The Indianapolis journal., 1898-07-12
Spaniards at Santiago Charged with
ing at the Red Cross Flag.
FIELD HOSPITALS SHELLED
INCIDENTS OF THE FIGHT RELATED
By SUFFERING SOLDIERS.
Arrival of the Hospital TraiItat Fort
McPhersOn-AdditiOn List of
Wounded and Sick.

ATLANTA, Ga, July 1.-Two hundred
and thirty-hve sick and wounded soldiers
reached the general hospital at Fort Nc
fEerson to-day from Tampa. Among them
are several of the Rough Riders and many
members of the Seyenty-first New York.
The most seriously wounded are Captain
Ducat and Lieutenant Lyons, of the Twen-
ty-fourth Infantry, whose families are now
at Salt Lake, Utah. The doctors are much
encouraged by the condition of the men to-
night, and say they will recover. Many of
the wounded men give thrilling accounts of
the great fight of July l, and from several
sources unsolicited comes the information:
THE Spaniards used explosive bullets and
brass-covered bullets"
Dwight Galloupe, chaplain of the Twenty
fourth Infantry, of Newark, n, j., is suf-
fering from internal hemorrhage, but he
will recover. He told a story of the utter
disregard of the Spaniards for the Rcd Cross
flag. ON the afternoon of the Sd, said the
chaplain, Il was visiting the wounded in a
hospital tent near the place where the fight
was the hottest lieutenant, whose name
| do not know, was at the other end of the
tent looking after some of his men. Sudden
ly shell came through the tent and ex-
ploded. That officer was torn into shreds
l was hurled fully fifty feet and injured as
you see, and every man in the tent thrown
from his cot The Spaniards took especial
delight in firing on our field hospital We
had to move it seven times on that account.
One of the surgeons was killed while dress
ing the wound Of a soldier. In the hasty
retreat which the enemy's fire made neces-
sary from the first hospital lot of our
wounded were left behinu, and all of them
We're killed"
Several of the now arrivals say the re-
ported suffering of Spanish soldiers is great
ly exaggerated. THE Spanish soldiers get
better food than ours do,'' said one of the
men. The children of Santiago are suffer-
ing, but the soldiers are getting the fat of
the land They are hard fighters" he con-
tinued, but very treacherous. Once dur
ing the early part of the battle a white flag
was thrown up on one of their batteries.
Our men approached it, as matter of
course, but We're shot down when they drew
near"
Captain Ducat, of the Twenty-fourth In
fantry, is shot through the thigh and his
right leg is partially paralyzed Propped
up on a cot he told an Associated Press
representative a story of the bitter fight
which resulted in the woundii1g- of himself
and his first officer, Lieutenant Lyons, and
the loss of many privates. On the first day
of the fighting near Ell Gamer Captain
Lyons, with seventy-five men, set out to
take stone blockhouse at the top of a
steep hill. Safely housed behind the stone
walls of the house sixty Spaniards poured
in murderous fire on the plucky Americans
as they entered the narrow path leading up
the hill. Step by step the men forged ahead,
their comrades falling every minute. BY
the time the tcp of the hill was reached but
twenty-five of the band remained. With a
shout they forced their way into the coveted
stronghold and in desperate hand-to-hand
fight with 1evolvers succeeded in scatter
ing the Spaniards. Captain Ducat and
Lieutenant Lyons received their wounds at
close range. OF the seventy-tive men but
twenty answered the roll call.
johnny Bigelow, of the Ninth Infantry,
a brother of Poultney Bigelow, is wounded
in four places, part of his jaw being torn
away. All are bitter in their denunciation
of explosive bullets
The hospital train was in a rear-end colli-
sion six miles south of High Springs, Fla,
at p. m. last night No one was hurt, but
the private car was demolished