The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-09-25


actual advance, and after the artillery
fire had ceased. Hill was standing up,
directing the fire of his men, when he
was hit in the groin by a Remington
bullet The bullet was extracted, but
an operation was necessary to remove
healed, but another operation will be
necessary. Captain Hill went on
board the Valencia to-day to visit his
brother and other officers.
Connected with the wounding of Cap
tain Hill is pathetic incident. which
relates to a San Francisco boy. John
Gibbons, a drug clerk and registered
pharmacist of this city, who was en-
listed in the hospital corps. He was
one of the men carrying Hill off the
field, and while performing his duty
he was shot through the heart.
Capt. Philip Greenan had a narrow
escape at Caloocan. A Filipino bullet
struck the hilt of his revolver, shat
tering the wood. The concussion made
a bad wound in Greenan's side, but he
was off duty only one day.
A Remarkable Case.
A remarkable case was that of
Thomas L. Dunn of Company L. At
Caloocan on Feb. 23 Company l. was
sent back to reinforce the troops in
Manila. In passing through the streets,
Dunn was shot from one Of the houses,
the ball passing through his head bach
of the eyes. One of his companions,
seeing the nature of the wound, from
which the brains We're oozing, raised
him in his arms and asked if he had
any message to send home Dunn re-
piled:
Tell them l died game"
Then turning over and crossing his
feet he set his teeth and said: mo.
blast them, they can't kill me-"
Every doctor who looked at him, how
ever, thought he could not survive. 1t
was three days later that a surgeon,
noticing that Dunn was still alive,
went to his cot and asked the patient
how he felt. Dunn replied:
II feel all right
Dunn lived, but he lost the sight of
his left eye and the vision of the other
is permanently impaired When Dunn
was wounded his brother John asked
permission to go to the hospital with
him, but the colonel had to refuse him
Within half an hour the brother, too,
was shot, the ball passing through his
left leg and striking his wrist, where it
lodged.
John Sorenson of Company L, who
was killed Feb. 5, was wounded much in
the same manner as Dunn. This was
the first day OF the hostilities. Com
pany l. was protecting the gun which
the Utah battery had abandoned be-
cause of the hot fire and Sorenson was
shot. In the face of the hottest fire
that the regiment has ever known Drs.
Adams and Brunng, with the hospital
corps, got Sorenson and took him in.
While doing so the lantern that hung
from the floor of the raised house under
which Sorenson lay was hit three times.
Sorenson lived a week and was able
to be on his feet, although his sight was
gone. when he died of meningitis.
The case of Joseph A. Beckman Of
Company f is cited as one OF the queer
things that happen in war. On March
%, while in the act of removing Gig
arctic from his mouth, Beckman was
shot through the hand and mouth and
the ball drove an artificial plate down
his throat. He was instantly killed
Francis G. Anspach of Company A
was shot through the jaw opposite the
second molar The ball ranged down.
ward and emerged at the right side of
the neck, passing between the windppe
and the gullet, but causing no perma-
nent injury.
Spent Mauser.
Major Miller did not escape without a
scratch and he has never ceased to
wonder how the bullet found him. 1t
would have been a matter of less re-
gret to the major if that ball had
struck him when he had been. giving an
invitation by exposing himself, but it
waited until he was sitting on the
ground in a cemetery with his men be-
fore Calumpit on April 27. The place
WAS With Willis L. lttI
but a spent Mauser dropped over the
wall, passed through Miller's left shoul-
der and left arm and lodged in the
brush between the outposts.
Edward B. Harvey who was also shot
at Calumpit, showed nerve that arous-
ed the admiral ton of DR.. Bruning, who
attended him. A Remington ball en-
tered the left side of Harveys neck,
passed over the spinal cord and lodged
in the muscles on the side of his neck.
When the doctor arrived Harvey, said
he wanted the bullet cut out at once.
He disposed himself in a position indi-
Gated by the doctor and did not emit
a whimper while the f1attened ball was
being partly cut out and partly pulled
out with the aid OF tweezers.
Frederick Hall OF Company l was
the first man in the regiment to be
killed.
1t was at Caluocan Feb 10 and he