The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1898-09-15
LAST DAYS At CAMP.
Marked by More Dying at Mon
tauk Point.
TEN MORE DEATHS OCCURRED.
One of the Dead From the Eighth Ohio.
Hospital ships Busy Transporting Men
to Boston and New York--Dotention
Hospital Abandoned.

CAMP WIKoFF, MoNTAUK POINT, Il. l.,
Sept. 13.-The deaths reported from the
general hospital yesterday were as fol.
lows:
Walter Ellger, Company G, Third in.
fantry, dysentery.
Samuel p. Wiley, corporal, Company
o, Ninth Massachusetts, typhoid.
David Hockhauser, Company 1,
Eighth Ohio, exhaustion.
Burt Smith, Company b, Eighth in.
fantry malaria.
James +. Tiernan, Ninth Massaohu-
sets, typhoid.
There were G71 patients in the gen.
eral hospital and but SO in the detention
hospital The latter Will be closed.
Twenty-Five of the patients of the de-
tention hospital were taken to Boston
yesterday ON the hospital Ship Relief,
while the other 40 patients are being
transferred to the general hospital. 1t
is expected that by Thursday there will
be no patients in the general hospital.
Louis Bran, Company ID, Twentieth
infantry.
Frank 7. Rinkhas, Company, First
Illinois.
II. f. Harrison, Company e, First
Illinois.
George Gleason, Company l., Ninth
Massachusetts.
John Quinn, Company G., Tenth in
fantry.
The entire attention of the 49, 900 SOL
diers still at Camp Wikof is now
directedtoward the latest developments
in regard to the abandonment of the
camp here and their removal to the
barracks occupied by them before the
commencement of the war. General
Bates orders are to get all the troops
away from here as soon as possible.
The troops now here comprise II
regiments of infantry, regiments Of
cavalry, 9 batteries Of light artillery,
batteries Of heavy artillery and COM
panies of the signal corps.
Great activity is being displayed by
the medical department TO free the hos
pitals here of all patients who can pos
sibly be removed. Between 800 aud 400
sick were sent to New York and Brook.
lyn hospitals on Sunday on the steamer
Shinnecock and by rail
The army hospital boat Relief arrived
here from New York yesterday morn
ing and during the day she took aboard
25O sick men. The Relief left for Bos-
IOil anu tllSy Will DS DluCSu Ill lObDlUulS
in that city. The steamer will return
here. from Boston at once probably ar
irving tomorrow, and will then take
perhaps 200 more patients to New York
and Brooklyn hospitals. The Shinne-
cock is expected to arrive here today
and she will take probably 200 or 300
sick to New York.
A medical board is now engaged in
making an examination of all patients
in the hospitals and determining which
of them are i'll proper condition for re-
moval to outside hospitals. The mem.
bers Of the board say that every man
who can be sent away with safety Will
be sent just as soon as possible. With
the departure of the Relief last night
there were about 500 men in the gen
eral hospital and 200 and 300 more In
division and regimental hospitals
The detention hospital has been aban-
doned. 1t is expected that before the
end of the week all the patients in all
the hospitals in camp will have been re.
moved to hospitals in New \ ork and
other places, except, perhaps 100 to 200
men, suffering from aggravated attacks
of typhoid and intermittent fever,
malaria and dysentery, whom it is con-
sidered unsafe to remove for from two
to three weeks more.