Indianapolis Journal, Volume 48, Number 244, Indianapolis, Marion County, 1 September 1898 — Page 1

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IN A NEW LIGHT * REPORT ON CONDITION OF HOSPITALS AT CHICK AM ALGA PARK. Gen. H. V. Boynton Make* n Personal Examination Into Charges of Mismanagement. NO STARVATION OR NEGLECT • ♦ LESS THAN 200 DEATHS. AMD 75.000 TROOPS HAVE BEEN IX CAMP. • ■ ■ ■■ Accommodation* Almost Perfect, Stocked with Delicacies, and Doctors and Nurse* Ample. - ■ - --. REPORTS WERE EXAGGERATED • ♦ PLENTY OF GOOD WATER WITHIN TWO MILES OF CAMP THOMAS. ♦ Cry for Food Came from Typhoid Patients, Who Could Not Be Allowed to Have Their Way. ♦ WASHINGTON, Aug. 31.—Secretary Alger to-day received the report of Gen. H. V. Boynton on the state of affairs in the hospitals at Camp Thomas. The report is dated Aug, 29. The general says that his instructions were to report the number of sick, character of illness, number of tents, floor space per patient, the adequacy and suitability of attendants, and whether the medical officers have discharged their duties faithfully aud with intelligence, and to make any recommendation in the interest of all concerned. He says that he visited all the hospitals in the camp, without giving notice of his purpose. Says General Boynton: "Believing the death list of this camp to afTord an excellent standard by which to measure its conditions as to health and hospital service, a full report was obtained of all deaths in the camp and in its hospitals since its establishment the middle of April last. The result shows a total death list of 398 up to the 22d of this month, when the breaking up of this camp began. Between these dates, including regulars and volunteers, fully 75,000 troops have been in camp in the Chickamauga Park. The record of burials in the National Cemetery at Chattanooga shows a total of 120 volunteers and two regular soldiers. Os the latter one of these was killed by falling from a railway train*' The report takes up in detail first the two permanent hospitals Leiter and Sternberg, and states with the greatest minuteness the exact accommodation afforded by each. The first is at Crawfish Springs, under charge of Major Carter, and was converted from a large summer resort hotel into a hospital, receiving the worst typhoid cases from the camp. Each patient has abundant room, w6ven wire and hair mattresses and abundant bed clothing. The ventilation is perfect, plumbing entirely new and bathing facilities ample. The number of attendants, when all are well, is entirely satisfactory, and attendants are on the way to iake the places of those who are broken down. HAS A HERD OF COWS. Major Carter has secured 6. herd of cows, and has arranged for pasturing them without expense to the government. He has sufficient money from the hospital fund to buy whatever is wanted in the way of milk, ice and other delicacies. There has been at this hospital full supplies of ice, milk, commissary stores and delicacies, such as the feiek ought to have, and the funds have enabled him to buy all that has been needed in the way of canned and potted goods, soups, clam juice, sago, malted milk, eggs, koumiss, jellies, preserves, relishes, ginger aie, apoillnaris, champagne sind claret. The entire hospital is furnished with distilled water, and the ice used is made from distilled water. The sewerage of the hospital is excellent, ami, contrary to persistent assertions, none of the sewage has ever been diained into the Chickamauga river or approached it at any point. Major Carter has a ccrps of doctors which he regards as amply sufficient to care for all the patients in the hospital, and reports them as faithful and efficient in the performance of their duties.

Taking up the Sternberg Hospital, in charge of_ Major Gillen, General Boynton shows that it is one of the most cbmplete field hospitals ever seen according to veterans of the last war. All the tents are closely floored and they are separate; at present only four men are in any tent, and in addition to the tents there are nine large board pavilions. Every tent and pavilion has woven wire mattresses, iron bedsteads and hair mattresses. There are especial diet cooks, five cold storage rooms for delicacies, separate refrigerators for each row of tents and every proper measure of sanitation is observed with resect to the sinks. Further the report says: “The whole place is most carefully policed daily and the whole establishment within and without its permanent buildings and its tents is in the most perfect order. Since the establishment of this hospital everything asked for in the way of supplies of every kind has been promptly furnished. Sixteen to twenty-four barrels of distilled water are purchased daily, and patients get nothing but distilled water to drink. From three to five tons of ice are used daily. Three hundred gallons of milk are purchased daily and 150 gallons furnished by the Red Cross Society. “All money necessary for the purchase of delicacies of every kind suitable to the sick has been furnished by order of General Sternberg. Soon after the hospital was established he telegraphed as follows to the surgeon in charge: ‘Do not fail to procure everything necessary for the comfort of the sick. Apply to me for additional female nurses and for money to buy delicacies when required.’ A careful inquiry developed the fact that all varieties of medical supplies required or asked for were furnished both from Washington and from medical headquarters at the camp with the greatest promptness." It is stated in addition that all the hospital refuse is burned in a crematory, and, according to Major Giffen, all bat one thousand patients now sick in the entire camp could be safely moved now. The diseases are more of a typho-malaria character than typhoid fever strictly, the death rate being very low, only about 8 per cent, of the worst cases. FIRST DIVISION HOSPITAL. The First Division field hospital, in charge r Major Drake, is floored with planed lum-

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ber and it is . ** being scrubbed with carbolic acid and treated with bichloride of mercury every other day. All the patients are on cots and never have been on the ground for any length of time. None of the 60 cents’ allowance per man for delicacies has been used, as it was not needed. The report says of this hospnal: ‘‘There have been in this hospital at various time 161 patients from the Eighth New York Volunteers. The reports show that in a great many cases it was difficult to tell that anything was the matter with them. Only 10 per cent, of the cases of sickness from this regiment were reported as in any way serious, and when it was rumored that the regiment was to be sent home several of those in the hospital asked not to be sent, but to be allowed to remain throughout their convalescence.” The report states that in times when the hospital was crowded there was a lack of nurses* the deficiency being supplied by details from the regiments, which were not as satisfactory as trained nurses. “Asa result of this inadequate force,” the report, “the force provided ha* been hard worked, but in all cases they "have stuck to their posts and performed their work with great energy until sickness overtook a considerable number. The places of the sick have been filled by nurses from the surgeon general's department. The exhausting character of the work performed by these nurses is shown by the fact that about one-fourth of them have thoroughly exhausted their strength and are now resting in quarters.” General Boynton shows* that there is a full refrigerator capacity for this hospital, porcelain-lined baths, sterilized and iced water and every convenience. In the malignant typhoid ward there have been but two deaths out of thirty cases in three weeks. He says that both the medical officers and the hospital attendants at this hospital have undoubtedly performed their duty with energy and efficiency, and the best test of all this is shown by the fact that so many of them have thoroughly exhausted themselves and fallen sick under their labors. It is also true that many of them have continued to work after they had been pronounced sick by their associates. . The next hospital inspected was the Third division hospital, first co*-ps, in charge of Major Thomas Clark. Here the attendants were found sufficient, though in the earlier days there were not enough surgeons or attendants. The grounds were in excellent conditions, the tents clean, most of the tents floored and all floored between the cots and in the aisles. For a time the hospital was a week behind in obtaining its medical supplies, but this was before the government had collected its medical stores in great quantities. As in the other hospitals the entire force of ’attendants here, both officers and men, have worked with great persistence, and till over 25 per cent, of the hospital corpß has fallen sick from its exhaustive labors. For the last six weeks there has been no difficulty whatever in obtaining medical supplies of every character. The Red Cross has made liberal donations to this hospital, and friends in Minnesota have sent great quantities of delicacies. The hospital fund for July amounted to $415, and with that it has been possible to purchase all the milk needed. THE FIELD HOSPITALS.

Taking up the last of the field hospitals, that of the Third corps, Second division, under Major Smith, the report states that the fifty-three tents are at present not all occupied, though during the epidemic cf measles they were crowded. Th°re were no Red Cross nurses, and a detail of two ladies front! the Chattanooga association has visited the hospital daily to cook the lighter food for the sick. When the hospital was crowded the number of attendants was insufficient. There were also strong complaints of the failure to get medical and surgical supplies in the earlier days before the government had been able to furnish itself and when it was impossible to avoid delays incident to rushing supplies to great army camps. The requisition papers on file, however, show' that the hospital officers made every effort to obtain full supplies. Leaving the details about the hospitals the report proceeds to treat the whole subject generally, as follows: “In two of the hospitals opportunities occurred for discovery of what undoubtedly originated many of the sensational stories which have beer, printed ever the country to the effect that patients in the hospitals lacked sufficient food, and in many cases had been on the verge of starvation. In the wards where the convalescent typhoid fever patients were found many of the men were constantly asking for food, and, as a matter of course, were as constantly denied everything except the lighter forms of food, which can alone be safely administered to recovering typhoid patients. This refusal of food throughout the hospitals, by which care alone, as is perfectly understood, can the lives of typhoid convalescents be saved, has been distorted into the cry which has been spread throughout the country that patients were being starved in the governn.tnt hospitals. There has. been no lack of proper food in these hospitals, and competent cooks for preparing it have been present, and the only reason for depriving the patients of what so many of them have clamored for has been the necessity of such dieting as the disease demands. “It will be observed that the conditions set forth in this report are mainly present conditions. It has not heretofore fallen within the range of my duties at this park to make critical observations of hospital conditions, although, as a matter of course, many features of this division of camp administration have fallen under my notice. I am constrained to believe that there has been no neglect on the part of either the medical or the quartermaster departments to furnish such supplies as have reached the camp. “It will be observed that the report in each case has been made with reference to the maximum number of patients in each hospital, and, so far as it was possible to obtain the conditions then existing, they are set forth in this report. Undoubtedly theye have been serious inconveniences, and at times of the greatest crowding those lacks of conveniences and full attendance which go to make up that painful condition of affairs, which, as every veteran knows, are inseparable from the field hospitals of great armies, even when all concerned exert themselves to secure the comfort of the patients. These are conditions which, in times of rapid increase of dissases—a condition which was reached at this camp, soleiy in my judgment, from the filth which too many of the regimental officers allowed to dominate their camps, in spite of the orders which would have prevented all this trouble from the surgeon general and from the commanding officers of this camp—create a situation which cannot be immediately ameliorated. NOT GUILTY OF NEGLECT. “So far from believing, as a result of my observations, that medical officers have been heartless or negligent. I beiiev• that these officers and the hospital attendants, as a whole, have exerted themselves to discharge their duties faithfully. It would seem as If this were sufficiently shown 'ey the fact that they have worked unceasingly until a quarter of the whole force has itself been stricken by disease resulting from their exhausting labors. “My attention was especially directed, in the order which 1 received, to some remarks credited to General Terry, surgeon general {.Continued on Third i'age.j ’

INDIANAPOLIS, THURSDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 1, 1898.

ZOLA AVENGED disgr ace and suicide for the LYING LIEUT. COL. HENRY. oThis Was the Army Officer Who Forged Evidence Against Dreyfus and Fought Col. Fiquart, • ♦ GENERAL BOISDEFFRE RESIGNS DECEIVED WAR MINISTER RY SWEARING TO COL. HENRY’S LIES. As Chief of Staff of the French Army He Was Active in Having Zola Convicted. THE FIRE-EATING ESTERHAZY FORCED TO RETIRE FROM THE ARMY BECAUSE OF DISCLOSURES. Dreyfns Agitation Breaks Out Again, and He Will Probably Be Released from Devil's Island. ♦ PARIS, Aug. 31. Lieutenant Colonel Henry has committed suicide. Lieutenant Colonel Henry cut his throat with a razor he had concealed in his \allse. During the recent Zola trial Henry accused Colonel Picquart of falsifying telegrams. A duel followed, in which Henry was wounded. The next scene occurred in the Chamber of Deputies, where Colonel Picquart proclaimed the letter a forgery, and as a result was arrested, while Henry’s villainy was rewarded by his being appointed Colonel Picquart’s successor in the Intelligence Department. It is now evident that Henry forged the letter with the express object of paralyzing Colonel Picquart’s efforts to expose Major Esterhazy and to get a revision of the Dreyfus case. The letter was written in bad French, a fact which first led it to be regarded as spurious. It is said that if the Cabinet decides on revision of the Dreyfus case M. Cavaignac, minister for war, will resign. The scene of Lieutenant Colonel Henry's avowal was most painful. When he saw it was alnost useless to deny further, his tongue grew too thick for his mouth, and he was unable to speak. It was feared that he would have an apoplectic stroke. After his arrest he was permitted to visit his wife wlile on the way to the fortress at Mont Valerien. She thought he really had a fit. Jle addressed her as “my poor wife,” adding, “I am under arrest.” The officer accompanying him was under orders not to lose sight of him for a moment, and, therefore, he could not see his wife alone. All three proceeded to his bedroom to get the necessary doming. Henry then ciasped his wife in his arms and exclaimed: “My conscience is pure and free from every sting.” This exclamation is much commented upon, as going to show that he may possibly have forged the letter under orders from his superiors. Lieutenant Colonel Henry was a peasant's son. He was born in Pouzy, in Marne, in 184S, and enlisted in a foot regimtnt as his brother’s substitute in 1863. He hud a good military record for bravery and inexorable discipline. He was a prisoner of war in 1870, and was wounded in the Algerian campaign. He retained much of the rough-and-ready manners of a noncommissioned officer. He was locking in education, spoke no foreign languages, and owed his promotion primarily to his reputation for blunt straightforwardness.

Gen. Le Mouton de Boisdeffre, chief of the general staff of the French army, has tendered his resignation to the government. General De Boisdeffre, in his letter of resignation, explains that he resigns owing to lis misplaced confidence in Lieutenant Colonel Henry, which led him to present as genuine what was forged evidence. M. Cavaignac, the minister of war, in reply, asked General De Boisdeffre to remain to “see justice rendered in the matter.” Gen. De Boisdeffre thanked M. Cavaignac for proofs of his esteem, but persisted in his lesignation. He will be replaced* therefore, by General Renouard, director of the Military College. The Cabinet has held two stormy sittings under the presidency of M. Faure. It finally rose between 6 and 7 o’clock, having apparently failed to arrive at a decision on the question of revising the Dreyfus sentence, for the customary official note was not issued. It is possible, however, looking to the excited state of public feeling, that the government deems it advisable to proceed cautiously and to conceal its decisions for the present. M. Delcasse, minister for foreign affairs, is said to have been violently attacked by his colleagues for having been ignorant of the intention of the Emperor Nicholas to issue his disarmament proclamation, but in face of the revival of the Dreyfus affair the disarmament proposal has taken quite a secondary place. It is alleged thgt several ministers, including M. Brisson, the premier, M. Maruejouls, minister of commerce, and M. Trouillot, minister of the colonies, demanded a revision and the immediate supersession of several staff officers. M. Cavaignac, however, remained firm, opposing this course on the ground that Lieutenant Colonel Henry's forgery had not altered the case as affecting Dreyfus's guilt. The only result thus far, therefore, is that Esterhazy is cashiered and will retire on a small pension. Even after leaving the council the ministers continued to argue heatedly. M. Faure has deferred his intended return to Havre. It would, be impossible to describe the sensation that has thrilled Paris, and it is not unlikely that at the next meeting of the Chamber of Deputies the government will be defeated. Whfc.i Lieutenant Colonel Henry was summoned to the residence of the minister of war he found assembled there Col. Paty Du Clam, Count Esterhazy, General Boisdeffre, General Roget and M. Cavaignac. The minister of war had the suspected letter on his desk. He took it up and said to Henry: “You did not mention the name of the agent who furnished this letter. My attention has been called to the tact that on the docket there is no name." Colonc-1 Henry beat his forehead, and then said he had no memory for names, and had forgotten the name in this case, hut he would know the man if he saw him. “It is a pity you have forgotten,” said M. Cavaignac, dryly; “we think the letter a

forgery, and that you have been duped by a clever forger.” Henry declared his helief in its authenticity, but in a very faint voice. “Come,” said the minister, “no agent ever gave it to you. A'ou wrote it in pencil to disguise your handwriting the better. You are the forger.” The colonel s speech grew’ thick, but he denied the charge. Then it was repeated and he gave fresh explanation. But his tongue began to cleave to the roof of his mouth and it was feared that he would have an apoplectic stroke. “On your honor as a soldier,” said M. Cavaignac, more gently, “did you or did you not write that letter?” ( “Since you appeal to my soldierly honor, it was I who wrote it.” he replied. The fact of the suicide became known at Mont Valerien about 9 o'clock this evening. It is supposed that it was committed about 5 in the afternoon. When the officials entered his cell Henry was found lying in a pool of blood dead with a terrific gash in his throat. Shortly before midnight Madame Henry, who had been informed, went to the fortress and was admitted, the officials granting her permission to pass the night beside the body. Figaro believes that the Ct amber of Deputies will be convoked in extraordinary session, and that a strong parliamentary commission of inquiry will be appointed. M. Cavaignac has declined to accept the resignation of General Gonse, underchief of the general staff. COL. HENRY'S CONFESSION. The Arrest and Examination Lending to the Suleide. PARIS, Aug. 31.—The arrest of Lieutenant Colonel Henry, on the discovery that he was the author of an important letter which figured in the Dreyfus case, was one of the most sensational developments in the whole of this extraordinary affair. Colonel Henry has been throughout the champion of the army against Colonel Picquart. with whom he fought a duel. This new development appears to alter the aspect of both the Dreyfus and the Zola cases and to practically nullify the evidence of the Generals Pellieux and Boisdeffer, and the declarations of the minister of war, M. Cavaignac, in the Chamber of Deputies. In fact, some people believe that perhaps the real turning point in the Dreyfus case has been reached and that the arrest of Colonel Henry will lead to a revision of the trial of the prisoner of Devil’s island. It appears that so soon as M. Cavaignac assumed the office of minister of war he charged the official bureau to make a thorough research of the Dreyfus case, and it was this inquiry which resulted in the discovery of documents lately read in the Chamber of Deputies by M. Cavaignac, showing that proof of the guilt of Dreyfus was forged. When Colonel Henry was summoned to the minister for war and questioned by M. Cavaignac in the presence of General Boisdt ffer and others, he at first affirmed the authenticity of the incriminating document. But when discrepancies were pointed out, he at first admitted adding sentences and finally confessed to falsifying the whole letter, it is affirmed, however, that while this discovery has not changed M. Cavaignac’s belief in the culpability of Dreyfus, the minister is determined to punish all the guilty parties, no matter what their rank or position may be. Colonel Henry is to be tried by courtmartial.

Colonel Henry confesses to have committed forgery, ‘‘owing to the absolute necessity for finding proofs against Dreyfus.” It is understood that the document is the letter heretofore alleged to have been written by the Germany military attache to the Italian military attache in October, 1896. It is also said that when the interpellation in the Dreyfus case was coming up in the Chamber of Deputies this letter was secretly committed to the court-martial and was the chief evidence on which Dreyfus was convicted. The anti-Dreyfus papers are dumfounded at the arrest of the colonel, while, on the other hand, the papers which have been supporting the proposition to reopen the case are jubilant. They demand the immediate release of Colonel Picquart, who is imprisoned on charges connected indirectly with the Dreyfus affair, and th-'y also insist on a review of the Dreyfus trial. When Count Esterhazy was informed of the arrest of Colonel Henry and of his admission, he exclaimed: “This is too terrifying.” Colonel Henry's confession threatens to rekindle the Dreyfus agitation more heatedly than ever, and seems likely to shake public confidence in the army. Even the Liberte, a strong anti-Dreyfus organ, says: "It must cause the deepest pain to all honorable men that officers of such standing show such a lack of moral sense.” It is reported that at to-day’s Cabinet meeting the ministers admitted that a revision of the Dreyfus trial was absolutely unavoidable, and a public announcement that the Ministry has decided to initiate such a revision is expected soon. Another report is that the minister for war has declared that he intended to compel the resignation of the chief of the general staff. General Boisdeffre, and his subordinate, Gonz, because, in two years’ personal investigation, they had not succeeded in discovering the forgery and led successive war ministers to pledge themselves to the genuineness of the documents. The Temps this afternoon asserts that the disclosures made to the ministers today have decided the minister of war to place Major Count Esterhazy on the retired list. Colonel Ilenry was attached to the War Department when Dreyfus was convicted, and he was one of the prominent witnesses who testified unfavorably to M. Zola during the latter’s sensational trial on the charge of libeling military officials. Zola’s Friends (Infritgril. NANCY', France. Aug. 31.—A court-martial here has just sentenced a private soldier to three months’ imprisonment and 500 francs fine for shouting "vlve Zola.” SOCIALLY AND POLITIC ALLY ROTTEN London Saturday Review's Opinion of Americans in General. NEW YORK. Aug. 31.—The London Saturday Review, which recently said that Chauncey Depew was a “painted puppet and a snob,” expresses the views here below. and which candid expression is being quoted in English financial and other newspapers averse to American interests iri Great Britain and to English interests embarked in this country. “There are, of course, many worthy private persons in the United States, but what we have to think of now are the people of that country as icpresented in their social, civil and political customs. Socially it is sordid to the last degree: its courts of law and all its civil institutions are corrupt; the methods of its political parties are no better than those of Long-Firms. It hat contributed nothing to the self-respect of humanity. On the contrary, it has shown all the world to what a depth of public depravity civilization is capable of descending." .*5.000 81. AIN IN RATTLE. Rebel*. 00.000 Strong;. \\ in Two Victor!** In Ten Day*. LONDON, Sept. I.—A special dispatch from Shanghai, dated Wednesday, says: “The Chinese government troops, it Is re(tuutiuued ou Second I’uge.j

A WIFE-NURSE ♦ MISS MILLAR NY EDS GALLANT ENSIGN rONVELSO.N IN HOSPITAL. One Wonndcil Hero NYill Henceforth Hate No Cause to Complain of His Treatment. ♦ SICK TROOPS ON A CATTLE SHIP THE ALLEGHANY REACHES MONTAIK POINT WITH 14 DEAD. Dr. Magnifier Declare* the Transport Was Not Fit to Carry Well Soldiers, Even. HOSPITAL TRAIN FROM OHIO WILL VISIT SOUTHERN CAMPS AND BRING HOME THE SICK. • ♦ Tlioina*. and the Entire Camp Will Be Deserted. e PHILADELPHIA, Aug. 31.-Ens!gn William Van Nest Powelson, one of the survivors of the battle ship Maine and a hero of the war with Spain, was married in his rcom in the Episcopal Hospital, this city, at 3:30 o’clock this afternoon, to Miss Margaret Olivia Millar, of Wyoming, 0., daughter of Colonel Millar, U. S. A. The marriage of the young people has about it an air of romance. The ceremony was performed in one of the rooms of the hospital by Rev. David H. Lovejoy, chaplain of the institution. Only a small bridal party was present, including Mr. and Mrs. A. V. H. Powelson, of Middletown, N. Y., the father and mother of the groom; Capt. Sigsbee, late of the Maine, who has taken a great interest in the young ensign, and several of the latter’s naval associates. Miss Clark, a friend of the bride, was also present. The father of Miss Millar, who is stationed at Montauk Point with his command, was unable to witness the ceremony. Ensign Powelson, who is suffering with a broken leg, the result of a fall down a hatchway of the auxiliary cruiser St. Paul, was not able to stand up while Dr. liOvejoy performed the ceremony and his bride therefore stood beside his cot. The almost cheerless hospital room had been transformed into a vertiable bower of loses for the occasion and notwithstanding the temporary infirmity of the groom the occasion was as joyous and happy as though the marriage had been celebrated in the church in Wyoming, 0., where it was originally intended that the couple should Lj wedded. Miss Millar wore a bridal dress of white and Miss Clark was dressed in a walking costume. For some days Miss Millar had been acting as nurse to her injured lover and after the ceremony the newly made wife resumed her position of nurse. ♦ FOURTEEN DIED AT SEA. Transport* Alleghany niul l’anther Reach Montauk. Point. MONTAUK POINT, Aug. 30.—The transports Alleghany and Panther arrived this morning from Santiago. The Alleghany cast anchor in the bay about 9 o’clock. She left the south coast of Cuba on Aug. 24 and made a slow voyage. On board are Companies A, B, C, D, E, F, G and H, of the Ninth Massachusetts—in all 629 soldiers, of whom 145 are sick. Fourteen men died on the voyage and all were buried at sea. This is the largest number of deaths at sea on any of the incoming transports, and the deaths were mainly in the cases of those who were critically ill when placed aboard at Santiago. The soldiers were in command of Captain Sullivan. The Panther left two days later than the Alleghany and got in shortly after 1 o’clock this morning, making a comparatively fast trip. She carries one hundred and six members of Companies 1 and M of the Ninth Massachusetts, and fifteen are on the sick list. Private Braden, of Company M, died and was buried at sea. Major Brown, in charge of the general hospital, has directed that the swamps be filled in and that the grounds around the hospital be sprinkled frequently with antiseptics. Dr. Brown has also ordered that all drinking water be boiled before used. John Wagoner, Company H, Seventeenth c'nited States Infantry, who enlisted from Columbus, 0., hanged himself from the r‘dge pole of his tent to-day. He had fought at Santiago and contracted typhoid fever there. His suicide is supposed to have been committed while in delirium of fever. The transport Panther arrived to-day at Montauk Point. She had on board 116 soldiers of different commands, fifteen of whom are ill. The deaths reported to-day were: Alexander Heller. Company B, Eighth Ohio Volunteers, typhoid; Henry Burdig, Company K, Nineteenth Infantry, malarial; Phiilip Gooch, Company K, Twenty-fifth Infantry, malarial; John \Y. Crawford, Company M, Ninth Cavalry, typhoid. All died in the general hospital. Following is a list of the dead, all of the Ninth Massachusetts Regiment, on the Panther: Charles H. Braden, Company M. On the Alleghany: Walter J. Tilton, Company M; M. F. Goughran, Company B; Joseph N T . Conroy, Company B; Joseph A. Donovan, Company B; Charles T. McMann, Company G: Michael J. Healy, Company G; Austin Dunbar, Company C; James C. Dunn, Company C; Thomas J. Murray. Company H; Patrick J. Donohue. Company H; Robert F. Flint, jr.. Company H; John J. Ryan, Company F, an artificer; Edward F. Sullivan. Company G. Worcester. This man fell overboard on Aug. 28 and was drowned. In explaining the fourteen deaths of Massachusetts men while on the voyage from Cuba, the surgeons said that the Alleghany brought all the seriously sick of the regiment. There are 145 ill of the Massachusetts regiment still on board the vessel, but they are not down with contagions diseases. Dr. Magruder and inspecting officers say the AUeghany is a cattle ship, not fit for well troops, much less sick soldiers. There are 1.127 patients in the general hospital and 417 in the detention hospital today. There is a decrease in the detention hospital, due to furloughs and the removal of convalescents to hospitals. There have been nine hundred furloughs issued so far. General Wheeler received a telegram from Adjutant General Corbin to-day, directing him to “muster out the Rough Riders at Camp Wlkoff at once.” The cavalrymen will accordingly be mustered out of service here to-morrow. The hospital accommodations are still un-

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equal to the demands made upon them, and last night 150 sick soldiers were obliged to lie on tlie- bare floors, instead of being provided with cots. A majority of these were members of the First Illinois Regiment, who reached Montauk Point yesterday on board the transport Berlin. The work of removing the sick soldiers to their homes or to city hospitals is to be pushed as rapidly as possible. The steamer Shinneeock is at Montauk Point being fitted up as a hospital ship, and a corps of doctors and nurses have been detailed to care for the sick soldiers while they are being transported to this city. The transport Yucatan has been fitted up as a hospital ship with accommodations for 250. She is expected to sail for New Y'ork with that number of sick this evening. The delicacies which arrived in camp last evening for the First Illinois Volunteers were distributed to the boys to-day. Chaplain T. G. Stewart, of the Twentyfifth Regular Infantry, is in New Jersey purchasing watermelons, peaches and other fruits for the troops. He sent word to-day that he had secured four hundred melons and one hundred baskets or peaches, and hoped to got more. Chaplain Stewart is a colored man. and it was for the benefit of the colored troops that he went on the foraging expedition. The men of Companies D and M, of the Texas Volunteers, and those of A and D, of the First Artillery, were landed from the transport San Marcos to-day and went to the detention camp. The San Marcos is being made ready to serve as a hospital transport to carry sick to New York. There is no change in the programme of the government as to getting all the volunteers out of Camp YVikoff just as fast as they can be sent away. Some time to-mor-row the Thirty-third Michigan will depart. It is possible that a hospital train of sick .Vchigan troops may leave the camp about Saturday. The Thirty-fourth Michigan Will leave on Friday. This will bring the Hst of volunteers here down considerably. The general hospital is getting smaller rapid’, now, and. despite the fact that there are new arrivals every hour, the number is decreasing. Three hundred sick were taken out of the hospital and transferred to tlio Shinneeock, which is now a division hospital under command of Surgeon Major Borden. The Shinneeock sailed for New York, where the sick will be transferred to hospitals. The Red Cross yacht Red Cross took fifteen more away this afternoon to New London, Conn. One hundred and twenty-five of the numbers of the First Illinois Regiment who are sick and recently landed from the Catania are in the detention camp. Most of these are convalescent? Twenty-five Illinois men who landed from the transport Berlin, and were also placed in the detention camp, are doing well. Corporal J. N. Corbett, of Company G, Seventeenth Infantry, who had been in tinhospital, but Ims recovered and returned to duty, was fixing his bed last night, when he suddenly expired. Heart disease is thought to have been the cause. The dead reported at the hospital to-day are; Alexander Heller, Company B, Eighth Ohio, typhoid; Henry Burdick, Troop K, Tenth Cavalry, malaria; Philip Gooch, Company F, Twenty-fifth Infantry, typhoid; John YV. Craw ford. Troop N, Ninth Cavalry, typhoid; Frank Kane, Company E, Twentieth Infantry; Private Wolfenberg, Company I, Seventh Infantry; James E. Jerrutn, Company K, Twenty-second Regiment; Timothy Cancay, Company B, Seventh Infantry. The hospital reports to-day are: General hospital, 1,272; detention hospital, 416.

Surgeon General Sternberg I* Silent. WASHINGTON, Aug, 31.—Surgeon General Sternberg would not discuss the statements made by Lieutenant Colonel Nicholas Senn regarding the sanitary conditions at Camp Wikoff. Quartermaster General Ludington said no reports had reached aim that the water was bad or likely to become so. The reports of water first made showed that it was good. The point that Surgeon Senn makes is that it will soon become infected with typhoid germs. More Men lor i mop N\ JkolT. ATLANTA. Ga., Aug. 31.—The Department of the Gulf was to-day ordered to send all the reciuits for the regular army now in this department to Montauk Point at once. The men, numbering 4.400, will be started for Ing Island as soon us the transportation can be arranged. President to A inlt tamp Wikoff. WASHINGTON, Aug. 31.—The following dispatch was sent to General W heeler this morning: “The President will nay your command an informal visit on Saturday, accompanied by the secretary of war. “CORBIN.” OHIO lIOM'I I \|, I RAIN. The 81a te .Sending a Special to Southern tamp* for SieU Troop*. COLUMBUS, 0., Aug. 31.—The railroads have come to t lie relief of the State of Ohio in its effort to provide a hospital train to bring home the sick troops in the military camps of the South, and the train will probably be started on its journey Friday. Surgeon General Lowes, <>f Ohio, will have charge of the train, which will consist of fourteen coaches and sleeper and baggagecars. The seats will be taken out of the coaches and cots will be provided. The train will go through to Lakeland, Fla., where sixty-tive sick troops of the First Ohio Cavalry will be taken aboard. At Fernandina about the same number of sick infantrymen will he taken on, and at Huntsville, Ala., other Gek troops will be picked up. The train will return through Chattanooga, taking on from one hundred to two hundred sick Ohio troops there. DON'T LIKE I lIE 81 RGEONB. New York Troop* Relieve Autopsies Renin Too Soon \fter Death. NEW YORK, Aug. 31.—Two carloads of sick soldiers of the Ninth New York Volunteers arrived 1 6-day from Camp Thomas* Chickamauga. The men were cor.vab seem from rheumatism, malaria and typhoid U - ver, and were in fairly good condition. Orderly Robert Stanley, in whose charge the men were, was especially bitter against some of the surgeons at Chickamauga. He said that they did net show any respect for the dead. The orderly declared that when Private Charles Nunn died, between 7 and 8 o’clock Saturday evening, his body was not permitted to rest in quiet. He do-elf-red that before 10 p. m. the surgeons were at work cutting up his body to perform an autopsy. The orderly also cited the cuFo of Private Graham, and declared that an autopsy was being made on his body an hour after his demise. Orderly Stanley stated that Adjutant Kipp was m< king an investigation, and that tie expected papers to-night ordering him south to assist in the investigation. GEN. M’KEE’S ORDERS. He AA it! Keep l amp Poland Healthy if it tan He Done. CAMP POLAND, Knoxville, Tenn., Aug. 31.—General McKee, now acting commander of this division, to-day issued an order positively forbidding the practice of retaining sick soldiers in their own tents or in the regimental hospitals They must be transferred to the division hospital. He calls especial attention to the fact that patients whose temperature Is above the normal for more than twenty-four hours must {Continued on Third I’ukc.)

COMING TO-DAY THE IS7TH IMII W \ MDV KN ROUTE HOME FROM FLORIDA. lee. .fellies. Soups anil Names Alt XXaitina (he Sick Soldiers at Slate Fair Grounds. COLORED COMPANIES’ PLANS ♦ EXPECT TO QUIETLY LEAVE FOR FORT THOMAS THIS MORMXG. A Conference to Re Held This Morning 3lay Fls (he 157th Camp at Fairvlew Park. THE 161ST AT JACKSONVILLE COL. XV. T. DU RBI X ASM HES HIS XIEX THEY WILL GO TO Cl BA. He Fraternises with Col. XX'. J. Bryan, and Claims President Assured Him of n Trip to Havana with Lee. The C., H. &- D. officials in this city last night received a telegram from Traffic Manager Edwards, at Cincinnati, stating that the One-hundred-and-lifty-scventh Indiana, would arrive in Cincinnati some time tins morning and would reach Indianapolis over the C., H. it D. road late in the afternoon. There is so much probability of delay soutli of the Ohio liver, the train coining in several sections, that this arrival may be delayed till Friday morning, with a strong possibility of the regiment reaching here this afternoon. The preparations for the return of the Indiana solciiers to the fair grounds continue, and yesterday there remained little to do to make ihe camp complete. The hospital arrangements are perfect and sixty men can be provided with everything they desire or need at a moment's notice. While it is expect, and there will be room for all siek men of the regiments in the camp, nothing haa been left undone to provide for an emergency. Yesterday arrangements were mad® by Dr. O. 8. Runnels and Lieutenant Waterman. acting for the state, for tlie admission of all patients in excess of th* capacity of tiie camp hospital to the City Hospital. Here also will be taken the men who are dangerously ill.

The army regulations of recent date provide that in general camp hospitals, such as at Camp Wikolf. the regular army allowance foi siek soldiers, known technically as ' comm illation of rations,” is to be increased from 30 cents to 00 cents a day. This does not apply to any but the general hospitals, but yesterday Lieutenant Waterman, Dr. Runnels and Quartermaster General Richardson made a request on the War Department by telegraph, asking that the same allowance be made for the soUliers at Camp Mount. Lieutenant Waterman, while unable to say advisedly what tli® government will do in tHe case, thinks that the request will be complied with. At any rate the boys will not want for anything, as prominent officials and citizens have privately united for the purpose of buying anything the men ntay need, and the warmth of the welcome extended to tHe boys will in a measure make them forget that for several months they have been familiar with hardship. it will do the hearts of the boys good to see the measures which have been taken for their comfort at the fair grounds. Already the dairy building is full of ice tor the hospital, and with it will be milk in any quantity and jellies and soups without end. These latter delicacies are the gilts ol the Soldiers’ Aid Society, which will also furnish all the nurses the men may need. The society is well backed in Us work and there is little or nothing the soldiers will need that it will not he able to supply. 'i tie formal order was received yesterday by Lieutenant Waterman for the return of tno Oiie-liundred-anu-lifty-ninth Regiment lor muster out. Just when the men will arrive he cannot, of course, say, but ho believes th< y w ill he here in a few days. In spite of the tact that several days ago tho nev\s was sent out lrom Washington that the Indianapolis Light Artillery had been ordered home for muster out. Lieutenant’ Waterman has not been advised of such a step by the W ar Department. Reports sent out in private letters from tiie <jne-hundred-and-lifty-eighth Regiment camp at Knoxville continue to chronicle new cases ol typhoid fever. Yesterday Charles Rridgee, of this city, received a telegram from the regiment telling him that his son Frank, who Is acting as commissary sergeant of tho regiment, is at the point of death with typhoid, and he at once left for Knoxville to bring nun home if possible. The colored companies have completed all their ariangements for moving to boit Thomas to-day and will leave some time this morning. There will be no parade from tiie camp, as there are not sufficient numbers of the men to form an imposing line, and a parade without a band would be tiresome for the men and amount to little in th® eves of ihe people. Ibe colored men, however, have left a token of their good will behind them for the returning white soldiers. Tiie grass and weeds on the camp ground where the new tents will be pitched had grown to the height of about three teet during the time it has been unoccupied. The colored men mowed the weeds down and gave a willing hand to the erection of the hospital tents and such other work as was needed, although they were not asked to do so. One of them in speaking of It said: "It isn't much to do for the fellows, and we may need to have seme one do it for us when w.> come home. You can't tell what may happen.” When the men .-ee the beds which have been prepared for them on their arrival it is probable they will almost be glad they are snk. The women of the city have donated pillows with snow-white slips and t>,d sheets, so the boys will not have to lay and swelter on the army blankets as they had to do in the Held hospitals. Altogether the boys will be taken as good care of as though they were at home and attended by their mothers. MAY no TO FAIR VIEW’. lieutenant Waterman, United States mu-l ter in* officer, hus received a letter from] Colonel Studebaker. of the One-hundred-and-Hfty-sevemh Indiana Volunteers, iri which he farther protest* against the regi-J