The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1898-07-21


ued its path. Fortunately but very little
tissue remained in front OF It, and the
bullet passed out OF bis body. From the
point of entrance to the place ct which
Il cleared the lung the cali6de Of the path
of the bullet was that OF g. lead pencil.
When IL turned, however. it tore ous q
hole into waioh you could put your fist
The curious part of the case Is this:
Had that bullet turned before. instead OF
after, II passed through the organs. ii
would have destroyed them and caused
death AS it was. Captain Knox was soon
out OF danger and IS now making an IN
eventful recovery.
There follows the case Of 9. 81. Dor
wood, OF company z. Seventeenth infan-
try lockwood was STOPPING down and
looking for q Spaniard 20 shoot al Ths
Spaniard saw Dorwood first.
The bullet which he fred struck Dor
wood on the collar bone and made hole
as big as an orange. After that II seems
to have settled down. and the rest OF rs
track was the normal size foE bullet
hole.
'Dorwood was knocked head over heels
by the shock and was picked up appar-
entity dead. When he was examined It
was found that he had a big hole al the
top OF his chest and small hole between
his shoulder blades The bullet had pass
ed clean through him
How that bullet managed to miss his
windpipe, oesophagus and the upper part
Of his lungs Is a mystery. II did, how
ever and Dorwood is almost ready for
duty again.
Joseph BLY, company G, Sixteenth In
fantry, was in the fighting Nne. when
Mauser bullet came along and struck him
just over the left eyebrow. It ranged
downward through his brain and came
out at the back OF his neck, just where
he would have worn his collar button if
he had owned one
NO Joseph Billy is not dead. His fun
eral is not even in sight II you go up
on deck you wFH find Billy sitting in the
sun, a little stiff in the neck perhaps but
conva1escing nicely.
"In fact. the only thing the matter with
Billy is that he has lost the sight Of his
left eye When the bullet entered his
head is clipped the optic nerve and rem
dered him sigh tless. 1t also interfered
with the muscles controlling the upper
eyelid, producing a condition which is
known as ptosis. The mans eyelid will
always droop over the eyeban.
William Clark, company E. of the
Twenty-Fourth infantry. received
wound that duplicated Bily's. as far as
the injury TO the head was concerned
but he got two more wounds.
CLARK was crouched behind a log re
loading his magazine A Mauser bullet
struck him almost in the center of the
forehead, ranged downward, passed out
where the collar button should have been,
and then, entering his back, passed
through the bicycle hump he had as
sumed when he crouched down.
ut would be supposed that extensive
brain injury would be found in this case,
but there are no symptoms Of any. The
only thing in fact, that troubled Clark
was that the buEet had pierced his lung.
compelling him to cough a great deal. He
Is getting well.
Musician Frank Heflems, of company
c, Twenty-Fourth infantry. was a non
combatant, but he wanted to see what
was going on. He crawled up 10 the fight
Ing line and lay down fat on his face.
Just above his left shoulder and made
neat hole obliquely through the flesh Of
his back and came out just over his left
hip Musician Hellems jumped and yelled
In the jump he stopped another bullet.
which entered his back Just beneath the
left shoulder, crossed the track OF the
other bullet. passed through all the super
fetal muscles Of his back and came out
under the right shoulder. His wounds are
slight, but peculiar.
Robert Reid. OF the Rough Riders, needed
some sleep. He lay down on his back,
put his arms over his face and went 20
the land of dreams. He was awakened
long before he was ready by a bullet,
which riochetted across his stomach, do
ing no particular damage, but infiicting
four wounds. Reid had just had his din
ner The bullet clipped through the slight
elevation caused by that. and skipping
over the hollow that lay between passed
transversely through the leshy part Of his
thigh.
Another man, whose name. I think,
was Holman but whose regiment and com
pany 1 cannot remember, was struck over
passed downward and extracted all his
lower teeth on the opposite side 1t inter
fered with his palate and he will have
difficulty.
How do explain the fact that these
wounds have not caused death? I don't
explain 1t. am only stating the facts as
they come to me. Antisceptics has most
all to do with il, of course. The men
have used their bandages carefully; We
have had the best Of equipment, II not Of
facilities and there has not been a case
Of an infected wound. except in the case
Of those men who were struck by brass
jacketed bullets.
There Is no counting on these Mauser
bullets. One will pass through a man and
hardly hurt him. but after passing it VIII
turn Sideways and hidsously mutilate the
man next to him During the Civil war
the death rate for perforating wounds Of
the abdominal cavity was nearly - per
cent II viii be less than three IN the
present war. The amputation percentage
is practically non-existent- There vii be
10 piles OF mangled limbs in this war
Ont Of al these wounded men on the OIL
vette we have 10; had TO perform a single
smputauon."
Colonel Grigsby's Tisbap
e Reno, o. T, July Special)-
Colonel y. Il. Grgs5y. while going home
from his ONCE today at noon. slipped
and fell or wet Sidewalk. severely
spraining his back and hips. The heavy