Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1898-12-30
Lieutenant Mclean Tells of the DoinRs
Of the North Dakota Regiment
at Manila.
A Number of the Boys Have Been Ill
But Most of Them Are I'm
proving.
Interesting Personal Gossip of the Men
and Officers Of the First North
Dakota,
MANILA, P. l., Oct. %. 1893.

4 kICSCuy We udt0 |
considerable sickness in the regiment.
Go. H Jamestown lost one of their boys
tMorgan) the other day from ~dysentery
and several others in the regiment are
very sick. Company A has over twenty on
the sick report. Sergeant Louden is sick
in the brigade hospital with malarial
fever, but is steadily improving. Will
Pattee is in the same hospital with ear
trouble, Dick Longfellow of Mandan Is
just recovering from a 5 weeks siege of
fever. Dan Wallace is down with fever,
but is getting along splendidly. Will
Glen has malarial fever; Sergeant Sperry.
has had quite a time the past few weeks
trying to be sick. His temperature at
times has reached as high as 1O3 but he
would not give up and I guess he will
escape the dread disease after all. We
have made an unsuccessful attempt to
have Louis SWEET and Edward Fay sent
home. Fay is all crippled up with rheu-
matism and SWEET cannot become accli-
mated. He has never been dangerously
ill, but continues to grow weaker all the
time. We are going to try again to have
them sent home and hope to be more
successful next time. The greatest
trouble is the boys do not get the proper
food to eat in this hot climate. Beans,
salt pork, etc, are too hearty, and hence
SO much sickness. The additional cost
of a little improvement in the ration is
sued by Uncle Sam would be small and
more than off set in the saving of medi-
cal supplies, diets, ETC., and those so un-
fortunate as to be stricken with disease
would have sufficient strength to cope
with it. The boys here do not seem to
care much for Spanish dishes-the sub
stance of which consist principally of
cayenne pepper.
Yesterday North Dakota played ball
with the 10th Pennsylvania, and met
with an ignominious defeat. Pcnnsylva-
MIA has a good club and had an easy
game. Our bats were full of holes and
the majority of the mitts full,o of rubber.
Newcomer and | played with the team.
Sherm played first base and I in my
usual position. Both played very good
ball, but couldn't hit a balloon. Wish
we had Bartron here to pitch and Frank
Ryan to ginger up the team. 1t was the
first ball we had played since we left
home and that accounts for our inability
to bat. Newcomer only had one error
and that was an excusable one. l didn't
have a pass ball and catght three pitch
ers as wild as sin, McHugh was to have
PLAYED but failed to show up at the ap'
pointed time, and consequently escaped
the awful "drubbing.' l think our little
club at home could hold their own with
anything on the island.
An extremely sad occurrence happened
several days ago. Orders had been issuec
from Brigade headquarters to the effec'
that all U. S. soldiers caught out aftel
10 o'clock without a pass should be ar
rested and confined in the guard house
The officer of the day in making hi
rounds about 1890 p. NJ. located severa
soldiers playing poker in a native hut
He came down to the guard house ant
asked for a patrol of three men and
corporal to 20 with him and arrest SOM
soldiers as above stated. Corporal W
J. Dolan of our company was the cor
poral in charge of the squad, n OF
arriving at this house received or
ders from the officer of the day t.
halt his squad, have them load with bal
cartridge and that if any of the occu
nants of the room attempted to escap
to order them to halt twice, and If the
refused to fire upon them, aim low s
they would shoot them in the leg. Ate
giving these instructions, the officer G
the day and Corporal Dolan entered tn
house and ordered the soldiers to ope
the door as they were under arres
This they refused to do, and one OF ther
iumped through a window and starte
to run. On hearing this Dolan rushe
to another window just in time to get
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turn in the road. Dolan fired in the q
rection the escaping man had taken an
: the ball struck the fellow in the calf
leg and came out just above the kne
The unfortunate man, Sergeant Wn
Gillespie Of Co. F, First Idaho, was take
to the hospital and after a close exam
nation it was found that his leg VIZ
quite badly mangled from the heav
Springfield ball. They thought at mr.
that his leg could be saved but after Sc
eraldays the attending physician DECIDE
that amputation was necessary to say
his life. This was done about a wee
after Gillespie was shot and from the 81
fects Of which caused his death. Gle
pie was arrested shortly before for tt
same offense and was warned by his Cal
tain thatif it occurred again he Woul
be reduced to the ranks. 1t is Though
that. for this reason he refused to- ma