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Modern High-Power Rifle is a Terrible
Weapon Bodies All Show lt--Dr Oran-
do Duckcr Tells What lie Saw tho
Field at Cusco.
A correspondent, writing from the
scene Of last weeks battle in Cuba,
wherein several Americans were killed,
writes as follows Of the effects of mod
ern bullets:
Since the introduction of the modern
high-power. small-calibre rifle among
the armies of the world, there has been
interest in the medical profession to
know the character of the wounds it
would infiict and the proportion of NOR
tality to wounded.
DR.. Orlando Quicker, of the American
Medical Association, who accompanied
the Dauntless on her last trip TO Guam
tanamo Bay, has given an expert state
ment regarding the work Of the Mauser
and Lee rifles.
A sight of the battlefield of CuscO
gave the impression of bigger fight
than had been conveyed by The cold
official statement at Camp McCGlla. The
additional bodies found raised the estl-
mate of Spanish killed from fifty-eight
to over seventy-five, many bullet
pierced straw hats llttering the ravine
where the Spaniards made their last
disastrous retreat The narrow glen
was literally sown with empty Mauser
shells for half a mile.
EIGHT BODIES EXAMINED.
There were eight bodies found in con-
dition to examine, and Of these the sun
and vultures had left little. The party
on returning carried two bullet-punc-
tured Spanish skulls. Dr. Rucker says:
THE effectiveness of rifles of small
ealibre, but great initial velocity, like
the Krag Jorgensen or Mauser. we
should regard as settled, if we accept
the results of the battle of Cusco
Mountain. on June IA. One of our sol
diers received flesh wound in the left
arm at a distance of 200 yards. The
ball struck just below the elbow as
the arm was being extended-semi-
fiexed. The wound at entrance was no
larger than the bullet, but the exit was
terrible laceration, so great that It
was supposed until minute examina-
ton had been made that an explosive
bullet had been used
"Of the Spanish soldiers examined
one had sustained a commlnuted frac-
ture of the fifth and sixth ribs at the
anterior curvature. The soldier was
evidently STOPPING and running when
struck by the bullet, the ball entering
the back below the tenth rib and rang
ing upward, striking the inner side Of
the sixth and the outer side of the fifth
ribs, SCATTERING them for the space of
two inches.
THE second was a negro Spanish
guerilla, with the usual thick negro
skull. The would at entrance was
near the middle Of the left parietal
bone. tearing away the outer table for
quarter of an inch around it. but
leaving the inner table intact except the
clean-cut hole the size of the bullet.
The ball passed out through the right
orbit. tearing away half of the floor and
all of the inner wall, complete longi-
tudinal fracture Of the skull, extending
from the ciliary ridge of the right side
to the occipital suture On the same side
passing one inch above the wound at
the entrance.
SKULL TERRIBLY BROKEN
"The third Spaniard was one of the
regulars, young man. He was evil
IDENTIFY STOPPING forward and facing