Rock Island Argus., 1898-05-24
BOYS ARE ALL WELL.
Health of the Rodman Rifles at
Falls Church Reported
Good.
SOMETHING AS TO THE CAMP.
tradicting Prevailing Reports. Which,
However, Seem to be Well Founded,

East Falls Church. Va. Nav %.
Editor The Rock ISLAND ARGUs.-All
Company A are well. Very few are
sick in the regiment. ROsEY.
East Falls Church, Va. Nav 23..
Editor The Rock ISLAND ARGUS. The
reports concerning the poor condi-
ton at Camp Alger are without found
alton. The 9th infantry is well To-
Gated on high ground and everything
is being done to equip them as rapidly
rs possibleu'r' FOSTER, Calvalrv.
These two kilograms came to The
ARGUS last night. Both are exceed
ingly gratifying. but the latter as to
the camp conditions. seems to be open
to controversy. A Washington dis
patch of last night said: Seventeen
men in the hospital from severe colds
three men ill with pneumonia at Fort
Myer and one man dead from typhoid
fever is the record of the Illinois men
from Camp Tanner up to date. The
men came here not only from damp
and dangerous camp, where they were
i'll provided for. and bv a railway
journey of 72 hours through an ex-
ceeding hot week, but almost totally
unprovided with the commonest ne
cessities of life. All other regi-s
ments arriving from even the poorest
| states in the union have had supplies
erough to run them for a few days at
least. until the government could find
time to take them in hand. but ILL
nois. rich and powerful, has failed,
through the negligence of some one.
to provide for her soldiers. Had it
not been for Senator Mason and Mrs.
+. +. Smith, of Sterling, ILL.,. the Il
sick in the hospital would now be
sleeping on the bare ground. instead
of having cots provided for them by
the charity of Illinois people here.
Senator Mason purchased and sent to
the camp large number of cots.
blankets and other camp requisites
for use of the 9th Illinois. This
thoughtful act was the outcome of a
visit made by the senator to the camp
yesterday. when the need of these
articles was forcibly brought to his
attention, the hard rain that fell there
during the day rendering the place
more or less uncomfortable.
'.At the same time it is not true. as
stated in several eastern papers, that
Col. Jack Foster. of the 9th Illinois,
has complained to the war depart
ment of his location and treatment
Col. Foster stated to Gen. Graham to-
day that he was entirely satisfied with
the situation. now that he had gotten
his cots. He said the men were all
more or loss sick when they arrived.
and that even had he objected he
would certainly not have made his
complaint to the war department.
There is more or less illness all
through the camp. There are four
cases of measles, one of chicken pox
and one of typhoid among the Ohio
troops, and there is one case of
typhoid among the Pennsylvania men,
There are also Il good many men down
with colds. but all are doing well.
Illinois Soldiers Who Have Died.
'.Seven Illinois soldiers have died
since being ordered into camp. They
are Roy Parish. Western Springs,
Cook county; $. l.. Bledsoe, Rock
Island; Valentine Hunt. Chicago; Z.
ID. Beehe Elgin; Robert Leland, Otta-
wa; William Cullen Bryant, Evans
ton, and Lieut.. Col. Lorenzo f. Cole,
assistant surgeon of the 9th infantry.
The latter died at Fort Wayne, Ind
of conclusion of the brain, caused by
fall from his horse, while in camp
He insisted on accompanying his reg
iment after it had been ordered t.
Washington, but only lived to reacf
Fort Wayne. Three died of menin
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