The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-08-18
DEATH OF FRANK HOPPE
IT Is DESCRIBED IN A LETTER
FROM SANTIAGO
He was Private In Company A of
the Third Infnntry, and Leaves a
wife and Three Children at Fort
FeyerR Is Raising
havoc With the Men at the
Front.

Inc days drag onuat Fort Smelling as
anywhere else with, the difference that
they pass slower at the fort than
among civilians. Not.a person at the
post but picks up the daily papers in
eager haste in the hope of finding
telegram announcing that the Third
Onlteo states Infantry is on it's home
Wafd way. And then a look of sad
ness comes over each face, as no sign
OF the sought-for news appears, but
IN It's stead, perhaps, is found word
OF the oeath or severe illness Of some
friend or near relative. And thus the
tlme passes until 1t is numbered by
weeks, long dreary weeks of waiting.
Mall is received from Santiago almost
every day now, but not at all in the
order In which the letters were written.
IL is no uncommon thing for wife or
daughter to receive a letter one day
dated as late as Aug 8, and two or
three days after to get one dated per-
maps July II, and, as some one said
yesterday, the letters will probably
continue to come long after the troops
are home
Every one at the post is sorry to see
the. size which the death list of the
Third has attained. To date eight of
the men who left Fort Smelling in April
have passed to their last camping
o ~ liiCoC Tic uSdl LIS Ol IIlVdl6
Adolph Missal, Company F, typhoid
fever, and Musician William R. Leon
ard, Company H. pernicious ma
larial' fever, were announced in
Sundays papers. Missal was
new member Of the regiment.
having enlisted on March 16 last.
Leonard had been in the service twelve
years. Before he Joined the Third at
Fort Smelling, he filled for a number
OF years the post of musician at West
Point. Both the men were unmarried.
OF the other dead, Frank E. Hoppe,
Company A; Warren, Company a;
- Jindra, Company B: -Miskowiz,
Company r. were killed in action, while
Charles Nelson, Company G. and
Charles Whiting, Company G. died of
the fever. ''.
The story Of the death of F. E. Hoppe
is told in one of the recent letters.
Company had been digging trenches
for the Second infantry all during the
night after the first days fighting be-
fore Santiago: Early in the morning
of the second day Hoppe, with two
companions, was sitting, on log near
the line discussing the killing of Col
Pages two horses on the previous day.
Just then Hoppe saw horse grazing
some distance off which looked like one
of the colonels. He said to his COM
panions that there must be some mis-
take about the horse being killed, and
they started UP to go after it.
At that moment bullet whizzed by
and one Of the men, turning to Hoppe,
called out, asking why he lodged after
the bullet had passed. He did not
respond, but sank back upon the log.
His companions saw his head droop
upon his breast, while blood oozed
from wounds in his head and shoulder
Hoppe had been hit in the right temple
the ball passing into his right shoulder.
and he died without uttering a sound.
The man enlisted nine years ago, hav-
ing been q tailor by trade. He leaves
a widow and three children at Fort
Smelling -f.