The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-07-12
C0WARDLY SPANIARDS.
They Do Not Respect Red Cross Ol
Flags of Truce.

Flags of Truce.
| ATLANTA, Ga, July 1.-Two hun
| dred and thirty-five sick and wounded
soldiers reached the general hospital
at Fort Mcpherson today from Tam
pa. Among them are several of the
rough riders and many members of
the Seventy first New York.
The most seriously wounded are
Capt. Ducat and Lieut.. Lyons, of the
Twenty-fourth infantry, whose FAM
lilies are now at Salt Lake, Utah. The
doctors are much encouraged by the
condition of the men tonight, and say
they will recover.
Many of the wounded men give
thrilling accounts Of the great fight
of July 1, and from several sources un-
solicited comes the information:
THE Spaniards use explosive and
brass bullets"
Dwight Gallupe, chaplain of the
Twenty-fourth infantry, of Newark, N.
j., is suffering from internal hem
orrhage, but he will recover. He told
a story of the utter disregard of the
Spaniards for the Red Cross flag. "On
the afternoon of the 3d. said the
chaplain, Il was visiting the wounded
in a hospital tent near the place
where the fight was the hottest. A
lieutenant, whose name I do not know,
was in the other end Of the tent look
ing after some of his men. Suddenly
shell came through the tent and eX-
ploded. That officer was torn into
shreds. I was hurled fully fifty feet
and injured as you see, and every
man in the tent thrown from his cot.
The Spaniards took especial delight in
firing upon our field hospital. We had
to move 1t seven times on that ac-
count. One of the surgeons was killed
while dressing the wound of a SOL
der. In the hasty retreat which the
enemy's fire made necessary from the
first hospital lot Of our wounded
yere left behind, and all of them were
killed"
Several Of the new arrivals say the
reported suffering Of Spanish soldiers
is greatly exaggerated.
''The Spanish soldiers get better
food than ours do," said one of them.
THE children of Santiago are suffer-
ing, but the soldiers are getting the
fat of the land. They are hard fight
ers," he continued, "but very treacher-
Gus. Once during the early part of
the battle white flag was thrown up
on one of their batteries. Our men ap-
preached it, aus a matter Of course, but
were shot down when they drew near"
Capt. Ducat of the Twenty fourth
infantry, Is shot through the thigh, and
his right leg is partly paralyzed.
Propped up on a cot he told an Asso-
ciated Press reporter story of the
bitter fight which resulted in the
wounding of himself and his first Of
ficer, Lieut.. Lyons, and the loss Of
many privates. On the first day Of the
fighting near Ell Caney, Capt. Lyons,
with seventy five men, set out to take
hill. Safely housed behind the stone
walls of the house sixty Spaniards
poured in a murderous fire on the
plucky Americans as they entered the
narrow path. leading up the hill. Step
by step the men forged ahead, their
comrades falling every minute. By the
time the top of the hill was reached
but twenty-five of the band remained
With shout they forced their way
into the coveted stronghold, and in a
desperate hand to-hand fight with re-
volvers succeeded in scattering the
Spaniards. Capt. Ducat and Lieut..
Lyons received the wounds at close
range Of the seventy-five men but
twenty answered the roll CALL
johnny Bigelow, of the Ninth in
fantry, brother of Poultney Bigelow,
is wounded in four places, and part of
his jaw lis torn away.
All are bitter in their denunciation
of explosive" bullets.