Decatur Democrat, Volume 42, Number 19, Decatur, Adams County, 21 July 1898 — Page 6

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Every mother feels an indescribable dread of the pain and danger attendant upon the most critical period of her life. Becoming a mother should be a source of joy to all, but the suffering and

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RED CROSS WORK. Mrs. John Addison Porter Tells of the Conditions at Si bone y. Mr. John Addison Porter, secretary to the president, has received a long and interesting letter from his wife, who is at Santiago with Miss Clara Barton, engaged in Red Cross work. Mrs. Porter gives a vivid picture of the conditions prevailing at Si honey and other points near Santiago. She says that if it had not been for the Red Cross hundreds of refugees, chiefly women and children, would have died from starvation. With its large store of supplies the society was enabled to do good work among the afflicted of all classes and nations. Mrs. Porter says that the work of the Spaniards in firing into Red Cross ambulances containing sick and wounded was the most dastardly known in the history of warfare. Mrs. Porter does not regret having gone with Miss Barton. as‘there are too few females at the scene of action. —Washington Star. When one sees smoke hanging from a chimney, with tendency to sink to the gt/mid, it indicates that the atmosphere is light—in fact, too light to float the smoke. When the smoke rises from the chimney, it indicates a heavy atmosphere. A column of smoke is not a bad barometer, for a barometer simply re-‘-ords the pressure of the atmosphere.

TOLD BY A CHAPLAIN. REV. DWIGHT GALLOUPE’S STORY OF HIS SANTIAGO EXPERIENCE. Hi, Long Journey nn Foot With Other Wounded Men—Knocked Sen*elew» on the Battlefield. Probably by the Explosion of a Shell—Bravery of Captain Lee. A story of his Santiago experience was given to the newspaper men in Newark, N. J., recently by Chaplain Galloupe of the Ninth United States infantry and rector of St. Paul’s Episcopal church in that city. The more interesting parts of the story are as follows : “On June 29 I was sunstruck while aiding the wounded, carrying water and food and was ordered to the hospital at Siboney by Lieutenant Colonel Ewers, commanding our regiment. Two days later, on July 1, while still at the hospital, I heard of the fighting at the front, and, thinking that it was my duty to be there and feeling well enough to make the journey, I walked the eight miles to the firing line. This was in the morning, and all that day I worked with the doctors, helping them with the wounded. “I had been at this all day, and at about 4 o’clock in the afternoon I made I my way to a small clump of trees, near which there were some wounded men. in the endeavor to cool off a bit, for I was still suffering slightly from the effects of my sunstroke, and the sun bad been too much for me. At this time I j was about half a mile behind our firing, line, which was about a thousand yards . from the enemy. I was facing the firing line and heard nothing coming, nor did , I see anything. It is impossible for me to tell how I was hurt, but the next thing I knew I was regaining consciousness. I was lying on my left side, and at first I was sure that my right arm was broken. I sat up and began feeling myself all over in a dazed sort of way, trying to find out where I was hurt. | My first sensation was that of loneliness. Oh, I thought, if I only had some one to talk to. It was a terrible feeling, that of thinking that I was going to die ali alone there with no one about. 1 tell. you I Was mightily scared. “Well, I looked down and found the front of my shirt all torn away and my ‘ exposed chest a mass of dirt and blood. , I was all shaken up and pretty sore, but I soon discovered that I was not badly ■ wounded. All this time I bad boon ■ thinking cf the brevity of human 1 if. ' and of how uncertain it all is. So, as I • was saying, I concluded that I still had | a fighting chance, and getting on my feet sta-ted off for Siboney.

“Never, even should I live to be | thousand years old, will I forget that i eight mile walk, ” continued the chaplain. “There were some 700 or SOO men on that road, Wounded in every possible | manner, all with bn* the one thtught, ' to get back to the hcsjital at Siboney. ; Had they been uninjured they would have been in the front rank, but now i they were actuated by that one thought, to get to the rear. There was tut cue I ambulance, and that bad to be dragged | by men. as the mules were transporting ! ammunition to the front. The come- > queuce was that the wounded were I compelled to go it on their own hock, i with such assistance as they cculd give one another. “By the time I reached the road night bad fallen. The moon was partially out, and by its half light the poor fellows I could be seen dragging themselves along ’ as best they could. Here and there a I man had dropped at the side of the road : and was feebly calling for water. Some ! of the men—most of them, in fact—had i been without water or food for over 86 I hours and their suffering was fearful. “As I went along giving, what assistance I could here and there, the sight made an impression on my mind that 1 shall never forget. Words cannot describe it. Why, one peer fellow '(and J here the tears came to the chaplain s! eyes) “had been struck by an exploding | shell; his right foot was gene, and Lis I leg from the knee down was nothing but a mass of pulp. He had get a \ comrade to cut a branch from a tree, and this he bad bound about the stump ; with wisps of grass, so that the leaves | dragged along the ground and protected l the wound. And so rigged up that man ■ dragged himself over those eight miles on all fours. He took 12 hours to do it. and when he reached the hospital took ■ his place at the end of the line of about 600 wounded without a murmur <r complaint. When the doctors found i him, as they did in going along the line i locking for the worst cases, he was; calmly chewing on the end of a plug ot tobacco. The doctors all said that he : had no excuse to be living and that he 1 ought to have died from the loss cf blood, but they fixed him up, and he is now doing nicely and will recover.” Captain Lee, the English military attache, who is representing bis government, is described by the chaplain as being as brave as a lion. While the attaches of other nations are carefully stowed away in the rear, Captain Lee is right cn the firing line, notebook in hand, gathering material for his reports to his government. He also does all he can to help our wounded. Captain Lee. who is an expert in modern warfan*, grew alarmed when he heard the order given to charge over an open field to take three intrenchments and a battery of artillery. The charge must be made in the face of a rain of shot and shell, and it was almost certain death to attempt it. “You will be annihilated, ” shouted the Britisher, but the men jumped at the command, and. officers leading, plunged up the slope and simply overwhelmed the enemy, who fled in disorder Ctv'tsiii was riglit witli the advance guard, but afterward acknowledged that he considered the attack miraculous in its success.—New York Sun. Record Breakinc Journey*. The Oregon made a long trip, but the Star of Empire broke its record in its jump to Hawaii.—Washington Post,

HEROIC INCIDENTALS. Some Side Lights on the American Fighting Man. HOW EE ACTS WHEN HIS MAD IS UP Sometimes, as In the Ca*e of Wainwright, , He Display* Andaclon* Courage — Valiant No»comba(»nH-A Surgeoo and a Chaplain Who rnflinchingly Faced Bullet*. Overshadowed by the larger events of the war, there are some minor happenings which snould not be overlooked or forgotten. They are M*- martial side lights which illuminate unexpected and surprising traits of the American fighting man. They show us that in all sorts of odd conditions our boys in blue are ready to rise to unheard of heights of valor. These incidental heroics will form the most fascinating features of the yet S* Jrlsr ■■ 11 LIEUTENANT COMMANDER WAINWRIGHT ON THE BRIDGE OF THE GLOUCESTER. to be written history, although when the serious minded man of facts comes I to tell of how we thrashed the Spanish | jn 1898, he will probably relegate them to the footnotes. As satisfying as any of these incidentals is the account of the part taken in the naval engagement off Santiago by I the little converted yacht Gloucester. With nothing, more formidable than 6 pounder guns Lieutenant Commander Richard Wainwright steamed right into the thick of the muss. When the big Spanish battleships sailed cut of th;harbor, he began peppering away at them, like a boy with a putty blower tackling an armored knight. The appearance cf the two formidable torpedo boat destroyers Pluton and Furor, those long, grim terrors with which the Spanish boasted that they would wipe our entire navy from tne seas, was me occasion which Wainwright eagerly seized for distinguishing himself. Ignoring the fact that a single shell from one of the big guns on the destroyers would have made kindling wood <sf his own tiny craft, he went for the Pluton and Terror as a wasp does for a lion. His activity was met with a storm of missiles of all kinds, but although the water around his boat was churned into foam by an iron shower he kept hammering away and getting into closer quarters with his antagonists. During i tbe entire action he stood on the bridge and directed the fighting of his boat. With some help from tbe rest of the fleet ho pounded away until both the destroyers were shattered hulks.

It was one of the most remarkable exhibitions of audacious bravery in naval annals. Probably no ship ever fought such an unequal fight and came off victorious. Os course it is too much to claim that Wainwright alone was responsible for the destruction of the destroyers. but it is wonderful enough that his boat should have taken any part in such a battle of giants. It is a fact, moreover, that the well directed fire from bis 6 pounders did much to disable both the Pluton and the Terror. But the navy is not winning all the glory by any means. The army is far from being short of heroes. The stories of seine of those dashes which the volZ/ 5; 'fc ■ SVRGEON CHURCH WORKING UNDER FIRE, unteers made up hill against storms of Mauser bullets will forever drown the old cries of “tin soldiers” which in days past were shouted after national guardsmen. Even some of the noncom batants have perpetrated heroics. There was Surgeon Church, that young Washington doctor who calmly walked out between the firing lines at Juragua and dressed the wound of a fallen trooper with the Mauser bullets purring and whining all 1 about him. The wounded man was a private of

Troop E who had made a dash toward the enemv and had been hit hard by a bullet, the place for surgeons is well back of the firing line. But that wasn t where Surgeon Church was. He had worked up until he was in the very forefront. He saw the man fall and went to his aid. Said Sergeant Ousler of the regular army in describing the act recently: “The coolness of that young fellow has never half been told. Vi bile he was making an examination of his wounded comrade, paying no attention to the whistle of the bullets, a young private of the rough riders, who had been a collegemate of Church at Princeton, yelled over to him from a distance of about 20 feet—he was in with half a dozen fellows doing sharpshooters’ work from behind a cluster of bushes —to ask how badly the patient was hurt. The young surgeon looked over his shoulder in the direction whence the private s voice proceeded, and he saw his former chum grinning in the bushes. “ ‘Why, you whelp,’ said Church, with a comical grin on his face, how dare you be around here and not be killed !’ "Then he went on fixing the wounded man, and he remained right there with him until the arrival of the litter that he had sent to the rear for.” There is a story of a chaplain, too, which should be preserved. The scene was located on the hill overlooking Camp McCalla Four of the marines killed in the first day’s skirmishing were to be buried. Chaplain Jones of the Texas had come ashore to perform the solemn service. One of the was that of Dr. Gibbs, and he was buried dressed in tbe clothes, all booted as be was, he wore at the moment when the Mauser bullet crashed his brain. Some marines grouped themselves about the grave, and at the head of it stood the chaplain of the , Texas. He had just begun to read the office for the dead, beginning, “I am j the resurrection and the life,’’when a, volley of musketry from the bushes brought every one to attention. The marines threw themselves upon . the grass, with rifles cocked, one eye on j the enemy and the other on the open | graves, but the chaplain stood erect, I continuing his solemn service. The bullets whistled around him, but there was no tremor in his voice, and he moved his position cdy a step or two to one side. He read the service as calmly and as reverently as though he were in the peaceful cemetery near the church where he cnee preached not far from Pittsburg, and when be pronounced the last words he turned calmly and went to his place seemingly not realizing that he had stood both in the presence of death and in the certainty of it. To hark back to the naval heroes, there is Ensign Powelson, whose work in this war will surely be rewarded sooner or later. Powelscn first attracted attention during the Maine inquiry. It < —> - r BATTLE BURIAL CF MARINES. was his expert testimony concerning the bent armor plates that fastened the guilt on Spain. When war was declared, he was transferred to the St Paul, he having requested to be assigned to duty under his old commander, Captain Sigsbee. It was the intention of the navy department to use the St. Paul as a scoutship, but she was provided with a few guns just as a matter of form. Captain Sigsbee determined to use these guns and waited for a chance. At last it came. He was snooping around off the harbor of Sau Juan when the Spanish torpedo boat destroyer Terror and the cruiser Isabel came out to eat him up. You will remember that the thrashing was reversed. After exchanging a few shots the Isabel sneaked back under the protection of the forts. The Terror was not fortunate enough to get away in time. She was still nearly five miles from the St. Paul when she saw her mistake and concluded to let the Yankees live, but the St. Paul steamed straight for her and began making the water boil all about the Spaniard. The Terror managed to turn tail without injury, but as she was running for shore a 5 inch shrapnel shell struck her fair in the stern. For a single shot it did a terrific amount of damage. Two of her funnels were knocked down, her deckhouse was smashed, two engineers were killed, and 11 were injured. Besides this the engines were disabled, and in making its adieu the shell punched a big hole in the Terror’s bottom plates. This shot was fired at a distance of 8,500 yards away. Th> man in charge of the gun crew was Ensign Powelscn, and the gunner was a hero of the name of Hartman. Hero? Well, if a man who can plant a shot where he wants it at a distance of miles is not a hero, will you please tell me who is? And yet the tale is not half told. , Many things happen away off at the ; front which are not heard of for weeks afterward, tome of them may never be , told in print at all, but from these brief ■ and unsatisfactory samples you mar • gather a faint idea of the kind of fighting man an American makes when bis Biad is really up. Cyrus Stlvestkb.

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