The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-09-06
More Detention Patients Than Can Be
Comfortably Accommodated.

Camp Wikof. Montauk Point, n. Y,
Sept 5.-The transport Roumania,
which arrived yesterday morning with
500 troops from Santiago, was the
means of an additional test Of the ca
pacity of the hospital in the detention
camp. OF the 600 men on the Rou-
mania, about 200 were so sick that they
had to be put in the hospital. The
authorities of the detention hospital,
although they knew of the transports
arrival, had received no notice as to
the number of sick men they would be
expected to care for.
About o'clock the ambulances with
the. sick men began to arrive at the
hospital. The detention hospital will
accommodate 450 men, with eight cots
to q tent, which is the normal ca
pacity. By putting ten cots in each
tent. 500 patients can be taken care
of. but with corresponding decrease of
comfort.
AT the time of the arrival of the sick
men from the Roumania, the hospital
already had nearly 500 patients, and
these 200 additional ones swelled the
number to about S0O-240 more than
the hospital comfortably can hold.
Although there were enough cots for
the 500 sick soldiers, there was not the
space under canvas to place them
Therefore. as mattress on the floor
takes up less space than cot, a num-
Der of patients were taken from cots
<and placed upon mattresses on the
floor, and the cots removed. Mattresses
were also placed between cots on the
floor. Consequently, thus about $50
men are laying on mattresses on the
floor because of the lack of tent space
The detention hospital needs about sc
more tents. 1t does not look as though
the construction department can put up
more than 10 or Is tents a day. Con-
sequently, it is probable that some men
will have to lie on the floor for sew
eral days.
While the sick men were being taken
from the Roumania, two of them died.
They were Private Dorga Broomer,
company F, Twenty-fifth regular in
fantry, and Albert Pickworth, private
company G, Thirty-third Michigan vol
unteerS.
SHAFTER IN COMMAND.
General Shafter came out of the de-
tention cam9 today. He is somewhat
improved in health He said that Camp
Wikon would be continued for some
time, and although many of the troops
here were TO be sent away, the camp
would be fitted W with barracks for
the accommodation of several thousand
during inclement weather
Advices from Washington today say
that 4.200 recruits will be sent from
southern posts to join the Fifth army
corps here.
General Wheeler has resumed COM
mand of the cavalry, and General
Young will perform executive duties
about the camp. General Shafter is
now in full command of Camp Wikoff
Miss 1elen Gould has notified the
hospital authorities that she has pro-
vided quarters Cor 20 sick soldiers at
her place at Irvington on the Hudson.
That number of sick men will be sent
there.
The following died in the general
hospital today: Joseph G. Braun, COM
pany G, Twenty-f1rst infantry; Louis
Hipzel, company T, -Twenty-secOnd in
fantry; John w. Brawner, company A,
Tenth infantry; Burt Brown, company
A. Seventeenth infantry: Samuel Du-
mas, company D, Ninth infantry; Dem
mis- Dixon, company G., Ninth cavalry.