Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1898-08-31

armory. those of them WIG are left, and
receive their honorable discharge.
A good many who araastili living did not
march with the regiment or AIDE Id the linz
provised hospital cars 3odaE They were
left behind, Or there Ore al their homes
many who are desperately Ill with fever OF
OF these that We learn better than we hays
heeh able 70 90 by amp words spoken BY
those fnSn who have their reason what
their sufferings were.
Insane From Starvation.
Fer instance, Scott Csnover OF Company
A. was reared in everys comfort that IL to
be obtained by those xho have consider
able wealth. His fatherds' one of a firm Of
New York merchants which, has a reputa-
ton even beyond the city. The boy WAS
rot of age when he enlisted. but his pa
rents gave a reluctant consent, because
they feared that he might enlist without
that consent unless it We're given. He
wrote from Santiago after the battle upon
a scrap Of paper which he found some
where IN the jungle. He wrote again sew
eraf times, and his letters were always
cheerful. Not one word of complaint did
he make in any of his correspondence.
After he got to Camp Wikoff friend
saw him by the pond scrubbing his face
and then holding the towel off, looking
at it mechanically, and grinning with
that sad expression which betokens COM
ing illness. The friend greeted him, and
although he talked nationally, yet it was
clear in a moment that his mind was not
under control. He laughed constantly, but
1t was laugh in which there was no hui
NOR. At last reason gave way entireiypa al
though he had not been at the hospital,
and the doctors declared that he was a
victim of what is known as walking ty-
phoid.
In his delirium he told truths which he
had before concealed. AS for instance,
when the nurse gave him milk he asked
where he got the money to pay for that
water, adding that he thought he paid his
last 10 cents to the steward for the last
drink of water that he had. Then he beg
ged the nurse, who. in his deiirium he i'm
agfned was his "bunky," to go through his
clothes again and see If he could not find
10 cents more for himself so as to get the
price of another cup of water to pay to
the steward. Then he made motion as
though shaking his handkerchief and the
nurse made out that he was in his deli
rum again on the transport searching for
a little more money in order that he might
buy of the steward or some one on the
transport something. to eat or to drink.
He had kept his money tied up in his
handkerchief.
Death From Hardshfps.
From the New York Herald
Edward Mccullough of Company H, 9th
Regiment, died at Bellevue Hospital yes
terday. He became i'll while in camp, and
was brought to Bellevue on August 15
Mccullough was thirty-two years old. He
lived at No. 619 Hudson street with mis-
ncther. who is eightyone years old, and
widowed sister Mrs. Rose King. He was
the sole support of his mother
Mccullough joined the 9th Regiment on
May IL He went to Chickamauga, and
suffered there the privations which have
SO often been described. He succumbed to
the treatment, and was honorably lis
charged on August II, because Of disabil-
tiles. He had written that he and many
others night after night had to sleep on
the wet ground without a blanket He ate
salt pork and bad bareback and the only
good food he got vas what he bought out
of his own scanty earnings.
When Mccullough got home he went to
LIS sister, Mrs. Curley. of No. 30 West
9th street. She did not know him. When
he went away he was a robust man. When
she saw him at the door he was gaunt and
i'll. He was taken to the, hospital and the
found he had hasty consumption.
He never rallied.
morning that her son had died, and she
was preparing to go to- see him in the
afternoon.
Mrs. Kings son, who is twenty-one years
old, is In the Goth Regiment
Another Victim
From the Philadelphia Inquirer
Frank Marren left his home in Ashland
Schuylkill county, a strong, courageous
young man, anxious to serve1 his country in
her hour of peril. Last evening. while the
little borough was wrapped IN darkness, his
cold, emaciated body was taken from the
train which bore it from this city and laid
in the home which the young soldier left
to suffer in a southern camp His mother
ard sister. who were at his bedside when
he breathed his last in the Episcopal Hos
pital, also went back home, where the in
valid father awaited their coming and that
of the body of his boy.
There have been stories told of fathers
who have said over the PROSTATE bodies of
their sons killed in battle that they thanked
God that they had died in SO honorable
cause; stories of mothers who have given
their sons to the country of their allegiance
gladly and have even been able to glory in
the heroism of death, while their grief was
yet new. But these sons were killed while
fighting for their country-ktlled by the bull
lets of an enemy. Frank Marren was brave
enough to die a hero's death on the battle
field, but he had not the opportunity. And
If his death must be answered for it will
not be by an enemy-not by an avowed
enemy-of his country.
Not many hours before Marren died his
cousin. DR.. M. ]. Costello of 4142 German
town avenue, sat by his bedside and listen
ed to the dying soldiers pitiful recital of
mis- wrongs.
He was hungry He was sick. But SO
weak that he could hardly stand, he was
Obliged to participate in the drills under
The burning sun. No doctor came to him
to administer relief when his illness be-
came such that he had to have treatment.
No, he was directed to follow another, to
go to the physician in person and receive
the medicine which ought to have been
brought to him as he lay suffering.
He wanted water to drink-pure water
Of which the world contains enough for
every one of Gods creatures. But, unable
TO obtain it, when forced to the expedient
oy the tortures of thirst, he kneN by
stream where he had to push away the
scum from the surface while he drank and
when he had finished he put a piece of to-
oacco in his mouth to take away the taste
u the water.
Neglected at Huntsville.
From the New York Herald
BALTIMORE. Md, Monday.-Dr. s. s.
doulton, one of the physicians on the state
hospital train that brought the sick mem
oers of the 9Th Regiment from Huntsville,
ellis a story that shows gross mismanage-
nent and neglect somewhere. He said:
THE camp at Huntsville is high and dry,
out l am told the hospital is in a ravine,
subject to all the drainage of wet weather.
did not see the hospital, but I saw what
,ame out of 1t. had charge of two cars
oaded only with typhoid patients. 1t was
| pitiabie sight.
Two Of the first men who came on nv
ar were typhoid patients, almost unable
o help themselves. In their weakened and
tne - Ii.