The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, July 8, 1900, Page 9

THE SUNDAY CALL. @F “HE WAS A BRAVE IAN AND A GOOD ONE” Story of ~ The Bug! of Troop ““1” who Sounded That Last Charge Tells the Lawtion’s Death Bl md i. 2 V d i, 0ld then, but he was crary 1gle height CARRYING THE BODY ACROSS THE RIVER he turned to e tree, T be- again. The shot hit the middle of the breast. n shot and I know that en they are shot there. ied instantly without an- King ran to him. a4 wound, but I was neral was dead. He good one. d very little blood. The chest n a peculiar way, but otherwise he same as in life. He was a “You have read, perhaps, how the body + was carried back to headquarters. Bight men carried the litter across the river to an- San Mateo. The stream was swift and it was a fearful undertaking. From there the body was taken by means of two rick- shaws farrened together.” vho knew tha v what Tyia e che Sy o (he busle of Troon’ ax mie sven o, the. o ik Do o . Jhe Death of —the y . B was called way: A faste: 0 1 st nd Manlla, for the way it was always :h:’:x;?;:ewmp m:ezdw"ns (:):e(fih!tr:r:!lsls “T never heard him swear but once in all a fhing, and so 414 all his men. There General Henry Lawton died w ng over the island without thought of gead hand. He was a quiet commander, the time I was with him.” says the busler, was a peculiar smile would come over his 5 years of age. He had belon opping for food. This Is the story of like most big men—one who did not storm. “but I knew when he didn’t approve of face then.” and soul, to the United States arz he enlisted as an 18-year-old private In qeneral ,Ca"[on, the Civil War. He had fought in many rd and it wasn't him down. 8o at more than a hundred battles. “Somehow he seemed to think he couldn’t be hit—maybe he was supersti- tious about it,” says Haberkam.