The suburban citizen., 1901-09-21
BULLETS ODD BILLETS
STORIES or UNUSUAL WOUNDS
FROM MANILA HOSPITAL.


serve Hospital in Manila has come
back TO New York with some curious
stories of the effects OF bullets and or
the manner i'm which wounds were re-
ceived. states the Sun.
On the day the great advance Of the
American troops against the Eli
plnos was made from CalicOon, a
Montana soldier named Dunn was
wounded from ,emple TO temple 10y
a Mauser bullet which went straight
through the brain His brother, i'm the
same company left his place In the
line and went to see him for mo-
ment. \ few minutes after resuning
his place in the ranks III, brother was
himself sho; in the right 3hJulder and
thigh.
The two brothers were placed in
the same ward Of tAe First Reserve
Hospital there being only three beds
between them. The man shet through
the brain held to the thread Of life but
was unconscious for three weeks, be-
ing fed with liquid nOurishment.
When he came to he was totally blind
in both eyes. He gradually recovered
the sight Of ole eye, tncn the other
and finally both brothers were in
yalided home on the saml transport
slightly dshgurcd but still in the ring.
A Filipino, suppo.e edly II non-cOm-
batant was brought in seriously
wounded one day, shot while our line
was advancing past his nipa-cOvered
shack. Tho next day his wife was
brought in shot in the same manner
and laid alongside Of him. 1t was pitt
ful to see the man stroke his wife's
head while lis eyes dllod with tears.
They both died.
Those who died in the most excruci-
atlng agony, SO far as can be judged
in such cases by appearances, were
three or four men who had both eyes
shot out. 1t was necessary to separ-
ate them from all other patients, their
cries were 50 loud.
1t was no unusual thing to see Il
man shot through the lungs with
.Mauser sit up in bed and converse
with little or no distress in a day or
two. If the wound was made with
a Remington or Springfield, how
ever, it was another tale
The Thirteenth Minnesota were or
dered from patrol duty i'm Manila
into the field in such hurry that
Corporal McInncs of that regiment,
having only few cartridges in his
belt, grabbed a package of them and
put them between his blue flannel
shirt and his body. Shortly after
getting into action he was shot
through the right hand with Il brass
him and noticed large hole in his
shirt He ran his hand through the
shirt to see If McInnes was shot
through the body, but no blood ap-
pearcd on his hand 1t developed that
the Remington bullet after going
through Mclnncs's hand struck the
box of Springfield cartridges, hit one
Of them in the centre and doubled
it into the shape of horseshoe mag
net. When taken out of the box the
Remington bullet was seen to be fast
ened in between the two ends of the
horseshoe rs though set there by a
jeweler Several other cartridges
were ndented by the same shot Nc
Innes still keeps his lucky horseshoe.
Captain Clark, of the Twentieth
Kansas Regiment was shot through
the body with a brass-covered Rem
ington and the bullet was taken out
near the spine When extracted il
was found that the brass jacket had
been practically detached from the
bullet, making very painful wound.
While in the hospital Captain Clark
related story Of one of his men, The
soldier had his Springfield up 10 his
shoulder and was about to pun the
trigger when a Mauser bullet entered
the barrel of the Springfield and
threw the hreechblock back. breaking
it. Captain Clark had the Springfield
sent TO the Smithsonian Institution. |
The Mauser bullet is not 50 thick as
an ordinary lead pencil
A regular came into the hospital
one day with IA cartridge belt filed |
with cartridges which had been |
skinned for three or four inches by |
Mauser. The middle or ten or a
dozen cartridges in the belt had been |
indented by the Mauser bullet to a
depth of half their diameter.
Another story current around the |
First Reserve was that a patient shot |
through the body was placed on the |
operating table and the bullet was
found IN his pocket After going |
through his body it had just force |
enough left to 90 through one side
Of the pocket lining.
In one of the batteries of the Third |
Artillery were several students from |
the University Of California. One of |
these was named Putzker, whose
father was n professor in the uni
versity. The father had been endeav-
Oring to get his sons discharge from
the army before the beginning Of hos
tilities and the discharge came to
young Put2ker just before the advance
from Caloocan. He refused to receive