Omaha daily bee., 1895-05-19
HOSPITALS CROWDED WITH THE SICK
Privates Are Given Scant Protection from
the Rain and Given Hard
Marches in the Extreme
Hot Weather,

Copyright, 1895, by Press Publishing Company
HAVANA, Cuba, May II, via Key West,
May 1S.-(Special Correspondence of the New
York World-Special Telegram to The Bee.)-
Marshal Campos now admits that General
Maxine Gomez was not in the file at Jovito
last Monday. l have previously cabled
denial of the report, emanatng from Spanish
sources, that Gomez took part in the con-
test and was among the insurgents killed.
l had already described circumstantially in
the World General Gomezs departure from
the vicinity of Santiago for Puerto Principe
province. have authority now to announce
that Gomez arrived in Camaguay the east
e portion of the province Of Puel to Principe
last Sunday. All previous reports of his
presence there were premature. This is the
first accurate announcement of his arrival
there.
The government will not admit it, but
the steamship Julia was dispatched hastily
to Neyitas The battalion of troops, num-
berng 600 men, will be taken on board at
Matanse, under command of the chief of staff
| of General Addrius, the second in command
in Cuba under Marshal Campos.
! General Gomez has destroyed the railway
track between Gibra and Holguin. The in
|
wounded in a skirmish near Camaguay, not
! far from Holguin.
General Campos' efforts to maintain a
military line between Gibara, Holguin and
| Manseanillo, which / have described, have
been unsuccessful.
General Dupue, in command of the Cinco
villas district is placing forces in Camaguay
in order to impede any revolutionary parties
In recent skirmish Spanish corporal and
two soldiers were killed. The telegraph be-
| tween Cigodeavila and Sancti Spiritus has
been cut A band of 1s0 insurgents is in
arms in the Cinco villas district.
CARGO OF ARMS LANDED.
The report comes from fair authority that
a cargo of arms has been landed at Baleta
between Guantanamo and Cape Maysi.
The reports of the ravages of yellow fever
among the troops here are incorrect.
visited military hospital yesterday and saw
only eight cases of yellow fever and mostly
of a mild type / visited the military hos
pital at Santiago last week and saw only
thirteen cases of yellow fever, but plenty o
patients down with remittent and inter
mittent fevers and dysentary.
WILLIAM SHAWBOWEN.
SAN LUIS, Cuba, May 16.-Durng my re
cent visit to this camp General Antonio Mace
said: 1.-The Spanards have learned nothing
They forget the lesson of the late war. The,
move their soldiers without sense. TIL
rainy season is now at hand. The climat
will kill more Spaniards than our bullet
will take off," He was right, The Spanis
war office has not learned that it does no
pay to neglect and ill-treat tn
soldiers The advance Of sanitar
science appears to have been dis
regarded almost entirely by the army official
and the rank and fla Of the troops are abuse
in manner that would strike enlightene
| military men as being scandalcus. Alread
, the general military hospital, situated on tn
hill in the rear of Santiago, is filled with tn
, sick The ghostly movement to the GENE
terry conducted at night without escorts an
without the benefit Of clergy, has commence
in earnest.
During the former revolution battalion
: infantry was stationed in the barracks. Fou
hundred OF the 900 soldiers died Of yello
| fever. Troops marched long and hard
8 the heat, when an early morning movemeI
= would do as we'll. They are not given water
a proofs, although every officer is provided wit
y a macintosh. The soldiers are overheate
: by the MONDAY sun. They are wet by troI
f ical showers and they lie out in the open a
without shelter from the cold dew. Then TO
lows fever and death.
WILLIAM SHAWBOWEN.