Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1898-08-20
MANY DIED AT SEA.
Hospital Ships Arrive at Newport
News and New York With
Soldiers.

NEWPORT NEWS. VA. Aug. 1s.-The
steamer Olivette arrived at Fort Monroe
this afternoon from Santiago. having on
board 200 patients Of the Fifth army corps.
including twenty-five officers. While the
Olivette was at sea the following men died
and were buried:
Corporal Emery Brown, Company L.
Tenth cavalry. malarial dysentery. August
IA; Charles Waldman. Company Z, FIRST
District of Columbia. malarial dysentery,
August 16; ]. H. Spencer, Company l, First
Illinois, remittent fever malarial dysen-
terry, August 49, Major Caspar H. Conrad.
Eighth infantry, malarial fever. dysentery,
died off Santiago de Cuba, August Is; Her
bert H. Mccormick. First Illinois. dysen-
terry. malaria, August IS: Homer Covery.
Company F. Thirty-fourth Michigan. mala-
rial dysentery, August 10.
The following is list of the officers
aboard the vessel:
First Lieutenant Harry Freeland, Third
infantry; First Lieutenant Charles l.. Bent.
First infantry; Captain Hallett a. Burrows,
staff; First Lieutenant John c. Hines. Sec
ond Indiana: First Lieutenant Davis o.
Baker, Twelfth infantry; First Lieutenant
G. H. Estes, Twentieth infantry; Captain
R. X. Evans, Twelfth infantry; Captain R.
s; Walsh. Thirty-fourth Michigan: First
Michigan; First Lieutenant Austin H.
Brown, Fourth infantry: Second Lieutenant
a tssR Tn s5 Xfped
Remington. Tenth cavalry: First Lieuten-
ant E. E. Benjamin. First infantry; Captain
Sergeant G. H. Johnson. Ninth nth - cavalry:
First Lieutenant James W. Frier. Seven
teenth infantry; Second Lieutenant Lorain
nois First Lieutenant P. O'shea. Ninth
Massachusetts; Captain c: S. Holden; Sec
AT,-e
Eighth Ohio: Captain A. D: Mitlen. Ninth
Massachusetts,: Catain F. J; Slate, Second %
lieutenant Leroy ". Heron. First District
NEW YORK. Aug. 1s-The hospital ship
Relief arrived from Porto Rico to-day. She
left Ponce on the 14th and Mayaguez on
and and forty-eight sick and wounded soldiers
from General Miles army, Ten. deaths
from typhoid fever occurred on the yoy.
sea. sea- The body of Major Lawrence Smith.
of Philadelphia. surgeon U. s. "; Who
died at sea August 15 was inclosed in a
deaths deaths from typhoid fever occurred on the
Relief, while she was lying IN Ponce mar
| bor.
Pennsylvania: Aaron Sullivan. private,
Troop A. Fifth United States cavalry;
| Theo Brondon. private. Company A. Sec
| ond Wisconsin, and Charles A. Currier.
private, United States hospital corps.
! Following are the names of the nine men
| buried at sea:
| Richard NJ. Stevens. of Texas, packer;
| Charles NJ. Ward, private. Company C,
| Sixteenth infantry; Holland Thompson pri-
vate hospital corps; Royal Young. private
Brown. private, Company B. Sixth Illi-
nois: John L. Barney. private Company
| A. Sixteenth Pennsylvania: George Wen.
| den, quartermaster sergeant. Company C.
| Sixth Massachusetts: W. Reed. private
Company X. Fourth Ohio: Irving Campbell
| corporal. Company c. Third Illinois.
| fever on the Relief, including those who
have died. was 167. and the number aboard
| of her when she arrived to-day was 1853
| The Relief also brought twenty wounded
| men. including three officers, the most OF
| whom were shot in the battle near Maya.
| guez on August 10.