The record-union., 1898-09-01
SLEPT ON BARE FLOORS.
Sick Soldiers From Santiago Who
Fared Badly

NEW YORK,.Aug. 21.-The transport
Allegheny arrived at Montauk Point
to-day having on board 500 men of the
Ninth Massachusetts. and the re-
mainder of the First Illinois, who sailed
from Santiago August 2oth. The hos
pital accommodations are still unequal
to the demands made upon them, and
last night 100 sick soldiers were obliged
to lie on the bare floors, instead of be-
ing provided with cots. A majority of
these Were members of the First Illinois
Regiment, which reached Montauk
yesterday on the transport Berlin.
The work of removing the sick SOL
diers to their homes or to city hospitals
is to be pushed as rapidly as possible
The steamer Shinnecock is at Montauk
Point, being filled with hospital sup
plies and a corps of doctors and has
been detailed to care for the sick SOL
diers while they are being transported
to the city.
The transport Yucatan has been fitted
up as a hospital ship, with accommoda-
tions for 800. She is expected to sail
for New York with that number of sick
this evening.
The delicacies which arrived in camp
last evening for the First Illinois Vol
unteers were distributed to the boys to-
day
Chaplain T. G. Stewart of the Twen-
ty-fifth Regular Infantry was in New
Jersey purchasing watermelons,
peaches and other fruits for the troops
at Montauk Point. He sent word to-
day that he had secured 400 melons and
oOo baskets of peaches, and hoped to
get more.
Chaplain Stewart is a colored man,
and it was for the benefit of the colOred
troops that he went on the foraging eX-
pedition.
The men of Companies D and M of
the Texas Volunteers and those of
A and d of the First Artillery were
landed from the transport San Marco
to-day, and went to the detention
camp. The San Marco is being made
ready to serve as a hospital transport
to carry sick to New York
There are 1,212 patients in the gen
eral hospital and All in the detention
hospital to-day. There is a decrease in
the detention hispital, due to furloughs
and removals of convalescents to hos
pitals. There have been 900 furloughs
issued so far.
General Wheeler received a telegram
from Adjutant General Corbin to-day
directing him to muster out the Rough
Riders at Camp Wikoff at once The
cavalrymen will accordingly be mus
tered out of the service here tomorrow
Major Brown, in charge of the general
hospital, has directed that the swamps
| be filled in and that the grounds around
| the hospital be sprinkled frequently
| with antiseptics. DR.. Brown has also
| ordered that all drinking water be
| boiled before used.
! John Wagner, Company H. Seven
teenth United States Infantry, who en-
! listed from Columbia, hanged himself
| from the ridge pole of tent to-day.
He had fought at Santiago and con-
| tracted typhoid fever. His suicide is
supposed to have been committed in a
delirium of the fever.
| In explaining the fourteen deaths of
Massachusetts, men While on the voyage
from Cuba, the surgeons said that the
Allegheny brought all the seriously sick
| of the regiment. There are 145 i'll of
the Massachusetts regiment still on
| board the vessel, but they are not down
| with contagious disease. Dr. Magruder
| and inspecting officers say the Allie
| gheny is a cattle ship, not even fit for
we'll troops, much less for sick soldiers.