The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1898-08-29
LIEUTENANT oRD's DEATH.
Shot by a Spaniard Whose Life He
Had Saved.
(From the Chicago News.)


Fred c. Schroeder, one of the Chicago
boys wounded in the battle at Santiago.
is spending a two months furlough at
the home of his father and waiting for
the bullet hole in his right arm near the
shoulder TO heal before rejoining his
regiment.
He has been member of Company II
of the Sixteenth Infantry regulars since
1896 and left for the front from Fort
Sherman. Idaho. 1t was on the afternoon
of July 2 while in the trenches near the
beleaguered city, that Schroeder secured
the ball from a Spanish rifle i'll the arm
He wore two cartridge belts and as he
stood erect to tighten one which was
slipping down he was made the target
for one of the opposing sharpshooters.
Young Schroeder remained in the
trenches fighting until dark and finally
his commandant, Capt. S. r. Whitall, no
ticed the blood flowing from his coat
sleeve and ordered him to the hospital a
Siboney. The latter point was twelve
miles distant and Schroeder walked all
the way unassisted, arriving the follow
ing morning.
Later he was ordered to the Cherokee
and transported greatly against his wish
es TO the hospital at Fort Mcpherson.
Ga, where he remained two weeks be-
fore being allowed his leave of absence.
The young warrior when seen at his
home was surrounded by a number of
acquaintance, who listened with all at
tention to his narrative of the battle,
which he has related many times since
his return.
1.-The Sixteenth Infantry was one of the
first regiments to land on Cuban SOIL he
asserted, DISSEMINATING from the trans
ports at Siboney on the morning of June
o. We Immediately went into camp in a
cocoanut grove, but two days later We're
called upon to re-enforce the Rough Rid
ers This order was changed, however,
and we proceeded toward Santiago. where
we were put to kork digging trenches.
THE fighting began July l and all that
day. in the drizzling rain, we lay in the
narrow burrows and poured voiiey after
voIley into the ranks of the enemy Shot
and shell fell all around US and quite
number were killed or wounded.
1.-The fighting continued the next day
and it was during the afternoon that L
was wounded. / did not want TO give up
fighting, but of course l was forced to
obey orders.
Il saw scenes most terrible ana some
which 1 can never forget. one IN pafucu-
lar was the death of Lieut.. jules u. Ora
the ouartermaster of Hawkins brigade.
| It was after the blockhouse on San Juan
hin had been taken, and our men were
rushing into the trenches, which were
filed with dead and wounded Spaniards
| A colored infantryman noticed wounded
| Spaniard move and was about to end ms
misery with bayonet thrust Lieut.. ora
| saw the negro and ordered him not to
| strike, saying:
Let the fellow alone; he has but mo-
ment TO live, anyway. No sooner had the
words left his lips than the Spaniard.
| quick as a fash, whipped out revolver
and fired. The bullet passed clear through
Lieut. Ord's head, killing him instantly.
! 1t is needless to say that when we got
] through with the Spaniard it would be
| almost impossible to count the bullet
| holes in his body.
| Color Sergeant Joseph Haag was the
/ first man killed in our company. He was
| struck by a piece of bursting shell which
wounded at least a dozen.
Roy Ward was also among the first TO
| fall He formerly lived in Chicago and
| Joined the army here. One can imagine
how fierce was the fighting from the fact
| that at roll call on the evening of the
| first day only twenty-seven out of eighty
| four men of our company answered to
| their names. OF course, all were not kill
| ed, but many were so severely wounded
| that they died later