Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1898-11-01
VAR INVESTIGATION
Concludes Its Work in
Southern Camps,
TYPHOID EXAGGERATED
Contract Surgeon Says Only Twenty Per
Cent OF Sickness Was Typhus. Com
niss.On, In Sesslon at Lexington.
Ky. Hears New Testimony,
EXAGGERATED
(By Telegraph.)

(By Telegraph) III
CAMP POLAND. KNOXVILLE.
TENN, Oct. 3l.-Tlle war investiga1in.
commission concluaed the work OF IT,,
Southern tour here today ana at 6
O'clock tonight left for Washington. cx-
pecting TO arrive there at about Il T..
NJ. l, is the present intention that IN.
American commission shall go 10 Camp
Meade, soon after their ARRIVAL III
MaSninGton. and Ex-Governor Wood
bury Will proceed TO Vermont as a sub
committee 10 take testimony there.
The commission vote the forenoon
To inspecting the camps amt the after
noon TO taxing testimony. They ounu
a DIVISION OF troops here under the COM
manu OF Coionel kurtZ, OF tue >econ,i
ohio, and while they had no persona
criticism to express against him. som,
of the commissioners expressed the
opinion thai the command WAS To-,
/. large to be entrusted To an officer below
the rank of brigadier. The transfer OF
Colonel kurtZ to the command of the
division leaves the brigade. to which
his regiment is a part. III command OF
Colonel Young, the cu!orea colonel oI
the Third North Carolina.
The first witness before the commits
sion was DIR. J. +. Martin. II contract
physician from Ohio. who was at chick
arnauga. lie repeated his expression
Of opinion that the waite in tn. PIP,
line system at C~hickamauga Was con
tainitlatSu by the water from Cav,
Spring creek.
DIR. Park L.. Myers, a contract sur
geon from Ohio. who is engaged in the
hospital of the Second Division of the
First Corps at Chickamauga. differed
from most of the physicians IN his csti-
mate OF typhoid. He SAID that while
many believe that ninety per cent. OF
the. ickness at the camp be Of typhoid.
he did not believe that to exceed twtn-
" per cent. was of that character. He
also took issue with those who charged
typhoid TO the agency of flies attrihut-
ing it TO the water. lie th"uSht moss
OF the dieases at Ahickamauga Park
we're miasmetic. He said il. was true
on some occasions when it Vas neces-
s:lry TO nave patients in this hospital
lie on the ground for as long as tel
hours at a time until provision coui"
be made for them.
Colonel G.. X. Hughes. division super
of the Southern Railroad, tes-
tilted TO the ruublcS encountered in
moving troops. Soldiers had co-npc.
rated in the work OF the railway com
pany. but that there had been SOM,
disorder at times. He mentioned on'
instance in which Company +. Of tn.
Fifth Pennsylvania, had broker ny al
the furniture OF TWO cars near iLeNins
ton. Ky. on the plea that the cars were
not tit for the soldiers 10 ttaNeI IN.
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