Show COL ESKRIDGE DIES IN I I It t 1 Once Commanded Troops at Fort Douglas I HERO OF THE SPANISH WAR WARlIE HE lIE WAS VIAS IX IN THE TEE BAT BATTIE TIE TUR OF OP SANTIAGO 4 I Colonel Richard I Eskridge E kr whose wh death in a hospital Ital at Manila was wu an aD announced announced In a dispatch from Washing Washington ton Tuesday Tue daT was wa commander of the troop troops at Fort Douglas in ta this th place for a few fw months month Just ju After fter the close clo e of er erthe the sp war His Hla death deth eth I occurred on Aug AU 2 21 last Jut but the cause C rank of et colonel colo The same sams year he be heVa was Va retired and aDd since his retirement he lie returned to the where he has baa a son and ad daughter Rich Richard ard Stevens Eskridge the son of the colonel who accompanied a him here married Miss MIm Ella Keith daughter dau of David Keith K of 0 this th J city shout about a year j I jand and aDd a half lf If Ago a o and aDd they are now living in Seattle where Mr Eskridge to Is practicing practicing law Jaw Colonel Eskridge Et had a ca career Career reer that extended through P three wars At the outbreak of the Cuban war he was wag lieutenant colonel of the Twenty third infantry and iid participated in the battle of Santiago It was wu IB in this en engagement nt that he be came near Bear losing lo his hl life His KIB regiment had Hell been bS fighting Hard 14 an all day the day before and ad General i Pierce gave ve him a battalion of gt the Six Sixteenth infantry to ao strengthen tr his lines The colonel was giving the battalion some oDle instructions n when w a shell thrown tb wn from trem fleet neet burst t Several i men were killed and aDd several 1 others othe wounded near where Colonel eI Eskridge stood A ball bail from the shell Neil struck the colonel in the 1 shoulder lodged of somewhere in the lower limbo Carried Carri d Bullet to Grav The soldier so came caine euDe near fuel bat but polled through and carried th 3 et c I S S S Se I S e r s j SC S S 7 t S S 5 S SI I j COLONEL RICHARD RICH ARD I EB 01 of itemise is la not known here yet et It is thought probable though that it re resulted resulted suited from complications arising from fromi troma a i wound sustained by the colonel dur during durin ing in the Cuban war first came to Salt Lake with a battalion of the Twenty Tw ty third infantry that had returned from the tho t hp Philippines At thai th time the tM corn officer was a lieutenant col colonel colonel colnnel onel and he remained in charge charae of or the 1 local al j poet from Aug I 1906 1900 to Feb 8 8 ItOl 1911 At that time his hl condition physically ally cally was waR such that he had bad to be re relieved relIt lIt ed from duty He went to Hot Springs ringo Ark and nd remained there un until until til tit April 15 U 1101 Prompted to Colonel On Feb S 1 one ODe day ay after aft r he be left Fort Douglas D he be wa wu was promoted to the in his b body to his grave ra e The were used u upon him time and again but the missile m could never be located It was wu while white Colonel was wag still a from this lb wound that his bin regiment was waB soot sent to the Philippines The colonel asked to be sent to Join I his hili men and the war department granted ted the request The colonel had his ble hi baggage aboard and was himself on the ship when General Miles MUes came aboard with an ai order to see If the col 01 colonel onel Oel was physically able to make the General Miles found the colonel limping lImpl and Immediately ordered him to remain in iii San o The col colonel colonel I onel oDel protested prote ted but it was ws of or no use Ulle From that time Um until the return to the 1 Philippines of ot the battalion bt that was ws sent to Fort Douglas Colonel Coke E was commander C r of or the Presidio |