Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1898-11-18
HAD NO HELP FROM THE cUBANs.
They Came in After the Battle Fairly
Smelling for a WIGHT.

Spelling for Fight.
| In reply to a question as TO what aid
he had secured from the Cubans in this
j fight he replied none whatever. The
| Cuban guides had deserted him upon
the first fire. General Castillo. on the
| night before, had told him that he
| would send 500 Cubans with him, but
| when the next morning he had sent to
| notify Castillo that he was prepared to
| proceed his messenger had found a card
| on the Cuban commanders door saying
that he must not be disturbed. He had
| therefore proceeded without the Gu
bans. After the fight was over. however,
| some of the CubanS had come up under
| the command of a FrenChman who
| saluted him very tragically with his
sabre, saying that he had been ordered
by General Castillo to follow the enemy
and fight him wherever he could find
him.
General Young said he had been the
only man in the command at La Qua
sima who was mounted. and that he
rode a mule. He carried no baggage
except q rubber siicker, a pajama and
toothbrush. Immediately after the
Guasima fight he had looked the ground
over towards FL Carey and had in
formed General Wheeler that he was
confident he could take the place that
night WIN MS DflS3Ce II allONGO TO 90
SO. General Wheeler had replied that
his orders from General Shafter were
not to advance without notifying him,
and that he would notify the general
of his General Young's) wishes. He
had not heard anything more officially
in regard to the matter.
With this General Young's service in
Cuba ceased, as he was taken down
with fever on June So. and sent back
home. After d period of sickness he
was sent to Montauk Point to estab-
lish Camp Wikoff. He detailed the diff
cuIties Of the preparation of the camp.
He said it had been impossible to get
in floors, and that he had not consid-
cred them necessary, either for health
or comfort. Il gave them lumber and
hammers and nails, however, and told
them TO make themselves floors if they
wanted them. 1 thought they We're
being treated too much like babies"
Regarding the commissary supplies he
said they were abundant and that food
enough had been allowed to spoil to
feed 1900 men daily.
The hospital and quartermaster
stores were also ample. He had never
in all his experience seen army hospi-
tails so well supplied with medicines and
stores of all kinds. LAS to what was
done there for the soldiers" he said.
Il think I deserved more credit for
what 1 did at Montauk than for what
did at La Guasima. L think more was
done than should have been done for
the soldiers" Telling of the hardships
Of one command which had just arrived
from Cuba he said: They were not the
heroes, being only regulars" He said
the privations of the war We're not so
serious as Indian campaigns he had
been engaged in. There had been oc-
casions when he and his command had
had to live on corn, and others when |
there was nothing to be had except |
horse meat or burro meat. But that"
he said, was not in the newspapers"
He was satisfied that most Of the COM !
plants against the camp were unbound !
ed. Many of these complaints were |
made by men and women who had |
never seen mer in camp. Approaching |
the situation the soldiers had played |
it on the visitors, making complaints |
that were without foundation in order |
TO get delicacies. Soldiers like TO be |
made babies Of he said, and some of |
them soon got so they would not eat |
their regular ratiOns.'
The commission adjourned at p. m.
yesterday to meet at the Fifth Avenue
hotel. in New York, today.
The adjutant general of the army has 4
furnished the commission q statement !
showing the authority upon which the
camps occupied during the war with
Spain were selected. II shows that
General Miles located the camps at
ChickamauGa, Ca. Fernandina and
Miami, Fla. ard Camp AIger. Va: that |
General Lee selected that at Jackson
VILE and General Merriam that at Camp
Merritt and that the other camps, ex-
cept that at Tampa, were located By
boards Of officers.
DR.. Richard i. Pyles. major and sur
seon of the First District of Columbia |
regiment. told the experiences of those |
troops at Camp Thomas and at Tampa. |
IN cuba and at Montauk Point. The
troops had camped at FL Caney and on
San Juan hill and had found the region |
nalarious- At first the health OF the
men as good but later the sickness in
creased from eight cases to 1s9 in five
lays There had been fewer than TWEEN
-y-five deaths in the regiment. At
the tents were without floors.
the men to lie on the ground.
causing sickness
China and Thibet May Fight.
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