Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1898-09-10
SANTIAGO DE CUBA In WAR TIME.
Hospital gSPerioneos-wer Of Rcd Cross Nursos-vie,ns
Of yellow. Jaek-Patheue Scenes and Incidents.

''ihc fighting wheciers" remain In Gu
ba. Hut rhe will not desert the work.
wherein she was never more needed
than today. and az for protection, there
u not u soldier Ia our army Who would
not lay down his life Tor her, II needs
De-.
The hospital of which write. though
created only few weeks ago by the
necessities o. war, ID by far the best In
cuba. ~ ~ the boat-houac OF the swell
American club, loaned for tho tem-
porary purpose. IL IN built directly
over the bay. some rods from shore and
ia reached BY long pier Its great
hanqugtinF hail. whose latte red walls
can be- raised 90 admit every vagrant
breeze. - now closely set with army
cots, and double rows Of the same are
ranged along the encircllnE verandas.
The smaller apartments have all their
special uses, and In little ante.roum
several oil stoves are set over which
beef tea, matted milk and cruel are
prepared. Not an inch OF space IN I'M
nilcd and were the commodiuua build
ing ten times as big II you'd be equal
~ icroYded.
When I first saw this hospital. two
weeks ago. the sick were lying on tho
hare floors. but now, thanks to the Red
Cross, thcy are amply supplied with
cots and bedding, Considerable army
red tape II squandercd In getting pa
TENTS into this haven % refuge, 80
that sometimes q half-consclous man,
brought on mule cart OF atrctchor,
lies for hours IN tho sun nt the street
end Of the pier. before an order can be
obtained from the palace, mile up
town, for his admission a. the hos
pltal But when once inside. mans
chances Of recovery are wonderfully In
creased. For example there have been
hut three deaths In this hospital In n
fortnight, while In the fever hospitals
nj slhonoy they are dying by hundreds,
and IN the various field hospitals at nm
average ~ twenty per day, out In the
camps. the sick men are yet lying on
the ground, under dos tents, alternately
soaked with rain, scorched boy the noon
day sun. chilled 10 the marrow at night
unattended except by their comrades.
and with nothing 20 eat hut beans, hn-
con and bareback, even for those dy-
ing Of dyFentcry No wonder that f.
yer n daily increasing among them, and
yesterday out ~ whole regiment, only
two men were able To report furduty.
spend fcw hours every day In the
water side hospital, where mine N the
unofficial and inglorlous part ~ cheer
Ing tho convnlesoent-chatt awhile
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feeding another. writing home lettcra
for others. doing comparatively unlm-
portnnt things FOR which the busy
nurses have no time but which--so
Minister Wheeler says-are sometimes
more useful than medicine. Most ~
the men ore very considerable, rcnllz-
ing that nurses are constantly on their
feet. doing their best 20 meet n thou
sand demands, OF course there are
queruloua ones. who send their tired
sisters ON some trlilllng errand from
one end OF the big building TO the other
and who are meyer aultcd with any
thing that ls done hut they are few.
and never once have any OF the ladies'
met with the slightest rudenean or In
suit. Officers and private soldiers
rich mems sons and their servants, lie
side by slde--all clad IN Red Cross pa
jamas, which ! regret 20 ada, arr not
plentiful enough 10 be changed MS often
M thoy should be- In nearly every case
the mlllonaires have borne sufIeringand