The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1901-09-19
BULLETS ODD BILLETs
STORIES or UNUSUAL WOUNDS
FROM MANILA HOSPITAL

et-Pfttful Scenes In the Hospitals.
A man who served In the First Re-
serve Hospital In Manila has come
back to New York with some curious
stories of the effects OF bullets and of
the manner In which wounds were re-
ceived, states s'the Sun.
On the day the great advance OF the
American troops against the Fill
pinos was made from Callcoon, a
Montana soldier named Dunn was
wounded from temple to temple by
a Mauser bullet. which went straight
through the brain. His brother, In the
same company, left his place In the
line and went to see him for mo.
ment A few minutes after resuming
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 of the First Reserve
Hospital, there being only three beds
between them. The man shot through
the brain held to She 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 one eye, then the other
and finally both brothers were in
vallded home on the same transport,
slightly disfigured but still in the ring
A Filipino, supposedly a non-com-
batant, was brought in seriously
wounded one day, shot while our line
was advancing past his nipa-covered
shack. The next day his wife was
brought In shot in the same manner
and laid alongside of him. 1t was pitt
full TO see the man stroke his wife's
head while his eyes filled with tears.
They both died
Those who died in the most excrucl-
ating agony, so far as can be judged
in such cases by appearances. We're
three or four men who had both eyes
| shot out. 1t was necessary to separ-
ate them from all other patients, their
| cries were so loud.
It was no unusual thing to see a
man shot through the lungs with a
| Mauser sit up in bed and converse
with little or no distress in day or
| two. If the wound was made with
Remington or Springfield how
| ever. 1t was another tale.
The Thirteenth Minnesota were or
dered from patrol duty in Manila
| into the field in such hurry that
| Corporal McInnes of that regiment,
| having only a 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 brass
| covered Remington. A friend ran to
him and noticed a 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-
peared on his hand. 1t developed that
the Remington bullet after going
through McInnes's hand struck the
box of Springfield cartridges, hit one
of them in the centre and doubled
1t 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 as though set there by a
| Jeweler. Several other cartridges
were indented by the same shot Me
lnnes still keeps his lucky horseshoe.
Captain Clark, of the Twentieth
| Kansas Regiment, was shot through
| the body with a brass-coyered Rem
| lngton and the bullet was taken out
near the spine. When extracted it
was found that the brass Jacket Ind
been practically detached from the
bullet, making a very painful wound.
While In the hospital Captain Clark
related story of one of his men. The
soldier had his Springfield up to his
shoulder and was about to pull the
trigger when a Mauser bullet entered
the barrel of the Springfield and
! threw the breechblock back, breaking
1t. Captain Clark had the Springfield
sent to the Smithsonian Institution
The Mauser bullet is not so thick as
an ordinary lead pencil
| A regular came into the hospital
one day with a cartridge belt filed
with cartridges which had been
skinned for three or four inches by
a 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 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 go 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 professor In the uni
| versity. The father had been endeav-
orlng to get his sons discharge from
the army before the beginning OF hos
tilities and the discharge came TO
young Putzker just before the advance
from Caloocan. He refused to receive
1t and that day or the next careless
comrade shot him and another soldier
while carelessly handling a rifle. He
was brought into the hospital in dy-
Ing condition. living only day or two.