The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1898-08-19
MADE A SENSATION!

Nonpany VI boys AtuaCteu botn Atten'
ton and Sympathy, IN Detroit, Sunday
The Detroit Free Press of Monday
contained the following;
Residents of Detroit strolling as usua
in great numbers up and down lower
Woodward avenue yesterday afternoon
had something out of the ordinary to at
tract their attention. Dressed in their
Sunday best and looking happy and well
fed, they paused and stared al two men
clad in Uncle Sans blue with go. G 33'
on the collars of their coats. Their cloth
ing was badly dilapidated and their slow
and laborious gait contrasted strangely
with the free and easy swing of the men
who had stayed at home.
The two men in question were Privates
Archie Hammond and o. L Norcross, of
Owosso, both of Co. G, Thirty-third Mich
igan Volunteers. Both had suffered at
tacks of malarial fever, but Norcross was
by far the worst for it. He looked pale
as ghost and was so weak that he could
hardly walk along. When standing still
talking to Free Press representative he
at once began looking around for place
to sit down. Hammond had stood the
attack far better, but he was hardly in
what one would call the pink of health.
Hammond wore the regulation suit with
brown leggins. Through the string band
of his SLOUGH slate colored hat he had
stuck tooth brush. Norcross had pur-
chased in New York pair of brown jean
trousers which he said were cooler than
the regulation kind.
These men were members of a party of
twelve Michigan men that arrived from
New York yesterday noon, The others
were Fred Kamm, of New Buffalo, and
Henry Schroeder, of Bay City, both of the
SD, members respectively of Companies
G and G; Sam Wellington, from the upper
peninsula, Saith Regiment; VIM. Sine and
Joe Ribble, Alpena, Co. B, SD; James E.
McGregor, Black River, Co. B, 33d Paul
LaBarge, Bay City, and Frank Burmeis-
ter, Saginaw, both of Co. E, SD; Private
Leech, OF Jackson; James Smye, of Ply
mouth, also of the 33d. Mr.. Smye left
the party at Buffalo, and went home via
the Grand Trunk.
They were all with party of about 200
that left Siboney on the steamer Santiago,
July 10, for Egmont Key. Privates Ham,
mond and Sine were particularly vehe-
ment in denouncing the treatment the
men received on that transport. They
were doled out two hardtacks and piece
of "red horse" or corn beef, per meal,
and all of this, the men are unanimous in |
saying, was unfit for any one but dog. |
They had poor coffee to wash the spoiled |
food down, and once or twice they had |
soup made from roast beef, and the men
say they passed it by because it was so
bad, although it offered change of diet.
"Jn fact" said Sine, cit is impossible to
overdo it and say too much against our
treatment. 1t was vile. The water must
have been aboard that ship all summer.
There was no ice. 1t was the foulest boat
ever saw and we slept on deck, with
no shelter from the rain
The Santiago arrived at Egmont Key,
Florida, July 80, and they were in quar-
antine ten days. They say they were
wired up with barbed wire fences seven
feet high like a lot of cattle in slaughter
pen. The trip from Egmont Key to New
York city was made in the Seguranca.
That voyage, the men say, was all right.
They received good treatment and food,
getting pickles, peaches etc. They ar
rived in New York Saturday, and there
the party broke up to 60 to their homes.
The Michigan men arrived yesterday
noon at the Michigan Central station.
"Most of us had had the malarial few
err" said Hammond, "but we were in
pretty fair shape when we boarded the
Santiago. That boat broke us all up. 1t
war far worse than Cuba. That trip is
more responsible than the fever for our !
condition today"
All of these men were in the fight at
Aguadores. Private Hammond was with
a detachment that was sent out ahead to
draw the fire of the enemy so that the
ships could locate them and send shells
to warm them up. None of the men in
Co. G were killed. About fifteen men
did most of the firing. Lieut.. Mcdonald
was the officer in charge of the detach-
ment for the sortie. Private Hammond
saw the Spaniard sharpshooter who
wrought such havoc among the officers
on the march. The man was brought
prisoner into camp. He was rugged up in
bark and leaves so that even at short
distance and among other foliage he could
hardly be distinguished. He used smoke
less powder. From his perch in the tree
he picked off the officers after the COM
mand has passed by him and killed eigh-
ty-six, it is said, before he was located
and surrendered.