The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1900-01-03
SToIcS OYER INJURIES.

On San Juan Ridge, July 2. just as
Chaffee's brigade had reached the crest,
they were ordered 10 lie down and in
trench. using The bayonet as a pick and
The hands for shovels. \ dashing young
fellow OF one OF the companies on the
right OF the line was some distance in
advance OF his fellows when the halt
was made. Instead OF falling back on
the lire with the other men. he stopped
where he was. says writer in Leslie's
Weekly. one OF the officers shouted at
him several times To fall back. as he
was i'm danger of his own men shooting
him. but he did not hear. The officer
then walked down TO where he was,
grahued him by a leg and started to
drag I'm back TO the line. He had but
started when he felt the mans whole
body quiver. and he Topped himself
over on his side. saying as he did SO.
Tan done for" Some of the men came
10 the wounded soldier and assisted
the officer 10 carry him 10 n place of
security. With a bayonct one of the
men cut off his clothing when a Mau-
ser hole was seen just above the heart,
where the bullet had entered. passing
through his body and coming out be-
tween the shoulders near the spine. The
+r4-a44-s4id- f4e-iiAeft4- ~ -tAe time His
wounds were bound by sympathetic
hands All except the wounded man re-
turned to the firing line. The Spanish
fire was heavy. and kept up four hours,
occasionally a soldier dropping out,
wounded or killed. When all was quiet
the officer and one OF his soldiers re-
turned to see If the young man was
yet alive. They found him sitting
against a small tree. His first words
We're: "Bill, give me a cigarette" The
man is living today.
Just about the time this man was
wounded a man i'm the next company
on the right suddenly threw down his
bayonet, jumped 70 his feet. paused for
a second or two, looking in the direc-
tion of the Spanish trenches then threw
both hands TO his breast. saying: I'm
hit" He turned about and walked into
the dense thickets OF cactus and Span
ish bayonet. and was never seen or
heard of again. lie undoubtedly crawl
cd far back into the heavy tropical
growth ana died, where the vultures
claimed him.
one OF the coolest men who ever re-
ceived a wound was an infantryman at
san Fernando. in the island of Luzon.
on the 10th OF June. The Insurgents
made determined effort TO retake the
town early on the morning Of that day
They opened up simultaneously from
every quarter. and the kind and variety
OF missiles used would be beyond the
widest expectations of that sweet
throated midnight serena ier the
Thomas-eat. out of an old smooth bore
cannon they threw railroad spikes,
horseshoes old clocks, lemon squeezers
and cobblestones. From their Reming-
tons they shot large cubical and irreg-
lead slugs one OF these
struck this cool man high i'm the right
groin, deeply imbedding itself. The pain
must have been excruciating for the
man was terribly lacerated. He hobbled
to his company commander. saluted. |
and asked permission to fall out and
lie down. as he had been hit He was
lying near a road where his comrades
passed to and fro during the entire
hght, but no one heard a Word or a T
gToan out OF him unless he was spoken (