New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1898-07-30
RETURNED FROM SANTIAGO.
MRS. PORTER PAYS A TRIBUTE TO THE
BRAVE MEN FIGHTING IN CUBA
SISTER BLANCHE TELLS HOW SUPPLIES wERu
DISTRIBUTED ALIKE TO AMERT-
CANS AND cUBANs.

DISTRIBUTED ALIKE TO AMERI-
CANS AND cUBANs
Mrs. J. Addison Porter who arrived yesterday
morning from Cuba on the steamer State Of Texas.
is mt the Windsor. where Tribune reporter called
TO see her in the afternoon She not. howeves.
feeling equal 10 interview, and Mr.. Porter con.
scented to talk for her. The first question asked.
suggested by the state OF the thermometer at the
moment. was:
did Mrs. Porter find the climate In Santiago sx-
tremely hot?"
she speaks OF It as indescribable" was the 70.
ply the heat IL not really so much greater than
1t Is here. but the humidity makes 1t more op-
pressive. 1t rains every afternoon"
How do the men bear itT'
AS we'll as possible: they are fine lot Of fell
lows. evidently and make the best Of everything"
Were Santiago and Siboney really In such Q
dreadful state when they were taken?'
From what Mrs Porter says. they must have
been In an awful state The sanitary measures
that are being carried out now are changing that
fast however. Mrs. Porter. you know. went into
Santiago Harbor on the Texas. which was the FIRST
ship to enter the port after the battle. She had
approached the city from the land. before II sur.
rendered. This accomplished through tho aid
OF some OF officers. Dr. Wood too. was help
full: he is our family physician. Under good escort.
therefore, Mrs Porter got 10 within a short dis
lance OF the city. She had to go on horseback. ford
streams and pass through what may be called .
Jungle"
WAS she within Spanish nnesr'
We'll. she said she went away beyond San Juan
HILL and across the space that had been open 70
the sharpshooters But they were not attacked. and
only reeo . to find out the sanitary con-
We're the Cabans agpreciative Of the aid given
Indeed os.r. s. :S
ter Of fI the 'e work Son sas p'a'e'' anu
Mr. Porter further said that Mrs Porter ana
Ror had rfnuad fho hast Of
had taken precautions against the fever and cay
that the Sc now s not ae mf
ing that this sickness does not even resemble that
Mrs, Porter left Santiago, on July u. Sister
Blanche Of the Red Cross; being her companion
The Tas Of the vs Ss
there might be a delay at Quarantine but Mr.. Por.
tier se su nS brOh his e
city. ,,
i is uncertain whether or not Mrs. Porter s, v ,t
report on her work has been made.
SISTER BLANCHE.
Sister Blanche. who the only Red Cross
nurse aboard the State Of Texas. looked we'll. de-
spite the strain OF her minstrations to the sick
and wounded at the front. She admitted having
been Ill for few days with calentura fever. which
she said had been in her case. as we'll as In the
case OF DR.. Lesser and others, reported as yellow
fever Although in general quite reticent about ex"
pressing her opinion regarding the sunerings wnicn'
she witnessed, especially after the charge upon
Santiago Sister Blanche nevertheless told some
startling things about the suffernss in Cuba since
she reached there
No less than AIS wounded. she said. had been
brought into tent within the first twenty-four :
hours after the attack upon Santiago and that
this influx Of wounded into tho tent continued foe
four days. with only a slight gradual abatement.
Although she did not clearly admit 1t. Sister
Blanche stated that after that time convenences
for taking OF the wounded were not 10 be had;
she spoke Of the length Of time wounded men were
compelled to lie upon the ground.
Some OF these compelled to lie on the
ground for three days without food" she contin-
ued, "as there convenences for removing
them. Clara Barton, assisted by Mrs. Gardner and
a corps OF men, drove over the battlefield. where
the wounded still lay"
OF the distribution Of the supplies Sister Blanche
would only say that no partially was shown Inc
places visited by the State Of Texas Sister Blanche
said, were Guantanamo. Sboney and Santiago.
Supplies to the extent OF fourteen hundred tons.
she said. taken on board. These supplies con-
sisted OF canned meat condensed milk. and inc
like which given Unfortunately to Amer.
cans or Cubans who were found 20 De IN need OF
why you can't buy food at any price IN San
tiago Sister Blanche continued II noticed. Tor ex.
ample that was paid for canned meat ana 81
lishcd a fever hospital. Sister Blanche continued
I'm this fever hospital there were when LEFT
twenty-five fever patients All OF these had calen-
tura fever, and not yellow fever, as mas been 70
ported" - ,, .. A.
Sister Blanche would not go into details about the
treatment OF the wounded at Santiago. she would
only say that surgeons and four Sisters-nurses
had erected Not all she admitted could Do pro.
yided with cots after the surgical operation, ous
were compelled to lie upon the ground