The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1900-02-20


cnce now as it used to be.
"Now for the list: Here is Edward
Crane, who holds the record for the
greatest number of wounds from
single shot. He was brought in, shot
through the hand, the forearm, the
muscles of his arm and his side. The
wounds quickly healed and Crane was
out again on the line wading rivers in
two weeks.
FINGERS CUT OFT.
John NJ. Weber, Company 7, put
his hand to his belt for a cartridge
and Mauser came along and cut of
the tips of his four fingers. Five
cartridges were clipped by the same
ball.
THAT reminds me OF an incident
not down in the surgical records. A
Cc~talu officer was sitting down out of
harms way, !. was thought. He was
talking to some friends. Al at once
there was terrific explosion in his
pocket and he rolled over backward,
yelling like an Indian. We ran to
him, thinking a shell from the en-
emY's gun had struck him end burst.
When he was himself again he sat up
and felt in his pocket, finding there 4.
n bunch of bent and exploded shells.
He had had several Krag cartridges
in his pocket and a bullet had struck
him in such manner as to explode
the shells.
Private Sherbon at The railway
track at Caloocan felt blow in the
region of his heart. He ierkeI open
his shirt and sure enough there was
the hole. But the bullet was there.
too, and he pulled it out with his fin
tiers, put it in his pocket and went
on with the fight
Nicholas Tulahau received a
wound while stopping TO fill his can
teen at n river \ Mauser bullet
caught him in tho shoulder aud
ragged downward, coming out at the
pit of the stomach. Ills wounds were
dressed and he was seat to the hos
pital. There it was found that the
ball had turned again on his belt
clasp and had re-entered. 1t was
found just under the skin Tulahan
got well without much delay.
DRESSED his own WOUND.
zone of the plucky things was the
case of Harold Chambers, Of X com
pany. The day of the advance on
Santa Tomas he received slight
wound in the side He dressed it
with first aid package and never
reported. After it was well l found
ont about it. Then ! asked the lad
why he had kept still. 4 did not
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said. Had he been sent to the hospi-
tai his name would have appeared in
the official report.
Probably the most remarkable
case is that of Frank Semple, cor
poral Of Company +. He was shot
through the head from side to side on
the day OF the Santa Tomas fight.
BY the timo he reached the dressing
station he had lost q great deal Of
blood. His wound was dressed and
later ho was sent TO the hospital in
Manila. To is alive and we'll to-day
and there is nothing Tho matter with
him.
Another peculiar case is that Of
Musician Portland Fleming. who was
acting as litter.bearer when he re.
ccived a shot i'm the thigh that passed
ont of bis back This happened
March 2s lie is alive and well to-
day.
SHOT uobg IN HAEDrAcK.
There have been some curious
incidents Of close escapes. James w.
kirschuer, Of X Company, was sitting
at his dinner one day, talking to his
comrades aud gesticulating with q
cracker Abullet passed between the
men aud caught The hardtack square
i'm the center, leaving n neat hole and
lots OF astonishment for Kirschner.
Similar to that is tho experience Of
two Cinnamon who were trottiug along
with q big can Of coffee. A bullet
went through both sides OF the can
near The bottom and the coffee ran
ont Of the holes before the astonished
'Chinos' could plug mp the leaks.
I'm the hospital to-day Lieutenant
William w Williams, of tho Twelfth
Infantry, is lying with o bullet wound
received I'M the Angeles fight. The
ball entered on tho right side of his
face at his cheek bone. No one knows
where 10 came out on whether 10 came