The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1898-11-19
WAR INVESTIGATORS
A Day of Testimony in the Ma
TONS Metropolis.
THE REGULATION PRESCRIPTION

AiiNHAt Injury VI tht pDNNhN'
New YORK Regiment, say 1t Was
"Two pills For n Fever and Three
For Broken Arm.''
New York. Nov. 19.-Before the war
investigating commission yesterday
Dr. Greenleaf, chief surgeon of the
troops in the field, on General Miles
staff, testified as to the delay in land
ing medical supplies at Siboney Cuba.
Asked who finally unloaded these sup
plies he said: Il did. captured some
pontoons and took the law into my
own hands"
"You unloaded in SO hours supplies
that had been lying in the harbor two
weeks. Why did not DR.. Pope, chief
surgeon of General Skaters corps,
land them within those two weeksY
81 suppose he was at the front at
tending to the wounded"
There is no doubt" said DR.. Conner
that somebody was dreadfully at
fault. Can't you help us to find out
who 1t was?"
Dr. Greenleaf said he could not.
Privates David j. Goss and Henry
Hanck, of the Seventy-first regiment
said the food supply was ample in
Cuba but there were no facilities for
cooking. They had no complaints to
make.
William Hamilton Henry, whose son
served as a private in Company B, of
the Seventy first regiment during the
campaign, told Of a visit to Camp
Wikoff in search of his son. who was
sick. He found him lying on the bare
ground in a tent. The officers tents
were all floored Mr. Henry told of the
of ,It 70, t,t.
| son, and how he finally succeeded by
a personal appeal to General Wheeler.
Richard w. Henry the son, was
called. He was taken sick after the
surrender of Santiago. Speaking Of the
treatment he received from the army
surgeons in Cuba, Henry said that they
did the best they could and treated
every one alike.
'In fact" he said, they made no
distinction in manner of treatment or
| in medicine. 1t was two pills for a
fever and three pills for a broken arm"
Henry returned from Cuba in the
transport Grand Duchess. Immedi-
ately on landing at Montauk Point on
Aug. 16 he went to the detention hos
pital. With some Of his comrades he
was assigned to some new tents in the
hospital.
When asked what he received to eat
he said
"I suppose they forgot us. We did
not get anything until the next day,
when an orderly gave UP some soup.
A surgeon visited us at noon. He made
a cursory examination of us and said
he would send us some medicine i'm
mediately. The medicine did not reach
US until late at night"
DR. Frank nODaldsOn ybo iOfped
Colonel Roosevelt's regiment in Cuba
on July s, and who was stricken with
yellow fever on July a. followed Mr.
| Henry on the witness stand. Asked by
| DR.. Conner as to the condition of the
hospitals he replied: "I do not wish
to criticize DIR. lie Garde, whom I
greatly admire. but they were entirely
swamped. There was insufficient sup
| ply of medical stores, nurses and stew
ards. The majority of the stewards
were of a most undesirable character
! and should never have been selected
for such service"
DR.. Donaldson said there were medi-
cal supplies, but they could not be
! reached. Speaking of his own regiment
ne said he got supplies because he
went out and hustled for them.
"They were not served out to you?"
! asked lr. conner.
mot by a large majority" was the
reply. I'VE got what we hustled for,
and nothing else"
Did the men receive good care and
attention in the hospitals?"
"They suffered from lack of care be
cause of the inefficiency of the nurses
The doctors were efficient and devot
ed"
DR.. Conner asked If II was possible
to get better class of nurses, and wher
Dr. Donaldson said no he asked why
the department should be blamed fol
what could not be avoided.
| There was no excuse" said DR.. Don.
aldson, "for sending them there, an6
for not sending supplies"
do you know they sent no supplies? p
"If they sent them they must have
vanished into Cuba Libre; they did no
reach us"
General Wilson and General Beaver
asked DR. Donaldson several question.
based upon newspaper clippings detail
ing "outrages on the soldiers" DR.
Donaldson declared them all untrue
and reiterated his statments that ther,
was no fault anywhere and that sew.
eral statements made were absolute
lies"
The witness denied the truth of the
statement that Captain c. b. Wurden
of the Seventh regiment died of starva-
ton.
Mrs. Mary Manson. of West Fifty
first street, was the last witness of the
day. She had been at Camp Wlkoff in
charge of a division of the Woman s
| War Relief association. She said the
men at Camp Wikoff had suffered
| greatly and had been i'll treated. When
General Dodge told her that the men
had testified that they were not badly
treated, and had not been neglected at
Camp Wikoff, Mrs. Manson declared
that If they so testified they had said
what was not true.