The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-08-29
LIE ON BOARDS
500 Sick Soldiers Sleep on the
Floor
In the Hospital at MOntauk
Point.
NO COTS PROVIDED
Though New York City is But
100 Miles Away.
1000 Patients in the General
Hospital,
Though Hundreds Are Sent
Away Daily.
COMPLAIN BITTERLY.
Arrivals From Camp Thomas
Tell of Bad Treatment.
Story of Mismanagement Comes
From Everywhere.
COMPLAIN BITTERLY.
Arrivals From Camp Thomas
Tell of Bad Treatment.
Story of Mismanagement Comes
From Everywhere.

New York, Aug. 29.-Today's arrivals
at Camp Wikoff included the First bat
talon of the District of Columbia vol
unteers, one battalion of United States
engineers attached to the Fifth army
corps. Troops A, c, D and F of the Sec
ond cavalry, the men who operated the
balloons at Santiago and 95 men of the
Thirty-third Michigan volunteers. These
were debarked from the transport Min
newaska, which left Santiago de Cuba
on August %. There were 49 hospital
cases on board the transport, typhoid
and dysentery being the prevailing dis
eases. Private BOhlman, Company B,
District of Columbia volunteers died on
the passage from Santiago.
There are 1,6O0 patients in the general
hospital at Camp Wikoff, lis of whom
are down with typhoid fever. This is a
decrease. The deaths reported today
were those of William BohIe of Battery
F, Second artillery; Timothy Donovan,
Troop F, Second artillery, from malari-
al fever and Frederick Miller, Company
A, Twenty first regular infantry, dys-
entery.
There are $50 men in the detention
hospital. By tomorrow the hospital
will be enlarged so as to accommodate
$50 more patients.
While the condition in the hospitals
has been somewhat improved, 500 sick
soldiers are stin sleeping on the floor
These men will be put on cots in the
new wing tomorrow.
The force Of nurses has been increased
to n. There are 40 sisters of charity
administering to the sick
The following patients have been
transferred from the field hospital at
Camp Wikoff, Montauk Point, to the
S. R. Smith infirmary at New Brighton,
S. L:
c. H. Zimmerman, Company B.
Aubrey Marchal hospital corps.
Eighth Ohio.
F. s. Wanshen, Second Massachusetts.
Joseph Kanawha, Company D. Twen-
tieth infantry
Stephen Weiss, Company H. Third in
". L. White, Company K, Sixteenth
Dr. James B. Devereaux. acting as
slstant surgeon, Third infantry
Lee Ackerman, Company A, Twenti-
Fourth infantry. -
w H. Fanugh, Company c, Sixteenth
L. G Mcmahon, Second cavalry.
- andrew Brown, Jerome Walters and
George CruehuS of the First volunteer
celN airy nave been taken TO ROOsax1oIf
hospital in this city
A hospital train of two Pullman oars
arrived in Jersey City today over the
Fennsylvania railroad, carrying 40 sick
Is oiulsIs OF the Fourteenth New York
E0luhteers, on furlOugh from Cann
dnomas to recuperate. Relatives ana
irlends of the sick soldiers were wait
ing TO receive them. The men who
We're well enough to talk comma iT,aJ
DlIlefIy Of the treatment they received
at Camp Thomas
me sixth sixth and seventh sections of the
T IrsI On!ted states cavalry arrived in
Jersey city today from Lakland Fla
Inere were about 400 on the two trains
All were transported from Jersey C,itv
70 Long Island City to continue their
p trlp to MOntauk Point The first 80
sections of the cavalry are at NTontai,lC
TIIteen sick men were left behind at
washington and two died there.
AIger's Defense.
washington, D. c., Aug. 2e-"T do
not intend to order an investigation Of
the wholesale charges of nismanae pa
r -l-1'i1 u the war, but propose to stand
~ - my record, said Secretary AIger
TINS afternoon IF the president or
congress desires these charges fnvesti
gated. l would be delighted to have
Ihe aoInlnlstrattOn of the war ueDar+-
ment made the subject of the most
searching inquiry. If anyone can he
4ouho VINO can perform the duties bet
yer lnan l nave, 1 am willing to give
way TO him, but not until the unjust
brutal and untrue Criticisms ba7'e
ceased. I will not retire under fire
The war found the country totaI1v
unprepared, with an army of onlv 27
goo men In four months an army Of
<fO'Veo men was called into the field
equipped. 1t fought a campaien Or, tTF-o
continents, which was a succession Of
victories, and brought about peace #
was a stupendous undertaking, and 7 do
not believe any other country on the
race race OF the globe could have success
Iuny managed such a herculean task
We mad nothing to start with but arms
mere were no tents, clothing canteens
naVersacks, cartridge belts, shoes, un-
oerWear, clothing OF any kind or am
munitiOn.
All the executive work for this
gIgantlc project passed over my desk
and if I have not done NV d1,tI- q III
as any one else could have done I am
very sorry that I filed the Office of