The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1898-07-13
X I R A ]! |!
SPAIN s
DREAD ALLY.
Fears at Washington
| That Yellow Fever
May Have Attack
I'll Uuf Afllly.
FOURTEEN SUSPICIOUS CASES
Men Isolated in Charge Of
Immune Doctors and
Nurses.
CABINET In CONSULTATION
Army Medical Authorities
Confident That the Disease
Can Be Controlled.
SIBONEY BURNED FOR HEALTH
A Squalid Nest of Infection
Miserable inhabitants
Take to Caves.
No NEW FIGHT REPORTED
A squalid Nest of Infection
Miserable inhabitants
Take to Caves.
NO NEW FIGHT REPORTED
But Toral Has Refused General
Skaters Terms and the Big
Gums Must Now Dictate
TO Him.

WASHINGTON. July .12. 189S.--The War
Department received dispatches today
from General Miles and General Shafter.
At the same time the Navy Department
received dispatches from the fleet off San
tiago. The contents of these several de-
spatches was not made public up to noon.
They had the effect, however, of arous-
ing officials. both military and naval to
unusual activity and coupled with this
was an undercurrent of apparent anxiety
throughout official quarters.
The advice speedily led a war council
at the White House, at which Secretaries
Long and Alger and the members of the
War Board. Admiral sicard. Captain
Mahan and Captain Crowninshield, were
present. Acknowledgement Corbin also
was at the White House.
Before Secretary Alger went to the
White House he had conference with
Surgeon General Sternberg, who also had
received dispatches from the surgical
corps near Santiago. After the confer
ence had sat some time Cabinet meet
ing was called.
Later it was definitely learned that the
dispatches laid before the War Board
and the special Cabinet meeting related
to the appearance of fever. which it is
feared might prove to be the dreaded yell
low fever, among our forces before San
tiago.
Among the troops before Santiago there
are fourteen suspicious cases of fever
among the employees of the Quartermas
ter's Department of the American Army.
Pending the determination of the exact
character of the fever, these men have
been isolated in the valley near Siboney
and placed under the care of immune
doctors and nurses who had been pro-
vided in anticipation of just such an en-
ergency as the present. Confidence is
expressed by the medical officers of the
army and navy in Washington in the
ability of our surgeons to stamp out the
disease, even though it be the true fever.
The fact that the cases of fever were
almost entirely confined to members of
the quartermaster's department, team
sters and others, encouraged the officials
here to believe that the main body of the
army is not in danger from the disease,
if it should turn out to be yellow fever.
1t cannot be said that the appearance of
fever at this stage would surprise the
medical officers of the department
They have made every preparation that
science can suggest to protect the Amer
lean troops from the fever, but it is fully
realized that men working in trenches
half full of mud and water, soaked for "A
hours at a time in tropical rains, reck-
lessly disregarding the advice of the med
ieal corps in the matter of drinking un-
boiled water and eating large quantities
of tropical fruit. were certainly liable
~ tlae Terrible infection
Secretary Alger left the Cabinet room at
12:15 to file a number of dispatches and
then returned to the conference. He saio
he had no idea when the session would
end and declined to state what news had
been received. All the Cabinet members
responded to the Presidents summons,
except Secretary Bliss.
Much anxiety has been created at the
War Department by press report 70
the effect that Brig Gen. Dulfield was
sick in the hospital General Duffield is
fellow townsman of Secretary AlgeI
and one Of his closest personal associates.
The dispatches OF Generals Miles and
Shafter made no reference whatever to
General Duffield's being in the hospital,
SO that the press report was Inaccounta-
bic, as It was felt both Miles and Shat
ter would speedily report II General Duf-
field was incapacitated by wounds or illT
ness.
While the war council was In progress,
ali the usual centers or information q
the War and Navy Departments were