The record-union., 1898-11-04
Typhoid Fever So Prevalent Among
the American Soldiers
That Orders Were Issued to Permanently
Abandon Camp Mckinley.
General King Has a Controversy
With a Honolulu Police Judge
Growing Out of the Sentence of
Some Privates for Disorderly
Conduct-A Member of the New
York Engineer Corps Instantly
Killed by an Electric Current

Killed by an Electric Current.
VICTORIA (B. c., Nov. 3.LHonolu-
III advices per H. NJ. S. Aorangi, which
arrived here to-day, are to the effect
that work had been stopped at Camp
Mckinley. The entire camp will be
moved to Moanalua tract, which Gen
eral Merriam has recommended as q
site for a permanent post. Typhoid
fever was the cause of the abandon
ment of the camp. The troops in Camp
Otis will remain there until the arri-
val of the transport Arizona from Ma
Mia
Typhoid fever was sown broadcast
during the time the ordinary rules OF
sanitation were disregarded in the
military camps. There are said to be
fifty cases, but trained nurses have
been added to the force at the hospital
from the city, and it is believed the
death rate will be very small.
Malaria is on the decrease When the
Aorangi left there were 163 patients in
the hospital, fifty showing typhoid
symptoms General King says the pa
tients at the hospital will be moved as
quickly as possible to some place near
the hills, where it is dryer and cooler
He says the hospital should never have
been located where it is
General King will sail with the troops
at Camp Otis on the Arizona for Ma
Mia. The New Workers and engineers
will remain at Honolulu indefinitely for
garrison duty.
Five deaths from typhoid fever oc-
Cured during the week previous to the
sailing Of the Aorangi. The names OF
the dead are: Charles II. Thompson,
New York Regiment; Thomas Beaver,
Eighteenth Infantry; Private Timber
like, Eighteenth Infantry: julius n.
Miller, Company B, Nebraska Volun-
teers; d. w. Dawson, Company F,
Colorado recruits.
Brigadier General King had quite
controversy with Police Judge Wilcox.
The Judge, while sentencing some pri-
Yates for disorderly conduct, is re-
ported to have said if there was any
surety of the men being punished by
court-martia1 he would let them off
easy; but on a previous occasion, when
the men made a disturbance, the COM
manding officer could not be found. but
was sick in bed, although the same
night he gave a big dinner party, and
the men were whitewashed.
General King wrote to Wilcox asking
him if he used that language, and the
Judge replied that the report was. cor
rect. General King then asked for an
apology, which the court declined to
give, and there the matter rests for
the present.
1t is stated that a new bank will COM
mence business in Honolulu the first Of
the year with a capital of $4,000, with
power to increase it to $3,0000O0. Part
of the capital is local. 1t will not be
a national bank, sbut organized under
the laws of Hawaii.
Police Marshal Brown leaves Homo
lulu November 9th for San Francisco
to visit the principal coast cities, with
a view of getting in closer touch with
them, annexation having made some
changes desirable.
The steamer Columbia has been re-
leased on bonds She was to sail for
Seattle the day before the Aorangi.
The election at Camp Otis was to
take place one week after the Aorangi
left. Senator Steele had left the nee
essary blanks and gone on to Manila
for the same purpose.
The transport Senator arrived the
day before the Aorangi sailed She
will coal at Honolulu and proceed to
Manila The voyage was uneventful,
but the men complain of poor food and
crowded quarters. On the niGht of
the 22d 800 men were attacked with a
Violent nausea, the result Of eating
tainted food. All recovered.
Honolulu advices received to-day tell
of the death from an electric current OF
Thomas Hannah, member of Com
pany I, New York Engineers, and
native hackman, also the narrow es-
cape from death of Private GertZ of
San Francisco on the night of October
odd Hannah and Gertz were in
carriage on their way to camp. The
night was dark and stormy. In the
heart of the city their journey was
obstructed by horse lying in the street
near a deserted hack. Near by the
boyd of a man was seen. Alghting,
Hannah placed his hands on the body
to lift it. He was stricken dead in
stantly by a current of about a thou
sand volts. Gertz placed his hand on
Hannah. and he was hurled to the
body of a man was seen. AhghtinS
shoes and pulled him away from Inc
deadly current, thus saving his llfe'
The electric current came from i've
wire that had fallen to the street.
Hannah was a native of Tennessee,
andi a pressman by trade. He worked
for several years on the San Francisco
papers At the outbreak of the war
he enlisted in the Third Battalion, Sec
ond Volunteer Engineers.