The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-06-13
BLOODSHED At cHIcKAMAuGA
A SOLDIER WOUNDED IN A
WHISKY DIVE.
His Comrades Quickly Demolished
the Place-Gambling Dens and
Whisky Shops Will Be Suppressed.

Chickamauga Chattanooga National
Military Park, Ca, June ia much
needed rain fell today cooling the atmos-
phere and laying the dust The men were
relieved this morning from any duties.
and hundreds were given leave to visit
the city. Lookout mountain and the ridge.
An incident occurred this morning at
the camp which will probably terminate
the existence of illicit whisky shops and
gambling dens, which have, up to this
time, been permitted to ply their bust
ness by the Georgia authorities without
hindrance. A private of the Twenty-first
Kansas regiment, who had been drinking
at the whisky dive of one Joe Baker, be-
came involved in a difficulty with the
barkeeper. Blows followed and Baker
drew revolver, firing point blank at the
soldier, the bullet. il was claimed by the
soldier, striking him near the. left eye,
INJECTING a severe wound, which may
cause the loss of an eye. The name OF
the soldier win be supplied soon.
The fight attracted the attention of the
throngs on the streets of the mushroom
town. and soon crowd OF soldiers rushed
in. Baker. fearing further trouble, had
gotten out of the way. A large body Of
avenging the injury to their comrade.
and for a while it looked as if there would
be serious trouble.
An armed guard, however. was quickly
detailed by order of General Brooke. who
took charge of Baker and his place and
order was soon restored. The soldier was
taken to his division hospital. where the
surgeon investigated his injuries. He
found wound as indicated. but thought
the injury had been caused by a bit of
broken glass and not by bullet.
After the shooting number of soldiers
discovered that a gambler was running
a brace game and that the difficulty be-
tween the soldier and Baker resulted from
the fact that the latter had been playing
the former with loaded dice. 1t took the
soldiers only few minutes to demolish
the place. They broke up the furniture.
scattered the gambling DaraDhernalia in
the street and were only deferred from
pulling the house down by the arrival of
officers.
It is stated this evening that a number
of good citizens in the vicinity will, be-
cause of the failure of the Georgia OFF,
GERS to enforce the law, petition that the
portion of Walker county in the vicinity
of the park be put under martial law, so
that General Brooke can administer the
law on the lawless element now doing
thriving business there.
Every train from the park this morning
was crowded with soldiers who had been
given permission to visit the city and the
mountain. One of the trains from the
park was crowded TO SuffOcation and
number of soldiers mounted to the top
of the coaches. At a point about three
miles from Chattanooga a number of tel
egraph wires cross the track of the rail-
road over which the soldier excursion
train was passing. Wnen the 1, tram
reached this point. G. II; Aemes, Thomas
Judd" Sharp. Sixteenth Pennsylvania,
were standing on top of car. Sharp was
caught under the chin and around the
neck by one of the wires and dragged off
the car, pulling with him Aemes and Bar
rett. who attempted to catch MIN. The
men We're picked up. taken back to Lytle
and placed in the letter hospital They
were badly bruised and scratched, but no
bones were broken and no internal in
juries were inflicted. All will doubtless
recover.
ABUNDANCE OF FOOD.
General Boyton, chairman of the Park
committee, being asked by the Associated
Press correspondent in regard 20 the
stories of short food supplies at Camp
Thomas. sent out to certain sensational
newspapers, said:
Yesterday took occasion to obtain the
issues of rationS for ten days past for
each of the regiments specified in these
articles as suffering. In each
case il turned out not only that fuIl
ratio1s had been issued for this whole
time. and that no spare articles making
I'D the rationS had been snort. but that
two vegetable rations in ADDITION to the
ration had been issued to all Not only
this, but the whole issue had Deen III
first-class condition.
This whole attack upon the very faith
full competent and energetic officers re-
sDonsible for the issue of stores seems 10
have been devised to bunco the public
and fix it's attention on store of sup
plies with which these sensational news
papers now propose TO forward Tor the
so-called relief of the soldiers. 1t IS
both Infamous and a very transparent
game. and, as stated, based upon unquali-
fed falsehood.
Among the other charges against the
camp, 1t is denounced as sickiy. The fact
is. the sick rate has been steadily de-
ever since the camp was estab-
lished.'
The members of the Sixteenth Pennsyi-
vania are having a terrible time as q re-
suit of vaccination, nearly 40e men bong
disabled with sore arms 1t is char
that the points used were imperfect and
the officers of the Sixteenth Penns-,i-
vania had refused to. allow their men to
he vaccinated with the same class OF
points. BY subscription funds were raised
with which fresh points are to be bought
for the use of this regiment.
Governor Hastings and staff spen. the
day visiting the various Pennsylvania reg
iments.