The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1898-08-04
NAuON|NG N FILTH
Awful Conditions on the Trans
port Concha.
SOMEBODY is TO BLAME
For What Is Worse Than Plain,
Merciful Murder.

New York, Aug. s.-As the result Of Sun
! day nights disinfecing on board the tran
sports Concha and Alamo, which arrived
in port Sunday. DR.. Doty, the health officer
OF the port, has been able TO make the
! transfer of convalescents.
The q passengers on board the Alamo,
with four exceptions, were released or
transferred to Hoffman island and the yes
sci was discharged from quarantine, as it
had ben thoroughly cleaned. 1t left quar-
antine and went up the East river to
pier II.
Mr.. Doty went on board the Concha and
selected 125 men who were not actually i'll
and transferred them to Hoffman island
on the Governor Flower. There they bath
ed and examined as a last precaution, and
their baggage and clothes disinfeoted also.
Some of them were allowed to come I'D
to the city tonight.
Thirty Of the Concha and Alamo pas
sengers went on shore Sunday night DR..
Lesser was among them but he returned
TO quarantine next morning. bringing with
him Mrs. Allen. the wife of Major II. T.
an albscess which resulted from a wound
which will have to be operated on. Major
Allen has already been pronounced free
from fever germs by Dr.Doty. Mrs Allen
was not permitted to go on board the AL
amo, but she was taken out to the ships
side on the tug Wadsworth and talked
10 her husband. Major Aliens trouble is
not considered serious and he Will be out
in two weeks.
Captain G w. S. Stevens of the signal
corps, Lieutenant J. A. Lessen of the
Thirty-ourth Michigan and Captain VII
ham Paulding OF the Sixteen tn infantry,
were the others who remained on the 1Al-
amo. They were later taken 60 Hoffman
island.
The Alno was scrubbed down and Is as
clean a ship today as it ever was. The
Concha will be the same. DIR. Doty says,
before it leaves quarantine.
DR.. Doty was not inclined 70 talk much
about the Concha, but the soldiers who
were on the snip had nothing good 10 say
for IL.
ut was a hell hole down in that hold
said a corporal OF the Seventh infantry
Il had been i'll with malaria and was
growing better when 7 was put aboard
the Concha- l was one of the last batch
to go out, and as everything like a bunk
had already been taken I got a place on
the lower deck, where on a czktleshap q
sick steer would not be left.
7 mad an appetite for good food, but
when it came 20 eating that pork and
drinking that water ceuldn't do It. Both
Of them were bad and j got sicker al the
time.
The next man 10 me became seassck
and had to lie unattended until those bles-
sed nurses and ne few men who were well
enough 30 help got 10 them and hep
them.
I'VE kept our feveTs down BY get1ng
them to pour sea wste-oau and BIZ keen
ing the matches open as much as we
could"
Dr. Lesser says that this soldiers story
IS true OF more than 30 men The conchs
is more filthy than me Seneca was when
II came into port. and t.le conditions on
board. owing 20 The sczat number %
hunks. would have been much worse had
the passengers been suffering from the
bad wounds " II 7szch zaose on me Sen
eca we're af7icced.
II she opinion u TIE nurses and pas
sengers on the Concns. TO attempt Tzs
made - Ct the sap fer r-rs reception Of
tHe patents.
Imagine" said orc % Dr. Lesss-'s
nurses. .taa efTect tnas water ~ou1 have
on fever patient WIEN ths odo- % G,
would n2useA,e a perfectly dezl-hy mar
Tcat - WA IKE had % offer Those sa1S
men until we gathered re water from re
engine co16e7se-s ana ne rain from tos
awnings Even thzt rad % - gwen %
-ts-n tecSd. Ger 4 was ifnposss be u cod
I: n raas cZmzts. We t-isd 20 keep tos
sick meas ss1ns MOST E1sA sea Eafs-'
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