Show CHARGE AT SAN JUAN JOAN what the american soldiers faced in the assault HAIL OF MAUSER BULLETS light eight darted barbed wiro wire fences encountered which were elaborately put tord T together ier in some places they were twisted together like ropes so thick that one could not put a finger between gen worth ot of tho the thirteenth led tho the charge after col wykoff T fell new york july lif lc gen con fral eral torm cily lacut col william 0 S worth ol of the re regular gislar antan toy who vaa as wounded in the charge ot of the americana up the hill at san juan has arrived at ills his home at governors island before the outbreak ot of th tho c war or gen I 1 worth was stationed at the headquarters of 0 the department of the east at gov erners island ile he was onre ono of oc the most popular officers on the island and there was not a single person from tile the prisoners confined there up ft ho did not accord him a hearty welcome yesterday before lie he left ills hla pot post for or the front lie he was a splendid specimen of physical health and vigor and his appearance I 1 pe arance yesterday yeste iday weakened by lossl loss of blood and severe wounds was deplored by all his friends and acquaintances it Is only by a miracle that he was not killed outright A bullet which must have been a partially spent one hit him in the iho left breast in a a slanting direction tearing art an ugly wound through the flesh and glancing oft off on to his right arm N where here it caused a double fracture above the elbow another bullet hit him in ithe the breast the wounds in the breast although being being very painful and up nil to the present time lime not lot heated healed are not considered dangerous dunge ious by the surgeons oui geons the generals right arm la is perfectly helpless end and la is likely to i chilain so for orsome time G gen en firm arm v was its set at siboney SIb onLy after an firlit euclit mlle mile ride aldo which was ex painful to him he was c carried a r 11 4 1 aiom om safi it 1 by the city or of washington to ON old point comfort Com foit where he took look the th etrain tr ian to tit new york ile he was accompanied on hla his journey by lit ahli orderly john keller of 0 company 13 thirteenth infantry 1 koller was also wounded in ili tho the charge of san juan orderly keller said that gen worth took a leading pait in n the storming of 0 the hill it lit san juan when col wykoff tell fell the general then lieutenant CI Culon onel cl was tile the next in comand and 1 after stopping tor for a minute to receive tho the dying A words oris or Is of col 01 ol wykoff lie he ran on and led the charge charge when gen wo worth rt was wounded he did not tall fall or stop but kept right on ills his sword which nos as waving to encourage the men dropped fron from I 1 b hla is helpless i light ight hand band i 1 lie he just stooped to pick it up and waved it in ma ilia left jett hand in a little while however the I 1 loss of blood compelled gep gen worth to I 1 retire and lie he was carried to the rear lie ile did not lose consciousness at all but the journey of eight wiles in I 1 leg to the chast caused I 1 him to suffer frer terribly roller had some bono things to say bay with reference to the charge in general Beneri il ite ile declaimed declai aled ed that the commanding officer sent the cubans to the front to do the work nork of oc cutting life barbed wire fences but they were afraid and refused and the americans were obliged to do IE themselves there were eight fences altogether to be cut donn do n before the men reached the top of the hill and they were wera artfully placed at points it where here they would bo be least lea it expected they were not made mad of 0 ordinary barbed wire but were elaborately put together jn in so some a places they were together I 1 like IT e ropes andere and cre so thick that one olle could coul 11 not put a finger between tho the wire alre cutters with which the amellians Amer lians kans were supplied applied were not made tor for anything hut but ordinary wire nire and in consequence a great deal of time was spent in the cutting all the time lime the Span larda wore raining down their mauser manger bullets on 11 the americans amei leans have you ever tried to dodge hall BE stones ones in a storm asked keller Kelli ir 11 if so you will viii know about what the spanish fire was like and it I 1 Is s a mistake to suppose that the spaniards council cannot shoot however the spanish ore fire did not stop us and at i alst we readied reached the top ot of tile hill I 1 guess ve live showed thern them what hat rapid firing really really was we il ored red and a d advanced and then fired and advanced again a as 8 regularly as clockwork had tile the spaniards had any heart at ILI all ve lie could not have taken the place they fired behind trenches irenc lius wo tio and a half thick they used explosive bullets too besides to tio other kinds of bullets I 1 saw one man with hla his face shot clean away gen woi will tits tha wounds ivere caused by brass butte bullets e I 1 think that the ahli bore tile brunt of the battle after the battle the spanish prisco neis said they hid had never liever known anything like tile tha american fire |