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EIGHTH YEAR
smoke a “Bill Arp ’ waiters New Brand
resigned
So That Coilrt Martial
.joiiidu't Silence him Longer
TELLS II FEftHFULS’ORY
Drinking Vessels Wiped With
Soiled Linen of Typhoie Patient
Chicainfluga. Ga., Aug. 30—Ma
jor C. E- R uth brigade surgeon,
resigned bis place in the army
that he might make this state
mHut without fear of court-mar
tial. He is a professor in the
Keokuk (la ) Medical College. He
was in charge of the hospital o.f
the Third Corps. Second Division,
at Camp Thomas. His official
reason tor resigning was “sick
ness.” To his hospital came sick
from the First Missouri, First
Maine. First Arkansas, Second
Kentucky, Second Arkansas, Fifth
Missouri, Ninth NeW YBjk and
Fifty-second lowa.
A lengthy report went to his
Governor, but in l>rief it is that
tb« hoapitC was equipped for 100
pati uis and handled 300 regularly
Patients were supposed to remain
there only five days, then to be
removed to the general hospital,
but many stayed there as long as
four weeks es there v. as no room
for them in the general, hospital .
In two months 1200 passed
througn Dr Ruth's hospital. He
ht><! nurses--or was supposed to
havethem—for a hundred patients
but could get only enough extra
detailed to take the places of those
who, out of the scanty detail fell
lick from overwork.
He says there were no battles in
which to dispense medicine. The
medicine that was in tablet form
was melted, owing to the improp
er facilities for taking care of it,
and ran into a solid mass, so that
the doctors had to cut off lumps
of it, guessing at the quantitiec,
there being no scales nor graduat
ing glasses.
“One day,” says he, “I had to
bathe 150 typhoid patients in two
Vessels One of them I found un
consciom and no longer able to
bat off Hies that swarmed over
him. IJg had been left lying in filth
so long that maggots swarmed in
hn bed and under him. The nurse
who volunteered to clean him was
busy hall a day at the work and
ten days later was himself in the
same ward with typhoid fever.
dany of the nurses were gross
‘y''-competent. I had one In the
111 a-les ward who could not read
when sob-r |„ t who WafJ drunk o|)
He remained on duty sever
“ days j n Hpite of my protest.
Ho ‘pifal sinks were ful and bed
P “" 8 *e-e hJ i Waß | lP(l for | Hck ()f
Water.
Ihe I t-d Cross nurses were of
r,dußin abutfdauce but were
tpeinietted (<> serve
'‘lhcial repots were false. It
l ' ,| ’" r '''d one day that there
L ' riJ 'leases of typhoid iu the en
k|i eil, "P. whereas there were 90
. ' Clu " B<)|,H hospitals alone
~ hospital there were 40
monyug.n
Jl,t) statement of Dr. Ruth
in I Ol t 0 O,le Fegim.ent
b'igade under his care
Onl 0110 t ’ n,e «ick a "d
' y 27 a,u! >ulance 8 . One regi
-1 Wa * placed where it could
2 si '"“ inches
but j', I,WI " l! t 0 underlying rooks,
m>vet" aS " Ot P er,,lit t«d to
12 r° a beUer location tm
'Ong after.
6 Brt Fß that surgeon General
THEROMEHLSTLEB-WMMEBCIAL
ROME GEORGIA,
GEORGIAN
Appoinlnd Judge Advocate hi
Santiago Coilrtmartial.
LT.-COL. REAVES FIXED.
Major Gordon Withdraws his
Resignation.
Santiago, Cuba, Aug. 30. —
James Biotin;, Jr., ofMacon,
Ga., has beeh appointed
judge advocate for the courtmar
rnartial now being organized tor
general supervision of cases in
Santiago district.
A commission has been named
to collate laws now in force in
Cuba which can be used by the
courts of this district as directed
by American authorities.
Major Frank Gorden tendered
his resignation, but it has since
been withdrawn .
Lieut.-Col. Reeves’ trial be
fore courtmartial has been finish
ed. Col. Ray charged him with
mental incompetency and phy t
cal disqualification, alleging
that he was unable to command
a regiment or even a battalion.
The charges could not be sus
tained, and Col Reayes was re
instated.
The health of the regiment is
good*
«•
Sternberg issued a circular ad
vising health rules that it was
impossible to carry out. The
men refused to drink boiled wa
ter, and there were not enough
boilers to have boiled it anyhow.
The water furnished clogged
the filters in 15 minutes, so that
it had to be used raw as it came
from the creek. Sinks were al-
• *
lowed to overflow and canteens
and peddlers’ wagons were al
lowed to sell stuff that deranged
the bowels of the men.
But here is the crowning
statement:
“Nurses used linen soiled by
typhoid patients to wipe out
drinking vessels for the sick.
They let sornrades die cavered
with Hies and begging for water
when water was at hand.”
SWIMMING RACE IN FRISCO.
San Francisco, Aug 29. —Cavilla
of Australia today defeated Cor
nell of this city in the third ot a
aeries of swimming races for the
world’s championship. The victor
awam 680 yards m 13 minu'ea 10
seconds, ____________
WHEN YOU ARE TIRED
Without extra exertion, lan
guid, dull and listless, your
blood's failing to supply to your
muscles and other organs the
vitalizing and strength giving
properties they require. Hood s
Sarsaparilla cures that tired
feeling by enriching and purify
ing the blood. It will give you
energy and vigor.
I
i Hood's Pills are easy to take,
easy to operate. Cure indiges
tion , biliousness. 2.).
Senator Dodson of Sumpter,
will have little or no opposition
for the presidency of the next
senate . This is as it should be.
Dodson as president of that able
I body of law makers will be the
right man in the right place.
TUESDAY EVENING AUGUST 30 , |B9B.
SICKENING
Is The Details of Ghicamatf
ga’s Latest .Horror.
NURRy MUTILATED BODY
I
Found by His Captain Who
Went to Look For Him-
Chattanooga, Tenn. r Aug. 29.
—A genuine horror was discov
ered today by Capt. Samuel S.
Connor, company A, Ninth New
York, and will be reported by
him to Gov. Black when he
reaches this city Capt. O’Connor
after some hesitation, told the
following story :
“Private Nunns,J who is a
member of a well-to-do New
York family, had been transfer
red from company A, Ninth
New York, to the Second divis
im, Third corps, hospital com
pany. He was taken sick last
Monday and was sent to the Sec
on I division hospital, where he
died Satueday. No report of his
death was made to Capt. O’Con
nor and today he went to the
hospital to see how the man was
getting along. He found him in
a tent adjoining a fever tent on
a cot, stark naked, his body had
been opened and an autopsy
performed, the flap covering the
bowels and stomach having
been laid back.
The body was in a horrible
state and had lain there since
Saturday.
Enraged and shocked at the
horrible sight, Capt. O’Conner
called on the physicians in
charge and denounced them in
good round terms. Being asked
why the body was not dressed,
the doctors said the man had no
clothes.
“Did he come here naked?”
asked Capt. O’Connor.
“No; but he had no clothes.”
When they heard that the at
tention of Gov. Black, of New
York, would be called to the
matter when he arrived here, a
suit of clothes was instantly
found, the body was Sponged
and dressed and fixed for the
undertaker’s care.
The remains of this dead sol
dier lay right against a tent full
of sick men. The effusive odor
from the body on Monday was
something fearful.
Capt O’Connor has preferred
charges against Major* Smith,
Major Raymond and Major Hub
bard, doctors in charge at the
Second divi ion. Third corps,
hospital, and the matter v. ill be
investigated thoroughly.
Capt. O’Connor says he has
s< rved eight years in the British
army in South Africa, on tlie
Nile and elsewhere, and he never
saw better managed hospitals
than the Leiter and Starnberg
hospitals atChicamauga. “They I
are models,” said the veteriu.j
“But,” he added, “the division j
hospitals are utterly rotten in
every way. T would never expect
to see a sick man of mine a.'ive
again if he were sent to one of,
those horrible places.”
“As for the camp, Captain
O’Connor says: “In all my years
,of soldiering I was never camped
i i so healthy and pleasant a
pl ice as the Ninth New. York
occupies in Ghicamauga park.
I It is model in every way. ’
LANffAM
& SONS,
SENSATIONAL» 0 F
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time and again, yet we make the
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