Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1898-11-23
ASKED TO Be QUIET.
Story of a Woman Who Offered
as a Nurse but Did Not Un.
derstand Silence"
DECLINES TO HAME TIE GUILTY,

Eut Says IN Army OIice- Refused He
Services Because She Would Not Ag=e,
| tn say Nothing of What Was Wrong
OTHER Testimony That i Rough OF
Camp WikoT-RoosereIt Tells His tx
| periences in Getting to Cuba.
New York, Nov. 23.-The first witness
| before the war investigators yesterday
was Mrs Susan G. Powell, of this city
We called you" explained General
| Wilson. 'becaUse we heard that when
You offered to so TO camp as nurse
ycu We're not accepted because you
would not agree to maintain secrecy
| should you find any dereIiction of duty.
We wish 70 know who tried TO exact
| such promise from you" Mrs. Powell
did not want to answer the question.
but finally said: E. 1t was an officer in
the army. I do not know what author
ity the person had in camp.
Ny offer and its rejection were made
III private house" Nothing further
could be obtained from her.
Tells Abouis transportation.
Colonel A :. Kimball. assistant quar-
termaster general of the United States
army, gave information about the
chartering OF ships. and contracts for
tran I OrtatlCn. The prices paid he said
were fair and reasonable. Replying to
a question as to complaints of delay on
the Long Island railroad, Colonel Kim
ban said: y know of no complaints ex-
cept in the case of an Illinois volunteer
regiment which was anxious to get
home. A new local quartermaster did
not know that 1 had planned to have
the troops moved on regular schedule.
With the assistance OF the colonel Of the
regiment the local CUartermaster got
the Long Island road 10 bring the reg
iment away from camp with the result
that the men arrived in Jersey City
eighteen hours before the Lehigh Val
ley road was ready to handle them. y
Similar misunderstanding took place the
next day when an Ohio regiment wished
to be moved"
Corroborates Dr.. S:imson's Story.
Sidney Lowell. OF Brooklyn. spent
Sept. S, 10. i and Il at Camp Wikoff.
He said he desired to cCrroborate the
testimony given by Misses Manson and
Garrard ard Or. Stimsou relative to the
conditions at the camp. Miss Mary c.
Lowell. daughter Of Sidney Lowell. said
she personally talked TO every man OF
eight regiments of regulars. Half of
them were on the sick report and many
others We're sick. too sick TO go TO the
Doctors tent. There was a great scare
ity OF doctors and Miss Lowell consider
ed many Of the contract doctors care
less and Indifferent 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 reEi-
mental doctors and the doctors took no
notice. she gave the names Of the doc
tors. too.
Contradicts Major Brown.
Few. Henry L. Bryan, of the Garden
City cathedral, presented himself to
speak Of the manner in which the SOL
diers dying in hospitals were buried. lie
said the publication of a statement by
Major Brown that all the bodies were
decently buried had induced him to
come forward to testify. In his pub
lished statement" said Bryan. Major
Brown said there was no truth in the
report that the bodies were rot decent
" buried: that every body was en-
halmed and deCcltly clothed in a new
uniform: that a bottle containing his
name and all the Information obtain
able about him was buried in his coffin
and that a cross marked every grave.
1 believe Major Brown gave those or
GeTs and issued the clothes. l know
personally of twenty bodies that were
not buried as Major Brown says they
were. and / wonGsr what became of the
and Of the money paid for the
He did not know who was responsible
for this. or for the fact that after an
autopsy had been held on a soldiers
body the organs removed We're left ly-
ing about until somebody threw them
q way