The times., 1898-09-01

to typhoid was Private w B. Poor OF
Company X. He died at Siboney, and
was buried there. Dr,.Dudley attributes
his death to nothing else, more or less,
than lack of proper sicks.diet. He said
that milk was scarce at the time and
milk is considered one of the indispensa-
bic diets for typhoid patients There was
lack of cots at the time, and the sick
man had to lie in hammock for days
There was also lack OF ambuiances
The second District soldier to die at
Siboney," continued DR.. Dudley. was
Lieut. Harden, who was i'll when we
landed, but whose malady was made all
the more acute because of the terrible
night of the 11th, when we had no tents
or blankets, and the rain poured down
harder than | have ever seen it,
Private Socrates Maupin was the
third fever victim. He died in the hos
pital at Santiago. The body was placed
in two Theoretically sealed caskets at the
expense of the company to which he and
his brother John belonged, and the body
was placed in the vault at Santiago for
twenty-four hours in accordance with
Spanish custom.
Officially at Hontauk.
I'VE had difficult time at Montauk.
We had certificate from the surgeon in
charge at Santiago, the division surgeon,
and Gen. Wood, stating that the body of
Private Maupin was safe for removal TO
America. When at Montauk we found
that these certificates were not sufficient,
| but that We would also have TO get one
! from the local health officer There was
no representative at Camp wikoff We
had to send to East Hampton, Long ISL
and, for a representative of the local Of
/ flee, and the body lay in the Theoretically
sealed caSkets at the camp from $50
O'Clock in the morning until $50 o'clock
in the evening before he arrived and
passed upon the death certificates which
We had brought from Santiago.
''On the way from Santiago, Privates
! Waldman and Bahlman. died of typhoid
! fever, and were buried at sea Pri-
vate Mahaney carved gravestones out of
tiling at Santiago and the District boys
erected them over the graves of Lieut.
Harden and Private Poor He also made
! Sravestones for the three Rough Riders,
Hendricks, Green, and another. who were
buried near our camp on San Juan Hill
Are Thieves and i4iars
The Cubans are not worth the
powder that would blow their brains
! out They are cheats. lars, and thieves.
and stole every time they had an oppor-
1 tunity. They were lazy, and would do
] 10 NOTh. a wagon iJdN VI Supplits was
/ sent 70 some Of them, and they refused
To un Dad it. saying they were soldiers
and would not work They were told by
the American officers that unless they
Unloaded the goods they would not get
/ them Every time the American soldiers
( looked the Cubans n The face they had
/ 10 remember the Maine mighty hard 10
keep up their patriotism As soldiers.
. they amounted to nothing. The only
fbaz- caIId sfr.aplx commits
sary wagon. and they ecu do tnat
( to the queens taste.
"A Spanish officer said to me in Santi-
ago. L tell you we are nightly glad Ia
get rid of this business, and we hoIs
/ the United States win enjoy it. believe
you Americans have got what l have
read in the ,newspapers-I believe they
call it the gold-brick You are welcome
TO the island, and we are glad TO get
out of it. We hope you will do oetteI
than we did. The Cubans always ran
from US
You Americans are just the opposite
When you charged up San Juan hill
your dismounted cavalrymen, 1 mean
with small carbines and no bayonets. you
were not men, but devils. When youi
! Gatlings went rat-t-ar-r-t-r-r we had tC
beat our men on the back with oul
swords or make them fight.
After the surrender of Santiago the
cubans were sad and sullen because they
could not loot the city. Cuban sympa
thizers who are merchants in Santiago
say that the Cubans looted their shops
more Than the Spaniards, saying: 'Thi
is Cuba l;bre.' and these merchants sai'
that they hoped that the Americans woul,
take charge and protect them by policin!
/ the town"
DR.. Dudley will preach at the morn
ing and evening services at St. Steven
/ Church next Sunday. and then he vii
leave for the mountains for a week o
two for recuperation. He will return il
time to join the District boys when the,
. / return from Montauk