The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-11-29
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This amusing incident, from the war
budget OF Massachusetts private, in
dictates that at times the minds of our
brave boys were about evenly divided
between grub and glory, with a lean
ing toward grub.
The first night on the island of Cuba
one of the boys was marching-they
were struggling along single file-when
he esDied a nice, plump, red-wattled
bird perched in a tree fifty yards to
the left
"a wild turkey! A wild turkeyr' he
yelled.
Up to his shoulder went his rifle.
Bangi The bird fell and the marks
man dashed into the brush after his
prize His comrades awaited his re-
ing before them. Out of the brush he
came, thumb and finger tightly clutch
ing his nose.
"Buzzard!' he muttered, and the dis
appointed boys resumed their march.
Arthur McAllister of Cleveland, a SOL
der invalided from Cuba, tells in the
Plain Dealer two good stories Of his ex-
perience in front of Santiago. He was
making his way to the rear with a
Spanish prisoner whom he had captur-
ed, when suddenly, way back out of
range of the fighting, he was startled
by a series of the most blood-curdling
yells and shrieks and groans.
On investigation he discovered that
the racket proceeded from a group of
three Cubans, two of whom were carry
ing a third, who was wounded, between
them in hammock and it was this
gentleman who was the cause of the
uproar.
+ Mr. McAllister, who had some emer-
gency bandages with him, stopped,
thinking that maybe be could patch the
fellow up a bit and stop some of the
unearthly noise, but no sooner did the
little cavalcade catch sight of him than
the two soldiers dropped the hammock
with a bounce, wounded comrade and
ALL and made a lunge at the Spaniard,
with the loudly avowed purpose of kill
ing him.
There was an exciting skirmish for
a minute or two, but Mr.. McAllister
succeeded at last in impresSlng upon
them the fact that such justice was
not to be meted out to any prisoner OF
his, and then proceeded with his inves-
LEGATIONS of the wounded man, who had
kept up his end of the performance
with undated vigor.
Going over to him, Mr.. McAlister be-
gan looking for the wound and soon
found tin the breast, where a bullet
had most certainly gone in; 1t had just
as certainly gone out, and that, very
near it's point of entrance, making only
a very slight flesh wound, and distinct
" showing that the man was more
frightened than hurt. Highly disguised
with all Cubans in general, Mr.. Meal
lister threw his bandages into the
bushes and marched away with his
prisoner, leaving the insurgents to XIII
and yell and groan all they pleased,
without any assistance from him.
Another incident of much more ne
roic nature happened after Mr.. Meal
lister was wounded and was going to
the rear. A huge negro soldier who
had been wounded in the neck came
striding along, his head poked way up
in the air from the height and thickness
of the bandages in which it was swath-
ed, when suddenly he caught sight Of
an American officer, who was badly
wounded, and yet struggling pitifully
along as best he could, in the hone OF
getting help before it was too late.
The big negro looked down at him
moment over his bandages, and then
suddenly stopped picked the wounded
white man I'D in his arms and carried
him tendarly every step of the way
back to Siboney, a distance of twelve
miles, where the hospital tents and the
doctors were.
The man was hero if ever there was
one, and he must have been a perfect
Hercules, too, for it takes a big amount
of muscle for one man who is wounded
to carry another for twelve miles over
rough ground, no matter how small the
other man may be-.