The times., 1898-08-30
SOLDIERS die OF NEGLECT
Shameful Treatment of the
Sick at Camp Alger.
MORE ORDERS ARE REVOKED
The New York Regiment Has Not
Yet Moved for Buffalo-GOyernOr
Blacks Efforts Are of No Immedi-
ate Ayail-Scenes Attending the
EmbarIsation of the Sick.

Trere were twelve new cases of typhoid
yesterday, and one death from that dis
ease the night before.
The victim was Private Thomas Lew
miller. of Company l. Eighth Pennsylva-
MIA, and the story of his death adds one
more to the long hist of horrors of Camp
Alger.
According to the statements of those
in the regiment, Lewmiller was taken
i'll several days ago. and seemed to be
suffering considerably. He was sent TO
the division hospital Friday evening. and
remained there all night without receiv-
ing any medical attention.
He was found to be seriously Ill and de-
lirious at s O'Clock Sunday morning, but
the neglect proved fatal, and the poor
soldier. wantonly abandoned to his fate.
never recovered consciousness. and died
at O'clock in the afternoon.
Col. Theodore HOFFMAN,, Of the reSi-
ment to which the soldier belonged, was
Immediately informed of the facts, and
ordered Maj. c. r. Parke, chief surgeon
of the Third Brigade to make an instant
investigation, and it is said that the sur
geon and nurse responsible have been To-
Gated and reported to Adjt. Gen. Corbin,
who will act on the matter at once.
New York Troops Delayed
Again the SiXty-fifth New York Regi-
ment is to be the victim of official red
tape. and instead of moving from their in
| fected quarters at Camp Alger yesterday,
as practically promised them by their
governor Sunday, their going will be de-
| layed two or more days, according to the
pleasure of the War Department., and the
| boys, while terribly cast down over the
delay, suffer in silence as they have In
| the past, and have come to regard these
delays as necessary adjunct to serving
| ones country.
Gov. Black was assured by AdJt- Gen.
Corbin that the regiment would be moved
without delay TO Buffalo, and given a
thirty-days' furlough, after which 1t was
TO be muEtered out of the service, and
from the highest officer to the lowest
private all thought they would surely
leave yesterday. The only official expIa-
nation of the change in plans Is given In
the following order issued from head
quarters at 10 o clock yesterday morning;
Special Order. No. 70.
special Order No. 2. directing the move
menf of the two battalions of the Sixty
ffth New York Volunteer Infantry is re-
vnked. The Twelfth Pennsylvania Fo!un-
teer Infantry will move this day from
Dun-, L.oring, Va, TO Camp Meade MID
| dietown, Pa
"By command of Brig. Gen. Goblin
The hospital train provided by the Gov
arnment to remove the sick of the SiX-
tv-ffth TO Buffalo left at o'clock last
evening and will reach Buffalo at 1t
o'clock this morning. Capt. Meade, as
| sistant surgeon of the regiment and four
other surgeons were in charge of the pa
tients. and will attend them on their jour-
| ney.
The train was made up of Pullman
sleepers and carried round one hundred
patients, besides leaving behind twenty
seven in the hospital at Fort Myer. who
| are convalescent or else too i'll to be
moved, and number of sick in theiI
tents and the regimental hospital.
| EmbarIing the Sick.
| The scenes about the uepdr tlHB tram
were very pitiful, and some of the pool
| fellows looked as though they could hard
| ly last the journey out. Ambulances were
| emptying their burdens at the train fol
! over three hours, and many, almost toe
weak to stand, were given several hours
| to cover the miles of rough ground be
| tween the camp and the station on foot
some of them bearing their packs.
1t will be sad Homecoming when the
| train reaches Buffalo, and friends viii
hardly be able to recognize in these ema
| ciated. hollow-cheeked, sunken-eyet
wrecks the cheerful boys who marched
out TO fight for their country and were
allowed to sicken and die in an un
| healthy camp.