The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1898-09-24
VICTIMS OF NEGLECT.
How the Lives of Our Brave Soldiers Hav e
Been Sacrificed.


Been Sacrificed.
Following are few extracts from
the leading eastren papers concerning
the neglect of the American army by
those who had charge of the war de-
partment:
Grave charges are made against
certain officers in the hospital at Mon
tauk by gentleman who visited the
camp on Sunday. In letter to the
Journal he says:
~ have seen SUCH sights as 1 never
saw before, snd doubt if any one else
ever did; men sick unto death, stretch.
ing out their poor, bony arms to at
tract attention. One poor, fellow, a
member of the Eight Ohio. gave me
scrap of paper with the address of
friend in New York upon it. which it
had taken him four hours to scribble,
and said, weakly.
For Gods sake, young mar, write
to them and tell them to come and ges
me. Tell them not to send me any
thing. l won't get it for the officers
take all those things. But tell them
to come and take me away from here.
l don't mind dying, but pit. is hard to
die like this
beside the poor fellow sat a small
tin cup filled with hominy. could
see the live maggots in it. This was
the food given to sick soldier 'of the
nation. 1 saw captain of the regular
army, with an orderly beside him
I had no way of learning his name
break open box which was addressed
to one of the Michigan men in the
hospital, and. after tasting the rich
grapes and wine which topped off the
little bundle of delicacies, tell the or
derly to take the box to the officers
quarters.
"There are fifteen men who will
make affidavit to similar offences.
THE men of the Signal Corps are
slowly starving to death. They have
no meat; nothing but decayed hominy
and colored water ment for coffee. All
this three times day, and they are
forced to dig refuse wells and sinks
and to clean horses. IN. Y. Journal.
A lot of supplies was being loaded
on board freight cars in Long Island
City recently for Camp Wikoff. A
large part of the goods was spoiled.
According to men who worked on the
loading of 1923. bags of oats from
lighters to cars at the foot of Sd street,
the oats was useless and not worth the |
cost of handling them. They were
moldy and musty and smelled so bad |
that no horse would eat them. They |
appeared to have been wet at some |
time, and some of them were wet when
they were reloaded in the cars.
At the same pier $50 large cans of |
beef were being loaded into the cars.
Some OF these had been burst open by |
rough handling and rough usage, and |
meat IN the burst cans had spoiled, but |
they had to be loaded with the rest.
The stencil from the spoiled cans
made the longshoremen sick. The |
oats, and also the meat, it is said had |
been to Cuba on the .Vigilancia, were
unused and brought back.
Lighters in Newton creek were un-
loading hay into freight cars. The
hay, like the oats, was ruined. 1t was
musty and mildewed, and some of it |
which had been soaked continually |
was deeayed. This hay had also been
sent out on one of the troop ships and
brought back, The hay wvs covered |
with filth. Apparently the men on
the ship had used the hay stored in
the hold as a sink. Oats, beef and |
hay, bad as they are, will go to Mon
tauk.-N. Y. Herald.
Edward Mccullough, of Company II,
Ninth Regiment. died at Bellevue
Hospital. He became ill while in |
camp. and was brought to Bellevue.
Mccullough joined the Ninth regiment
on May II. He went to.Chickamae ua |
and suffered there the privations which |
have so often been described. He sue
cumbed to the treatment and was hon.
orably discharged on Aug. IL, because
of disabilities. He had written that he |
and many others night after night had
to sleep on the wet ground without
blanket. He ate salt pork and bad
hardtack, and the only. good food
he got was what he bought out of his
own scanty earnings.
When Mccullough got home he went
to his sister, Mrs. Curly, of No $40
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 ill. He was
taken to the hospital and the surgeons
found he had hasty consumption. He
never rallied.
DIR. S. s. Houlton, one of the ply