The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1898-09-13
DEF|[S MS AUTHORITY.
Gen. Miles Reported to Have Said
That He and Not Alger Is
in Control Of Affairs.
ORDERS CAMP wikoFf ABANDONED.

Secretary of War Interviewed But
Says This Was According to His
Own Plan-Few Soldiers Now Oc-
cupy the Camp nt ChickamauEa
Park-More Volunteers Die.
New York, Sept. PA dispatch to
the press from Camp Wikotf says:
Under peremptory orders from Gen.
Miles preparations are being made to
break up this camp at once by send
ing home all the soldiers here. This
is entirely contrary to what has been
the understanding Of the officers in
command. Gen. Shafter said last week
that 5000 or 7,OOG>men would be kept
here, at least until October, and this
was supposed to have been the order
of Secretary Alger.
An officer said Monday that when
Gen. Miles order came telegram was
sent him saying that his order was
contrary to that of Secretary Alger,
and Miles replied: "Never mind what
Alger says; I am in command now"
That of course settled it so far as the
officers here are concerned, and unless
Gen. Miles orders are countermanded
next week will see the practical end
of Camp Wiloff.
Gen. Bates said: "Nly orders are to
send the troops away as fast as trans
portation can be arranged"
When asked if these orders did not
conflict with those of Secretary Alger,
he simply said: "They are new or
ders."
In pursuance of this plan the deten-
tion hospital is being abandoned. All
the men in this hospital fit to travel
are being sent to New York on the
Shinnecock, and the others are being
taken to the general hospital. The
general hospital is being cleared out
as fast as possible, but there are two
or three hundred cases that cannot
be moved without danger.
Strong frame buildings are now be-
Ing erected for the use of these pa
tients. These buildings will be fn-'
ished in two or three days, and the
worst cases will be moved into them.
Nearly all of these are typhoid fever
cases, to move which would cause
frightful mortality. Maj. Brown said
that he thought there would be about
so cases which could not be moved for
two or three weeks at least.
Alger Not Worried About 1t.
Detroit, Sept. Concerning re-
ports from Camp Wikoff that the
camp is preparing to break up under
the peremptory new orders from Gen.
Miles. Secretary Alger said:
There is nothing new in that. Camp
Wikoff from the first was mostly in
tended as detention camp. The pur-
pose from the first has been to get the
soldiers away from there as soon as
possible. No change in purpose-is in
dicated by these dispatches from my
own orders given before l left Wash
ington."
to Gen. Miles the ''Never mind what
Relative to statement attributing
Alger says" ETC., the secretary posi-
lively refused to speak.
Leaving Camp WilkoH.
Washington, Sept. 12.-Orders were
issued from the war department. Mon
day ordering two regiments of the
United States regular troops away
from Camp Wiloff, Montauk. They
are the Twelfth infantry, which is
ordered to Jefferson Barracks, Mis-
souri,, and the Twenty-second in
fantry. which goes to Fort Cook, Neb.,
the station it occupied before going
to the war The Twelfth infantry
was formerly stationed at Fort Mo
brara, Neb. 1t is hoped that all the
regular regiments will be away from
Montauk by the end of the week.
Died of Fever.
New York, Sept. 12.-The death of
these soldiers is announced:
At Hackensack, n. J.-George p. Cook.
company p, Seventy-first New York. ty-
phoid fever.
!. AT ST. GATHERINGS hospital, this city
John w. Phillips, light battery E, Fifth
artillery, Of typhoid fever His home vas
insOakville, Ind.
pat st. Peters hospital. Brooklyn-sergt.
James b. Weeh, company X. Ninth Mas
sachusetts.
At Long Island college hospital-Henry
fDoison, company d, District Of Columbia
volunteers.
Deaths in Camp Willof.
Camp Wikotf, Montauk Point, Il. l.,
Sept. 12.-The deaths reported from the
general hospital Monday We're as fol-
lows:
Walter Ellger, company c. Third infen-
try, dysentery.
Samuel p. Wiley, corporal. company C.
Ninth Massachusetts, typhoid.
David Nechauser, company l. Eighth
Ohio, exhaustion.
Burt Smith. company B, Eighth infan-
James f. Tiernan, Ninth Massachusetts,,
typhoid.
There are 6.1 patients in the gen
eral hospital, and but G5 in the de-
tention hospital. The latter wase closed
Monday. twenty-five of the patients
of the detention hospital were taken
to Boston Monday on the hospital ship
Relied. while the ther 40 patients are