Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1898-11-19

Tor MS son and how he finally sue
ceeded by personal appeal to Gen.
Wheeler.
Richard w. Henry, the son, was call
ed. Speaking of the treatment he re-
ceived from the army surgeons in
Cuba. Henry said they did the best
they could and treated every one
alike.
I'm fact" he said, they made no
distinction in manner Of treatment or
in medicine. 1t was two pills for a
fever and three pills for broken arm"
Immediately on landing at Montauk
Point on August 16. he went to the de-
tention hospital. When asked what he
received to eat he said:
Il suppose they forgot us. We did
not get anything until the next day,
when an orderly gave us some soup.
A surgeon visited us at noon. He
made a cursory examination of us and
said he would Immediately send us
medicine. The medicine did not reach
us until late that night
Henry was able to eat the provisions
served ON the Grand Duchess but he
could not drink the coffee. His mess
mates bought fruit from the crew.
After four days in the detention hos
pital he returned to camp for his fur
Tough He was unable to secure fur
Tough that day and went to his COM
panys tent for the night.
DIR. Frank Donaldson, who Joined Col.
Roosevelt's regiment in Cuba. July s.
and who was stricken with yellow fe-
yer, July "A, was asked by DR.. Con-
nor as to the condition of the hospital.
He said:
They We're entirely dissatisfied at
camp. There was an insufficient sup
ply of medical stores. nurses and stew
ards The majority of the stewards
were of most undesirable character"
Regarding medical supplies, DR.. Dom
aldson said there were supplies but
they could not be reached. Speaking
of his own regiment he said he got sup
plies because he got out and hustled
for them.
"They were served out to you?" ask
ed DR. Conner.
Not by large majority" was the
| reply, 1--WE got what we hustled for
and nothing else
did the men receive good care and
attention in the hospital?"
"They suffered from lack of care be-
cause of the intficiency of the nurses
The doctors were efficient and de-
| voted
! Dr. Connor asked if it was possible to
secure better class of nurses, and, when
DR.. Donaldson said no, he asked why the
department should be blamed for what
| could not be avoided.
| "There was no excuse" said DR. Don.
aldson, "for sending them there and for
not sending supplies
lido you know they sent no supplies?'
eff they sent them, they must have
vanished into Cuba Libre; they did moi
reach u.s."
DR.. Donaldson severely criticized DIR
Lesser, the head of the Red Cross hospi
tai in Cuba, and declared that although
DR.. Lesser posed as an expert in yellow
fever he did not know what yellow fever
was until he was stricken with it.
Speaking of the general hospital a
Montauk, DIR. Donaldson said that HI
considered it an excellent hospital, vel
established and after the first half doze1
days there was well conducted. The doe
| tors, with one exception, he said, wer,
fully competent. He did not give thu
name of the exception. The nurses wer'
satisfactory.
Gen. Wilson and Gen. Beaver asked DR.
Donaldson several questions based upol
newspaper clippings detailing outrage
on the soldiers" Dr. Donaldson declare,
them all untrue and reiterated his state
ments that there was no fault anywher
and that several statements made wer
absolute les
Relative to the statement that Captain
c.. B. Wurden, 18th Reg, died of starva
ton, the witness said: II myself attends
: Capt Wurdep and he got all the atten
. ton possible. l made broth myself an
other delicacies were found for him.
'How about the statement that VIM
Tiffany died of Starvation"
) II don't know anything about that.
never saw Tiffany after was taken sic
! in Cuba
: James S. Sewers, Co. K, list Reg
served from the time the regiment wen
4 to Camp Black until mustered out. H
. complained that the coffee was poor an
0 that the volunteers were not treated a
g well as the regulars.
Asked by Gen. Beaver to explain wha
d he meant when he said the voluntee
IL officers took care Of themselves while tn