New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1898-09-16
DOCTOR DYING, PATENTS WE'LL.
TRAGIC RESULT OF THE JOURNEY OF
THE EIGHTH REGIMENTS SICK
np IINDHYIM WHO WAS ACCUSED Of CRUELTY
TO TIE MEN on THE TRAIN STRICKEN
DOWN Bv TYPHOID FEvEP AND
FAvIvG THAT HE VAS
JUDGED rNHEARD

JUDGED rNHEARp
Dr George W Lindheim. surgeon ~ me Red
Cross and corporal in the 9Th Regiment. who was
accused 81 extreme cruelty in his treatment Of the
| 20 men OF his regiment whom he had charge
on their tourney hy rail from ChickamauEa 70
| New York. Is dying According 70 the physicians
who are attending him tnNre is no hope for his
recovery Of the go he r. accused 81 H.
treating az a physician and a comrade many Of
whom II was said would die tire greater number
are now walking about well and strong and all
the others are well on the voad rAcov~rv None
! will die. me physicians 7ay
Dr. a Monae Lesser chief surgeon Of the Red
Cross. said last night that the hard work done by
| Or Lindhein md worry over the criticisms 81 HIS
work are the causes Of Or Lindher's condition
| For five days now he has been unconscious Dur
ing these DAYS Of dcrium ne has NOT taken sub
stantlal food and every hour he has raved about
the men he believes h is s-ill bringing from death
| AZ chick,r,ausa ne IN New-Yo-k
let me get up he raves Two hundred and
sixty O, them Think OF the hoys-so much ra.
sponsibilitv--I must get up.
! Then the three nurses constantly BY his side DO
all that can be done - qust him SonAtinoAs the
sufferer calls out:
oh why do they Judge me- unhesrd' I'm doing
| all can: I'm right. know I'm right I'll bring
them all through
Resides the three nurses. Dr. Lesser or Dr. Max
well BENJAMIN Of the Lebanon Hospital STAFF Is
always by the bedside. They admitted last night
that they had hope for their patient. They had
done everything known medical science for ty-
phoid and exhaustion they said but exhaustion Of
the brain had bs fled their efforts
With the go III soldiers OF the sth Regimen. DR.
Llndheim arrived in this city August 81 Long
before the fourteen-car train arrived came the
port that II was bringing cargo OF dead soldiers
Or Iindheim in talking with DR.. Monae Lesser
~ the criticisms Of his treatment OF the men. after
ward gave his version as follows He had been put
In charge OF the men. he said. with instructions
take them direct New-York. on the train was
all that II was deen.sd advisable to give the pa.
tients-mllk and medicine. There was plenty OF
both
Al Cleveland according TO Or. Lindheim, several
pSpn an D9se the b. ram me
ailing soldiers and thought some OF them should be
Ia ssG and Is pr aAf ana
on dons 80 Then 50 Or Il dh ni na has told DR.
Doctor. let US take tn, men on. ana I.ll have
good story in my paper about you; I'll give you
Still DR. Lindhem said no. Then, said the re;
scOr Dir to Pr n .is a roast 'ss ySR
paper man put OF the train.
p pr
Ing him tssesram WHICH he had received from
with sth Regimen, men and care for the six dead"
There dead on the train. and the under
WS.n Taf n. a. sp1DlsfS a' in this cy Dr. ~
saw that all the III soldiers were removed to hos
tember l. he visited his patients all day long. seeing
that they had been properly provided for. On the
following day he was stricken down with typhoid.
and taken 10 the home OF his parents, at No.
ei5 Railroad He never left his bed atterward
Or. Lindhem is twenty seven years Old. He be-
a surgeon OF the Red Cross three years ago.
Two years ago he Joined the sth REGIMENT He
went TO the front a corporal. and assigned
70 a place In the hospital corps. Or. Lesser rays
that DR. Lindheim should have nothing but praise
for the work he has done with the sth, and that
Major-Surgeon Neff has said that Or. Lndheim Is
the only surgeon who ever had charge OF such
body OF men and took them safely such distance