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NEGLECTED 4 KTG.
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jn«nt and that thwre is incompe
tency, and that because of '.hem
the very m m the country most
delight* to honor are suffering
-and dying. 2
At Montauk Point, within a few
hours of New York City, in touch
with all the comforts aud delicacies
of life, sick heroes from Santiago
are forced to sleep on the soaked
ground without proper clothes or
covering, and to stand guard duty
when they are fainting from the
debilitatating • fleets of fever.
Some person or persons are re
sponsible for such heart-rending
conditions, That person or those
persons deserve the severest pun
ishment.
But the suffering at Montauk
is net the only fearful tale. At
Camp Thomas, Chicamauga, 600
deaths have been reported since
the camp was established and 92
since August 1, and there are 2,294
sick men in the hospitals. These
men have not been battling in a
tropical, fever-stricken land. They
have been right in the United
States all the time and certainly
a healthy location for th-ir camp
was the least that should have
been provided for them.
Before Camp Alger was broken
up 250 men had died there. That is
more than the Spaniards killed at
Santiago, and Camp Alger is just
outside of Washington . The Pres'-
dent almost could hear the funeral
marches from the White House.
Fernandina and Tampa and
other campshave also sent up piti
ful tales of neglect, sickness suf
fering and dea' h
The report of Surgeon Gen. Ter
ry regarding the condition of the
New York troops in the several
camps showed su :h a dreadful
condition of affairs that Governor
Black did not dare to publish it.
When it is nece-sary to suppress
such reports for fear the people
will lie aroused to a dangerous
pilch, it can be put down as cer
tain that s< metl.ing is shamefully
wrong.
STARVATION
Killed Lieu. Tiffany.' Said Hh
Brother.
Boston, Mass., Aug 27 —“My
brother died of starvation,” Bel
mont, Tiffany said last night, after
First Lieut. WiPiam Tiffany, of
Roosevelt’s Rough Riders, passed
away at the Parker House. Lieu.
Tiffany was brought from Santiago
with other s ck soldiers on the Oli
vette arriving here Tuesday, His
condition was so serious that his
mother and sister-in-law, Mrs.
Perry Belmont, and Miss Maud
Livingston, of New York his fian
cee were summoned to his bedside.
The death certificate says, “death
due to protracted fevers, due to
war life in Cuba and starvation,”
The body will be sent to New’ York
today. Tiffany was the son of
George Tiffany and grandson of
Commodore Perry.
BIG GUNN FIRRING ON CAMP
ALGER.
Tht-re are thousands of places
in which camps could bo pitched,
healthful and pleasent, why are
the troops sent to fever haunted
districts to be decimated? Is it fat
contracts which doesail this? Is it
politics? Is , it. in other words
Alger?—Milwaukee Journal,
The sufferings to which Weyler
subjectsd the reconcentrados were
uo greater than those uow inflicted
upor our own gallant troops by
ignorance incompetence and in
•ome instances heartless indiffer
ence in official circles.—New York
Hera'd.
The United States Military Ac
ademy at West P nut has for years
been turning out hundreds upon
hundreds of scientific military men
whose xeceptionally intelligent
appreciation of the art of war is
second only to their honesty and
patriotism. A great war Secretary
would have placed his chief depen
dence ou this corps of meu—meu
drawn frrm all over the countiy,
and having no other interests than
its welfare at heart —Boston
Herald.
Mr Alger may coutinu > to is
sue his replies hut they ca i not
cover the notorious bretkdowns of
the Commissary and Quarter
master General’s Dipartments
they can not restore the men who
died in the typhoid fever camps
they can not, or they do not stop
the arrival of -those cargoes of
dying men at Montauk Point. —
Chicago Journal.
S U RGIC ALMA LI ’R ACT 1C E
Another striking instance of
official carelessness, in the hos
pi tai department, bordering
closely on official murder, came
to light yesterday.
At one of the division hospitals
a few days ago a fellow was
brought in who had a high fever
and was apparently in great pain
The young surgeon who was
sent to wait on him diagnosed
his case as appendicitis.
I'he chief surgeon was con
sulted and he examined the
patient and reached the conclu
sion that he did not have appen
dicitis, and he instructed the
attending surgeon not to operate
upon him for that disease.
The chief surgeon aftewards
had occasion to leave the hospital
camp, and during his absence
the attending surgeon enlisted
the services of another young
surgeon, who was looking for
“experience” in surgery, and
the two performed the operation
for appendicits upon the poor
soldier.
On examination the vermiform
appendix they found that they
were mistaken in their diagnosis,
but as a result the poor soldier
was shortly afterward taken
away by the undertaker.
This story was related by an
army surgeon who doesn’t live a
thousand miles from Chattanoo
ga.—Chattanooga Times.
A PATHETIC CA°E
v• • ’
A sad story is told on good
authority in connection with the
Sternberg hospital, which shows
that somebody's business has
been shamefully neglected.
A soldier, it is related, died,
and there were no means of
ascertaining his name or to what
command he belonged. As a
result, he sleeps in tiie National
cemetery among the pathetic
graves marked “Unknown.”
The condition matters naught
to him who sleeps the sleep of
death, but somewhere, doubtless,
that boy has a mother whose
heart will yearn for tidings of
her son, but who, perchance,
can never know what became of
him until all mysteries have been
solved by eternity. The weight
of sorrow, which may be broken
only by the hand of death, can
be traced to the one short word
—neglect!—Chattanooga Times.
OTHER CASKS.
There were twenty poor sick
privates at the Soldiers’ Rest
yesterday, some of whom were
desperately ill. They were order
ed back to Lytle when they were
told they would receive trans
portation and money for fool to
their homes.
After the weary journey there
the man whom they depended
upon did not “show up,” and
the sick were left helpless. Some
were finally taken to the hospital
after a long delay, and all were
rendered very much worse by
the unnecessary ride back to the
park, all provoked by the confu
sion resulting from incompetent
officials.—Chattanooga Times.
Blanco, having had a seige of
yellow journalism before the
i war, is keeping the reporters out
of Havana as long as possible.
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