The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1898-07-05
LONG ROLL OF DEAD OFFICERS.
Eight Brave Fellows Killed by the Span
iards and the List Only Partial


Washington, July 5.-The following
dispatch from General Shafter was re-
ceived at the war department Sunday
night from Camp near Santiago, July
3: The following is a partial list of Of
ficers killed: Colonel Charles A. Wickoff,
Twenty-second infantry; Lieutenant
Colonel John NJ. Hamilton, Ninth caval-
ry; Lieutenant w. II. Smith, Tenth cav
airy; Major Forse First cavalry; Cap
tain ONeill, First volunteer cavalry;
Lieutenant Niche. son of Professor
Niche; Lieutenant Jules G. Ord. Sixth
infantry; Lieutenant William e. Shipp,
Tenth cavalry.
Following is partial list of officers
wounded: Lieutenant Colonel John II.
Patterson, Twenty-second infantry:
Lieutenant Colonel Henry Carroll, COM
manding First brigade cavalry division;
Major Henry w. Vessels, Third cav
airy; Captain Augustus p. Blocksom,
Sixth cavalry; Captain John B. Kerr,
Sixth cavalry; Captain George K. Hun
ter, Third cavalry; Captain George A.
Dodd, Third cavalry; Captain Charles
w. Taylor. Ninth cavalry; Lieutenant
Frank Z. Mccoy, Tenth cavalry; Lieu
tenant Winthrop S. Wood, adjutant
Ninth cavalry; Lieutenant Haskell,
First volunteer cavalry; Lieutenant A.
l.. Mills First cavalry; Lieutenant Oren
b. Meyer, Third cavalry; Lieutenant
Arthur Thayer, Third cavalry; Lieuten-
ant Walter c. Short Sixth cavalry;
captain John Il. Rodman, Twentieth
infantry"
A press dispatch from Skaters head
quarters states that in the demonstra-
ton made by General Duffields COM
mand at Aguadores Friday there were
several casualties among the Michigan
troops in his command. Those hurt
were all victims of the first shells fired
by the Spaniards. who had the line of
range Of the railroad, though firing was
high. The men had just thrown off their
packs when a shell from a three-inch
gun exploded in the ranks of Company
l.. The killed were: John Franklin. of
Diamonddale, Mich, and Seabright. The
wounded were: Frank Lawson. of Law
son, Mich, left arm fractured: d. A.
Stark, Ann Arbor, Mich, right arm
fractured; Clifford II. Curtis, of Land
Lake
All the killed and wounded were men,
bers OF Company L. which is made up
OF sons Of veterans. AS the train left a
second shell exploded on the track,
a number of others.
The proportion of killed to wounded
In one part of the line is reported as
25.O3 per cent, but this is so phenom-
enally large that the officers are in
clined to think that the average must
be lower. Four and one-half per cent.
has been the previous war record. so.
II 20 per cent. were killed, II establishes
clearly the deadly nature of modern
small arms.
The divisional hospital reports its
overtaxed. The physicians
gave up their cots and blankets to the
wounded, and the newspaper corre-
spondents did the same.
The Red Cross nurses are angels
without disguise. They worked the
whole night by the light Of candles and
lanterns, and without sleep. The short
age OF ambulances is lamented by the
surgeons, and the arrival of more is
awaited. Many of the wounded
walked to the hospital. They report
that $50 soldiers are in the field hos
pitfalls too seriously hurt to allow of
their removal.