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man who served In the First Reserve
Hospital In Manila has come back 70 New
York with soms curious stories Of the sneots
Of bullets and Of the manner In which wounds
were rsoeivsd.
On the day the great advance Of the Ameri-
can troops against the Filipinos was made
from Cahcoon. q Montana soldier named
Dunn was wounded from temple TO temple TO
temple by Maussr bullet. wbloh went
ct, aisht through the brain. His brother. In the
samo company. left his place In the line
and went TO see him for a moment. A
few minutes after rssuming his place In the
ranks the brother was himself shot In the
right shoulder and thigh.
The two brothers were placed in the same
ward In the First Reserve Hospital. there bein
only three beds betwesn them. The man
shot through the brain held TO the thread Of
life but vas unconscious for three weeks being
fed with liquid nourishmsnt. When he came
TO he was totally blind In both eyes. He
gradually recovered tho sight OF one eye.
then the other and nnally both brothers we're
invalided home on the same transport. slightly
dishxured but still in the ring.
A Filipino. supposedly a n-oom bat,nt.
was brought In seriously wounded one e..
shot while our limo was advancing pC
nipa- covered shack. The next day Ia o.
was brought In shot In the Same manner Il
laid alongside Of him. II was pitiful to see
the man stroke his wife's head while his eyes
filled with tears. They both died.
Those who died In the most exoruciating
agony, 90 far a. can bs judged In such cases
By Appearances. we're three or four mon
who had both eyes shot out. II was necessary
to separate them from oil other patients.
their cries were 90 loud.
II was no unusual thing TO SO q man shot
through the lungs with Mauser cit up In
bed and converse with little or no distress
In day or two. II the wound was made
with Remington or q Springfield. however.
II was another tale.
Tho Thirteenth Minnesotas were ordered
from patrol duty In Manila into the nsld
In such q hurry that Corporal McInnes OF
that regiment, having only few cartridges
In his belt. grabbed a packase 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 q
brass-ooverod Remington. A friend ran
He Ni 'Rr R. nSfo S%nd tsropsS % 'ht % to % .e.
II McInnes was shot through the body but
no blood sppesred on HE hand Il developed
McInnes's hand struck the box oi spring
field cartridges. hit one Of them In the centre
and doubled II into the shape OF horseshos
Remington bullet was seen to be fastened
In between the two ends OF the horseshoe
as though set there by ieweier. Several
shot Mclnnes still keeps his lucky horseshoe.
Capt Clark OF the Twentieth Kansas Resi-
ment was shot through the body with BRASS
u Il ball t.lsa
SSI'nsa SSi nsar ths ssSe Mhen e Il
found that the brass jacket had been practically
detached from the bullet. making very
While in the hospital Capt, Clark related
a story of one OF his men. The soldier, had
his Springfield up TO his shoulder and was
bullet entered t"e tarrsi Of The Springfield
and threw the breechblock back. breaking 10.
Capt; Clark had the sprinS Sfeld sent to the
na hes sn ordnsy hs T'sd Ssd psns ps
and the calibre Of the Springfield Is almost
twice as great.
with regular sadss Sf%' b o a II: aASsp' sS s.a4s. Ges DAY
which had been skinned for three or four
inches by a Mauser.. The middle OF ten or q
dozen caTtridses n the belt had been % M ipdentsd %
Another story current around the First
Reserve was that a patient shot through
and the bullet was found In his pocket After
going through his body 1t had Just force
enough left to go through one side Of the
pocket lining.
In one OF the batteries Of the Third Artil-
lerv wcrc several students from the Tniver-
sity of California. One Of these VAS named
Putzker. whose father was a professor In
the university. The father had been en-
deavoring 10 get his sons discharge from
the army before the beginning of hostilties
md the discharge came to young PutZkcr
lust before the advance from Caloocan He
refused to receive II and that day or the next
n careless comrsde shot him and another
soldier while carelessly handling rifle He
was brought into the hospital In dying
condition, living only day or two.
Capt Elliott. Twentieth Kansas, a veteran
Of ,he Civil War. was mortalv wounded while
walking up and down behind the trenches
He was brought into the hospital by his own
sons one 4 sergeant the other a corporal
IN his company. He died on the operating
table
Jack GIbbon wa. a member Of the Hospital
Corps NJ the First Reserve Hospital and
was detailed To serve on an ambulance. One
afternoon when his ambulance had brought
several wounded men ~ the hospital he went
ground for n moment to the ward where he
Lad forfnerly nursed As he left to go to
the front again he mndc some light remark,
prefacing Il with We'll boys. II get shot
&c Three hours later while helping to take
n wounded ofT'cer on the feld he was shot
over the heart and lived but twenty minutes.