The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-08-30

New YOrl's Cuban Fighters Receive
a Glorious Welcome Home.

NEW YORK, Aug. 29.-The Seventy-tirst
Regiment, New York Volunteers, arrived
here this afternoon and marched up Broad
way from the Battery to Thirty-fourth
street, where their armory is situated. On
reaching the armory the men were dis
missed and then sat down to the first really
good luncheon they have had since they
" ent into camp on Hempsted Plains months
ago. For hours before the regiment reached
the Battery there were crowds stretched
along Broadway, and when the first line OF
soldiers came into view in their dingy uni
forms, there was an outburst of cheering
and the men were the recipients of con-
tinuous ovation until they came to the ar
mory. The returned men looked extraordi-
narily we'll, considering their condition when
they landed at Camp Wikoff. The regiment
as it left camp consisted of 610 men, OF
which 260 were veterans, who had seen
service in Cuba and were able to walk, 800
were recruits who had never had a chance
to fight and fifty were Santiago survivors,
who were too weak to march and had TO
be carried in army wagons to the depot.
To-day's arrivals at Camp Wikoff, Mon
tauk Point, included the first battalion OF
the District of Columbia Volunteers, one
battalion of United States engineers. at
tached to the Fifth Army Corps. Troops A,
L. d and f, of the Second Cavalry, the men
who operated the balloons at Santiago, and
ninsty-nine men of the Thirty-fourth Michi-
gan Volunteers. These were debarked from
the United States transport Minnewaska,
which left Santiago de Cuba Aug. %. There
were forty-nine hospital cases on board the
transport, typhoid and dysentery being the
prevailing diseases. Private Bohlman, or
Company B, District or Columbia Volun-
teers. died on the passage from Santiago.
There are 1,609 patients in the general hos
pital at Camp Wikoff, lis of whom are down
with typhoid. This disease is on the de-
crease. The deaths reported to-day were
those OF VIM. Bohle of Battery F. Second
Artillery; Timothy Donovan OF Troop Il.
Second Artillery. from malarial fever. and
Frederick Miller, Company A, Twenty-hrst
regular, from dysentery.
There are $50 men in the detention hos-
pital By tomorrow the hospital will be en-
larged SO as to accommodate $50 more pa
tents. While the condition in the hospitals
has been somewhat improved, $50 sick sol
diers are still sleeping on the floor. These
men will be put on cots in the new wing
tomorrow The force of nurses has been in
creased TO seventy-seyen. There are forty
Sisters of Charity administering 20 the sick
A hospital train of two Pullman cars ar
rived in Jersey City to-day over the Penn
sylvania Railroad carrying forty sick SOL
ders Of the Fourteenth New York volun-
teers, on furlough from Camp Thomas to
recuperate Relatives and friends OF the
sick soldiers were waiting to receive them.
The men who were well enough to talk
complained bitterly of the treatment they
received at Camp Thomas
Governor Black. of New York. will arrive
at Camp Thomas this evening. He goes
there for the purpose of examining into the
condition OF the New York regiments The
Governor will make careful investigation
into all the reports that have been sent out
in reference to the New York regiment ana
will ascertain If be can do anything that
will benefit the boys The sixth and sev~
enth sections OF the First United States
Cavalry arrived Ia Jersey caty to-day from