The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1898-09-16

iiliilDlN Fblulit''lS hiiis'b w fO't
Island city at 5:l5, Thursda,
on their way to Wehaw-
ken, TO take passage west. The
men were in bad shape and totally
unlike the soldiers who so joysully
broke camp, Wednesday morning
10 90 to their homes. The delays
attending their departure from Mon
tauk and
A SERIES OF BLUNDERS
which caused unnecessary suffering
was the cause of the condition oil
the men.
The men marched out Of theI
camp Wednesday morning, at $50,
the sick being carried in wagons
When the station was reached, i'll
was found that the sp cial train or
dered was not ready, nor was there
any accom- modation for the sick.
In disgust, Col. Turner marched his
men back to camp.
Cars were gathered for the sick
but the surgeons refused to use
them. They were
NOT FIT FOR CATTLE.
Finally it was arranged to send
the sick to New York ON the trans
por; Shinnecock. The men, after
much suffering, were put aboard
the vessel, but the steamer was
compelled to put back on account
of the storm.
Late at night, the patients were
dispatched to Long Island City on
hastily contrived transports. Dur
ing the entire day men we're
EXPOSED TO THE BROILING
HEAT
OF the cloudless sky, without food
or water, and they groaned in pain
and anguish, and many seemed to
be dying. There were sick men
everywhere, on the benches of the
station, on the floor, on the bare
ground, in the sun, all pale and
suffering from heat and exhaustion.
"Give me a blank, cried sell
geant to the telegraph operator. 81
want to send my folks word before
| die. -
Then he fell in the arms Of his
comrades in faint. Such scenes
were eloquent.
Men who were scarcely able to
stand bought pies from vendor
and
CRIED PITEOUSLY
When the surgeons dashed the un
wholesome food from their hands.
1t was mercy to do so, but these
sick men did not understand it.
The sick and convalescents were
on the road all night, and suffered
terribly on account OF the made
quate accommodations and lack OF
proper supplies and attendance.
Col. Turner is indignant at the
treatment received by his regiment.
1t was, on the whole, a
REPETITION OF THE BUNG-
LING
displayed when the Eighth Ohio
was moved 1t took just IL hours
to transport the Illinois regiment
to Long Island City, a distance Of
1l6 miles. The regiment might
have been at the camp yet bat for a
threat Of Col. Turner to seize train.
OF this feature of the regiments ex-
perience, Col. Turner said, Thurs.
day morning: "At the station !
was informed that we could not get
trains until morning. / said |
wanted to 60 last night. The SUI
perintendent shrugged his shoulders
and replied that it was impossible.
| then telegraphed to the main
office Of the railroad at Long Island
City that | wanted those cars got
ready for my regiment; that if they
were not in in an hour, would
send two companies to take them.
And | meant it. That brought
them to their senses"
AT Long Island City, Thursday
morning, many Of the sick men had
to be carried to the Emerge ncy
hospital on litters. Six of the men
were in state Of collapse and will
have to 20 to local hospitals.
! Evansville Journal, Republican
The deplorable condition Of the
troops arriving at northern camps
has been a humiliating revelation
to the American people, which viii
most assuredly have important con
sequences. The last transports are
if possible, in worse condition thar
were those making port two weeks
ago. TIE soldiers throughout arr
living witnesses to not only the raw