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eighth year smoke a Bill Arp ’ waiters New Brand 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. 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