Evening star., 1898-09-06

| ed through the campaign, he said, without
a days sickness. At Montauk Point. how
| ever, he had attack of fever and dysen-
| terry from which he is rapidly convalescing
| William Lambert, private of Troop l.
| 9th United States Infantry, with
| Sheldon and later left for his home at
| Bristol, Tenn. He was injured at Tampa
| by being thrown from his horse and was
| quite used up.
| Scrgt George z. Lewis of Company B.
! LIST Regiment, District of Columbia Voun-
| teers, has returned to his home, 1927 Whit
| ney avenue. He is convalescing from fever
| and dysentery. He came on the transport
| Minlewaska, which was in good condition,
| although the troops suffered for want of
| food. The steward of the transport was ar
| rested, he says, for selling to the soldiers
| supplies he had no right to. Sergt. Lewis
was accompanied by his father, Capt. Geo.
| c. Lewis, secretary of the Red Cross So
ciety.
| B. A. Reynolds, private of Company G.
| 1st District of Columbia Regiment. reached
his parents home, on East Capitol street,
| Saturday. very Unexpectedly. He was
| left behind in Cuba to do guard duty, but
followed his battalion within a few days.
| He was i'll when he reached Montauk Point
| and was reported in The Star. His IA
| ther Mr.. E. R. Reynolds. left for Camp
Wikoff last night to bring him home, but
will, of course have his trip for nothing
| Young Reynolds. like all others who par
| ticipated in that campaign, is enfeebled and
| reduced in flesh to the proportions of
skeleton but he is in fair way to recover
and is quite as full of pluck as he was
when he went to the front.
| Private Vim. A. Hickey of Company c,
] 1st District of Columbia Volunteers. ar
| rived at his home. 22ls 18th street north
| west, August 81. from Camp Wikoff, on a
thirty days sick furlough. He is confined
| to his bed with malariai fever and is under
| the care of DR.. Darcy Magee, who hopes
| to have him well enough to join his regi-
ment upon its arrival In Washington. Pri-
| vate Hickey was sick in Santiago Hospital
for three weeks, and was also sick at Mon
tauk Point. He says that almost all of the
District boys have had a touch of fever
but since their arrival at Montauk Point
they have greatly improved. By his phys-
clans order. Hickey is not allowed to see
any one.
EnfeebIed by Disease.
Frank w. Chapel. member of Company
| l. of the 1st District of Columbia Regiment,
who returned here from Montauk Point
Thursday, was seen by a Star reporter
at his home, 907 sth street north
| east. He talked good deal of his expert
| ences. notwithstanding he is in very
| feeble condition, and has an impediment in
his speech, caused, he thinks by his tongue
being swollen from want of drink while on
his way to Montauk Point from Santiago
He is but nineteen years old, about five feet
eight inches in height, and weighs at the
present little over q hundred pounds he
/
he enlisted few months ago. Mr.. Chapel
states that soon after the fall of Santiago
he was stricken down with fever and other
complications, and suffered terribly through
the want of nourishment and proper treat
ment while in Cuba and aboard ths trans
port to Montauk Point. After his arrival
however, in the United States the Red Cross
Society took charge of him and gave him
all necessary attention and furnished him
with special accommodation on the train to
lis home in Washington. He spoke in
terms OF warm gratitude of the kindness to
MN on the part of every enc on the train.
Mr.. John G. Hyer, sixteen years old, OF
Company c, 1st District of Columbia Vol
unteers, has returned to his hem. in East
!" ashlngton on sick furlouSh from Mon
tauk Point. He has improved wonderfully
from the effects of the fever and other dis
cases contracted while at Santiago, and, it
Is thought. will soon be ready to rejoin his
regiment, II necessary. He confirms the re-
ports Of a scarcity of food and neglect by
surgeons while on the island and aboard
the transports en- re te to Montauk Point
He managed to bring a number or relics
from the battlefields of Santiago consisting
OF bullets, shells and cartridge BELTS