The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-11-23
BURIED LIKE BEASTS
WAR INQUIRY BOARD DEyEIops
ADDITIONAL SENSATIONAL
DISCLOSURES
GROSS NEGLECT is SHOWN


diers, but without Result
Morgue Attendants Sat Upon
Collins, Smoked, Laughed and
Told Stories.
NEW YORK, Nov. 22.-The war in
quiry board examined a large number
of witnesses today. many of whom
ccrroborated statements made at
previous sittings CT the Board. The
most sensational testimony of the day
was that OF Miss Lowell and Rev.
Henry Bryan.
Miss Mary c. Lowell, daughter of
Sidney Lowell, said she personally
talked 10 every man of eight regiments
of regulars. Half of them We're on the
sick report, and many others were sick
too sick to go to the doctors tent Thsre
was a great scarcity Of DOCTORS and
Miss Lowell considered many OF the
contract doctors careless and indiffer-
emit to the men. She gave names of
men she had found sick in their tents,
and said that she had reported some of
the cases to the regimental doctors,
and the doctors took no notice She
found enc man with a temperature OF
106, and reported TO DR.. Thomas Dr.
Thomas said he would see to it, but
when she visited the man, twenty
four hours later, the doctor had not
seen him. Miss Lowell mentioned other
doctors who, she said had neglected
their duty, and said great suffering re-
suited from the ill-manag ement of the
ambulance service. Miss Lowell said
the condition of affairs in the general
hospital was shocking. She corroborat-
ed the testimony of the previous Wit
nesses as to the lack of sanitary pre-
cautions and the plague Of flies.
Rev Henry Bryan, Of the Garden
City cathedral, presented himself to
speak of the manner IN which the SOL
diers dying in hospitals were buried.
Mr.. Bryan went TO Camp Wikoff on
Sept 2. He said the publication of
statement by Maj. Brown, that all the
bodies were decently baifhed had in
duced him to come forward to testify.
MAI. BROWNS MISTAKES.
I'm his published statement" said
Mr.. Bryan, Maj. Brown said there
was no truth in the report that the bod
les were not decently buried; that
everybody was errblamed and decantly
clothed in new uniform that a bot
tie containing his name and all the
information obtainab!e about him was
buried in his coffin, and that a cross
marked every grave. i believe Mai.
Brown gave those orders and issued
the clothes, but his orders were not
carried out. 1 know personally Of
twenty bodies that We're not buried as
Maj. Brown says they were, and I
wonder what became OF the clothing
and of the money paid for the emblam-
ing. l do not question Maj. Brown in
any way. He had not time to see that
his orders were carried out Coughlan
ard kohler, who were Bellevue hospi-
tai badges, were in charge of the burial
Of the dead. My duties led me by the
rorgue every day, and l stopped into
see who had died during the night
saw the naked bodies of soldiers placed
in bare pine collins and the name Of
the man and his regiment written on
the lid of the coffin. OF course. the
damp earth quickly obliterated these
marks. and no further records were
kept. Sometimes the body was buried
in night shirt but they never took
the trouble to button the shirt.
GROSSLY INDECENT.
cit was grossly indescert. At the
n1orgue the attendants sat on the coffin
with the bodies In them and chewed
and smoked ard told indecent Stories
L rebuked them once, but they were
BoEery toughs, and it was useless to
talk to them"
Did you complain to any one?' ask
ed Gen, Beaver.
mot until I read Maj. Browns state
ment. l thought Ii was according to
the regulations to bury the dead max
ed"
do you know who was responsible
for the conditions you found?"
No; l understand that a Mrs. Roo
bling paid CCughlan and Kohler to go
to camp and take charge of the morgue
there. An autopsy was made on the
body of Barney Try and organs re-
moved were left lying about until the
! attendants tied them up in a towel and
threw them away" E
First Lieutenant H DIN. Seventy
first volunteers, testified that the men
were somewhat crowded on the trans
port Vigilancia, going to Siboney, and
that the water aboard was not good.
Returning to the United States on the
| Grande Duchesse, his men Jared well,
because there was 100 tons of commits
sary supplies on board and they helped
themselves.
Mrs. L. G. Woodhouse,l who was at
/ Camp Wikoff nearly every day for five
weeks, after Aug 6, testified as to the
early preparations made for the recep-
ton of the troops, and to the conditions
that prevailed later She coroborated
the testimony already presented by
Miss GarTard, Miss Chadwick and Miss
Lowell. but presented no new views.
COL. ROOSEVELT TESTIFIES.
Col. Theodore Roosevelt came in
while Mrs. Woodhouse was on the
stand. Col. Roosevelt next took the
stand and ion reply to a request from
Gen Wilson told Of the equipment and
mastering in of the First volunteer
cavalry, known as the rough riders.
when we reached Tampa" Col.
Roosevelt said, there was a condition
Of utter confusion. We were dumped
outside a mile away from our camp.
| No one knew where the camp was
There was no one to tell where to go
/ or what to do. After waiting twenty
/ four hours I took the law into my own
hands and bought food for the men and
/ hospitals Furthermore. when we
| found our camp we were all right"
''Were you reimbursed for your out
lay?"
II never asked It It was a personal
matter, entirely"
Col. Roosevelt said a great condition
OF confusion existed at Tampa Nobody
| seemed to know anything and no ar
| "a ngements were evident as to what
/ transports were to be used. His own
| regiment was assigned to the Yucatan.
| Incidentally, he heard that the Sew
/ enty-flrSSt New York volunteers and
| Second infantry, were also assigned to
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