The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1898-07-22

advanced in ConValeScance that within
e a week or SO they will be able to return
2 to their regiments. All are eager TO re-
turn TO active service
Sergeant Patrick Walsh, of the Thir-
: teenth infantry. one Of these men, went
to Fort Slocum yesterday afternoon on a
furlough to see his wife and three chill
dren, and he received an ovation from
the artillerymen and the Twenty-second
volunteers. The garrison band played
THE Star Spangled Banner and other
patriotic tunes, and the soldiers cheered
Justify Sergeant Walsh was in the fight
| ing line during the charge upon San Juan,
and was shot through the right shoulder.
Sergeant Dolan, who was beside him, re-
ceived a brass bullet in the thigh at the
same moment, but continued to fight and
march for six days before he went to the
hospital. Sergeant Walsh praises the
Seventy-first at San Juan and their brave
charge upon the trenches.
1.-The Journal war correspondents ex-
hibited great gallantry," he said. They
were always right up in the front ranks,
and always ahead of all other correspon-
dents. And frequently they braved
storms of bullets while they helped carry
off the wounded
The most serious cases at the Long Is
land College hospital are those of Norman
| Orme, one of the Rough Riders: Adolph
Maurier. Company B. Second infantry,
and Samuel Redd, Tenth cavalry. Redd
received a bullet in has head and his
right arm is paralyzed- Orme was shot
through the right lung. Maurier has an
aneurism of the right subelavial artery.
None of the three will die
''It is curious said DR.. L II. Manning
| house surgeon of the hospital, ito find
such proportion Of men shot in the legs
and feet. They explain It by saying they
! occupied for quite a while position on
| a side hill, where whenever they went to
| the brook at the base for water they
were exposed to bullets that came flying
over the crest and struck near the foot
of the hill. A few were wounded in the
chest, and they were shot when they
rose in the rifle pits"
Some soldiers, in describing how they
felt when they were shot, say it was Ike
being hit with a sledge hammer; then that
it seemed like a stroke of lightning; then
that it was like the cut of knife.
The hospitals are a. cheerful and patrio-
tic sight, for American flags are hung
throughout the Railways and in the wards
and little flags are at the head of many of
the cots. The men are happy and cheer
full, and their faces glow with the joy of
being at home again and in such cOmfor-
table quarters. Those who are able stroll
about the corridors and through the
grounds and courtyards, and on every
side are seen groups of men eagerly
fighting their battles over again.
The men have many privileges. They
may smoke, or even chew, if so disposed,
or they may play games or gossip to their
hearts content. They are treated as
guests rather than as ordinary patients.
Hundreds of letters home were written by
them yesterday. At st. Peters hospital
the soft-voiced Sisters of the Poor of
st. Francis move gently from cot TO cot,
attending to every want The daily or
der Of meals there is four meals and a
luncheon. The men, after Cuba's trenches
and bareback, say they think they have
struck heaven.
Equally happy are the fifty men at
Long Island College hospital, where the |
pretty young women nurses devote them |
selves unwearidly to making the soldiers !
happy. And every man vows that they |
more than succeed.
Edward Culver, of the Rough Riders, |
was standing beside Hamilton Fish when !
he was killed. and he believes that it |
own wound. Afterward, as a patient on |
board the Olivette at Santiago, he wit |
messed the destruction of Cervera's feet, !
and says many of the wounded became |
so excited as the news flew through the
ship, that they crawled from their berths
to port holes or the deck to witness the
magnificent sight
The men laugh and talk about their ex-
periences, and tell how in the trenches at
Santiago some of them got in the habit |
of taking off their clothes whenever the
daily rain began, and wrapping their
clothes in their ponchos to keep them dry.
Then entirely naked, they would watch
for Spaniards and at the same time re-
ceive the inestimable benefit Of a shower
bath
They tell, too Of how the piclcets were
often alarmed by the huge land crabs
that in crawling through the thickets
at night make as much noise as a man. |
The crabs were frequently fired upon
and ordered to halt.
Clothing IS especially NEEDED by the SOL
diers, as they were sent north with their
uniforms in tatters. and many had scarce
no uniforms at all. The barbed wire
fences and spikey underbrush cut their
clothing, and when they were wounded |
their coats and trousers were ripped and
slashed so as to get quickly at their
wounds.
Lieutenant J. r. Thomas, Jr., of the
Rough Riders. who saw Hamilton Fish
die, was taken to che Astor House by his
father on Saturday night. He was
ia ken to Washington last evening to be
present at the funeral Of Captain Cap
ron, who was killed where Sergeant Fish
was, and whose place was taken at the
head OF the company by Lieutenant
Thomas
Lieutenant Horace K. Devereux Of the
Rough Riders, and Lieutenant Maury
Nichols, Of the Seventh infantry. who
went 20 Roosevelt hospital. are doing
finely.
Greater New York Is not only doing
wei IN providing space In
its hospitals. but is willing and anxious
10 90 far more.
Following the offer of Commissioner KeI-
Ter to use the hospitals OF the borough OF
the following telegram was
sent 90 Washington
Brooklyn, July 1S.-wina-1 Mckinley,
President Of the ITntre5 S>a-sS TDxe-,,