The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-09-13
REGULARS TO BE SCATTERED.
Fifteen Thousand to BE Sent to Their
Former Barracks.

FORMER BarrAckS.
CAMP WIKOFF, Montauk Point, L. T..
Sept 12.-The entire attention of the f1f-
teen thousand soldiers still at Camp Wikoff
is now directed toward the latest develop
ments in regard TO the abandonment Of the
camp here and their removal to the bar
racks occupied by them before the COM
mencement of the war. General Bates's or
ders are to get all the troops away from
here as soon as possible, but, according to
a statement made by him to-day, he is not
informed of the means of transportation to
be provided by the quartermaster's depart
ment. He is unable to estimate the length
of time that may be necessary to remove
the troops. The troops now here comprise
seventeen regiments of infantry. seven
regiments of cavalry, six batteries OF light
artillery. four batteries of heavy artillery
and six companies of the signal corps.
The Third and Twentieth Infantry Regi-
ments expect to leave here by rail to-mor-
row morning, the former going to Fort
Smelling, Mimi, and the latter to Fort
Leavenworth, Kan. No troops left here to-
day, but some recruits for the Fifteenth
Infantry arrived.
---GrsatAeetivitst-iAbe Abeing displayed by the
medical departm to free the hospitals
here of all patients who can possibly be re-
moved Between three and four hundred
sick were sent to New York and Brooklyn
hospitals on Sunday on the steamer Shinne-
cock and by rail.
The army hospital boat Relief arrived
here from New York this morning and dur
ing the day she took aboard 250 sick men.
The Relief left with these patients tonight
for Boston and they will be placed in hos
pitfalls in that city. The steamer will return
here from Boston at once, probably arriving
Wednesday, and will then take, perhaps,
two hundred more patients to New York
and Brooklyn hospitals. The Shinnecock is
expected to arrive here tomorrow morning
and she will take probably two or three
hundred sick to New York.
A medical board is now engaged in maxi
ing an examination of all patients in the
hospitals and determining which of them
are in proper condition for removal to out
side hospitals The members 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
tonight there are about five hundred men
in. the general hospital and two or three
hundred more in division and regimental
hospitals The detention hospital has been
abandoned. 1t is expected that before the
end of the week all the patients in all the
hospitals in camp will have been removed
to hospitals in New York and other praces
except, perhaps, $50 to 200 men suffering
from aggravated attacks of typhoid and in
termittent fever malaria and dysentery.
whom it is considered unsafe to remove for
from two to three weeks more. They will
remain in the general hospital here as long
as may be necessary without regard to
whether the troops in camp are removed to
their barracks or not.
The deaths reported from the general
hospital to-day were as follows:
Walter Eltger, Company G, Third In
fantry, dysentery.
Samuel p. Wiley, corporal, Company G,
Ninth Massachusetts, typhoid.
David Hochauser, Company I. Eighth
Ohio, exhaustion.
Burt Smith, Company B, Eighth Infantry.
malarial
James F. Tiernan. Ninth Massachusetts.
typhoid.
Louis Bran, Company D. Twentieth In
fantry.
Frank T. Rinkhas. Company F. First ILL.,
nois.
r. F. Harrison, Company E. First I'LL
rois
George Gleason. Company L, Ninth Mas
sachusetts.
John Quinn, Company G. Tenth Infantry.