Evening star., 1898-09-19
DEATHS AT CAMP MEADE
Recent Arrival of New Troops Increases
Cases of Fever.
Second West Virginia to Take Part
in UnveiIine Monument at
Gettysburg Tomorrow.

CAMP MEADE, Pa. September 19.-Pri-
vate Philip Baker, Company A, 18th Regi-
ment, died today of typhoid fever in the
Red Cross hospital.
Corporal Ira Keck Company F. 10th
Ohio. died last night of typhoid fever at
the 1st Division hospital. Colonel Kreps
received word from Carrier, Jefferson coun-
ty, today that Private Gilbert c. Freck of
Company /, 18th Pennsylvania. had died
during the night. Lieutenant II. b. Coke,
quartermaster of the 18th Pennsylvania
Regiment, is critically i'll at the Harrisburg
hospital.
The recent arrivals of naw troops in camp
from distance have served to increase the
number of fever patients. Two New York
regiments from Camp Black have the
greatest number of sick. TIE Red Cross
wards have been cnl lrg2d to accommodate
hfty more typhoid patients. Fifteen fever
patients were sent to St .To5erll's Hospital
Lancaster, today, and tomorrow twenty
hve viii be taken to Lebanon. The narses
at the Red Cross hospital are constantly
engaged caring for fever patients.
Chief Surgeon Girard has given orders
ttat hereafter the religious denominations
of the soldiers admitted to hospitals must
be ascertained. in order to summon min
lister of their faith when there is a certain
ty of death. The chaplains are doing eff
fective work among the sick in the hos
ptals.
The I'd West Virginia will tomorrow
march to Gettysburg to assist in the un-
yelling of a monument
1t Will be gone two weeks. The 10Th
Pennsylvania Regiment left for home this
afternoon, and the men were beside them
selves with joy over the prospect of get
ting out of the service Gen. Gohin's bri-
sade. the Sd of he 1st Division. ex-
poets to be ordered to Cuba among the
first. Since the men realize that they are
to go to Cuba they are becoming reconcied
to the situation, ard there is OF so much
complaint.
Deaths Mt Camp WikOT.
CAMP WIKOF.F, Montauk Point, J.. l..
September 19.-The deaths reported from
the general hospital today were:
Austin Dunlap, Company L, Sd Regular
Cavalry, who died from the result Of IN
operation for tyacnia.
John Lander. corporal, 21st Infantry, dys-
entery.
William H. Brown. 9th Massachusetts,
dysentery.
DR.. Sem. assistant surgeon general, who
has been here for several weeks. left to-
day. DR.. Greenleaf succeeds DIR. Sem in
the hospital here.
There are 72l patients in the general hos
plta!. This increased number is due to the
TACT that the patients from the divisional
hospitals have been all NOV Il to the son
eIa, he Dtal.
New York today. and the yacht Red Cross
took fifteen sick of the 9th and I'd Regi-
nents OF Massachusetts to New London.
A large number of men left on furlough
today.
Three new wooden hospital buildings are
being put up, as it Is believed that many
of the sick patients cannot be moved for
some time yet.
The question of sending Cen Wheeler's
cavalry brigade to Huntsville Ala has
caused numerous messages to be exchanged
between Gen. Wheeler and the War De-
partment. Gen. Wheeler says he does not
know just when the cavalrymen will be
moved from Montauk, but he expects that
they will be ordered away by the first of
the month
Gen. Wheeler, who fully expects to re-
turn to Congress. will resign from the army
service early in October. He says he will
DO what he can for his men in the way of
having them located in a healthful camp
before he leaves the service.