The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1898-08-27
MORE SICK SOLDIERS HERE
Men Complaining That There
is Much Delay in Getting
Their Trains Through.

Sick soldiers and those returning home
on Through continue TO arrive IN the
Pennsylvania Railroad depot and freight
yards almost hourly. They come IN
small detachrnents on the regular trains
and by the hundreds on special TRAINS.
The men complain of the delay IN the
transportation The First Regular cav
airy for instance, was reported yesterday
morning in North Carolina. 1t is en-
route from Fernandina to Montauk POINT
In a train of seven sections Yard Mas
ter McNally In this city was advised ihal
the first three sections would arrive IN
Jersey City yesterday afternoon. Inc
first section has not yet been reported as
having left Gray's Ferry, the point from
which the Jersey City officials receive
their last notification.
A number of women who nave sons IN
the First Cavalry waited around the
railroad yards last night for the arrival
Of the trains and were on hand again
early this morning. The only soldiers to
arrive last night were 400 recruits of the
Second United States Infantry, from
Camp Hobson, Lithia Springs, Ca Ihey
reached the railroad yards at the 1901
of Bay street at 1920 o'clock. Lieuten-
ants L.. s. Upton and R. NJ Brookileid
were in command. The train was In two
sections ok eight cars each, thirteen
sleepers and three baggage cars. me
troops which have arrived in the last
few days have all travelled in Pullman
cars. Formerly the well soldiers tray
elled in the ordinary day coaches of
the Southern railroads and the sick were
forced to lie in the Differentiated Plant
Line baggage cars. The complaints which
were frequent during the first days OF
the exodus from the Southern camps are
no longer heard. The>men all agree that
everything possible is being done for their
comfort while travelling, whatever the
neglect may have been in camp.
The men of the Second Infantry were
all in good health. They reported that
the water at Camp Hobson was perfectly
pure, but thai there was not quite enough
Of it. They were in good spirits while in
Jersey City and there was no fault-flnd-
ing among them. They slept in the
cars in the railroad yard last night,
Breakfast, including hot coffee from the
keystone Restaurant, was served early
this morning and the men left on a ferry
boat for Long Island City shortly before
eight o'clock. They will go direct to
Montauk Point, where they will join their
regiment.
What remains of the Second Separate
Company, New York Volunteers arrived
in the Pennsylvania depot at $40 o'clock
this morning. The men were in cars at
tached to the regular Southern express
that leaves Washington.-at midnight.
They came direct from F~ernandina.
Colonel Hardind was with the men. For
ty-seven members of the company were
TOO i'll with typhoid fever to stand the
strain of a journey and were left in the
general hospital in Fernandina. Sergeant
r. Riley, of the company died OF
the fever just before the train left the
camp. His body and those of two pri-
Yates were brought on the train with
the living soldiers. The bodies We're em-
balmed. The cars containing the men of
the Second Company remained in the de-
pot only a few minutes. They were side
tracked and attached to an engine OF the
West Shore Railroad which will take
them to Troy. The body of Sergeant
Riley was taken from the train. 1t was
left in charge of Private c. ". Petty who
will take a to Troy by way of the New
York Central Railroad
On arriving at Troy the Second Conn
pany will proceed to Pond Lake, which
is ten miles out of the city and is an ideal
spot for a camp for recuperation. The
citizens of Troy have prepared the place
for the reception of the soldiers and have
provided everything necessary for their
comfort. Private Petty declared that the
suffering in the camp at F~ernandina was
terrible. Private Fred Shaffer of Conn
pank K, Fifth Pennsylvania Volunteers.
arrived on the Southern train. He has
been given a ,furfough for thirty days and
is on his way to Portsville, Sullivan coun-
ty, New York, where he will spend his
vacation. He reported conditions at
Chickamauga where his regiment is situ-
ated as bad. He said that the water was
bad and insufficient. The men, he re-
ported, are being moved as rapidly as
possible from Chickamauga TO Lexing-
ton, Ky. OF the 1e6 men in his company
Is are in the fever hospital.