Daily new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1897-1906, 1898-11-23


of Camp Wikoff, IN body, but would
send committee to prepare report.
Mrs. Susan G. Powell of this city
was the first witness.
1--WE called YOU" explained General
Wilson, because we heard that when
you offered to go to camp as a nurse
you were not accepted because you
would not agree TO maintain secrecy
should you find any dereliction of duty.
We wish to know who exacted such "a
promise from you.
She said she made the offer to an
officer of the auxiliary of the Red Cross
society. He was an officer in the army,
but she did not know what authority
he had in camp. She refused to tell
who it was.
Miss Mary G. Lowell said she found
one man with a temperature of 106 and
reported to DIR. Thomas.
DR.. Thomas SAID he would see to it,
but when she visited the man "a hours
later the doctor had not seen him.
Miss Lowell mentioned other doctors
who. she said, had neglected their duty,
and said great suffering resulted from
the management of the ambulance
service.
Rev. Henry B. Bryan of the Garden
City cathedral testified as to burials at
Camp Wikoff He replied to Major
Brown s statement that bodies were de-
Gently buried, according to his orders.
He said in part:
81 believe Major Brown gave those
orders and issued the clothes, but that
his orders were not carried out. [ know
personally of 20 bodies that were not
buried as Major Brown says they were
and | wonder what became of the
clothing and of the money paid for the
embalmIng.
81 do not question Major Brown in
any way. He had not time to see that
his orders were carried out. Coughlin
and kohler, who wore Bellevue hospi-
tai badges, were in charge of the burial
of the dead.
my duties led me by the morgue
every day and | stopped in to 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
the body was buried in night shirt,
but they never took the trouble to but
ton the shirt.
lit was grossly indecent. At the
morgue the attendants sat on the cof-
fins, with the bodies in them, and
chewed and smoked and told indecent
stories. I rebuked them once, but they
were Bowery toughs and it is useless to
talk to them.
''Do you know who was responsible
for the conditions you found?"
mo. understand that Mrs. Roeb-
ling paid Coughlin and Kohler to go
to the camp and take charge of the
morgue there. An autopsy was made
ON the body of Barney Trio, and organs
removed were left lying about until the
attendants tied them up in towel and
threw them away"
George Wallace of Freeport, L. l.,
said his son returned from Cuba on the
Berkshire. He was put aboard III pre-
carious condition and a stateroom ON
the ship was assigned to him. The
doctor ordered him special diet, but he
was unable to get the food without pay
ing rs cents for each meal. He had no
money, but friend of Mr.. Wallace's
who was aboard advanced it to him.
Colonel Roosevelt took the stand and
in reply to request from General Will
son told of the equipment and muster
ing in of the First volunteer cavalry,
known as the rough riders.
"When we reached Tampa" Colonel
Roosevelt said, there was a condition
of utter confusion. We were dumped
outside. mile away from our camp.
No one knew where the camp was.
There was nc one TO tell us where to go
or what to do. After waiting "a hours
took the law into my own hands and
bought food for the men and horses.
Later, when we found our camp, we
were all right"
~ ere you reimbursed for your
outlay"
81 never asked it. 1t was a personal
matter entirely"
His own regiment was assigned to the
Yucatan. Incidentally. he heard that
the Second infantry and Seventy first
New York volunteers were also assigned
to the Yucatan. As soon as he heard
chat he hurried on the rough riders and
took possession of the ship, and held it
against other regiments. His men had
decided to get to Cuba, and they got
there.
Captain shaw, who was associated
with Colonel Roosevelt in the navy de-
partment, sent Cuban pilot on board
the Yucatan, and he took the transport
a mile and half nearer shore than any
of the other transports.
There was q great scarcity of mate
rial for landing men, horses and sup
plies.
Colonel Roosevelt still replying to
questions told in detail Of the march of
his regiment to its first camping place.
Later he told of the march on the Span
ish position at Las Quasimas. Further