The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1898-09-11
4 Wounded Soldiers story.

We stopped at a cot far down the line
in the soldiers pavilion at Bellevue.
Here's "A queer case said the doctor.
Look. see the red mark Oh his breast,
it's almost gone; ana then this other one
at the back The bullet went clean
through the left lung. It's wonder he's
alive to-day. We pumped outlet me
SEE
"a hundred and sixteen ounces" said
the soldier
II was easy 10 see that his mind had
dwelt on these figures. One hundred and
sixteen ounces Of blood-his blood He
had thought OF this for days, reckoning
IL up az first with apprehension, after
ward with a certain pride This was his
title 20 distinction IN the ward.
Exactly; one hundred and sixteen
ounces from the left lung The house
surgeon thought pus would form. and
wanted 20 cut away the ribs. but l stuck
10 the pumping and he pulled through.
II he'd been a smoker though, he'd be
a dead smoker now, but his heart was
sound and could stand half raticns o.
air."
II don't drink, either" said the soldier;
Chat is. nothing but beer. I'm Ger
man."
"Are you?' said 7 where FRONT"
Fort German, Iowa. I'm quartermas-
ter-sergeant in the Sixteenth Infantry
He seemed an intelligent quartermas-
ter-sergeant, so I talked TO him while.
letting the doctor 20 on.
WAS 1t San Juan you got hit7' I
asked.
"Yes-half way up the hill It didn't
hurt mucn--Iust Jared me Ike a good
punch"
did you keel over on the ground2"
Keel over nothing. 1 went on up the
hill"
"what-wlth a bullet through your
lung?'
"Certnly. I tell you It didn't hurt; It
just bled a little where the ball came
out"
And you went on nghting?"
yes. sir; I kept right on-up ways,
then down fiat on the ground then up
again. firing and yelling and laying low.
until We got 20 the bi0ck-house"
How long did you fight after you got
hit2"
About an hour. 7 guess-till we got
what We wanted. Then one Of the boys
told me my undershirt was all bloody
behind. and started TO look az IL. I stood
stiu to let him. and an OF a sudden
everything went black and / foil In
heap. II didn't matter them
"What happened after that?'
"Oh, nothing much. I just lry there
tin I came 20. and then / tore half my
undershlrt off and fixed the thing"
Didn't doctor look after you2"
mot that night-there weren't any doc.
tors about"
did you lie there an = ght with no one
TO help you?'
YES. 1 lay there an nisht: and let me
tell you. there were others
Did you Sleep
Couldn't sleep-too much noise: YOU
see. the sharpshooters were getting their
work in Besides. ] was too hungry. Say.
I was hungry as h. that night. that
was worse than the buiiet-hoie. IL was
eleven o'clock Saturday morning when !
got the first taste of anything. and that
was half a cup of beef-tea at Bloody
Bend. The last / had before that was 4
o'clock Friday morning l guess / looked
Ike a freak when they got me down
there-only had my boots on and my
trousers and a little Of my rnderslIrt
I was senseIess. they say. and lot OF
blood was coming from my mouth. II
must have been fixing the stretcher that
knocked me out. 7 rigged Il up with
two guns and some canteen-straps."
Then he went on to describe how his
lung filed up slowly Tor twenty days,
and how the doctors finally pumped IL
ont That was what interested him most.
the nanipuiation OF the sucking needle
and the rutner tubes lolnted into bottles.
and the fact that he had been able 70
lose more ounces Of blood and live than
the doctors thought possible.-Cleveland
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