| Show BACK FROM SANTIAGO return of one of hero heroes es of san juan hill Z LIEU LYMAN M WELCH worn by tho r struggle la md I 1 wasted vested by an attack of yellow fever even now KB he 11 hns to hobble along with a 0 cine me tells a thrilling story of 0 tho the De sperato cb rge up to the spanish S men manta of san juan hill HUB his subsequent illness going galas to Wi california fornin wan and wasted by a months montha fight inc and find sickness on cuban soil lyman M welch ot at the twenty fourth infantry reached this city yesterday ye st erday the first to return ot of all that gallant band of 0 men who MR marched relied fat 01 th to war lart laet april while tho the city and this the whole state and this first returned soldier has seen been and endured all the vicissitudes of 0 war var A big strong atron ff rosy cheeked checked handsome man when lie he went forth he returns haggard and sallow of 0 complexion find so broken down in health that he be la is compelled to hobble with a cano end and I 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 1 air W 1 I 1 I 1 V I 1 1 X 41 I 1 14 ai I 1 I 1 I 1 II 11 i 1 J I 1 1 1 le I 1 I 1 I 1 X I 1 I 1 1 1 4 b I 1 iii I 1 I 1 V 1 1 1 I 1 I 1 1 1 t vc I 1 I 1 I 1 it I 1 1 q ar I 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 clr I 1 I 1 4 Z I 1 i iee i ee pl f 1 I 1 I 1 r it 11 I 1 I 1 1 I a eoe 7 y I 1 I 1 I I 1 U I 1 1 1 R 1 Z I 1 I 1 I 1 V f 1 III I 1 lif 6 r 4 A C I 1 A 71 I 1 11 1 1 irl W er 1 I 1 I 1 11 1 1 I 1 I 1 gf 6 t 2 11 cepl I 1 7 1 as lyman II 11 welch accept a friendly shoulder to climb a 6 top step I 1 it Is a tale lots full tu 1 l at 0 thrilling adventure end and of 0 harrowing harrow lne which welch relates rel atoo a tale ol of battles battle 0 of dreary days 0 of suffering in the swamps and in the trenches under the weeping trot troal le nicles of 0 weeks ot of r restless st togging on in the lh cots ft cf tile hie yellow fever ever hospital and or of a iut weary voyage y home oo 00 nn over clouded ill provisioned ship where tile ery ry water stank slink and the food was not fit to eat DONT WANT ANT TO TALK but welch Is a very modest young gentleman and it was only with the greatest difficulty that he cou could 1 d te ta induced t in speak at all of othas his exper ili ilia arrival in ili taij city was quite to in k pin alth ills hl character tor for lie he came entirely unheralded nod and until he aughter from un an oregon short line car lioni from the die depot late afternoon not one ot of ills his friends in the city knew or of his intended coming it at the residence of 0 hla his flanc ce wlas miss grace andorson anderson IJ welch 0 ich nag aa seen beer by a tribune represent arlve ing last i even evening ing ile he was seated in a comfortable armchair arm chair surrounded by LL a her bevy y of admi admitting ting hero worshipping wor shipping yung ladles there much to be said about it ho he said simply when asked for or a story of his experiences we ve all did our autv ot of courne chourp L find and all ve a could do wa want nt it it was pretty tough experience for us all and nye w wont any of us forget it in a hurry tennisie TEnn iBIE SAN SAIT JUAN of course the battle bitt leot of san ran juan was the worst ol if ill all I 1 hod had obtained leave of gen shatter shaffer to remain with the twenty fourth during the battle a although I 1 wait waa do detailed to the elie twentieth shortly before that lime we had bad been bro brought U slit down the road from fram siboney to tho the shen juan river early in the er Za gement ana in instead oc at taking ak us the river which lay jay beti between yeen I 1 us awl sin salt juan hill they marched us down along aba river shore here we were protected by tile me high binks banks op of front the spanish bullets we formed in eirv for the charre chargo there and wading the river cut away the barbed wire fence on tile the gnp ot or tile the bank I 1 dont know how bow far it was from there to the top of that hill thre th re was a lot of junkle to 10 po ire through and our troops sot got all ail mixed up but we kept on going I 1 had charge of a platoon of the regiment regj ment and I 1 1 know that before ne e got to the top ot of the hill there iere members of the twenty fourth and tho the eighteenth mixed up in it ft but we were all going up hill when wo we got to the etee peat INI r i the spaniards could not depress dp raa their 1 guns enough to hit us ua and after that wo we got along fast fact BURIED DEAD SPANIARDS when no 10 reached risa chod the top tho spaniards h had 4 fled but they had left 5 some ome wounded and a 0 lot of dead we went nt to work entrenching ing ourselves and otter after that burled buried the dead span lards larda we lay in the tha t trenches tor for several days ono one woul would d spend cevela 1 hours there and another adoth e r would then take lie its place and the hie fir rat at would fro FO to tho the rear we got our supplies supplee a by truths trains from the rear we had bad rk no 0 shelter better fonts or blankets find and it wa was s I 1 I 1 retty pretty hard for awhile after about a k of that I 1 was prost prostrated rated with t the b 0 ce heat eat and bah hatt to go to t the 1 le hospital it was about allue fmay and I 1 had to travel in a 1 I i rp supply wagon all the way I 1 when I 1 got there they put me in al a little tent amay from the others ar and f I 1 nukes nuked them why but the surgeons catl id bo be more mere comfortable ehlt c BY BIT YELLOW TELLOW JACK JACIC 1 I thought I 1 had yellow fever anil and ir T asked them and finally ah they told me I 1 I 1 had it seem very cry bad at it first but the day I 1 was taken up oil among ill chiji gillim to the yellow emer hospital it came on me ma oil fill at once my strength irac ft me and I 1 was OA as bellA helpless hel OSS a aa a it a baby I 1 wits was nick bick tor for about twelve days and then I 1 got heller bettor and was moved to the camp I 1 left my bunk at tile tho yellow fever ailta I 1 it was wag immediately oiled 1 by L allcut 1 e ut leitch of tile J J it I 1 har a that he be too ton has recovered so BO that rn must st h have n v c been it A lucky bunk 1 I ic lift I 1 t the convalescent camp on oil jelv 2 sard and on nn the some same d day ay embarked b 0 r ked on the concho concha I 1 had a pretty 11 hard r d lime getting gelling aboard tho the steamer I 1 1 ta ai s EO 0 we weak 1 I k b but u t after a a few ow days I 1 felt fit beiler lj I 1 till th the boat was pretty crox crowded de d but the ui cle fneels had good quarters in the tha caalim on an the hurricane dee deck k a and n d RC ie wore were comfortable I 1 dont ca care re to be quoted as TO EO tile the ships con duelon wo got to new york all right and had it a fairly good voyage although several men died before ne e reached port L lacut aut welch will remain in this city 11 ll until tuesday and will then proceed 1 to a san fi I 1 where here lila parents reside e they are arc a disgrace to public morality they are arc nothing less than places to alch young girls may bo be enticed to their ruin proprietor levy of cl the saloon save gave notice of 0 appeal in behalf of 0 his bar tender |
