The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-09-01

equal to the demands made upon them and
last night $50 sick soldiers We're obliged 10
lie on the bare floors. instead of being pro-
vided with cots. A majority of these were
members of the First Illinois Regiment. who
reached Montauk Point yesterday on board
the transport Berlin. The work of removing
the sick soldiers TO their homes or TO city
hospitals is to be pushed as rapidly as pos
sible. The steamer Shinnecock is at Mon
tauk Point being fitted up as hospital
ship and a corps of doctors and nurses have
been detailed To care for the sick soldiers
while they are being transported TO this
city. The transport Yucatan has been fitted
up as a hospital ship with accommodations
for $50 She is expected to sail for New
York with that number of sick this even
ing. The delcacies which arrived in camp
last evening for the First Illinois Volun-
teers were distributed TO the boys to-day.
Chaplain T. c. Stewart, of the Twenty
fifth Regular Infantry, is in New Jersey
purchasing watermelons. peaches and other
fruits for the troops. He sent word to-day
that he had secured four hundred melons
and one hundred baskets OF peaches, and
hoped to get more. Chaplain Stewart is a
colored man, and it was for the benefit of
the colored troops that he went on the for
aging expedition The men of Companies
and NJ. of the Texas Volunteers. and
those of A and ID. of the First Artillery,
were landed from the transport San Marcos
to-day and went to the detention camp.
The San Marcos is being made ready 10
serve as a hospital transport TO carry sick
to New York
There is no change in the programme Of
the government as to getting all the volun-
tecgs out of Camp Wikoff just as fast as
they can be sent away. Some time to-mor-
row the Thrty-third Michigan will depart.
1t is possible that a hospital train of sick
Michigan troops may leave the camp about
Saturday. The Thirty-fourth Michigan
VIII leave on Friday This will bring the
lisr of volunteers here down considerably.
The general hospital is getting smaller rap
ids now, and, despite the fact that there
are new arrivals every hour the number
is decreasing Three hundred sick were
taken out of the hospital and transferred
to the Shinnecock, which is now division
hospital under command of Surgeon Major
Borden. The Shinnecock sailed for New
York where the sick will be transferred to
hospitals. The Red Cross yacht Red Cross
took fifteen more away this afternoon to
New London, Conn One hundred and
twenty-five of the members of the First IL
landed from the Catania are in the deten-
ton camp. Most of these are convalescent.
Twenty-Five Illinois men who landed from
the transport Berlin, and were also placed
in the detention camp, are doing well.
Corporal J. \. COrbett of Company G.,
Seventeenth Infantry, who had been in the
hospital, but has recovered and returned
TO duty, was fixing his bed last night, when
he suddenly expired. Heart disease Is
thought TO have been the cause.
The dead reported al the hospital to-day
are: Alexander Heller, Company b, Eighth
Ohio. typhoid; Henry Bordick, Troop K
Tenth Cavalry, malaria; Philip Gooch, COM
pany f, Twenty-tifth Infantry, typhoid:
John w. Crawford. Troop \, Ninth Cavalry.
typhoid; Frank Kane Company E, Twenli-
eth Infantry; Private Wolfenberg, Com
pany l. Seventh Infantry; James +. Jer-
nan, Company X, Twenty-second Regiment;
Timothy Cancay, Company B, Seventh In-
fantry
The hospital reports to-day are: General
hospital, 1872; detention hospital 416