Barre evening telegram. (Barre, Vt.) 1898-19??, 1898-07-30
MORE WOUNDED HOME.
The Leona Arrives at New York-1njured
Soldiers Doing Well.

New York, July 30.-The United S e.
transport Leona, Captain Wilder, ha
arrived at quarantine from Sibone,
with so convalescent soldiers, two news
paper correspondents and negro boy
who went with the Ninth cavalry from
Tampa to Santiago, on board. TIL,
Leona left this port on June IL fol
Tampa, where she remained in the har.
Dor for more than three weeks She
then embarked the First and Tenth
United States cavalry and proceeded tC
Santiago, where she landed the troops.
The steamship remained off the Gu
I ban coast until July %, when she sailed
for Hampton Roads with her so con-
valescent soldiers. OF this number five
| were wounded at the front. On ar,iv-
| ing at Hampton Roads on July q the
steamship. owing to her having 90 fever
cases on board, was ordered by the To-
cal health officer to proceed here.
There were no deaths during the voy-
age from Siboney to this port Besides
the conva!escents on the Leona there
are II sacks of mail brought from tn
camp at Siboney. This mail will be i'm
mediately disnfected at quarantine ard
forwarded to the postoffice
DR.. Doty, the health officer, boarded
the Leona on arrival and found all o.
the sick and wounded convalescent or
improving. The 90 suffering from fever
were chiefly malarial patients.
There was no surgeon on board. and
the men were attended by the ships
people and their own officers and con-
rades. Owing to the fact that the his
tory of the cases showed that no tenn
perature charts We're kept or other rec
ords to guide the health officer and the
fact that these men We're ordered north
because the health authorities at Fort
Monroe would not allow them to land
DR.. Doty decided to remove the % ma.
TENTS to Swinburne island and the G, n.
valescent and we'll soldiers to Hoffman
island.
The steamship will be thoroughly dis
lnlected at the upper station. The eff
rects of the soldiers will be dsinfected
at HOFFMAN island, and the patients will
pe thoroughly examined at Swinburne
island. If at the end Of "a hours II i.
round that none shows symptoms of
yelio" fever, the Leona and all of the
detained passengers will be released.
Or. Doty says from Il brief eXanina-
lioH tnat he does not see any reason to
apprehend that any of the cases ara
yellow fever The So passengers were
promptly transferred to the islands by
the tag James W. Wadsworth.
Without exception the wounded SOL |
diers in Bellevue hospital show decided |
The physicians have sue |
reeded in checking all the severe eases
or fever, and nothing remains now but
FOR the wounds to heal Private jan h
of the Third infantry, who was blinded
BY sand which was thrown into his
eyes by an exploding shell, has been
removed to the eye and ear inf.mary
1t Forty-tirst street and Park avenue
Where an effort will be made to save his
sight.
Visitors still continue to throng tho
wards, and few of them fail to take
some delicacy to the men, The case of
'rlvate kastner Of the Thirteenth in
antry Is considered the most serious Of
my in the hospital. He was shot
through the head. He has responded
o treatment, however, and the doctor,
lre hopeful of saving his life