Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1898-09-02
MAKES KNOWN SOME CAUSES
WAS SURPRISED 70 HEAR or TROUBLE
Betwssn General Mite. and tho War De-
tart,nent-ssys yellow Fever IA Not
Very Dangerous.

New York, Sept. s.--The World prints
an interview with Gen. shafter In
which he IL represented "a saying;
IA Santiago we had 10 deal with
things as they were. not az they should
have been. or course there was rlok-
nesL X was inevitable In a summer
campaign. But nobody was neglected.
The docoors were scaroe at irst. but we
had boat loads OF them "a Doon az they
could gtt there. The doctors GOT sick
Nike the rest They were overworksd
and exhausted. but their ability was
unaucstiunablo. Look az thH low per-
eentage OF deaths from wounds. I,
never was lower In any war. Why. Ia
the civil war l lay on the battlefield
myscif un:n mAggota developed In my
wounds, and was right near BY. not
down In maiarial sub-tropIoai ooun-
cay FAR away.
"Tho men who ordered a summcr
campaign Ia a fever Invested country
are responsible ror the natural and un-
avoldnblc consequences
None OF our wounded were allowed
70 lie on the BATTLEFIELD a. was IN tha
civil war. Nothing OF the kind hap
pgncd. Ancfihetica were plentiful.
III was the heat that was 20 deadly
and the raina NiHh, IN thu nidst OF
the most torrld heat a shower would
fall. II would drcneh everybody with
cut cooling the air. Ia a few minutes.
under the sun again. every man would
be atCaminK. Men OF thn strongest
constitutions auocumbed.
"Our first ease OF yellow fevor davel-
| opcd at III Caney. But The army WAS
| ripo for u. and u spread like n prairie
I
who never viii know II. And 20 tell
the truth Y u not 40 dangerOus as the
cs,lentura " heat stacks. that unac-
cllmaied mon have In the naiarlous
regions OF Cuba. why1 Why Il IA a
common thing for a name tnpcrature
/ 60 rise from normal state 70 100 In
few hourA Thai means death In moN
cases.
at can give cards and spsdes 20 yell
| low foyer In the game OF death. I
would rather have yellow lover. tell
| You. wnen a man burns no inside
there's uttle hope toe him.
our men were all unacciimtted.
| They never had faced constant sun.
Many OF chem had never slept outflds
| beflrr they went into camp. How
could they b. moulded into proper ma
tcrlal for such climate and r<ch o cam
paigns II could not be dons. Thu eca-
men you see coming back with thln
bodies and the yellow fever ans snffer-
Ing from The parasite OF The low fever
| OF the Santiago plataAua.
THE cool air and good home care win
cure them. That malaiy sssns 10 dss-
troy the rcd eorpusciaa In the blood.
The veins arr oiled With water. Thrrs
10 n man on deck suffering just that
way. Take "a good look at him. n he
were pale you would say he was in ehs
last stages Of tuberculosis. But he In
- yellow 40 his uniform Very wcn,
he has u. lie Ia weak end win rrqusrs
care. hu; good air. = decent climate
the fever within three weeks. He doas
not know how narrow has been his e.
| cape from death. Wat IN Ocfobsr, or
better still the nr.t frost They will
be all right wnen ihsy get wholesome
nutritious food.
We had 10 choose the lesser OF the
two evlih--lo ship ths men north 10
hrakhy climate. not wantlnE % keep
them where They must die. We nj the
front AID NJ, wal. 60 lot the fever hAvs
~ run We wsntsd 20 save life. Now
the problem was 90 save che moS lives
p0silble. We have never had norcign
war since isi2-iL The United states
has no hospital ships, II was NOT n
question Of uslng what was best, but
what we had. We used the transports
that brought the troops down.
III ! could have had feN weeks 10
equip hospital ships tn. conditions
would have been better. II tho war had
| continued We would Aavs stayed right
there, fever or no fever rhe Endsn end
" the war was unexpected. We wtfa
| not prepared for the unexpected. l made
| u an invariable rule to send home 20
por cent less on a transport than she
had brought south. That was fair
| view 90 take.
~ am satisfied with the Santiago
campaign when II Il fully Understood,
with all lla difficulties, Il viii receive
/ Just place la military history. We were
| hurried on 10 Cuba. We landed. ADD
could not have got our stores back on
board II we wanted TO. When the In
| vaalon was planned. II was obvious that
II must be a rush. such as It was
And Il was a auceess-compirte and
| unequiyocal, Many things were done.
/ Il IL true, that were forced upon US by
the exlgencies OF the hour, but the
means employed even under such
| WAS compelled 10 DO a great many
things that under different elrcum-
stances would have been considered,
n sized up the spanlArds correctly.
| For example, at San Juan ! was surs
| they would not come out from their
works and attack US. The ~ Caney
hght hoped would be finished az 10
am but I, tok until 8 O'Clock. and l
| rather feel now that II was for tho
| best. Had 1 had LnWtun ON the right
! OF the line We would undoubted-
/ ly have taken the city OF Santiago that
| night, IN which case only the garrison
would have surrendered 10 Us. whereas,
! later, am the troops M the region sur
rounding were Included. The men out-
| side ~ ssnfiarn on July 2nd could hAvs
gone 10 Gen. Pando. 1 know that tho
/ war WAS over az soon a. Toral spoke
TO me about Surrenderlng the troops In
the Eastern province. almost fell
| over.
I'VE never had on the lighting line
at any one time any more than $4,000
men. and with these we captured 1900.
Nine thousand.spanlaTd were foEti-