Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1898-08-04

and ih.re has not been alng. o., city
IL o. impossible. 60 move into the
Interior Every hitting uf r.mu d Ole
blcs the sick ratio in our present Usak-
encd condition. and anyhow ,H. Iu-
terror lH rather worse than iHa coast.
ah ! have found by actual f.o1unala-
lhncc. our present camps ars ua
healthy nH any camps at ih.a tul uf
the Island can be.
y write only because cannot 600 our
men, who hHNr fought so bravery ana
who have endured extreme hirl.H.us
and danger uuc0mpltlnlnfY pI H
destruction without striving Hu flr HH
Hes IN me. Go avert doom 1H fearful
us u ~ unuHDDssury and undoaanll.
Your respectfully
THEODORE ROOSEVELT
Colonel Commanding Flint Brigade"
After Col Roosevelt had taken tts
Initiative 40 thH American rlefil Of-
ncers united Iu q round ronL address
90 Gen. shnfter II rcadai
We. the undersigned officers CONF
mandlng the various bflg1l0s. diNl-
HiUuH etc.. Of the army of occupation
lu cuba. are uf the unanlmuuH opinion
that ih|a army should be nt once taken
oui of the Island Of cuba ana sent %
some point uu the northern sea coast
of the United states. that % can Do,
done without danger 90 the uHIp' ~
tho tnlHd States. that yellow i"NHr Ia
the army nt present IN not epidemic:
that thorr hr only q few srurudic
cases hut that the army u disabled
hy mllnrill fever 10 the extent that
90 efficiency ~ destroyed ana that 70 II
in condition go be- practically desc
tr1ysd by AN epidemic ~ yellow foyer,
which Do sure 10 come IN The near fu-
turD.
We know from the reports of compc-
tent officers and from personal ubHci .
walton TINT Tho army n unable Ca
move Into the interior, ana that thcrc
arp no facilities for such "a move II
ATTEMPTED. and that II could not be at
tempted untll too late. Moreover. the
hest medical authorities uf the iaian
any that with our present equipment We
could not live lu ;hc interior during
tire rniuy season without losses from
fnalaiai fever shiloh iu almost ~
IlY rn yellow lever .stt..
This army murt l,H moved at once OF
ps IRISH. A. tho army can be- safely
moved now the persons responsible fuf
preventing such ~ move win be rrrpon.
uihlc FOR the loss ~ many thousand
lives.
our opinions nro the result OF careful
personal observation. and they are also
based On tho unanimous opinion Of our
medical officers with the army, We
undcntnnd the situation absolutely.
tsirncD j, FORD KENT.
Commanding First Division. 9th Corps
j. e. A. RATES.
Major General Vols Commanding Pro-
vlniinal Division.
A. H. CHAFEE.
Major General Commanding Third
brigade. Second Division.
SAMUEL SuMSEtl
Major General Vols. Commanding Pro-
First brigade Cavalry,
WILL LUDLOW.
nriFndier General NuIH, COMMANDING
First brigade. Sr.nud Division.
hLnEWT AMlsS.
Brirndicr General Vols Commanding
Third brigade FIfHt Division.
LEONAWD WOOD.
nfiFndler General Nu.H, Commanding
city OF Santiago
TUEp ROOSEVELT
Colonel Commandius second Cavalry
brigade.
Major ~ W. wood the chief surgeon
OF the First division Huli!
''fhe army must D. moved north
adding with emphasis, "or II viii be-
unable 10 move itself"
Gen. AmoH haH sent the following Ia
WarhinFtoni
''rhe Hon. Charles a. Allen. assistant