Evening star., 1898-08-27
N|HETY-F|VE ILL
Condition Of the District
Troops at Montauk
SOME ARE IN SERIOUS STATE
Sick Men Landed and Taken
to Hospital.
THEIR SUFFERINGS FROM HUNGER
One Death on the Trip and Burial
at Sea.
THEIR SUFFERINGS FROM HUNGER
One Death on the Trip and Burial
LIST OF THE IN VALIDS


CAMP WIhOEF, Montauk POINT, n. Y,
August 27.-The transport Hudson with 514
troops of the &c and sd Battalions, 1st Reg
iplent. District of Columbia Volunteers, in
command of Maj Hire, is lying in the har-
bor here.
The report from the regiment sent ashore
al o'clock was that ninety-fve of the
troops are sick and that one died on the
voyage.
DR.. Magruier, in charge of the marine
hospital service, went early to the Hudson
to inspect the regiment, but judging from
the report sent ashore previously, it was
believed there is no contagion among the
men.
The Hudson arrived off Montauk yester-
day morning at o'clock.
AT that time the quarantine officers had
been called to Amagansett. ten miles from
here, where the transport Prairie had gone
ashore, and they were kept busy all Gay in
srecting the men from that vessel. in order
that they might be landed on the beach.
There was no opportunity to communicate
with the transports off here and until last
night their names the troops they car
rled were MT known on shore.
To BE Landed Today.
1t is expected all the District troops will
be landed this afternoon
DIR. Magruder returned from the Hudson
at o'clock and informed The Star corre-
spondent that there was no contagious dis
ease on the transport, and under his direc-
gun at once.
He reported that Private VIM. A Nc
Donald of Company L, I'd Battalion, had
died on the voyage and was buried at sea.
Among the sick he said there were some
very serious cases.
Major Hine was i'll. though not seriously,
and had placed Major O'Brien In active
command of the battalions.
Large numbers of spring beds are being
forwarded to the general hospital, and it
Is thought all the Ill men among the Dis
trict companies will be provided with them.
The landing of the sick men was finished
about noontime and they show signs of
great suffering.
OF the e5 men on the sick list not more
than six or eight were so weak they could
not walk to the ambulances awaiting them
at the wharf. but almost without exception
all moved slowly and as If suffering from
extreme weakness.
Half a dozen of the men were placed on
stretchers. being too weak to move.
Their Food on the TRANSPORT.
With few exceptions the sick men arc
convalescent or nearing recovery from re-
cent illness. their chief trouble now being
extreme weakness.
The same story is told on all sides The
greatest suffering on board the Hudson
was from inability of the sick men to eat
canned meats and hardtack. Many of them
have taken So much coffee during their
campaign in Cuba that the doctors have
ordered them to abstain from it for the.
present.
The men when they came ashore were
suffering from the pangs Of hunger When
asked how they felt the general reply was
that they were starving
Many Of the men also complained of the
filth on the transport. The sick men. being
AtdutN III dtIlpuiahceS, were driven three
miles over the sandy hills between Montauk
station and the general hospital. and wers
at once assigned wards
They are not kept together, but are scat
tered in different wards. They will be CIV
en- spring beds, and The Star corresuopd-
fnt was assured by DR.. Brown, the execu-
tive officer. that they would want for moth
ing that they would receive in any long
established. flrst-class hospital
The Evening Stars Offer.
He was informed that The Evening Star
wished to make some special provision for
the comfort of the men at its expense, but
he gave assurances that so far as the hos
pital patients were concerned nothing was
needed, and that Secretary Alger's visit
here had resulted in providing everything
that sick men would possibly want
The sick soldiers inquired eagerly of The
Star correspondent for news of the war,
being q long way behindhand in their in