The San Francisco call., 1899-04-07

Laden with the sick and sore wounded
of those who have gone to Manila to vim
dicate and defend this country's embryonic
policy of Imperialism, the transport Art-
zona came into port yesterday with 143 Of
ficers and men invalided home for "medi-
cal attendance at the post hospital at
the Presidio.
The Arizona's crew of invalids did not
present so sorry spectacle as some of
those who have come before. These were
the wounded, the men who have gone
shouting into battle and paid for their en-
thusiasm in blood and pain and
shattered bones. They were not
taken down with fevers generated
in deadly swamps nor with the
sicknesses that come of days of in
action in a tropical camp. 1t was a
bandage here or a stretcher there, or a
splint or poultice that answered the roll
call when the Arizona s cargo was tolled
off the deck yesterday and ticketed on the
cars for 'home."
Not one of them but offered up thanks
giving For the better part of the year
they have waited, baked, fought and suf-
fered under the vertical rays of a south
ern sun. Not one of those who came in
yesterday but has spent such time in a
Manila hospital that he recognized the
heaIth-giving zephyrs of the temperate
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1t. The testimony of every one of them
is tale of horror and living death in a
country where none may live save those
who are born to it.
On board the. boat there were many
whom the surgeons said when steam was
made in Manila would never live TO see
this western port. There were fractured
skulls and mangled limbs, body wounds
that refused to heal under the hot suns
of the south and mangled limbs that
looked as though there were no cure in
them. They were all convalescent TO a
certain extent. or they never would have
been started home 1t is not the sick unto
death that Uncle Sam sends back. But the
winds and softening sun of the north did
it's work, and yesterday when the Arizona
docked there were but three of those who
started in their hunks who were not on
deck to cheer the Golden Gate when it
hove in sight.
Nearly a year of dread experience has
taught the army what a hospital ship
should be, and the Arizona, when she
started and when she brought up here
was all that good Government money
could make her She was fitted with the
hest and every man of the bullet-stricken
crew aboard her was loud in his praises
of the corps of surgeons sent out TO walt
o'T Resides the lao and odd men of the
ranks who fell at the first days tghuns
We're Major Williams of the First Nebras-
ka, Captain c. L. Pickens Of the, First
Oregon and Lieutenant Irwin of the
| Washington Volunteers. Lieutenant
| charles Hogan of the First California
was also among them.
lieutenant Hogan, who is well and
popularity known in this city, was shot
| through the left breast in the hrst DAY
lighting. AS he was crossing an open rice
field with his company, Company. M, he
was struck by deadly Mauser that en-
tered lust above his heart, penetrated his
lung and emerged at his back, leaving a
ghastIy wound that the surgeons, said
Would cause his death within a few hours; . RS;
But Lieutenant Hogan had not had all
of his vitality baked out of him, and after
fh thirty 1ty days in the hospital was well
enough along to warrant his removal to
this country. He arrived here yesterday
almost we'll after five weeks of cool and
invigorating winds and was willing last