The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-02-08

The Death of Sergeant Carleton Re-
suited From a Bullet From a Re-
volver Accidentally Discharged
His Company Mourned His
Aoss-Serseant Price and His
companions Are Getting Well.
Special Correspondence of The ST PauI f,,oha
MANILA. P. l., Dec. 20, 1S9S-Since
my last letter there have been several
changes in the company. not only
among members, but in locat ion as
we nave been relieved by Company D,
VINO were formerly in the walled CITY
ana we are now in their quarters at the
corner OF Gale Real and Gale Cabildo
ana find them large and roony. thourf,
not as pleasant as our former ones
we nave much more room here than
we mad before. Cots lays about three
TO five feet apart and plenty of wall
room for clothing, equipments and so
forth; also for bugs, centipedese and
most any old thing. Our duties are
much lighter here than in Binando
where we did police duty every other
day, and this has a great deal to do
with our change, as the company was
all run down, and at the time we
changed We only had some forty-odd
men on the duty list, thirty-three sick
III hospital and some IN quarters. The
sick list has greatly decreased since
then and the boys are returning to
quarters and duty daily.
Privates Hugo and Max Hanft, who
had a severe run of fever, are both
back with US again, though still on
light duty. They both speak very high
ly of their treatment in the First di-
vision hospital and brigade GONZALES
M ~ g.
have been confined do also.
Sergeant Price, who was So badly cut
up by a native, as I mentioned in a
previous letter, is now around, though
he does not stay In quarters as yet The
three corporals who were stabbed.
Montgomery, Hoyt and Mahar, are ali
on duty.
Sergeant Scheher is our only man
now who is very sick, but the doc"
tells me ne Is doing nicely, though a
little weak.
On the 14th inst In the evening Pri-
Yates Fernald. Hegerty. Lyberg and
earle were trying to do the Hobson-
Merrimac racket on the Rio Pasfg. but
being short of gun cotton they finally
had to bring the boat to shore. and.
steam being low, they Of course got
damp during the process
On the 18th the Aston battery, en-
boats by the Minnesota band. Some
Of our company saw them off and it
made them homesick, and that's no
lie.
On the 18th an accident happened
which brought sadness to the whole
company. 1t was the accidental shoot
Ing of Sergeant Carleton by a revolver.
held in the hands of Private O'Brien.
OF Company M. Thirteenth regiment.
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the guard and was sitting in the guard
room talking with O'Brien and the
interpreter, and during this they were
examining the pistol of Private
O'Brien, who had handed it to them
after extracting the shells. The ham,
mer of the gun, when handed back.
was left raised, and after inserting the
shells the trigger, by accident, was
pulled. The bullet fired entered the left
leg below the hip and passed UP and
through to the right side of the abdo-
men. On the 18th his condition was
critical and an operation was decided
on. which was performed. His condi-
ton became no better and on the aft
erloon of Sunday, Dec. Is, he died, and
l know every man in the company
nourned the loss of one who had en-
deared himself to all the boys The
funeral took place the next morning
with military honors at the city ceme-
terry. The Minnesota band, with Com
pany e, and members from most every
company in the regiment, accompanied
Thu. remains to their last resting place
Company E were in white uniforms
lsggirs, and campaign hats, with the
exception of the pallbearrers, who
wore the regulation blue coats and
white pants. The pallbearers were
Sergeant Fernald, Quartermaster Ser
geant Good, Corporals Hoyt. Mont
gomery Humphrey and Tucker
The firing squad was COMPOSED of
the following: rivates Bogart, O'Brien.
Stapleton. Hagerty, Tucker, L. D.,
Worley, Lyberg, Lenz, Fernald. Nor
tenson, A., Mortenson. F., Kimball and
Hoyt, L. The services at the grave
were conducted by Chaplain Cressy and
were very pretty. Gen. Reeve and
wife were In attendance. Sergeant
Carleton had been a member of the
coE1pany for over three years.
We won't go over to Binando any
more?
BY the way. when we ask for credit
now our friends the Filipinos re-
mark that 'Capitana no mas cara pa
pal AXE
We have some good all-around pugi-