pa
 tents on the Solace, Robert Volts. of San
 Franc seo, and Henry Eeariclso1, John
 Davis and H. w. Kuofikmeiste', of New
 York. They are the wounded of that gall lant band of volunteers who cut the cable at Cienfuegos nearly a month ago. It Is d tale that has been told before, but that noble effort will live in history side by side with the Merrimac's journey down Into the narrows at Santiago harbor.
 Commander McCala, of the Marl lehtad, called for vo,untee-s to man the boat. Every hand went up and the mea b gsed for call to the place of danger. Lieuten-
 ant Winslow, Lieutenant Anderson and
 Ensign Magruder were in charge az the seamen swept the boats with easy stroke
 in shore. In the fife pits two tholfa Id Spaniards had gathered. Shells fr0- the warships were directed along the coast line and then with every man ax his gun, the Marblehead, Nashville and Windom waited, watching for the story that all knew was inevitable.
 AMID RAIN OF BULLETS. The small boat made straight In. few hundred yards from shore and tue men were at work. They dragged up the first cable and hacked through the heavy strands then they found the second This was the Spaniards signal and they opened fire. For half an hour the ga sailors worked amid rain of bullets. Meanwhile the American warships were hurling shot and shell into the enemy, who nevertheless kept up fierce fire The men in the boats kept coolly at their work.
 Never for a moment did they falter. Lieut. tenant Winslow lost three fingers of his left hand by the explosion of a shell, but he is still at Key West. ready for duty again. John Reagan, on the Marblehead boat. was shot through the chest. AS no | fell Private Marine Kuchmeister, who was | brought here today by the Solace, stopped l to assist him. At that moment rifle ball | struck Kuchmeister in the jaw and passed 1 out at his mouth He bandaged up his I jaw with a handkerchief and tried to stop | the flow of blood from Reagans wound, | but poor Reagin died moment later 1 Gunner's Mate Davis, of the Marblehead, was torn with a bullet in his thigh and moment after a one pounder from shore l had sent a shot close enough to graze his arm. | Hendrcksen and .voltz, the former from 1 the Marblehead, and the latter from the l Nashville, are the others of that gallant l expedition who will carry the marks Of | heroism to. their graves. When the rev. l enue cutter Windom brought Hendricksen | and Voltz to Key West. after the engage | ment the hospital surgeons said that both 1 would die. One had three bullet wounds; l this was Voltz. A S2-calbre bullet had | passed through the skull at the base of the | brain and out. Compared with this the 1 other wounds were insignificant He
 was unconscious for several days at the
 barracks hospital at Key West, but grad
 ually they brought him around Now | Voltz looks well. To be sure he Is still 1 thin and haggard and wears the bandages i and says that his head troubles him some- | what. but Voltz is hero like his three | mates and there are many heroes in the | American navy. Hendricksen was shot | through the abdomen The bullet passed completely out. so great is the velocity of | hte tiny steel missiles under the new meth- | ods of propulsion. Hendricksen when | seen aboardship today said however he | would be nRhtinR the SpaniaroS again pe- | fore the end of the month.
 THE CARDENAS ENGAGEMENT. l The Winslow sent one man here to re- | mind the people north of that famous tor
 pedo boat and of the terrible engagement ' n. Cardenas when Ensign Bagiey ws
 k lled--ths first 6fficer of the Anne ''can l navy to fall in this war-with four of hss l men. He is Robert L. Grubb, landsman. iAlt was on that memorable occasion that i Lieutenant Bernandnu. In command of the l Winslow, under orders from Commander l Todd of the Wilmington. attempted t, ] force the Cardenas harbor for the purpofe ] of drawing the fire of the masked ba ter l ies Tho fire was a hundred fold more
 than effective and the first shell from shoe exploded over the pucky little boat. Lieu
 tenant Bernandou being the org man
 wounded. A piece of shell gut nasty gash 1 In his leg. but tying a bandage about 1t he l ordered his boat still further on. Then l came the fourteen-pound shell that crashed 1 through the boilers and disabled the Win l slow and few moments later Ensign Bag 1 ley and four of the men wsrs stre'csed l dead on the deck. Grubb was among those | aboard at the time and with others wal