Barre evening telegram. (Barre, Vt.) 1898-19??, 1898-07-14
NEW ROB IN SIGHT
Feared That Yellow Jack
Has Come at Last.
FOURTEEN MEN DOWN..
Regarded as a Mild Form OF
hesTerrible Fever.
FOURTEEN MEN DOWN.

Miles Sends Word to Washington That the
situation at the Seat of War Is Un-
changed - No Fighting Since Monday.
Toral. Driven Into a Corner, Defiantly
Dares Shafter to Come and Take the
City Absolutely Refuses to Surrender
Observation-Disclosures Extension of Our
Lines Around the City - Difficulty In
Getting the Batteries of Artillery to the
Front The Burning of Siboney AS
Precaution Against the Spread of Vel.
low Fever.
Washington, July IA. - The war de-
partment received dispatch from Cen
eral Miles today, but the contents OF the
message were for the most part with
held from publication. The information
was given, however, that the situation
around Santiago is practically I'M
changed No fighting had been going
on since 2 o'clock Monday afternoon,
when the white flag was raised. the
city has not surrendered yet.
General Shafter has sent word that
he has extended the truce until noon
today, and then intends opening on
the city with all his guns unless Toral
surrenders before that time. The navy
will cooperate.
Intense excitement among the officials
was caused by the receipt of dispatch
stating that IA suspicious cases of fever
have arisen in the quartermaster's de-
partment before Santiago. Immediately
on the receipt of this news a special
cabinet meeting was held. The latest
dispa tches say that nine of the cases
We're among the quartermaster's de-
partment employees and five among
refugees. The cases are regarded as
mild cases of yellow fever. The prompt
ness with which the sick men have been
isolated and the thorough precautions
adopted to secure for them the best
nursing and medicine, combined with
the improved methods of treatment Of
fever that have been developed by the
United States marine hospital service
and adopted by the army, would seem
to warrant the confidence expressed by
medical officers here of the ability of
the surgeons with General Shafter to
control these suspicious cases and pre-
vent any extension of the fever.
1t cannot be said that the appearance
Of fever at this stage would surprise the
medical officers of the department.
They have made every preparation that
science can suggest to protect the
American troops from the fever but it
is fully realized that men working in
trenches half full of mud and water,
soaked for "a hours at time in trop-
ical rains recklessly disregarding the
lryi<, ,f tn
ter of drinking unboiled water and eat
ing large quantities of tropical fruit,
were certainly in some danger of con-
tracing disease If the same should be
existent in their neighborhood.
Fever Wa. In Santiago.
That the disease did exist in Santi-
ago, though never officially admitted,
was known here through private letters
from officers at the front to their
friends, and the exodus from the city
to the vicinity.of Skaters camp of 49,
900 inhabitants, presumably for the
most part in a destitute and filthy con-
dition, would afford ample opportunity
for the communication Of the disease to
the American troops were not the
strictest measures adopted to prevent
intercourse. These refugees originally
made their way out of Santiago to
Caney, a town in the suburbs of San
tiago.
There they have been in dreadful
straits to secure food and shelter, and
General Shafter has confessed his in
ability to prevent suffering on this
score. The French embassy here has
been informed that among the refugees
were 500 French citizens, led by the
French consul. The latter. hearing that
food was more plentiful with the Amer
lean army at Sboney, led his fellow
across the hills to that
place, and as the hamlet has just been
destroyed to prevent it from becoming
a hotbed of yellow fever the sufferings
of the refugees will be intensified.