The record-union., 1898-07-28

stimulant, and part of it at least can'
from observation, be said to nave 1ailen
into the hands OF the men. Cubans ana
Americans filed into the empty houses
of the town, without inquiry as to their
antecedentS.
Major Legarde. in charge of the beach
hospital, did recommend earnestly on
landing that every building ashore be
burned Major Wood and Colonel Pope.
it is understood, indorsed this, but the
advice was not needed The camp was
established in the heart of the Spanish
town, and the first yellow fever case
was that of Burr Mcintosh, the actor
and newspaper man, who had been
stopping at General Bates headquar-
ters. in one of the pretty vine-covered
cottages above mentioned
DR.. Lesser and his wife, SISTER Be-
tina" the New York workers of the
Red Cross both were taken to the yell
low fever camp yesterday from one of
those lovely verdure bedecked pest
houses Another Red Cross nurse
shared the same fate.
After the fever was discovered the
other day every effort was made to
check it and stamp it out, but the
Cases were taken out of the surgical
wards of the hospital tents. and out of
the officers tent General Duffield was
one of the victims, and he is now in
the general camp of detention. One of
his aides, Captain Fred Alger, son of
the Secretary of War, is now in quar-
antine, having tended General Duffield
before the latter officer was a suspect.
ic
is likely to develop the disease.
Since the cases developed here at
the beach hospital they have begun to
come in from the front six miles away
with startling swiftness. The men
Were worn down with hard work, hard
fighting and repeated drenchings under
the handkerchief-like shelter tents.
Were exposed to the infection of the
hores of 10000 refugees that swept out
of Santiago like a cloud of locusts as
soon as the gates We're opened, and set
tied like yellow curse over the Amer
lean advance. The soldiers We're held
down to bedrock limit in rations, to
help feed this same horde.
Reports of infection have begun to
come in from the front at the rate of
1G0 sick a day. First 30 per cent. of
these We're yellow fever cases, then 90
and now 20 per cent. Such is the pres
ent condition. The houses have been
burned, the hospitals have been emptied
of both sick and wounded the first be-
ing sent to the fever camp or the OBJ
serVaJion camp, as occasion warranted,
and the others placed aboard the trans
ports to go north, or on the two float
ing hospital ships, the Relief and So
lace, where they will have the best at
tentiOn without danger of Infection.
The transports are not all escaping,
however. Three cases have been taken
off the vessels in the haror and sent to
the fever camp near Juragua city.
The big division hospital seems like a
canvas city of the dead. The scores of
white tents stand empty beneath the
bright sunshine. All the wounded are
gone A few attendants hover about
the big office tent and pharmacy. while
a white capped nurse or two keep in
order the bright instruments and clean
the table of the operating tent. A few
doctors and attendants fill the mess
tent at meal hours, for one must eat
even in epidemics, and earnest
Chaplain or two drops in from the front
TO look after the spiritual needs of the
boys and have a rest under the shade
of DR.. La Garde's tent
The great busy surgical hospital how
ever, is a memory Of the past. 1t is here
all ready for business on the instant
of another fight, and a force of lazy
Cubans. goaded by some weary Michi-
gan volunteers, are polishing the streets
and picking up refuse and waste paper.
II is the first work the correspondent
has seen any Cubans do since the war
began.
Down on the beach Colonel Jack"
Weston's commissary department is
still running-a small, thriving town,
whose sole commerce is to hurry for
ward pack trains and wagon trains of
food to the front. to be eaten mostly
by the Cubans; but that is another tale.
But we from the hospital camp quaran-
tine against Colonel Jack" so far as
we can do without him, and he is too
busy TO quarantine agoinst US, so there
is not much social intercourse between
the settlements. The fever camp, out
of sight of the valley, is cut off utterly
except for the train which rolls back
and forth several times each day with
its sinister yellow flag and its cargo
of victims and supplies.
TWO HUNDRED CASES OF YELL
LOW FEVER.
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DIVISION HOSPITAL, CAMP JU-
RAGUA. July 21.-fThere are POO yell
low fever cases here and at the front