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NEGLECTED, JTARVED, MURDERED!
Hundreds of Brave Volunteers
Perish Most Horribly!
Chicamauga, Ga , Aug. 27
Words are weak to tell the true
tale of the Camp Thomas horror.
You must see, hoar and smell
to know it all.
The homing convalescent his
not told all the tale. He is afraid
of the courtmartial.
Death is in the air—every
where. The soldiers want to go
home —anywhere to escape the
gaunt shadows that grin from
the polluted woods and filthy
fields.
True reports of the sick list
have not been published till
within the last few days.
Here are some copied from an
official report that are made
known now for the first time.
There were 43,000 men encamp
ed here at the time these figures
were compiled :
• July 25 2220 sick.
Aug. 1 2975 sick.
Aug. 8 3631 sick.
Aug. 15 4426 sick.
Aug. 18 4894 sick.
These figures do not include
1300 mon sent home because of
sickness, nor 291 discharg d for
the same reason. It will be ob
served that the list increased
about'one fourth eacii week.
These official figures compiled
by James Parkes, major in the
Twelfth New York, and submit
ted to the war department—that
is, prepared ready to be submit
ted, fur, some reason, not for
warded—show that of 43.000
volunteers on Aug. 18, 6485
wese sick ! Every seventh man
Was sick!
These official statements are
received by Chattanooga people
with a “but.” The “but” in this
* case is that the list includes
every man “not feeling well”
‘ and who may have a boil or a
y sore toe or a cut finger. That is
the Chattanooga “but.” How
ever, the soldiers also have a
“but” to this report. They s-ay
that hundreds of men are sick
and unfit for duty, but are car
ried on duty list because the
colonels do not want such bad
showings in the sick list'. Inoue
t regiment there is a man with
rheumatism who walks on
crutches, who is marked able
for duty. Little sickness is cred
ited to the immune regiment,
but its members say there are as
many sick there as in any other,
but that it is not permitted to be
reported, as it would look bad.
The report for Aug. 23, after
about 7000 men had lef. for an
other camping ground, was 3680.
Os those 526 weretyphjid cases.
The report for Aug. 25 was
i» 3433 sick, of whom 414 were
i typhoid.
The water is pure. The typhoid
germs were distributed by the
• dies,
Official reports tell an indirect
*iie by stating that only 144 men
have died at Camp Thomas.
One underiaker at Chattanoo
ga has shipped the bodies of
about 225 home, and tie swears
’they were not wooden men.
Three hundred is about the
proper dead list—the others
THE ROMEHUSTLEB ' ' ‘ ’
ROME GEORGIA,
having died at hospitals and
houses outside the park limits
But to these must still be addeu
those who died at other camps
as a result of Camp Thomas ex
perience.
The responsibility for the con
ditions is easily fixed. Any man
with good nose, eves and eais
can locate it in two diys.
A PRIVATE TALKS.
Camp Thomas, Aug. 26, —A
man can not get into the hospit
al until he falls in the ranks,
and has to be carried there.
Some papers publish statements
that much of the sickness is due
to uncleanly habits of the men,
but such statements are false.
I will give you the location of
our camp, and let the people
judge for diemselves. We are
situated on the edge of a swampy
woods, about 209 yards frmi
Chicamauga Creek, and in the
ear y summer all the refuse from
a dozen regiments was dumped
into the swamp, not 101) yards
from our guard lines When
this place was filled until it was
impossible to dump any more, a
new dump was started in the
open, just opposite our camp.
The water we have to drink
is so thick with this refuse that
it has to be strained b fore
usi iw. Tiie regimental officers
are nit to blame for su b a con
dition of a flairs,as they have no
control outside of our guard
lines, and I must say, in justice
to them, that we are required to
keep our camp in perfect sani
tary condition.
We do not know where to at
tach the blame- for the existing
condition of things, but we think
that our friends at home should
take up our cause and find
where the blame lies before the
health of other brave men is
ruined for life.
lam only telling what th >u
sands of others would do ha l
they the courage to face a court
martial. Print my name and
company in full, as I am not
afraid to stand up for my rights
and for the rights of ray com
rades. Reed J. Garrktte,
Company A, First West \ irgin
ia Volunteers.
MEN STARVED.
In Eighth Ohio on Transport
Mohawk.
Camp Wikoff, Montauk Point.
Aug. 27.—A regular,who smug
gled himself ashore from the
Mohawk, in quarantine here,
says that the voyage had been
an awful one for the men of the
Eighth Ohio. He says they were
starved and overcrowded., and
that they had no blankets not
medical supplies when they
boarded the Mohawk. Their
traveling rations were awful,
even compared with what regu
lars have had to put up with.
He says that Privates Ruse
and Eddy died of starvation,
while the officers fared well with
SUNDAY MORNING AUGUST ; > -
three good meals a day. As soon
s they land the men of the
•‘President’s Own” are going to
wire charges to the President.
DRAGGED BY HIS FEET
When t o 111 to Respond to
Drill Call —Now Dead!
Cincinnati, Aug, 27.—Louis
j Knarr, a victim of the medical
(system in the military camp at
Chicamauga, died early Friday
i morning at the home of his fa
ther, Fred Knarr, 232 West
Ninth street, Newport.
Knarr arrived in Cincinnati
Tuesday with 33 other sick sol
diers from Chicamauga. He was
so weak that he asked to be al
lowed to die on the train.
Knarr was interviewed then
by a reporter. He was net in
clined to talk, and, when pressed
for ans.vers, looked around as if
he feared some one. He said :
i“ We got no treatment in the
I di vi-ion hospitals.
“We would complain of aclqjft
hut th;- d >ct >rs would insist th it
we keep our places in file. When
jwefll iro n sheer exhaustion,
j they banged us off to the divis
ion hospitals like so much
worthless truck.
“When you have the typhoid
or any m tlarial fever, you know,
you can’t eat anything s ilid. So
we were fed on whit w is called
beef ten. It war weak and tasted
like the prepared slop they feed
to cattle.
“I could tell you a lot of
things if 1 dared to.”
After he arrived in Newport
Knarr was conscious for a time.
Fie told bis family of his last
days at Chicamauga.
His mother said Friday :
“Lulls told us he was sick for
a week, and got nothing in the
way of medicine, except quinine
pills. One day he did not an
swer roll call. He was too sick.
A sergeant dragged him out of
his tent by his feet, he said.
“When he got a furlough he
was taken io the rail way station
and allowed to lie on the plat
form from 6 o’clock until 10
o’clock at night.”
The funeral will be Sunday
afternoon at Evergreen Ceme
tery. The funeral will be o ne of
the largest in Newport.
THE NEW YORK JOURNAL
Makes a Few Broken Obser
vations.
New York, Aug,27—The Journal
a ill say tomorrow:
The Journal, though Democratic
in politics, has stoutly and heartily
supported President McKinley
throughout the war. There was
much to applaud in the conduct
! of that war.
In the same spirit with which
i the Journal upheld the Pres.dent
j .re n jw wish to call his att ration
o the mismanagement and in
competency evident in the camps
*here the soldiers of the nario>
are quartered. Tn ere is no lenge
a doubt that there is mismanage-
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