Ogden Daily Standard | 1900-05-04 | Page 5 | Was Wounded by a Shell

WAS WOUNDED BY A SHELL FRAGMENT CANNOT BE REMOVED DY SURGEONS san francisco cal may 3 owing to his physical condition lieutenant col richard eskridge of the twenty third infantry has been relieved from the command of the presidio reservation the fragment 0 a shell which dropped over his head and burst behind him at the battle of san juan hill in cuba has been so embedded imbedded im bedded in the muscles of ibis back that surgical skill has so tar been unable to remove it he is succeeded in command of the post by col jacob B rawles third artillery