The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-07-13
HOME WITH HIS FRIENDS
Private Peterson Was Wounded
at the Battle of Caloocan.
HE Is ALL RIGHT AGAIN
All the Montana Volunteers Anxious to
Return--They Don't Like the Coun-
try, the Climate or the People
at All, at All.

Private Karl ]. Peterson of Company
G., LIST Montana, arrived home and was
welcomed by his friends and embraced
by his father and mother night be-
fore last. He arrived over the Great
Northern from San Francisco, where
he was recently discharged from the
hospital and the service of Uncle Sam.
He was wounded in the battle, of
Caloocan on Feb. 10, receiving a Fill
Pine bullet in the left auxiliary. 1t
passed through the lung ana came out
through the shoulder blade at a point
about half an inch from the spine.
1T did not hurt" said the brave
young soldier yesterday. When 1 saw
the little hole and blood flowing from it
/ was Disguised. l was in the heat of
the fight and naturally enough was
keyed up to the tension of desperat ton
and wanted to kill off more nigaers."
He was removed to the hospital IN Ma
Mia, where he remained for three
weeks, after which, with other wound
ed, he was removed to Cor. &c idor ISL
and, about 80 miles from Manila and
placed in the hospital there He re-
manned there and on the Sd of April
he boarded the transport Sherman with
about go other wounded and disabled
soldiers, among them Maloy of Com
pany X and Dunn of Company L from
the 1st Montana. In telling of the re-
turn voyage, Mr.. Peterson said:
THE trip was made without incident
further than the outrageous fact of our
wounded having been locked UP with a
smallpox patient the second day out. A
fireman was taken i'll the first day OUT.
His was case of smallpox. He was
put in the hospital ward with the
wounded and disabled soldiers and
there we were, locked up. Fortunately
but one of our number, a Colorado vol
unteer, was taken i'll of the dread dis
ease. Neither of the patients died, and
both have since been discharged from
the Preside hospital There was one
death on the ocean, private from the
Sd artillery. He died of consump-
ton.
There are now only Is men of Com
pany left on the line. Four have
been killed, 20 wounded and the others
Frustrated by the heat. The dead
are:
Moore, shot through the abdomen
with a Mauser.
stevens, shot through the bladder
and died on the operating table,
Brown, shot through the body and
died three days later.
''Lockhart shot through the eyes and
died in his tracks.
The company lined up at first with
60 men in front.
''Maloy of Company X. Anaconda,
and Dunn of Company l., Helena, ar,
still in the hospital at the Preside, but
are expected to be out in a few days,
when they will return home. The case
of Dunn is simply wonderful. He was
shot through the head the ball enter
ing one temple and going out the ether.
Maloy was shot in the shoulder, the
ball passing through both lungs and
coming out on his side.
Il was discharged on the "a h Of
June, but did not start for home at
once. l spent a few days with friends
in the country north of San Francis o
hunting and fishing and in other ways
enjoying myself as becomes a modest
young man.
Mr.. Peterson confirms in the main
the published reports regarding the
general conduct of the officers towards
the men and the treatment accorded
the privates. He returned with but
few bouquets to be thrown at the Off
GERS. He, however. speaks in high