. The chicago Record's war stories : by staff correspondents in the field ; copiously illustrated. al hospital was aCuban. The first wounded American wastaken to the field hospital at the foot of thehill back of Grimes battery and while Span-ish shrapnel was bursting within 100 feetof them the surgeons looked after theirwounded in utter disregard of self. Regi-mental chaplains carried wounded men fromthe firing line and newspaper men found timeto help carry shot cavalrymen out of thesunken road to a safe place beyond. Urgent cable messages went to the UnitedStates to-day calling for more nurse
. The chicago Record's war stories : by staff correspondents in the field ; copiously illustrated. al hospital was aCuban. The first wounded American wastaken to the field hospital at the foot of thehill back of Grimes battery and while Span-ish shrapnel was bursting within 100 feetof them the surgeons looked after theirwounded in utter disregard of self. Regi-mental chaplains carried wounded men fromthe firing line and newspaper men found timeto help carry shot cavalrymen out of thesunken road to a safe place beyond. Urgent cable messages went to the UnitedStates to-day calling for more nurses,Doctors, medicines, bandages, nurses, am-bulances—everything and anything that willrelieve the sufferings of men wounded byMauser rifle bullets, jagged pieces of shell,stone and wood splinters knocked off by chainshots, are imperatively needed here. Thesurgeons have worked enthusiastically,ceaselessly and rapidly ever since the firstwounded man was carried into the field hos-pital tent back of El Poso Friday the firing line back to the Siboney THE CHICAGO RECORDS WAR STORIES ^. THE BLOODY BEND—THE AMERICANS ADVANCING ON SAN JUAN. SANTIAGO. hospital the men who wear the Red Cross ofGeneva on their left coat sleeves have doneall that men can do to repair the damagedone by Spanish bullets. But the woundedcame in too rapidly. The roads from thefiring lines, batteries and rifle pits were toolong and rough for rapid transportation, andat one time a large proportion of the 5tharmy corps was employed carrying woundedmen to the field hospitals. This procession which led to the surgeonsleft a trail of blood, and little pools of bloodlay in the trail. The way was lined with therecumbent forms of men who gave out andwho quietly and patiently lay down, waitingfor death or a litter. But that which madeheavy the heart of every man who viewedthe sad spectacle was the sight of thewounded helping wounded; the maimed aid-ing the crushed; the shattered attending themangled. Slow
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