The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-07-03
ANOTHER BIG BATTLE.
(Concluded from First Pnge.l

navy ship Solace is designed primarily for
the use of the feet. she will be put at the
disposition of the army whenever trat may
be necessary. and the army and navy ships
will be used Interchangeable. The SoIace
is fully as we'll adapted for treating the
wounded as her sister ship of the army.
and has accommodation for several hundred
men. The last heard from the Solace she
was at Guantanamo bay, short distance
from the cable station from which the dis
patches are sent.
Hurried preparations are being made by
the War Department to send to General
Shafter the assistance in the medical de-
partment which he asked for to attend TO
the needs of the wounded as a result of yes
terday's battle. The hospital ship Relief,
which has been undergoing thorough over
Santiago. The Relief has been fitted out in
an admirable manner for the treatment of
the sick and wounded, and every comfort
possible will be provided for the unfortu-
mates. There is surgeon in charge with
full corps of competent assistants and
complete outfit for surgical work in cases
where this is necessary. Accommodate tons
for probably five hundred persons have been
provided, ard. in addition, there has been
installed in the ship a carbonating plant
and an ice-manufacturing apparatus, which
has facilities for making more ice than is
needed aboard the ship. The surplus will be
utilized in supplying the hospitals ashore in
the immediate vicinity of the ships. Of
course the greater number of cases of sick
ness and wounds primarily will be treated
in the regimental and division hospitals,
while the Relief will be utilized to a great
extent in bringing back to the United States
such cases of convalescents and the more
serious cases of sickness which. it is felt,
should be brought here for treatment.
The hospital ship Relief. which left New
York to-day, was given orders before sail
ing to stop on her way south at Fortress
Monroe. where the. extra force of surgeons
will board her. She will reach Fortress
Monroe tomorrow and take on board the
physicians Immediately and then proceed
hurriedly to the aid of the wounded under
Skaters command. Surgeon General Stern
rangements to-day for all the medical as
sistants which General Shafter asked for.
After considerable labor he got together
force of probably a dozen physicians, and
these, with the surgeons already aboard the
vessels, will approximate about twenty in
all. These, General Sternberg hopes, will
be enough to supply the pressing wants Of
the army. The relief should reach San
tiago in four or five days. If additional
physicians are needed they will be sent,
General Sternberg says, on the cruiser
about the middle of next week with a large
detachment of General Garretsons brigade
as reinforcements to Shafter. The personnel
of the surgical corps of the Relief, so far as
they could be ascertained here to-day, are
as follows:
Major Geo. H. Torney, surgeon in charge;
Mark Bradley, surgeon United States vol
unteers; Lieutenant Colonel Nicholas Sem,
of Chicago Captain William c. Gorgas and
the following contract surgeons: Francis
Metcalfe Randolph M. Myers. Fred M.
Hartseck, Ernest c. Schultze, George H.
Torney. jr.. John r. Hicks, Henry L.
Brown, James T. Artwinne, Jesse Rams
burg, Rufus D. Boss. A. A. Snyder,
Charles C. Marbury, James McMackall. S.
Stanley Warren.
Surgeon General Sterberg left here this
evening for Fortress Monroe, where he will
make personal inspection of the Relief be-
fore she starts on her trip to Santiago.
Word reached the Marine Hospital Serv-
ice to-day that a suspicious case, possibly
one of yellow fever, had developed at the
naval hospital at Key West, the patient
being a sailor from the auxiliary ship
Yankee. The facts were reported to the
Navy Department and an inquiry was at
once instituted by the surgeon general Of
the navy. He is not apprehensive on the
subject, as the latest reports from the hos
pital show no evidences of yellow fever, and
it is probable that the case is nothing more
than one having suspicious symptoms.
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