The age-herald., 1898-08-31
TEN DEATHS AT CAMP W|KOFF ten. Wheeler Has Ordered InVes-
 tgatOn of Conditions | GENERAL AMES APPOINTED Ordered to Get at the Bottom of
 Things Complained of. WAS GIVEN AUTOCRATIC POWER l ' s- Will Endeayor sS vscoyer Parties Re' sponsibIe f :; Mismanagement. E5S 9 ROUGH S s1Rs DISSATISFIED cst~ S The Con-. S5f President Mckinley is
 Anxiously Awaited by All the Sol-
 diers in Camp Regulars
 Want to be Distributed.

New York, August 9o.-Ten soldiers died at Camp Wikoff today.
 The transports Berlin, San Marcos and Specialist arrived at Camp Wikoff today, carrying soldiers from Cuba and landed them. The Berlin had SS6 men of the First Illinois, of whom 160 were sick. General Bates and staff were also on the Berlin.
 The San Marcos had 397 men on board, 94 of whom were sick
 The Specialist carried 11S artilerymen, only two of them being sick.
 Camp Wikoff is to be investigated.
 General Wheeler has ordered General Adelbert Ames, chief of staff on General Rents staff, to conduct investigation. He is given almost autocratic powers. Gen. eral Wheeler has ordered him to get at tile bottom of all things which have been com- plained of. The subjects General Ames is toinvestigate are: Why is the general cons dition of the camp so poor; why do con- ditions that prevail exist wffVNls respon- sible; why troops were sent to the camp before 1t was ready to receive them; why, since there was but one railroad leading into camp, boats were not used to carry men and provisions from New York city; why needed nurses were not ordered, or, if they were ordered, why were they not dis- tributed; why the hospitals are crowded; why transports were allowed to lie ln the harbor without supplies and relief being sent out to them.
 There is dissatisfaction in the camp of the Rough Riders. They are not satisfied with the terms of their muster out. They wanted to be treated as are the remainder of the volunteers. The regulars are a'so dissatisfied and want to be sent back to garrison posts and stations at once.
 Mckinley AnxiousIy Awaited
 The coming of President Mckinley is anXiously awaited. An effort will be made to get the president to sanction changes which even Secretary Alger was not asked to make.
 Dr. Senn thinks that within a month every person suffering from typhoid fever brought into camp will have recovered or have died and by the time the conditions begin to look as if they had improved there will come the period of greatest dan- ger. The precautions taken are almost useless, according to Dr. Senn.
 According to Dr. Senn the men who went from Chickamauga and the other camps to Porto Rico were already in the first stages of typhoid fever before their de- parture for the West Indies. If the men could have gone home and received home comforts they would have escaped, but exposed to the hardships of a campaign they easily succumbed. Dr. Senn thinks the best thing to do is to hurry the troops away from Montauk and reduce the camp just as rapidly as possible.
 Dr. Brown, who is the executive head of the general hospitals differs with pr. Senn and says there is little or no danger; that the worst it would take months for the conditions which Dr. Senn foretells to pre- vail.
 The steamboat Shinnecock has been chartered by the war department and will be used as hospital ship to transport the sick from the camp hospitals to the city hospitals.