. rent of the management of the Chick-
. not actually needed for service there.
CAMP THOMAS SCANDAL
Patients Suffering “With Typhoid
Fever Die on the Bare Ground.
PROMPT 101101113 NEEDED
‘fonvaiesoents Sent Out 50' \l’eak That
Several Have Died “'hilo Waiting for
Trains to 'l‘a‘ e 'lhem Home. Supplies
Short. A Ghostly Story of Cruel and
Inhumane Treatment.
4)
Camp Thomas, Chickamauga. Park,
dug. 26.—The condition of the hospit—
11113 at Camp Thomas rs deplorable.
Sen-oral Breckinridge will insist upon a.
congressional investigation and the in-
quiry may result 11 one of the greatest
scandals in the history of the army.
The head officials have shown them-
selves grossly incompetent and igno-
amauga hospitals and- scores of deaths
have. resulted from such incompetency.
Supplies are wanting, men are cruelly
and iinh-umane/lyr treated and the hos—
piitals reek in filth. The nurses are
few and inexperienced and many sur-
gesne are ignorant of their work.
Jaais an actual fact that hundreds of
pigments in the New York regiments
5’58: this. morning lying on the ground
c emering with typhoid. They are with-
out cuts and’ receive no attention. A'
surgeon comes around once in a great
‘lllllfilley to: look at the Sufferers. He
may then make a requisition for some
cots, ice, eta, and perhaps in three or
four days the supplies will come and
perhaps they will not. In the mean-
time some of the poor fellowssuccumb
rim-the; illness. If all the facts were
known, the country would, indeed, be
shocked; ,
When the First Illinois cavalry was
ordered to leave the mountain there
were about twenty-six men in their
Edtl‘e~»hospital, where one died late Sun-
dayrnafternoon. One of the twenty men,
who was desperately ill, was neverthe-
less ordered to dress himself and be
ready to move. ‘He protested and one
kindly young physician remonstrated.
but those in charge were obdurate, and
me. sick man, too feeble to lift him-
self, after two unsuccessful attempts to
rise from his bed, Was placed again on
21113151;er cot, where within a few hours
he'dihd‘. This is only one individual in-
stance.
The bodies of the soldiers so the un-
dertalgers say, are being operated upon
in the interest of science. The skull of
one body which a correspondent saw
had been split, the brain removed and
the head stuffed with the coarsest of
ha. _,1
7'" u-ndledis of weak and emaciated
convalescent}; are sent to the city to
take trains for home. They lie all day
long on the depot. floors, too weak to
rise: They are without food or atten-
ti/On, unless some kindly passerby gives I
aid. Several of them have died while
waiting for trains.
Not half has been told of the hospital
mm at Chickamau'ga. These are
facts gathered from personal observ 21-
tion and knowledge.
Camp Thomas is fast breaking up.
The. park is to be placed in a better
sanitary condition. The chief quarter-
master was yesterday directed to ex-
pend $60,900 in ditching and draining
the .park properly. This work has al-
may been commenced. General H. H.
chnton is at Chickam-auga and Gen-
eral Breckinridge is preparing to relin-
quish his command to him on next
Monday. '
About, half of the Eighth New York
regimen-omen are sick. The officers
and men are crying aloud to be released
{mm service and sent home.
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kl zleton Sir! k“. Ended.
Hazi'eton, Pa., Aug. 26.—The seven
hundred coal miners and laborers em-
ployed in the Audenried and Honey— I
brook strippings of the Lehigh and
Wilkesb'arre Coal Company, who went
on strike Wednesday, returned to work
yesterday. All is quiet at the mines,
and no further trouble .s expected. .
The men struck because of what they
claimed to be the unjust discharge of
two Hungarian laborers. It looked for
artime as though the strike would be a
repetition of last year’s bitter struggle,
which ended in tihe killing of a number
of strikers by sheriff’s deputies, but the
prompt and decisive action of Superin-
tendent Richards in posting a notice
that if the men were not at work yes- '
terday morning the mines would be
shut-down for the rest of the year, pro-
duceda; wholesome effect on the strik-
ers. They claim that the two discharg- ‘
ed. men will be reinstated.
Volunteer Disbandment.
Washington, Aug. 26. —Orders were
issued yesterday to muster out the fol-
lowing:
Fourth Pennsylvania infantry, Sixth
Illinois infantry, Second VVisco-nsin in-
fantry, three Louisiana light batteries
two Rhode Isl-and light batteries, two
larva light batteries, two Oregon light
batteries, First Wisconsin light bat-
ter-y, two troops of Kentucky cavalry,
Light Battery A, Missouri artillery;
Twenty—seventh light battery of Indi-
ana'artillery, and light batteries A, B
and C of Pennsylvania. Where the
troops mustered out are designated,
they include all of that particular arm
Inf-the service from the states named.
Troops 01 dared Home.
Washington, Aug. 26.—Orders have
been received directing General Miles
corsend home from Porto Rico all troops
Nopolnt has been designated yet for
weir disembarkation in the United
States, but an examination of several
sites is in pregress. It is desired to
secure a healthful camp, and at the
came time one where disembarkation
can take place at Once without any de-
lay, such as occurred at Montauk.‘
It is expected that some of the troops
' tube sent home will sail today or to-
morrow. The first arrivals will be
landed in New York city.
fl
Called on Admiral Carvers.
Annapolis, Md., Aug. 26.—Cardinal
Gibbons arrived here yesterday morn-
ing from Baltimore, and called on Ad-
miral’ Cervera, with whom he remained
in: over an hour. He afterward went.
' fiancee and his own brother, Mr.
ALGER INSPECTS CAMP WIKOFF. .~
1.
He Makes litany Suggestions but Makes
. No Change in Conduct.
Montauk Point,Aug. 26.—Secretary of
War Alger, accompanied by General
Wheeler, continues his inspection of
Camp Wikoff. He has visited most of
the regiment-a1 quarters, spent much
time in conversation with the men, had
many suggestions to make in passing;
concerning matters of detail, but appa-
rently saw no need for a change in the
policy or conduct of any department.
It is expected that he will remain here
for several days. He has taken up his
quarters with General 'Wheeler and
seems to have settled down.
“I am very favorably impressed with
the location of the camp," he said to
a reporter this morning. “It is easy
enough of access, and it has a bracing
atmosphere and good water. I find
that its condition is growing better ev-
ery day and I am persuaded that with-
in a short time there will be no further
cause for complaint. Undoubtedly
there has been confusion and therefore
great discomfort, but that is due to
the haste with which the preparations
were made. The army had to be
moved from Santiago without waiting
for perfection in the detail of the pro-
visions for its reception here. There
was confusion, as a matter of course,
and complainings as a matter of course,
too. It seems to me that the general
conditions are-good and that the pro-
gress has been satisfactory.”
The secretary was very guarded in
what ‘he had to say about the sanitary
condition of the camp. It was evident
from his tone that the little things he
had seen here and there had grated on
his sense of cleanliness. He had sug-
gestions to make under this head, and
with reference to the improvement of
the drainage system. "They are get-
ting along pretty well" was his com-
ment on the condition of the general
hospital.
Secretary Alger, continuing, said that
the volunteers would be mustered out
beginning Ito-day, but he was not sure
what regiment would be the first dis—
charged. When this news got abroad
there was great joy in the volunteer
quarters.
Yesterday he gave directions that
two thousand quarts of milk s'hOuld be
distributed through the camp daily.
The transport Mohawk arrived last
night with 1,199 men of the Eighth Ohio
volunteers. ' There were 130 sick aboard
and 92 sick had been left in the hospit-
als at Santiago. One.man, Eddy 'by
name, died on the" voyage over. The
troops are being landed to-day.
There are 1,122 sick in the hospitals
of whom two hundred are typhoid pa-
tients. There is room for but a’few
more. Dr. Brown said that 150 men
were ready to leave in order to ake
room for others who are in greater
need of good care.
The postal arrangements are in good
working order. The receipts amount to
nearly 20,000 letters daily, and they are
called for "by regimental orderlies and
distributed to the men regularly. The
mail that has been lying at Tampa. is
beginning to arrive; and the Santiago
mail is coming in on the transports.
The men are receiving month old let-
ters, some of, them registered. Tele-
grams sent to Montauk station are not
delivered. There are two hundred or
more, clearly addressed, on the station
agent’s desk, waiting to be called for.
They should have been addressed to
Camp Wikoff.
Lieutenant Tiffany Dead.
Boston, Mass, Aug. 26.—Lieutenant
“Willie” Tiffany of New York, son of
the well known jeweler, and famous
for his service throughout the Santia-
go campaign with Colonel Roosevelt’s
Rough Riders, died at the Parker house
last evening at five mmutes after six
o ’clock.
Lieutenant Tiffany was seized with
fever in Cuba aft:r Santiago's surren-
der. When the Rough Riders sailed
for Montauk he was left in the hospital
but later came north on the Olivette,
accompanied by 'the brother of his
Bel-
mont Tiffany.
He landed in Boston on Tuesday. He
was on the convalescent list, and was
consequently allowed to choose his own
lodgings while the more seriously ill
and wounded were sent to the hospit-
sis.
He became worse yesterday morning
.1 11d passed quietly away shortly after
fix o‘clock last night.
Wlwat Supply is nual'.
Chicago, Aug. 26.—Never in the his-
:ory of the country have the available
supplies of wheat been reduced to such
small proportions as they reached this
week. Today there are less than 6,000.-
000 bushels of wheat in the public ele-
vators of the country, which, in the
opinion of the trade, means that stocks
are practically exhausted. Of this am-
ount nearly one-half is located at Min-~
neapolis, Duluth and Chicago, with the
rest scattered. around at seaboard
points and in the interior. Some of it
is afloat on the lakes, "on passage," as
it is called. Last year at this time the
stocks available amounted to 16,750,000
bushels. and in the middle of August,
1896, they aggregated 45,000,000 bush-
els.
There is, however, an enormous pro-
duct of 1898 wheat which will soon be
on the market, about 700,000,000 bushels
it is estimated.
Going to Manila.
VVash‘ington, Aug. 26.—Admiral Dew-
ey’s squadron at Manila Is «to be rein-
forced. At least three or four of the
crack vessels of the North Atlantic
fleet are to be sent to Manila in the
near future. They will go by the way
of the Suez canal and will reach Asiatic
waters :in the early fall.
dron has not yet been completed, but:
it is known that the battleship Oregon,!
the fast cruisers New YOrk and Brook-
lyn and probably the battleship In-
diana are to be overhauled and put in
shape for the trip.
It is semi-officially admitted that the
Oregon ‘is sure «to go, and that very
probably the other three vessels men?
tioned will accompany her.
Biz Meat Supply for Manila,
Brisbane Queensland, Aug. 26.—Three
thousand tons of Brisbane frozen meat,
valued at 61,500 pounds, has been ship-
ped‘ from here to Manila on board the
steamships Urmston Grunge and Duke
In. St. Mary’ 3 church, Where he dined.
of Sutherland. , ,_ .
”easement Tame? EAMP M‘E'AbEf
THE Ev E 1511 N G G A z ETT-E
To Review 18,000 Troops on Saturday, j
Camp Meade, .Middletown, Pa, Aug.
26.—Major General Graham received a
telegram from Secretary of War Alger
yesterday, announcing that President
McKinley would pay an informal visit
on Saturday to Camp Meade. The gen-
eral will at once arrange for a review of
the troops in honor of the president.
There are upward of 12,000 men in
camp, and by Saturday the number will
be nearly 18,000. The Sixth Pennsylva-
nia will arrive this evening and within
forty-eight hours the entire Second di-
vision will be moved from Thorough-
' fare Gap. The movement of the troops
from Camp Alger, where the Egh‘th,
Twelfth, and Thirteenth Pennsylvania
regiments are located, will begin to-
day- . :- ' -. ‘n.’ I'WHM‘ .
The president will probably come to
Camp Meade by special train and go
from here to Camp Wikoff. New York.
Members of his cabinet and the dip-
lomatic corps, and some personal
friends will come with him. The Penn-
sylvania road has built a station at the
entrance to the camp grounds, and
hereafter all local trains will ‘make this
a stopping point. Excursions will be
run to the camp by the company on
Sunday from Philadelphia‘ and Pitts-
burg. '
Four members of the Third battalion
of the Sixteenth Pennsylvania have
asked Lieutenant Colonel Rickarts for
their discharge, and their papers will
be forwarded to W'ashington.
The First battalion of the Eighteenth
Pennsylvania regimen-t will reach camp
to-day from Alliance, Ohio.
There is no change in the condition
of. Colonel Norman M. Smith of the
Eighteenth, who was overcome by the
heat Tuesday evening.
A man who refused to give his name
was detected yesterday selling whis-
key in camp. He was arrested and
handed over to the chief burgess of
Middletown.
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INFORMATION ABOUT THE DEAD
Many Requests for Details and Effects
at the “’ar Department.
Washington, Aug. 26.—The war de-
partment is in receipt of many letters
from the relatives of ,dead officers and
soldiers, asking for further informa-
tion. In lnstances where the cases are
borne on the hospital rolls there is no
difficulty in rendering information and
forwarding the effects, but little or
nothing is procurable where men have
died in the field.
Some of the inquiries are made that
insurance may be secured, but in most
cases sentiment alone actuates the re-
quests. The surgeon general of. the
army has directed that full returns be
The detail for this new eastern squa-t
made promptly from surgeons on duty
in hospitals; that these Inquiries may
be answered satisfactorily. The chap-
lains in the fi-‘el-d have done valuable
service in sending messages to friends
of dying officers and men, and in most
cases they have secured some memento
which will be treasured by the liv-
ing.
DISGUST IN MADRID
They Think That Santiago Was Sun-en
dered Too Soon.
Madrid, Aug.
and the general public display Consid-
erable disgust at the hasty'surrender
of Santiago de Cuba since hearing the
stories with regard to the adequate de-
fensive conditions prevailing there told
by the repatriated soldiers who arrived
yesterday at Corunna by the Spanish
steamer Alicante.
There have been six deaths among
the returned soldiery since their arrival
and many others are feared.
A special commission is now meeting
to dec’ e upon the question of quaran-
tine. ‘r‘The ,military authorities have
begun the distribution of arrears of
pay Ito the repatriated troops.
Schley Again on the Brooklynu
New York, Aug. 26.—Admiral Schley,
who has been resting for a few days
at his home in Saugatuck, Conn, ar-
rived at the Grand Central station in
this city at 10.15 o’clock yesterday. He
at once entered a carriage and drove
to the Battery, whence he took a Staten
Island ferry boat for Tompkinsville.
There he boarded the Brooklyn.
On his way to Tompkinsville Admiral
Schley stopped at the office of a well
known Wall street firm. He met there
several friends from Washington, all
of whom greeted him enthusiastically.
The admiral was not in his uniform,
26.—The newspapers .
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and for that reason was not generally ,
recognized on the street.
Examining League Island Navy Yard.
1 Philadelphia, Aug. 26.—Commodore
Farquhar of the Norfolk navy yard,
and C. W. Parks of the bureau of yards
and docks, arrived at the League island
navy yard yesterday and made an ex-
amination of the river front with a
view of fixing upon a location for the
big dry dock recently authorized by
Congress. After completing the inspec-
tion Commodore Farquhar expressed
his belief that, on account of its fa-
cilities, League island will most likely
be made the central station in naval
construction.
Deer Plentirul in the Adirondacks.
Old Forge, N. Y., Aug. 26.—It is the
universal testimony of hunters and vis-
itors in the Adirondacks that the deer
have never before been so plentiful in
this region as during the present sea—
son, which opened August 15.
The prohibition of hunting with dogs
Ior at night with “jacks” has had a
most beneficial effect, and the still hun-
, ter is now sure of some good sport.
. To Hold the Philippines.
New York, Aug. 26. —New York busi-
ness men do not favor the idea of giv-
ing up the Philippines. A petition has
been circulated by them to be forward-
Ied to President McKinley, calling on
him not to surrender the islands. This
petition, although having been in circu-
1 lation only a few days. has the signa-
tures Of a large number of prominent
businessmen in the city.
President and Cabinet Invited.
tors of the Trans-Mississippi Exposi-
mon has passed a set of resolutions for-
mally inviting .the president, his cabinet
and other dignitaries to attend the
peace jubilee, October 10 to 15.-
. An invitation was also extended the
Prince of Wales. '
Omaha, Aug, 26.—The board of d-irec-.
'lant steed.
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TO FACE CAN-NONS. ‘ ‘-
American Horses That Are Best Suited
for Pulposes of- \Vur.
In the midst of the attention we are
giving to the personnel of our armies
there is a. feature not less important
than the feeding and the physical con-
dition of the men, and which we are
apt to overlook. » It is the condition
and training of the army horse. Horses
are almost as necessary an adjunct to
a successful war as are men.
'With the exception 'of carriage horses
for use on the boulevards of large cit-
ies, and of race horses—of which class
we probably breed the fastest in the
world—we have run behind other ‘na-
"tions in the production of good and
serviceable horses. This was because
having such splendid railroad and
electric facilities, we have had less
need for horses than other peODle- 0119
of the results of our new expansive
policy will be to enlist public interest
in the cavalry horse; for While we may
have soldiers and a navy that can beat
the world, without strong and speedy
horses capable of covering a. march and
capturing a position by a. dash, we
cannot be fully equipped as a. nation.
The effect of quick-firing guns ‘will
be to reduce the relative efficiency of
cavalry, and of infantry from those of
the olden time, but nevertheless the
horses will still be a powerful factor
in war. The style of horse needed in
the army is that known in the older
countries as the hunting horse, an ani-
mal with enormous chest, clean limbs,
heavy loins, deep quarters and free
moving action. Such a horse when
"well-groomed and bred will carry a
mount of 150 pounds across country at
an excellent riding pace for the space
of five or six hours, and will be com-
paratively fit and fresh for a. pro-
longed march at the close.
Hunters thus trained in the field 'to
rough work, make excellent army
horses. Not being much accustomed
to the delights of the chase in this
busy country, we have not developed
the European type of hunting horse;
but he is coming.
The best type of the American horse
for use in the army, now comes from
Kentucky, and from the neighboring
mountainous states. It is claimed by
some that the Small,- “chunky" horse
is- far better fitted for transporting
cannon than horses of finer proportions
and (at greater weight‘and frame.
It was "the need ‘of‘ihor'ses of such
endurance and powers-'which more
than anything else defeated Napoleon’s
campaign upon Moscow. 1
The Russians Were convinced of. this,
and when some 'Of them saw a French
gun at the base of an ice-Covered mole
with the horses that drew it, lying
with broken limbs beside it, because
Napoleon had omitted to bring horse-
nails, they exclaimed with joy: “God
' made Napolebn forget that there is a
wintering'this country."
The great purposes of horses in war
are to :transport‘guns, .to carry the sol-
diers, to protect them in, case of a
charge andto furnish food to the army
in case of famine: Many a soldier has
protected his own life fighting an
enemy from behind the dead body of
his horse, and when a. retreating force
was cut on from its base of supplies,
an army was Ofen provisioned by
the sutler’s forces returning to the
scene of defeat and cooking the horses
(that were killed in battle.
And in the Sioux campaign of 1876
General Crook was so hard pressed for
food that he had to kill some of the
horses, [the command subsisting on the *
meat for several days.‘
The well-trained cavalry horse fights
some upon his own account. He rears
‘upon hishind legs and strikes venom—
;csly with his forelegs at the sight of
an enemy whose colors he knows near-
ly as well as those of his master. In a
charge of infantry the horse being so
much larger, offers a greater target
than the rider whose chest is protected
by the erect neck and head of his gal-
Horses thus save the lives
of the men, and few phases of war are
better calculated to inspire terror in
unmounted troops than a desperate ad-
vancing charge of cavalry at close
quarters, with dust flying and boots
clanging, and the discharge of carbines
' keeping music to the war—111-9 neighing
of stallions on full gallop. The skir-
mishes during the Peninsular war were
mostly of this character, and the Duke
'of Wellington used to say that a man
and his horse thus equipped, were
equivalent to five infantry soldiers,
though since the introduction of re-
peating rifles the proportions of Wei-
lington’s time are sadly altered now.
It is somewhat sad to state that de-
spite all the uses of horses in war, and
notwithstanding the great exposure of
this noble animal to danger in case
of battle, statistics show the death of
a. greater proportion of horses from
disease, neglect or starvation than
from actual slaughter in action. Want
of food, want of gator and want of
rest, the common misfortune of every
campaign, kills over fifty per cent. of
the horses; and overwork, disease and
exposure destroy a far larger propor-
tion than are actuallykilled in war.
If these good people who spend their
nights dreaming about the parliament
of Man and the federation of the world,
would devote some of their spare energy
to enforcing the plaineot dictates of
humanity in the cases of dishonest
army. contractors the peace societies.
would do much to mitigate the horrid
_ treatment of horses in war, and accom-
plish some real good. Even in times
of peace the mortality amongst horses
‘for cavalry and artillery purposes is
very large. During the fiscal year end-
ing June 30, 1897, Uncle Sam lost 1,061 , ‘
cavalry and artillery horses out of a
total 'of 6,;531 and this percentage
which is very large would be much
greater in war times, as owing to the
' excitement which occurs the horse
sometimes suffers incredible tortures,
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from want nf fond rant and water.
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