Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1898-07-15
WOUNDED IN BATTLE
Another Transp ort Arrives
from Santiago.
REsoLuTE IN PORT
POR 7
Supply Ship Comes from Cuba for Coal
How C.rvera Was Defeated by
Commudores ci,lty. a Cor
porais Experience. ...2 .

!He transport ljFeaEWater arrived a [
Fortress Monroe Yesterday afternoon
from Santiago de Cuba, bringing liu
wounded ana sick soldiers Hundreds
OF people stood on the pier and watch
ed the vessel steam slowly IN to ,l,e
dock. and Il few minutes after the
Breakwatcr was moored the work Of
transferring the SJi,llerS To the wharf
MAS commenced. The scenes witnessed
"Wednesday when the City OF Washing
ton arrived We're re-ellacte,l. 1t WAS n
reproduction Of the sam" drama of pa
th"s ana enthusiasm in which sohs and
cheers We're mingled. Men who had
been wounded while fighting under Il
tropical sun To libcrate an oppressed
people We're carried from the Break
water on stretchers. some groaning on
account OF eNcruciating pain. while 9TH
"rS We're singing the Star Spanulan
I.;inner.''
The soldiers We're placed in tie hos
piia tents. where their wounds we're
redresScd and II change of clothing
placed on them. Some of the men ar,.
seriously wounded hut the surgeons
believe that. With probably a few ex-
ceptions. all of them will Recover. II,
was impossible to get a list OF the
wounded and sick as the surgeon in
charge has not completed il.
The men who came yesterday ar. in
better condition than those who ar
rived On the City Of Washington. But
four or five litterS We're required in III.
work Ut debarking them. lit is said
mat the chances of recovery are
against two or three. hut their lives
are not deSpiircd of by any means
MAJOR De witt and his corps OF :c-
complished assistants, Xix. Or. ilorn
brock, have doctors SAWS and whites
OF a dimensions, shapes and met,les
Il kinds q boxes mugs an botltes,''
ana IKE that able physician, to whom
Burns gave fame, they will give grim
death a warm reception. Only half a
dozen officers of all ranks came up on
the Breakwater
VIZ NJ a1sE-of tho neFvcorpers.are Michigan
volunteers belonging to General 7Duf-
lleld's eomamnd, which sailed from Old
Pont about three weeks ago on the
auxiliary cruiser Yale and reached Gu
81. in the Mich OF time to take part in
the fighting. The others are regulars
and colored cavalrynen, With here and
there q wounded Cuban. With the eS-
ception of those dangerously i'll the
men are taken to the field hospital.
winch has become as comfortable and
cosy place as one could wish for Not
so many boyish faces We're noticed yes
terGaE as on the previous day. and the
soldiers We're better clad. But few
showed wounds which will give the
hospital surgeons trouble and there is
no reason to doubt that nearly All viii
d.. VIII enough to return to their com
mands in Il few weeks. They tell the
same story of hardship and suffering
While beating their way through trop-
zeal JunSles in the face of the enamy's
deadly fire and enter the SAM. com
paint against the government as their
comrades who preceded them on We'd
nesd;.y. All insist had they been pro-
vided with smokeless powder their loss
would have been much less.
High praise is gwen to the Seventy
ilrst New York whose furious fighting
ana fearless assaults upon the Spanish
ranks caused the enemy to regard them
as men possessed Of more Than human
powers of endurance. With everything
against them. they faced the hail OF
death poured from the muzzlts OF Maui
ser rifles as ii they Mere engaged in :,
sham battle instead of Il f:ishtful con
test IN which their wounded ana bleed
ms comrades We're Dropping and dying
All around them Hour after hour they
pushed their way through the matted
and tangled underground. With The
seorching rays of the tropical sun fall
ing upon them in the early part ,of the
day and the rain descending in tor
rents in the afternoon and when night
came and they lay down to rest in thcil.
drlpring clothes. they had planted the
Star SpanGlsa I.an,ler well on toward
the Spanish stronghold.
Nothing was known by the men of
The existence or yellow fever in the
camps around Santiago when the
Sreakwatcr left. They had been told.
however. that maarial fever had brok-
en- out and that there We're number
of serious cases Of the disease. The
prnba billy is that the real nature of
the mulady was concealed from them.
But be that as ii may. there need be
u, apprehension of Il visit by yellow
Jack to Old Point. No vessel is allow
ed to sail until the doctors are :abso-
lutely certain that no dangerous conta-
gious disease exists ON board \ mo-
ment's thought will convince the read
err that the government W5ull not en-
danger the lives OF the 1000 men nj
Fort Monroe by failing To keep a sharp
lookout for the deadly tropical scnurge
Besides it would be he height Of non
sense to permit Il ship suspected of
having yellow fever ali1art To put to
sea for the reason that scores would
perish before She could reach a port of
refuge.
The wounded and sick brought by the
CITY OF Washington are doing Well
More has died. A the hospital head
=
land told the Daily Press corresp pond
ent that the unfortunate inmates OF the
institution We're doing spendiily. The
life Of a negro who was shot in half {,
dozen places was at one time allnosl
lesr"irca Of. hut yesterday morning: he
was Very much better ana DR. Freeland
said THAT he would recover.
Among the arrivals sn the Brcakwa-
ter was Il -ycar-oid boy ffon1
Fort Smell, Mimi. who accompa MED his
father and brother to Cuba. He saw
the fighting ashore and Witnessed The
race for CcrVcra's fleet. The little fel-
lows name is James Moore. His father
and brother, whom he has not seer
since the first days fighting. are mem
! b4rs OF the United States troops.
| The Oivette, With 800 sick an(
| wounded, among whom. it is said, ar,
| number of Spanish soldiers, is cX
pccted at Old Point today. g
Among those who came on the Break
water was Colonel Mills. His wife wa!
| NJ the wharf to receive aim. The
valiant colonel was shot IN the heat
iuring the first days engag cement TIL
ball entered his right eye and ploughe,
l To-,