VOLUME XXVIII.
WILSON, N. C., AUGUST 11, 1898.
NUMBER 32.
CHARGE AT SftlUUflN.
How General Worth Led
" Desperate Charge.
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:i?03SIBLE TO EESTEAIN THE ME
Hi Orderly, Corporal Keller, Who Wai
Hit While, Kendlnjc Over Him and Wai
"Carried OCT tho Field 'With Him, Telli
the Story General Worth, Hag Twc
ISullet ' HolcsIn Ills Chest, and II ii
Uight Arm Is Fractured Fine Work bj
Our Enlisted Men.
s Lieutenant Colonel William S. Worth
Thirteenth United States infantry, with
four bullet holes in his body, proof s oi
the. eflieit'iicy of Spanish riflemen and
sufficient enough recommendation foi
hi.s promotion to be a brigadier general
of volunteers, which he recently receiv
ed from the president, 'arrived at hit
home on Governors island the other af t
ernoon. Although wounded four times
at' tho charge up San Juan hill, Colonel
Worth reached Governors island in
fairly good condition, and his doctoi
Vays that, with ordinary prudence, h
vrill bo up and about in a month.
Colonel Worth, accompanied by his
orderly, Corporal John - Keller, Thir
teenth infantry, left Siboney on the
City of Washington last Tuesday, July
12, was landed at Fort Monroe, taken
to Baltimore by boat and came to New
York by tho Baltimore and Ohio. On
the arrival of the train ho was met by
' his wife, his sister and his sister-in-law',
Mrs.. Coffin, the wife of Captain
-William H. Coffin, Fifth artillery,
whose battery is now at Tampa, -awaiting
orders to go to Porto Rico.
Colonel Worth is not above 5 feet 6,
aud, weighing in good health not more
than 150. pounds, looked very much
thinner and weaker , than when he
-"'"inarched away from Governors island
at the head of three companies of his
regiment one morning in the latter part
of April. His right arm was ina" sling
and he walked With some difficulty.
'Tho soldiers at the island saluted him
with the left band, that the colonel
might return the salute in kind.
When ho got home, his nephew and
family pbysicianrDr. Sprague of New
York city, made a careful examination
A 1 T J t A
oi nia wounas ana general condition,
and then ordered his patient to bed, di
recting him to see no one but the mem
bers of his family for a week at least.
Colonel Worth objected, but obeyed.
From members of the family a reporter
learned something about Colonel
Worth's wounds and how he got them.
Shortly after 4 o'clock on the after
noon of July, 1, El Caney having been
takeii in the. morning, the Thirteenth,
Sixteenth"; Twenty-second and Twenty
fourth infantry and the Third and Sixth
cavalry (dismounted), with the rough
riders and the Seventh Ninth and
Tenth infantry held in reserve, were or
dered to attack San Juan hill and cap
ture tho blockhouse on the summit.
Colonel Worth, when the attack was
ordered, commanded a brigade. Soon
after tho battle began Colonel Charles
A. Wikoff, Twenty second infantry,'
( came on the field. He ranked Coloner
Worth and took command, and "Colonel
Worth resumed command of his regi
ment, Colonel Smith, commanding the
Thirteenth, not being present
In less than ten minutes after Colonel
Wikoff had "come on the field he was
killed. Then Colonel Worth - resumed
- command of the brigade, only to be
wounded himself and succeeded by"
Lieutenant Colonel Emerson L. Kis
cum, who was also wounded. The com
mand of the Thirteenth was taken by
Major Philip IL Ellis. He was wound
ed and was succeeded by Captain James
Pornancc, who was killed in a few min
utes after taking command. - Captain
Harry G. Cavenaugh then commanded
thtregiment. Cavenaugh was wounded
in tho groin in the' assault.
Colonel Worth was wounded twice
iU thn rin'Tifc nrm -i tOtt in tho - oncracrp-
nient. One bullet pierced" the arm just
above, the elbow and the other just be
low the shoulder. He clutched his sword
in his left hand and led his men to the
fresh attack. Shortly after this Mauser
bullets struck -Colonel Worth in the
rightand left breast. The bullets' went
clean throuarh tho hodv. leaving the
colonel all in a heap and unconscious
on tho field. ' Keller saw him fall and
ran to his assistance. Colonel Worth
didn't know what had happened until
Kelier brought him around and told
him. While the orderly was bending
over his chief a pieco of shell struck the
orderly in the back, right on top of the.
cartridgo belt, and gouged out a hand
fl of flesh. Keller stuck by his colonel.
- and after awhile the two were carried
off tho field together.
"The best thing that can be said
about tho fight, ' said Keller to the re
porter, "is that it was a hot time. I've
,on somo soldiering, but I never knew
tho bullets to come from all directions
at oneo and come so fast as they did go
"'Sup that hill. If you've over been
0nt in a hailstorm when it didn't do a
tni!l I'Ut hail, you can get some notion
of how the bullets camo at San Juan.,
flier,; wero Spaniards in front of us, be
"Kid us, (jn un sidos of us and. in the
,r"' tups above us. 'And it's an awful
"iMiiko to imagine they can't shoot. I
,1,;)'t know how they are afloat, but
. tllf7 can shoot like tho devil on land or
"1 a tree. - ; . ,
'1-Ut. sntr. vnn inut niitrlit to have
, K''r'n my litUe colonel ! About all ' you
'ouul see of him was his littlo'goateo,
p'king right out straight, a little gray
J:i'r uuder ;his campaign hat and the
"ash 0t his sword. Ho headed the pro
as long as" he could, and, I tell
n,,.'ifwas amazingly pleasant to hear
,illH .S:iy 'every now and then : M us t keep
ady low. uovs j siipot when yo sea
''ethim, tO Ehu".ut. mid Khnnf. n'mVH
-A. S P O RZ A -
e&rr, tho . ; ' The Kind You Have Always Boucht
fWo'H teach those fellows "
i .o about this game they don't know.
Mid well be tip in that blockhouse in a
minute.'
"That kind of talk makes a fellow
feel full of ginger and up to fighting for
ft week. And the colonel was right. We
did show 'em a few things they didn't
know anything about. When we started
up that hill, the first thing we struck
was a barbed wire fence. But it wasn't
built as a white man builds a fence.
The strands were so close together that
we had to pry em apart with our fin
gers before we could use -the wire cutters.-
While : we cut wires, the Span-.
xams pumped lead into us.
fitWgh the first fence
since
y as largely meir iunerai anyway,
they, migh t as well dance on ahead and
cut wires. They evidently preferred to
be mourners, though, for we could al
ways see 'em when we had time to look
back. When we found they wouldn't go
ahead, we did our own wire cutting. It
seemed to me as if there was one of those
darned fences about every ten feet. We
got through 'em somehow, and we ad
vanced steadily in open order, firing as
we went It was fire and advance; .fire
and advance. And we did it iust liko
ii- 1 1 . . 1 r.
pieces of machinery, only the way tho
rifles of our boys snappel was a caution.
"When we once got into the swing
, of being soldiers and tinkers . a tho
sametime we sailed ahead. The Thirteenth,-
being in the center, seemed . to
get the worst J dose, ; but : it was bad
enough for, everybody. It was mighty
exasperating .to havev to stop and cut
fences while the trees shook off bullets
on us, but that was the game we were
up against, and there was nothing to
do but take our medicine. " After what
seemed about a" lifetime we clambered
over tho top of the hill and rallied
round the 'blockhouse, cheered the flag
that somebody was waving, and that
job was done. . '
"When we caught" our breath and
had time to shake all around, some of
the boys looked for " comrades they J
couldn't find, . San Juan was their last
fight, and they're laid away now on the
slope of the hill, under tho trees that
shot them full of holes. The Spaniards
that couldn't get down the other side
of the hill fast enough staid with us,
and I guess they were glad they did.
They got something to eat and were
treated kindly, at which they seemed to
be amazed. Abou6 all they could say
was, ' You didn't stop coming on at all,
so of course we had to get out, ' at least
that's What the Cubans said tbey said.
The colonel got it in the right arm, a
couple of : times early in the fight. At
the first shot he dropped his sword, but
he never even stopped running! He just
picked it up with his left hand, stuck
it up and told us to come on. Finally,
about half way up the hill, be got two
Mausers injiis chest. That knocked him
clean out. I saw him fall and went over
to him. He didn' t know me at first, but
finally he came to. He looked dazed for
a minute, then he said: 'Keller, just
keep me on my feet, j I m behind the
line. ' - '--'' "
"Of course, he couldn't fight any"
more. He had lost so much blood al
ready from the .wounds in his arm that
he was very weak. We just staid there,
and by and by the colonel was carried
to the rear. Then we were both put in
a wagon and carted. over a rough road
to Siboney. We got tiSe best attention
they could give us, but we had to lie in
water a couple of days. Finally we
were told a steamer was waiting to tako
ns home, and here we are. -
"What about me? Oh, I'm all right
a little uncomfortable in my back, but
that's nothing. The piece-of shell that
struck me hit my cartridge belt and
drove the cartridges .against mv bank-
bone. It felt as ii A a naa an eieccno
shockl It stunned me for a minute and
when I came to I thought needles were
-irldni7 me all over. But I'm all
right.'":. -, ' '", :. :
. .Notwithstanding Keller's statement
of his own condition, Dr, Sprague, who
examined him after attending to Colo
nel Worth, ordered him to the hospital.
He obeyed orders, but he did it under
the most vigorous protest. Colonel
Worth told his sister, Miss Worth, dur
ing the afternoon, that the conduct of
the trooDs at San Juan was magnificent
Ho said that it was utterly impossible
to restrain them. "Why!" said he,
"Talk about leading them I An officer
had to bo a sprinter to keep up with
them."
He added that in all his experience
during the civil war, when he was an
officer in the Eighth infantry, and in
all his service in" Indian fighting, he
never saw such magnificent bravery as
tho enlisted men displayed at San Juan
hill, .New York Sun.
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payment of the soldiers and the pur
chase of needed supplies.
It is said that the cteamer carries
from 5 1 .000, 000 to $0, 000, 000 in gold.
It will bo . remembered that General
Merritt, in addition to the money nec
fnr thi r.sfl nf the troors in the
- - -.- - -
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HEROES UNDER FIRE.
STEPHEN CRANE DESCRIBES THE
ROUGH" RIDERS' FIRST FIGHT.
Hecdle.M of Dinner That Sai-raiKli'l-Theiu,
NoU:i7, C troK-sdy Tljcy Went t.
Death VvJlii Suiwr!) Confa.r-Heroism o(
Mavsltall, the Corrp::ilnt. .
Under
the
Id of June 24, writing
from Hibonc r. Cuba Jr. tcpho:! Cr.-ro.
author cf the "Roll i&fl&Vof Cearajo,'"
describes the flgbt of the roiih li.ler i
at La Quasiua us follows:
And tin i the t d of
the third da?.
siuco the landing cf the troops, yester
day was a day of insurgent fighting and
rumors of insurgent fighting. The Cu
bans were- supposed to be fighting some
where in tho" hills with the regiment of
Santiago deCuba which had been-quite
cut off from its native city. No Amer
ican soldiery were implicated in any
way in the battle. - But today is differ
ent. Tho mounted inf antry the First
Volunteer cavalry -Teddie's Terrors
Wood's Weary Walkers-1 have had their
' first engagement It was a bitter- hard
first fight for new troops but no man
can over question their gallantry?
As wo landed from a dispatch boat wo
saw tho last troop of tho mouated in
fantry wending slowly over the top cf a
huge hill. . Three of us promptly posted
after them upon hearing the statement
that they had gone out with the avowed
intention, of finding- the Spaniards and
mixing it up with them.
Tbey wero far ahead of us by tho time
we reached the top of tho mountain, but
wo swung rapidly on the path through
the dense Cuban thickets and in time
met and passed tho hospital corps a
vacant, unloaded hospital corps: going
ahead on mules,' Then there was another
long, lonely inarch through the dry
woods, which seemed almost upon tho
point of crackling into a blaze under tho
rays of the furious Cuban sun. We met
nothing but blankets, shelter tents,
coats and other impedimenta, which tho
panting rough riders had flung behind
them on their swift march. "
In time we came in touch with a few
stragglers, men down with hea prone
and breathing heavily, and then .wo
struck the rear of the column. We were
now about, four miles out, with no
troops nearer than that by tho road. I
know nothing about war, of course, and-
pretend nothing, but I have been en
abled from time to - time to see brush
fighting, and I want to say hero plainly
that the behavior of ".these rough riders
while marching through the woods
shook mo with terror as I havo never
before boon shaken. - V
They Knew , nothing" hut t ueir own
sunerb courage and wound alone this
narrow winding path, babbling joyous
ly, arguing, recounting, laughing, mak
ing more noise than a train goin
through a tunnel. Any one could tel.
from tho. conformation of the country
when we were liable to strike the ene-
my's outposts," but the
clatter of
tongues did not then cease. 'Also thoso
of us who knew heard going from hil
lock to hillock tho beautiful ; coo of. the
Cuban wood dove ah, the wood dove,
the Spanish guerrilla wood dove which
had presaged the death of gallant ma
rines.. For my part I declare that I was
frightened almost into convulsions In
cidentally I mentioned tho cooing of
'the .doves to" some of tho men, but they
said decisively that the, Spaniards did
not use this signal. I dcHi't know how
they knew.
Well, after we had advanced well
into the zone of the enemy's fire mark
that, well ' into tho zone of Spanish fire
a loud order came along the line,
"There's a Spanish outpost just ahead,
and the men must stop talking." "Stop
talkm, can't ye, it, ' bawled a ser
geant "Ah, say. can't ye stop talkin?"
howled another. ; -I was frightened be
fore a shot was fired, frightened because
I thought this silly brave force wa3
wandering placidly into a great deal of
trouble. They did. The firing began.
Four little volleys were fired by mem
bers cf a troop deployed to the right
Then jthe Mauser began to pop the fa
miliar Mauser pop. A captain announced
that this distinct Mauser sound was our
own Krag-Jorgenseu. Oh, misery !
Then tho woods became aglow with
fighting., Our peoplo advanced, deploy
ed, re-enforced, fought, fell in the
bushes, in tho tall grass, under the lone
palms-before a foe not even half seen.
Mauser bullets came from three sides.
Mauser bullets not -Krag-Jorgensen '
although men began to cry that they
were being fired into by their own peo--plc
whined ju ; almost all directions.
Three troops went forward in skirmish
order, and in five minutes they called
for re-enforcements. They wero under a
cruel fire. Half of the men hardly knew
whence it came, but their conduct, by
ariv soldiorlv standard, was magnificent
The rough rulers advanced steadily
and confidently under tho Mauser bul
lets. They spread across some open
ground tall grass and palms and
there they began to fall, smothering
and thrashing down in the grass, mark
ing man. shaped places among .those
luxuriant blades. The action lasted
about one-half hour. Then the Span
iards fled. They had never had men fight
them in this manner, and they fled. The
. - . a : - : rni.At. t . , W.V
DUSinOSS WHS IOU 6UIIUU5. i nun duu
roic rumor arose, soared, screamed above
the bush. EveryLuiy was wounded.
RvrrvhoriY was dead There was no
body. Gradually theru was somebody,
Thero was tho wounded, the important
wounded. And tho tlo.vds
Meanwhilu a soluier puK..n.g near me
said. "There's a cbrrciKicnt op tliere
nil slinfc tti hell." lie traidocl uie ta
vchcro - Edward Marsbail lax, "shot
through the body. Tha follovviu'i con
versatiim ui.-Jaert : " Hl ' ' '
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sroed
health is a prune factor. Io srrnre
-ood health, the blood should be : kept
on,l I'ionrn'K fw t!l( imp of "Avl F'S
. v v-r-' - - . .
- i Sarsapanlla. When-the: vital nuiu
impure and . sluggish, there can
ith health, stren'-rth; nor ambition.
"Hello, Marshall. In hard luck, old
man:"'.. "Yes, I'm done for. " "Non
sense... You're all right, old toy.;-What
can I do for you?" 44 Well, you might
ale my dispatches. I "don't mean file
'em ahead of your own old niun bat
iust filo'em if you find it bandy." '
I immediately decided that he wta"
doomed. No man could be so sublime in
detail concerning the trade of journal
ism and not die. There was the solem
nity of a funeral song in these absurd
and fine sentences about dispatches. Six
soldiers gathered him up on a tent and
moved slowly off. "Hello!" shouted a
stern and menacing person. "Who are
you r and w hat are you doing uere:
Quick!" "l am a correspondent and
we are - mclely carrying back another
correspondent who wo think is mortally
wounded. -Do you care?" " The rough
rider, soiniVivhafc' abashed, announced
that he did not care.
And now the wounded soldiers began
to crawl, w?.ik and be carried back to
where, in tLe middle of the path, tho
surgeons bad established a little field
hospital which was a spectacle of hero
ism. The doctors, gentle and calm,
moved among the men without the com
mon, senseless-bullying of tho ordinary
ward. It was a sort of fraternal game,
They were all in it and of it, helping
each other. In the, mean timo three
troops of tho Ninth cavalry were swing
ing through the woods, and a mile b
hind them the Seventy-first JNew York
was moving forward eagerly to the res
cua But the day was done. The rough
riders had bitten it off andchowed it up
chewed it up splendidly.
WAR SEER IN MAORI LAND.
Head In the Stars Last Winter That Amer
ica Would Soon 1$ Arming. '
The following extract from a private
letter written bv a clever woman who
lives at Wellington, New: Zealand,
shows how interested the people in that
faraway part of the globe are in Amer
ican success : . "
"Of course I am deeply interested in
the war and have rejoiced at every ad
vantage gained by the United States.
There is much excitement in the col
onies over it and complete sympathy
with your country. The battle of Mar
nila seems to have been a brilliant vic
tory for 'our people.' We get cable
pews daily and fuller particulars every
week or so. I want to tell you one curi
ous thing whilo referring to the war.
In January or February last, while Mr,
was traveling among the Wanga
nui river Maoris on native business, he
was talking one night with 'an old
.very old man, and drew from him al
Forts of quaint savage lore. They were
talking in the n'pcu, and it was a lovely
Btartightnrgnr "The old Maori drew
Mr. 'k attention to a very brilliant
star in a certain part of the heavens and
said: 'What country is to tho northeast
of that star? I ask occurs that country
will soon be involved in a war with a
country a long way from it. '
"Mrr made a note of the star
and its position and drew from the old
Maori further remarks to the effect that
he could not say which country would
win in the coming war but be was sure
fichtins would soon commenco, as ho
had watched that star for a long tirae,
and its peculiar motion jmeant what ho
had said. Mr. - ref erred to his notes
when he could get at a map and com
pass and found that tho first country tc
the northeast of this star, as near as one
could see, was the United States, and,
though at tho time this little incident
occurred thero was no apparent likeli
hood of war, ia a couple Tf months'
time it was a fact" New York Sun.
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M.I. u. v. iiues 01 1 OKonama, in a
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tive of The Electrical Review, gave a
number of interesting facts about the
Philippines.
"Those islands should by all means
remain in the possession of the United
States, " said Mr. Hilles. ' Their com
mercial possibilities and native re
sources are almost ..unbounded. The
sharpest competitors of the Americans
and the Englishmen there are the Ger
mans. Our firm has installed a central
electric lighting station "in Manila,
which supplies current for 12,000 in
candescent and 260 arc lights. The ma
chinery is of American manufacture. I
am now- making large purchases . of
American steam and electrical apparatus
to be installed in the far east, a part of
which goes to Manila.
"There are about 720 miles of tele
graph in the islands and only 70 miles
of steam railway. Manila has a tele
phone system equipped with English
instruments. All1 electrical conductors
are carried on overhead pole lines with
porcelain insulators There is also a
horse raihvay in Manila, which would
have been changed over to a trolley
road lie d Dot the war occurred. The
eouctsi-ien for this load has already been
acquired. I here is , a wonderful chanco
for Ameritans in many industrial un
dcrtakingn in tho Philippines, and I
hope' onr government . will hang on to
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REMARKABLE FORTITUDE DISPLAYED
BY EDWARD MARSHALL :
Scorching Trip of. the" Wounded New
York loaraal's Correspondent to the
Hospital Ilia Greeting to an Old Friend,
Singing 'The Banks of the Wabash." '
The first news of the first battled
the rough riders at La Quasimas reached
the camp at Siboney about noon on June
25 last Before 1 o'clock word had come
that Edward Marshall, a correspondent
6T the Nesv York Journal, had been shot
in the spine and could not live through
out the day unless he was brought to
the hospital at once. , The messenger ex
plained that the only litters that the
jxragh riders had were all in use, and
that there were so many wounded sol
diers to be attended to that not more
than half of them could be brought in
before nightfall. In Marshall's case
particularly every moment counted,so
George Coffin, the artist ; Stephen Crane,
H. G. MacNichol and two sailors from
tho dispatch boat Kanapaha volunteered
EOWAKD MARSHALL.
to go out-and bring "him. A steward
from the Red' Cross society and tho
New York Snn correspondent went with
them. Mr. Crane, who had been in the
battle earlier in the morning, led the
way. It was a scorching day.'and tho
5)4 mile climb over the rugged hills
which roll away to within a couple of
miles of Santiago made the two fat men
in the company blow hard. A narrow
road, scarcely more than a bridle path,
led to the field hospital, which had
been extemporized about 100 yards in
the rear of the battlefield.
Marshall and a dozen wounded sol
diers lay on the grass. While still some
30 feet away Marshall recognized tho
voice of one cf the meji in hia party and
called out quite loudly: "Hello, old
man! This is a funny place for us to
meet. Last time I saw you was in Lon
don, at the queen's jubilee." Ashe said
this he raised himself slightly on one
arm, and we saw that he was puffing
away at a cigarette. Seeing this, it was
hard to realize that Marshall was a dan
gerously wounded man. A sight of his
wound, however, changed that opinion.
As the men placed Marshall on the
litter a slight jolt was unavoidable. The
wounded man at once went off into a
fit, which lasted about i minutes.
Two of the men held him down until
the agony was over. A touch of i mor
phine revived him quickly, and the pro
cession started coastward. with Mar
shall apparently quite him sell again,
puffing away at still another cigarette.
At this point the correspondent left to
go on to the rough riders' camp, a mile
farther on. It was agreed that he would
be able to overtake the litter after in
terviewing Colonel Roosevelt.
It took 85 minutes to catch up with
the party, but it seemed like ten years.
Marshall was sleeping under the effect
of another opiate, but as we changed off
at the litter he woke and had another
terrible spasm. When he was quieted,
he began to sing "The Banks of the
Wabash. " This sounds, I know, like an
extract from a Rhoda Broughton novel,
but it is true none the less. For nearly
half an hour, as we dragged the litter
along, Marshall kept repeating - the
chorus of this song over and over.
When he finally stopped,-we could see
that either his pain or- his morphine.
perhaps both, had made him delirious.
He clutched Mr. Coffin by the hand.
"Coffin," he cried, I'm on the city.
desk tonight, and we've got to beat the
town on the story of this fight. Between
it and the story of my falling down that
coal hole and breaking my back ought
to make a great paper tomorrow. Have
a hansom waiting for me on the beach,
and we'll drive down to Guantanamo
and knock the devil out of the other f el-
lows."
'At the end of the fourth mile the two
colored sailors, who had tramped all
the way in their bare feet, . collapsed.
The Red Cross man and the correspond
ent decided that the best thing for them
to do was to hurry on to camp, .secure
more help and whisky and get back as
soon as possible. Bronson Rea supplied
tho bottle" of whisky, and Mr. Dunwid
die and his soldiers volunteered to go
put with us and help carry Marshall
down the hillside, a step slant of fully
half a mile. ; In tho meantime au ofiicer
of cue of the colored regiments on picket
duty had met the party struggling along
about a mile and a half out. ,He inime-,
diatcly ordered six staluurt negroes to
carry the tittir ' - ' .
At 8 o'clock we reached the railroad
shed, which had been turned into a' tern-
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porary hospital, anu found it crowded
to the loors, but in almost total dark
ness. Three candles were all - the light
that the surgeons and Red Cross men
had io work by. There wasn't even a
t.wJa. As we carried Marshall in and
laid him on the cot which we had had
sent over from the dispatch boat one of
the carriers stumbled and half f elL
From the floor came a shriek. "For
God's sake, don't, old manl" cried a
voice. "That's my wounded leg you're
stepping on." ;
: AH afternoon the wounded had been
hurried into camp, and the surgeons had
not had time and boats enough to carry
them to the Olivette before a new crowd
had come in and filled the shed as full
as ever. Attached to a buttonhole of
each patient was an ordinary express
package tag beating his name, his regi
ment and home.; While the" three can
dles were held over him 'Marshall's
wound was examined by Dr. Winters.
He said that his - chances were just
about one in a hundred. We laid him
back on the litter again and started for
the beach. A lifeboat from the Olivette
carried him the rest of the way, and the
Bed Cross steward as he mopped hia
brow, and prepared to start in on anoth
er Case exclaimed, "My God, sir, but
that man had grit "New York" Sun.
Dewey Reminded Him.
- When Dewey was first lieutenant ol
one of the gunboats which Farragut
used as a dispatch boat the admiral
used often to come aboard and steam up
near the levee to reconnoiter. The
southerners had a way of rushing a field
piece to the top of the high bank, firing
it point blank at the gunboat and then
-backing down again. On one such occa
si on Farragut saw Dewey dodge a shot
"Why don t you stand firm, lieuten
ant?" said he. "Don't you know you
can't jump quick enough?" A day or so
after the admiral dodged a shot. The
lieutenant smiled and held his tongue,
but the admiral bad a guilty conscience.
He cleared his throat once or twice,
shifted his attitude and finally declared:
'Why, sir, you can't help it, sir. It'a
human nature, and there's an end to
it" Pittsburg Dispatch.
RUINS OF THE SHIPS.
NSPECTING THE WRECKS OF CERVE
RA'S ONCE SPLENDID FLEET.
Mr. W. It. Hearst Captures a Group of
Twenty-nine Spanish. Prisoners Spanish
Officers Made Their Crews Drank and
Shot tho Sailors Who Quit Fighting.
Writing under the date of July 4
from the quarter deck of the Spanish
cruiser Vizcaya, now lying beached on
the southern coast of Cuba, Mr. W. R.
Hearst, editor of the New York Jour
nal, describes the wrecked ships of
Spain's navy as follows : -
Last night's story of the mighty sea
fight, of our glorious victory and of the
complete destruction of the Spanish fleet
has been told. Early this morning we
headed our dispatch boat Silvia down
the coast to inspect more closely than
we could yesterday, when fire was
sweeping them, the wrecked and ruined
leviathans of Spain's navy. They lie
with their heads buried in the sand, as
if to hide from themselves the sight of
their own destruction and - humiliation.
The first wreck we approached was
the Oquendo. She lies in a small bay
well up on the beach, her steel sides
scarred by many shots, and with one
tremendous hole on the port bow, show
ing where a 13 inch shell from one of
our battleships must have exploded.
She has also a large rent aft on the port
quarter, near the water line. Her mill
- W. B. BKABST.
tary masts have been swept overboard,
and her decks are clear of top hamper
down to the turrets and the guns. We
lowered a boat to visit her, and as we
a - ' f I A. A.
came alongside a snocmng signi me
our eyes. Dead Spaniards were floating
all about in the water, stripped to the
waist as they had stood to man their
guns. We steered nervously among the
bodies, feeling much pity, and some
satisfaction, too, that the Maine had
been again so well remembered.
About this time the Suwanee came
up and sent the famous Lieutenant Blue
ashore in her whaleboat to look for sur
vivors of the crews of the Spanish ves
sels and take them prisoners. We de
termined to follow, though, we had nei
ther lifeboat nor life preservers, as the
Suwanee's- boat crew had, and though
the surf was running high and strong
on a rocky beach. But deciding to swim
for it if we were upset, we dragged off
our clothing and headed our jolly boat
for tho shore. - "When the first scrape of
gravel sounded under our keel, we jump
ed out and dragged tho boat up on the
. beach. Lieutenant Blue had been safely
hauled ashore bv his crew and was in
Kvlirfin Six Ho am.
Distressing Kidney and Bladder dis
ease relieved m six hours by "New
Great South American Kidney
Lure. It is a -great surprise on ac
count of its exceeding promptness in
relieving pain in bladder, kidney and
back, in male or female. . . Relieves re
tention of water almost, immediately.
If you want quick relief and cure this
is the remedy. - ' . - '
Sold by E. F. Nad?!, Drr ht, Wil-
terviewing a'bahfi cTCtabani, who were
also looking for Spaniards. But as Span,
iards there were none, the lieutenant
pushed out through the breakers, board- ?
ed the Suwanee and put to sea again.
: "We concluded, however, that it would
be a glorious thing to capture Borne
Spanish prisoners ourselves, so we joint
ed some dispatch boats and headed for
the Infanta Maria Teresa, farther along r
the coast to the eastward. This vessel is
not quite in such bad condition as the
Oquenda. Blackened by fire and batter
ed by shell she certainly is, but her af U
er military mast still stands, her bridge,
though much bent and twisted, is recog
nizable as a bridge, and she has not such
terrible 6hot wounds ia her hull ns tho
Oquendo has. Nevertheless she was tha
first of the Spanish 6hips yesteiday te
give up the fight and head for the shore.
We found her etill smoldering: In tho
'fire the cartridges occasionally popped,
as though feebly endeavoring to con
tinue the fight. r
While J William Hemment photo-,
graphed the wreck I scanned tho shore
for Spaniards and finally saw some score
of figures huddled . together in one cor
ner of the beach. We shouted to them,
and made a demonstration with our fire
arms, and the poor, cowed fcllgwa. With
great alacrity, waved a whltohaudW
chief or shirt in token of surrender. I
jumped overboard, swam ashore and
told them we were going to take them
aboard our boat to the admiral. They
appeared rather gratified than otherwise
.and seemed to dread the Cubans far
more than1 the Americana I sent our
small boat for the ship's launch, first
having landed Mr. Hemment and his
assistant, j We three stood guard over
our wretched Spaniards until the launch
arrived. Several Spanish bodies, upon
which the vultures" f ed, lay along the
beach. Mr. Hemment took some rather
grewsome photographs while 1 made the - -Spaniards
bury their dead.
Most of our prisoners were wounded,
having been in the heat of the fight,
and we learned from them how tho gun
nerv of the Americans had become fierc
er and more deadly until the Spanish -
crews had deserted their guns and had '
been shot down by their own officers ;
how, as the conditions of the battle be
came more and more desperate, the fine .
wines and liquors of . tho officers' mess
had been handed out to the crews, so
that with drunken courago they would
fight on in the hopeless fight, and how .
at last the officers themselves gave up,
and, scuttling their ships, drove them
on the shore.
Of our prisoners 16 were from tho
"Vizcaya, G from the Oquendo and 7 from
the Maria Trresa. makina a total of 20.
Wo took thia aboard the Silvia and
headed for the fleet As we passed the
Texas we signaled our capture and re- -ceived
a hearty cheer from her jackies.
Admiral Sampson thanked us very, cour
teously and asked us to deliver our pris- .
oners on board the St Louis. We did -so,
receiving a receipt in due form from
a 1 - M : J ! Tka
ine omeer ui marmca iu cumu. xuio
receipt I have forwarded to The J ournal.
Admiral Cervera and spoko a few words
to him. The old gentleman is a fine,
imposing figure as he stands, still proud
ly, in his full uniform, with all the
gold braid and several decorations of his
rank on his breast. The full ' effect is
somewhat marred by the fact that his
trousers are very damp from .wading
ashore, escaping from his burning and .
disabled ship. But only the irreverent
would take notice of such things.
From the fleet we went to the wrock
of the Vizcaya, and while Mr. Hem-
ment takes photographs of the great
hole in her bow I sit on a dismounted
gun and write, these few notes of Mon
day's proceedings to be forwarded to -you.
Great heavens! Is this rent and
ruined hull, black and battered, blister
ed and burned, with the heaps of rub
bish on its deck, with the gaping chasm
in its bow, bordered by jagged points as
if some mighty Splash of liquid iron
bad suddenly turned cool is this the
noble boat we all admired so much and
dreaded not a little as she lay in New
York harbor just before the war? Is
this the deck from which Captain Eulate
trained his guns on tho tall buildings of .
New York? "
Among the spoils of war thero will
be also a considerable quantity of spoiled
barbed wire fencing. Chicago Tribune.
The
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of such treatment is illustrated in the
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Nine times out of ten the surgeon's
knife only hastens death. ,v
My son had a most malignant Cancer, for
which the doctors said an operation was the
only hope. The oper
ation was a Beyers
one, as It was neces
sary to out down to
the Jawbone and
scrape it. Before a
great while the Can
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gan to grow rapidly.
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lief, and finally,
noon the advice of a
mend, deelded to
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one, for he is now seventeen years old. and has
never had a sign of the dreadful disease to re
turn. J. N. Mdedocb.
279 Snodgrass St., Dallas, Texas.
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