The age-herald., 1898-07-12
SICK AND WOUNDED
 AT FORT JEFFERSON
Two Hundred and Thirty-Five
 Have Arrived.
TELL WAR EXPERIENCES
A Terrific Battle in Which Captain Ducat Lost Fifty-Three Out of Seyenty-fRe Men-The Spanish Fight
 Treacherousy.

Atlanta July 1.-Two hundred and thir- ty-five sick and wounded soldiers reached the general hospital a Fort McPherson to- day from Tampa. Among them are seV- eral of the rough riders and many mem- bers of the Seventy-first New York. The most seriously wounded afe Captain Du- cat and Lieutenant Lyons of the Twenty fourth infantry, whose families are now at Salt Lake, Utah. The doctors are much encouraged by the improved condition of the men tonight 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 Those Spaniards Use explo- sive and brass bullets.''
 Disregard for Red Cross
 Dwight Galloupe, chaplain of the Twen- ty-fourth infantry, of Newark, N. J., is suf- fering from internal hemorrhages, but he will recover. He told story of the utter disregard of the Spaniards for the Red Cross flag. "On the afternoon of the third,' said the chaplain, ''I Was visiting the wounded in a hospital tent near the point where firing was the hottest. lieu tenant, whose name l do not know, was in the other end of the tent looking after some ofhismen. Suddenly a shell came through the tent and exploded That officer was torn into shreds. l was hurled fullyl fifty feet and injured you and every man in the tent thrown from his cot.
 ''The Spaniards took especial delight in firing upon our field hospital We had to move it seven times on that account One of the surgeons was killed while dressing the wound of a soldier In the nasty re- treat which the enemy's fire made neces- sary from the first hospital a lot of our wounded were left behind and all of them were killed''
 Spanish Suffering Exaggerated
 Several of the new arrivals say the re- ports of the suffering of Spanish soldiers is greatly exaggerated. "The Spanish sol- diers get better food than do ours,' said one of the mens "The citizens of Santiago are suffering, but the soldiers are getting the fat of the land"
 "They are hard fighters he continued. but very treacherous. Once during the early part of the battle a white flag was thrown upon one of the batteries. Our men approached it, as a matter of course, but were shot down when they drew near"
 Hand to Hand Battle
 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 story of the bitter fight which resulted in the wounding of himself and his first officer, Lieutenant Lyons and the loss of many privates. On the first day of the fighting near Fl Clancy, Lieutenant Lyons, with seventy-fve men st out to take the stone bockhouse at the top of a steep hill. Safely housed behind the stone walls of the house sixty Span iards poured in destructive fire on the plucky Americans as they entered the mar row path leading up the hill Step by step the men forged ahead, their comrades falling every minute. By the time the top of the hill was reached but twenty-two of the band remained.
 With a shout they forced their way into the coveted stronghold and in a desperate hand to hand fight with revolvers suc- ceeded in scattering the Spaniards. Cap tain Ducat and Lieutenant Lyons received the wounds at close range. Of the sev- enty-fve men, but twenty entered the rock house. Johnny Bigelow. of the Ninth infantry, a brother of Poultney Bigelow, is wounded in four places-a part of his jaw being torn away. All are bitter in their denunciation of "explosive bullets"