The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1898-07-20

the story = General Worth Has Two
Bullet Holes In His Chest, and His
Right Arm Is Fractured-Finew Work by
Our Enlisted Men.
Lieutenant ColonelWilliam S. Worth,
Thirteenth United States infantry, with
four bullet holes in his body, proofs of
the efficiency of Spanish rifiemen and
sufficient enough recommendation for
his promotion to be brigadier general
of volunteers, which he recently receiv-
ed from the president, arrived at his
home on Governors island the other aft
ernoon. Although wounded four times
at the charge up San Juan hill, Colonel
Worth reached Governors island in
fairly good condition, and his doctor
says that, with ordinary prudence, he
will be up and about in month.
Colonel Worth. accompanied by his
orderly, Corporal John Keller, Thir-
tenth infantry, left Siboney on the
City of Washington last Tuesday, July
10, was landed at Fort Monroe, taken
TO Baltimore by boat and came to New
York by the Baltimore and Ohio. On
the arrival of the train he was met by
his wife, his sister and his sister in
law, Mrs. Coffin, the wife of Captain
William H. Coffin, Fifth artillery,
whose battery is now at Tampa, await
ing orders to go to Porto Rico.
Colonel Worth is not above 3 feet 6,
and, weighing in good health not more
than 100 pounds, looked very much
thinner and weaker than when he
marched away from Governors island
at the head of three companies of his
regiment one morning in the latter part
of April. His right arm was in sling
and he walked with some difficulty.
The soldiers at the island saluted him
with the left hand, that the colonel
might return the salute in kind.
When he got home, his nephew and
family physician, DR.. Sprague of New
York city, made careful examination
Of his wounds and general condition,
and then ordered his patient to bed, di-
recting him to see no one but the mem.
bers of his family for week at least.
Colonel Worth objected, but obeyed.
From members of the family a reporter
learned something about Colonel
Worth's wounds and how he got them.
Shortly after o'clock ON the after
noon of July 1, Ell Caney having been
taken in the morning, the Thirteenth,
Sixteenth, Twenty-second and Twenty
fourth infantry and the Third and Sixth
cavalry (dismounted), with the rough
riders and the Seventh, Ninth and
Tenth infantry held in reserve, were or
dered to attack San Juan hill and cap
ture the blockhouse on the summit.
Colonel Worth, when the attack was
ordered, commanded a brigade. Soon
after the battle began Colonel Charles
A. Wikoff, Twenty second infantry,
came on the field. He ranked Colonel
Worth and took command, and Colonel
Worth resumed command of his regi-
ment, Colonel Smith, commanding the
Thirteenth, not being present.
In less than ten minutes after Colonel
Wikoff had come on the field he was
killed Then Colonel Worth resumed
command of the brigade, only to be
wounded himself and succeeded by
Lieutenant Colonel Emerson L. Kis-
cum, who was also wounded. The COM
mand of the Thirteenth was taken by
Major Philip II. Ellis. He was wound
ed and was succeeded by Captain James
Torrance, who was killed in a few min
utes after taking command. Captain
Harry G. Cavenaugh then commanded
the regiment. Cavenaugh was wounded
in the groin in the assault
Colonel Worth was wounded twice
in the right arm early in the engage
ment. One bullet pierced the arm just
above the elbow and the other Just be.
low the shoulder. He clutched his sword
in his left hand and led his men to the
fresh attack. Shortly after this Mauser
bullets struck Colonel Worth in the
right and left breast. The bullets went
clean through the body, leaving the
colonel all in heap and unconscious
on the field. Keller saw him fall and
ran to his assistance. Colonel Worth
didn't know what had happened until
Keller brought him around and told
him. While the orderly was bending
over his chief piece of shell struck the
orderly in the back, right On top Of the
cartridge belt. and gouged out a hand
full of flesh. Keller stuck by his colonel,
and after awhile the two were carried
off the field together.
1.-THE best thing that can be said
about the fight" said Keller to the re-
porter, sis that it was a hot time. I've
seen some soldering, but never knew
the bullets to come from all directions
at once and come SO fast as they did 60
ing up that hill. If you've ever been
out in hailstorm when it didn't do a
thing but hail, you can get some notion
of how the bullets came at San Juan.
There were Spaniards In front of as, be.
hind as on all sides of us and in the
tree tops above us. And it's an awful
mistake to imagine they can't shoot. /
don't know how they are afloat, but
they can shoot like the devil ON land or
mp tree.
but, say, You just ought to have
seen my little coloneli About All Won