The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1898-11-23
CLAIMS TO KNOW
BIT WON I TELL

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| them. A similar misunderstanding took
/ place the next day when a Ohio regi-
/ nent wished 10 be moved"
NEGLECTED BY PHYSICIANS.
Sidney Lowell of Brooklyn spent Septern-
/ Der s. 10. Y and "A at Camp Wikoh. He
said he desired 70 corroborate the testi-
mony given by Misses Manson and Car
rard and DR.. Stimson, relative TO the con-
ditions at the camp.
Miss Mary C. Lowell, daughter of Sid
ney Lowell. said she personally talked 70
every man of eight regiments of regulars.
Half OF them were on the sick report and
many others were sick, too sick TO - 10
the doctors tent. There was a great
scarcity of doctors and Miss Lowell con-
sidered many of the contract doctors care
less and Indifferent to the men. She gaVs
names of men she had found sick IN ;heif
tents, and said that she had reported some
OF the cases to the regimental doctors
and the doctors took no notice. She found
one man with a temperature of 196. and
reported to DR.. Thomas. DR.. Thomas
said he would see him, but when she Wis
tied the man twenty-fOur hours laGe- tht
doctor had not seen him.
Miss Lowell mentioned other doctors
who, she said, had neglected their duty,
and said great suffering resulted from the
i'll management of the ambulance service.
Miss Lowell said the condition of affairs
in the general hospital was shocking. She
corroborated the testimony of the previous
witnesses as to the lack of sanitary pre-
cautions.
HOW THE DEAD WERE BURIED.
Rev Henry B. Bryan. of the Garden
City cathedral presented himself to speak
of the manner in which the soldiers dying
in hospitals were buried. Mr.. Bryan went
to Camp Wikoff on September 3 He said
the publication of statement by Major
Brown that all the bodies were decently
buried had induced him to come forward
to testify.
TN his public statement" said Mr.
Bryan, Major Brown said there was no
truth in the report that the bodies were
not decent,y buried; that every body was
embalmed and decently clothed in a new
uniform; that bottle containing his name
and all the information obtainable about
him was buried in his coffin, and that a
cross marked every grave. I believe Major
Brown gave those orders and issued the
clothes, but that his orders were not car
ried out. 1 know personally of twenty
bodies that were not buried as Major
Brown says they were. and wonder what
became Of the clothing and money paid
for the embalming.
81 do not question Major Brown In any
way. He had not time 10 see that his or
ders were carried out. Coughlin and Koh-
Ter, who wore Bellevue hospital badges,
were in charge of the burial of the dead
NIGHT SHIRTS FOR SHROUDS.
my duties led me by the morgue every
day and 1 stopped in to see who had died
during the night. 1 saw the naked bodies
of soldiers placed in bare pine collins and
the name of the man and his regiment
were written on the lid of the coffin. OF
course the damp earth only obliterated
those marks and no other records were
kept. Sometimes the body was buried in
a night shirt. but they never took the
trouble to button the shirt.
GROSSLY INDECENT.
at was grossly indecent. At the morgue
the attendants sat on the coffin with the
bodies in them and chewed and smoked
and told indecent stories. rebuked them
once. but they were Bowery toughs, an IL
IS useless to talk to them"
did you complain to anyone?" asked
General Beaver.
Not until read Major Browns state
ment- thought it was according 10 the
regulations TO bury the dead naked"
do you know who was responsible for
the conditions you found?"
NO; 1 understand that a Mrs. Roebling
paid Coughlin and Kolher TO go 20 camp
and take charge OF the morgue there. An
autopsy was made on the body of Barney
Trio. and organs removed were left lying
about nutil the attendants tied them up IN
a towel and threw them away"
EASY TO UNLOAD AMMUNITION.
The first witness called az the afternoon
session was Hidden DIN. first lieutenant %
company L Seventy-first regiment ord
nance officer Of the regiment. who testified
that the men were somewhat crowded OF
the transport Vigilance going 10 Siboney
and that the water aboard was not good
They Jared very poorly for tentaEe after
leaving the trenches az Santiago he said,
but other regiments were 10 better Of.
Can YOU tell Us OF anything that was
Iacking?"
There was a great need q, trarsporta-
ton The commissaTy supplies were
handed slowly. and there was a shortage
OF medical supplies"
Who was 70 blame for that"
Z cannot say. but vas able - unload
and land y 90 pounds q ammunition f
without DELAY and ir seems % me he
medical supplies could have been handled I.
a. easilv''
He said he ard his men were treated 4
with ever. consideration and courtesy al i
Camp WikoT-
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L I. who bad a scr and a brother IN the .
war. testified that whae 81 Camp Wiko,. :
looking fo- his son he saw many soldiers
struggling al0EE ;he roadway, apparently f
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