Evening star., 1898-08-29
OUR SICK MEN IN BLUE
General Boynton Exonerates Camp Thomas
Hospitals.
Gov. Black TO observation-disclosures
From Montauk-Recent Deaths
at Santiago.

A few days ago Secretary Alger directed
Gen. II. V. Boynton, now at Chickamauga
Park, to make thorough and searching
investigation of all the hospitals in CamT
Thomas and to report instantly any lach
of attention to the inmates any inefficiency
in the medical officers or any need of SUD.
plies. of whatever kind Gen. Boynton' S
attention was directed to the charges made
by Dr. Terry against the conduct of the
hospitals at Camp Thomas, and he was
urged to make a prompt report of the exact
conditions as he should find them. Adju.
tant General Corbin yesterday received q
telegram from Gen. Boynton saying:
Have completed Investigating hospitals
under Secretary's order. Results exceeding.
~ favorable in all essential features. The
facts effectually dispose of all recent sen.
sational adverse criticism
Gov. Black to Investigate
Governor Black of New York, after two
days spent in Washington, left last night
for Chickamauga Park to make an investi-
cation of the condition of the New York
troops at Camp Thomas.
Before leaving he secured the issuance OF
an order for the mastering out of the Goth
New York Volunteers, now at Camp Aleer
Inc regiment will proceed to Buffalo, its
home city.
DAScAAparhInS at MOntauk.
Gen. Young has telegraphed the War De.
partment from Montauk Point that every
transport IN the harbor there has been I'M
ioaoeo ana the troops placed in camp.
A District Soldiers Death.
zen. Wheeler, commanding at Montauk
Point. telegraphed the War Department
Saturday night as follows:
NO transports arrived today The fol-
lowing troops have disembarkea todav.
-Four hundred and eighty-siS aggregate
Ith Infantry, from Yucatan; five hundred
ara fourteen aggregate I'd and Sd Battai-
IONS IONS !st M District Of Columbia, from Hud-
SON All troops from Prairie landed last
night. The following transports stin 20 be
unloaded: d. H. Miller, with 1st Infantry
except Company F; Santiago, with 34th
talchlgan: MIC Catania, with four hundred and
ten aggregate various commando Ar
cadia and Mohawk, empty still in port.
transports Leona, Yale and Harvard
sailed yesterday. None sailed today Sergt.
District of Columbia, died tonight Cen
eral health of command improving, Morn
ing report shows Ii, 163 officers and men in
camp; l, 133 sick, besides the sick in deten-
ton camp
Moving Missouri Troops,
Adjt. Gen. NJ. F. Bell of Missouri has
oeen In Washington, and made arrange
ments for taking home $50 sick soldiers of
the ID and 4th Missouri Volunteers at
Dunn Loring and Middletown. He says he
obtained everything he asked for fror, the
War Department, and will take these COL
diers TO Missouri in a special train. with
nine Pullman cars and a dining car. and
with orders which win enable him to pur-
cnase all supplies that they could possibly
want. f--'
The Deaths at Santiago,
zen. LaWton's health report from San-
tiago Tor Saturday is as follows:
Total sick, 555; total fever, 427; new
cases fever, 10; returned to duty, "a.
Deaths. Leopold Debend, civilian packer
acute dysentery! Charles B. yiberts nri
vate Company I, 1st Illinois, typhoid fever.