The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1898-07-14
THE CHAPLAIN'S STORY
THE SPANIARDS KILL THE WOUNDED AND
FIRE ON THE RED CROSS.
Chaplain GaIIoupe is Disguised with the Gu
bans--He BucMed on Pistol and Fought
to Protect Himself Water Very Bad.

Writing of the men wounded at San
tiago, who are at Camp Mcpherson, the
Atlanta Journal gives the following
which will interest all readers:
One of the men most anxious to get
home is Chaplain Dwight Galoupe, of
Newark, n. j.
The chaplain has been mourned for as
dead, and is anxious to get home again
to his family Il life-like assurance that he
is still on earth. Mr.. Galloupc was
standing outside of the hospital tent III
front of Santiago with the Ninth in
fantry on the day of the great battle,
when shell struck near him. The cX-
plosion killed Il lieutenant. tearing him
to pieces. BY the conclusion the minis
ter was thrown 80 feet. and with him
went the leutcnant'S sword and Scab-
bard. The wounded man was picked up
unconscious by some Cubans, and taken
into the camp. With him was taken
the scabbard which the chaplain re-
tainS as Il souvenir.
1t was some hours before Chaplain
Galloupe rcgained consciousness, and in
the meantime it was urcported that he
was either dead or in the hands of the
Spaniards. The former theory was
most generally accepted, and the New
York papers have had the reverend gen
teman in his grave since the battle On
arrival here yesterday Mr.. Gall0upe
wired these papers asking that they
kindly rcsurrcct him.
The chaplain talks interestingly of the
battle, and says as soon as he can take
Il run up to New Jersey he expects to
return. The surgeons. however, say he
is suffering from internal hemorrhages
and will not he able to go back. The
gentleman, talking yesterday afternoon,
said:
SPANIARDS KILL WOUNDED.
''In war, as rule, the hospital is the
safest place to he, but in fighting Span
ards it is about the worst place. The
Spaniards take pleasure in killing the
defenscless. in destroying man who
is down. They fire on our hospitals at
every opportunity
Mr.. GallOupc comes back Disguised
with the Cubans. He says they will fight
if they can't get out of it, but they'll
| always run the other way if there is any
chance of escape. He says they are Of
Il low order Fof intelligence and utterly
incapable of governing themselves. He
feels especially bitter towards General
Garcia for his failure to notify the
Americans Of the Spanish sharpshooters
in the trees and for his cowardicc in al
lowing Pando to pass with his troops
without Il struggle. He says the Span
iards use Red Cross flags indiscriminatc-
~ to protect themselves, and at the same
time lay in ambuscade for Americans
protected by the same flag.
CHAPLAIN ENTERS FIGHT.
Talking on this line, Mr.. Galloupe
said:
I'VE advanced toward one blockhouse
from which IL Red Cross flag was flying,
never giving it any attention, and when
we arrived near it Il fire poured out from
under the flag. y number of our men
were killed in this volley. The surgeons
with our men showed me explosive bull
lets, split bullets and brass projcctiles,
the latter causing blood poison to those
hit by them. The missiles are not recog-
| nizcd in civilized warfare and as n con
sequence | took off my Red Cross flag;
it was no protection to me any way, and
buckled on Il pistol. 1t was II case of
| self preservation. / was obliged to pro-
tect myself.
Il know my mission is to save souls
| and not to send them to torment. but
during the heat of that battle. with my
blood boiling from the treachcry of the
enemy, | felt that | did not care if Il
little Spanish was spoken in that hot
place down there
SHARPSHOOTERS IN TREES.
In every fight, excepting the first Skin
mish, the men say, the Spaniards have
been well entrenched and the Americans
i'll the open. In the first encounter the
Spaniards were in the underbrush and Il
number of sharpShooters were i'll trees,
where they were tied. There was moth
ing for them to do but to fight. There
was no escape.
The country around Santiago is de-
scribcd as being very hard to penetrate,
it being covered with thick underbrush
about five feet high. The paths through
this permit of the passage of but one
man ut time, and our troops marched
in single file. The water is very bad
and has caused much sickness i'll the
American camps.
Il. G.. Blanks, of townsville, Texas,
writes that one box of DeWitt's Witch
Hazel Salve was worth $1,000 to him.
1t cured his piles of ten years standing