, 1898-10-24
HORRIBLE OUTRAGE
OF THE WAR TOLD BY A CORES
PONDENT AT MONTAUK
POINT.
The Authorities There Were Indignant
and an Investigation Was Ordered
The Story Proved to Be a Yellow
Journal Report-Result of Investi-
gation-Similar Cases at Home.

The most horrible outrage Of the war
and one that has raised the righteous
Indignation Of many people who are
related to the brave boys who entered
the service of their country to fight
and if needs be, to die under the folds
of the old flag, is thus told by a news
paper correspondent who was at Mon
tauk Point:
One of the fever patients in the hos
pital who had fallen into a comatose
condition, was pronounced dead by an
incompetent medical officer. The re-
mains were hustled into a pine box
without a covering, which with others
containing the dead bodies OF fever vic
tins, was placed outside the hospital
tent and exposed for hours to the broil-
ing sun.
"The agony Of the supposed dead man
was excruciating. He realized that he
was about to be buried alive in the shall
low trench which had been dug to re-
NtlNt Tie uOuleS Vi lICSt WHO udu Iu
relatives to claim them. After endur-
ing mental and physical torture for
hours some soldiers came to move the
box in which he lay. By a supreme eff
fort he managed to raise an arm and
move his fingers. The soldiers saw the
motion and instead of carrying him to
the trench. they took him to the hospi-
tai tent and dumped him on the ground,
where he lay for hours without atten-
ton. and finally died, a victim Of neg
lect.'
When the authorities al Washington
read this story their indignation was
aroused to a high pitch and an investi-
CATION was begun Immediately.
Inquiry at the hospital revealed the
fact that no soldier by the name given
in the story had died at the hospital,
but that such a nan was a patient who
was rapidly convalescing.
The reporter was questioned and said
that a soldier had told him the story
as he had written it, and gave the au-
thorities the name Of his informant.
Before ordering a court martial,
which was practically decided upon, the
investigating officer sent for the soldier
and asked him why he had circulated
such al outrageous falsehood.
The man admitted that he had told
the story to the reporter, but added he
had also told the reporter that he had
dreamed 1t.
Thus ended the investigation Of one
Of the most horrible %outrages Of the
war.
This story is even worse and more
truthful than the tales which the demo-
Gratis of Wyoming are telling over the
state, hoping thereby to injure the Nc
kinley administration. In this case
there was a soldier sick with the fever.
Most of the reports are made up out OF
whole cloth without even a dream to
found them IN. The Rocky Mountain
News started into the campaign boast
ing that they had enough OF these
stories to defeat a large number of re-
publican candidates for congress, but
since several hundred of these lies have
been exploded, the democratic campaign
has weakened to the point OF almost ut
ter collapse. The News last Saturday
publishes the picture of one of these
champion newspaper liars and admin
istered to him a severe kicking because
he, when called before the commission
OF inquiry, refused to swear to the truth
of any of the stories he had told
Cheyenne Tribune.