The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1901-10-15
BULLETS ODD BILLETS
STORIES OF UNUSUAL WOUNDS
FROM MANILA HOSPITAL.
Curious Manner i'm which Some of the
injuries Were Receivef.sshot Through
Body, Bullet Landed In Soldiers Peck
ni-PliirnI Scenes in III. unsnitnIs

injuries Were Receivets..Shot Through
Body, Bullet Landed In Soldiers Peck
et-PitiruI Scenes in the Hospitals.
A man who served i'm 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-
Celved. states the Sun.
On the day the great advance of the
American troops against the Fill
pinos was made from Calicoon.
Montana soldier named Dunn was
wounded from temple TO temple by
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 a mo-
ment. y 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 (he 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
ana finally both brothers We're in
Valided home on the same transport.
Slightly disfgured but still in the ring.
\ Filipino, supposedly Il non-com-
Blatant. was brought i'm 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 filed with tears.
They both died.
Those who died in the most excruci-
ating agony, so far as can he Judged
in such cases by appearances. were
three or four men who had both ewes
shot out. 1t was necessary to separ-
ate them from all other patients. their
cries were so loud.
1t was no unusual thing to sec a
man shot through the lungs with a
Mauser sit up in bed and converse
with little or no. distress in day On
two. II the wound was made with
n Remington or a 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 McInnes Of that regiment.
having only a few cartridges i'm his
put them between his blue flannel
shirt and his body. Shortly after
getting into action he was shot
through the right hand with a brass
covered Remington. \ friend ran TO
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 an
pearcd on his hand II developed thai
the Remington bullet after going
through McInnes's hand struck the
box Of Springfield cartridges. hit one
OF them in the centre ana doubled
II into the shape of horseshoe mag
net. When taken out of the box the
Remington bullet was seen 10 be fast
"ned i'm between the two ends of the
horseshoe as though set there bv a
1eweler. Several other cartridges
were hdcnted by the same shot. Nc
lines still Keeps his lucky horseshoe.
Captain Clark. of the Twentieth
Kansas Regiment. was shot through
the body with Il brass-covcred Rem.
ington and the bullet was taken ont
near the spine When extracted if
was found that the brass jacket had
been practically detached from the
bullet, making u very painful wound
Whilc in the hospital Captain Clark
related story of one OF his men. The
soldier had his Springfield up in his
shoulder and was about to pull the
trigger when a Mauspr bullet entered
the barrel OF the Springfield and
threw the brccchblock back. breaking
IT, 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 bospitaI
one day with cartridge belt filed
with cartridges which had been
skinned FOR three or four inches by
MauScr. The middle or ten or u
dozen cartridges i'm the belt had boon
indcnted by tine Mauscr bullet To a
depth oil half their diameter.
Another story current around the
First Reserve was that ~ patient shot
through the body was placed ou the
operating table and tho bullet WINS
found i'm his pocket Aror going
through his body it had just force
enough lcft to goo through one side
of the pocket lining
In one of The batteries of tho Third
Artillery We're several students from
the University of California. ono OF
these was named puzkcr. whose
father was % professor i'm the uni.
vcrsity Tic fothcr had been cudeav.
orine TO set his sons discharge from
th" army before thc beginning of hos
ultics and the discharge camc to-
young Putzkcr just before the advance
from Caloocan. lie refused to receive
IT, ana that day on the nest careless
comrade shot him and another soldier
while carelcssly handling rifle He
was brought into tine hospital iu "a DIV
Ing condition living only day or two
Captain Elliott, Twentieth kansas. "a
veteran of tho Civil WAR was mort9lIy
wounded while walking up and down
behind ihr trenches IL. ..t. r.,....,..t..