Evening star., 1898-07-15
MEN SOBBED AND CHEERED
Remarkable Scene When the Wounded Sol
diers Reached Fort Monroe.
Sick Boys Stretchers Groaned,
While other Injured Lads Sang
"Star SpanGIcd Banner

The transport Breskwater arrived at
Fcrt Monroe yesterday afternoon from
Santiago de Cuba, bringing 14o wounded
and sick soldiers. Hundreds of people
stood on the pier and watched the vessel
steam slowly up to the dock, and few
minutes after the BIcakwater was moored
the work of transferring the soldiers to
the wharf commenced. The scenes wit
ssed when the City of Washington ar
rived were re-enacted. l. was a reproduc-
ton of the same drama of pathos and en-
thusiasm, in which sobs and cheers were
ccmingled.
Men who had been wounded while fight
ing under tropical Sun to liberate an op-
pressed people were carried from the
Breakwater on stretchers, some groaliiag
on account of excrrciating pain, while
others were singing the Star Spangled
Banner" The soldiers were placed in the
hospital tents, where their wounds were
redressed and a change of clothing placed
on them. Some of the men are serious
ly wounded, but the surgeons believe
that with few exceptions all Of them
Will recover. 1t was impossible to get a
list of the wounded and sick the sur
geon in char ;e has not completed 1t.
Among use who came on the Break
water was Col Mills. His wife was at the
wharf to receive him. The valiant colonel
shot in the head during the first days
engagement. The ball entered his right
eye and ploughed its way just under the
skull to a point above the ear, where IL
made it's exit. Col. Mills will recover.
Among the nurses at Fcrt Monroe are the
Misses Evans, daughters of Fighting
Bcb" Evans, COMMANDER of the battle ship
Iowa.
Some Of the officers who accompanied
the wounded soldiers on the trip north give
interesting accounts of the fighting around
Santiago. Il was standing near Capt. Ca
prom and Hamilton Fish" said a corporal
to the Associated Press correspondent,
and saw them shot down. They were
with the rough riders and ran into an am
buscade, though they had been warned oe
the danger, Capt. Capron and Fish were
shot while leading a charge. If it had not
been for the negro cavalry the rough rid
erS would have beeen eXterminated / am
not negro lover. My father fought with
MoSbys. rangers and ] was born in the
south. but the negroes saved that fight,
and the day will come when General Shat
ter will give them credit for their bravery.
Are the rough riders fighters? Those fell
lows never know when they are licked
and there are no braver men in the regi-
ment than Col. Wood and Lieut.. Col.
Roosevelt
This corporal was in the fight at e. Ca
rey and is a regular. In speaking OF It he
said:
That was the hottest fight 1 ever ex-
pect to see. When we made the charge
the Spaniards rained Mauser bullets at
US, moving down men like blades of grass
" To the rear.' our officers shouted: but
the men shouted To HI with the rear-to
the 'front.' -
The officers went to the rear, but we
stayed at the froEt. Our company was
then in command Of the second sergeant
the other officers having left us and We. /
see those officers have been recommended
for promotion
This corporal said that after a hard fight
ne went through the clothes of number
OF dead Spar tiards.
Il was looking for CON- said he, but
only got 10 cents. Afterward heard they
had been paid off in cigarettes"