The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-09-11
HOSPITAL TRAIN ARRIVED HERE
LAST NIGHT WITH MINNIE
sofa VOLUNTEERS
TRAIN STILL UNDER GUARD
NONE or THE PATIENTS TO BE AL.
LOWED TO LEAVE TILL
TODAY
SEVERAL CRITICALLY ILL

Surgeons I'm Charge Deemed 1t
Safer to Absolutely Forbid the
Removal OF Either ConvaIescents
or Serious Cases, Thus Preventing
the CCnmOtiOn as Well as POssi-
BILE Suspicion of FavOritism.
| There was not cheer as the hospital
train drew into the Union station last
evening. The gaunt faces peering from
| the lighted windows did not call for
cheers. They asked rather for tender
pity and rest, and by some mutual tele-
pathy the hundreds Of people thronglng
the depot sheds understood and were
quiet. The train came in a few min
utes after o'clock and as 1t slowed
UP in the depot yards Gov. Clough came
out on one Of the platforms and said
mo one will be allowed to enter or
leave these cars till morning. The men
cannot be disturbed tonight Tomor-
row morning at half past 3 o'clock the
cars will be opened and the sick men
removed Till then the doors of each
coach will be locked"
CROWD DISAPPOINTED.
Then the train slowly pulled out of
the station and to the foot Of Robert
street, where it was side-tracked and
left for the night. The doors were lock-
ed. The crowd was greatly disappoint-
ed Relations of the men had come to
welcome them with open arms, ana
many did not get even a glimpse Of
those they so longed to see. Many
climbed onto the platforms, only to be
politely but firmly pushed back to the
ground. Through the car windows the
patients and their white-capped nurses
could be seen, most of the former re-
clining in their births, evidently too
weary to care whether they were home
or not. A few hung out OF the windows
and hailed occasional familiar faces,
but as a whole they were very still
and their pale faces told of weary days
of fever and pain.
EAGER THRONGS.
The crowd followed eagerly down the
dusty tracks and swacmed about the
coaches when they at last stopped un-
der the Robert street bridge. Little
knots gathered here a nd there about
the open windows whsre heads were
stuck out, regardless az the night air
or physicians orders. "A police guard
was at once placed about the train,
but was powerless to, keep watch of
everybody.
Through one window very pretty
scene was witnessed by sympathetic
spectators. Private Peterson, whose
oe;I Nd NOT
learned, had the good fortune to have
his sister come to Chickamauga to
nurse him on his way home. His fa-
ther was at the train to meet them,
and by some rare good fortune was al
| lowed to go aboard. His first sight Of
his son, however, was through a car
window, through which he partially
crawled in an endeavor to reach the
opposite side of the coach where the
sick boy lay in bed. Tears were in the
eyes Of every one watching the scene
and when the old man at last reached
the side of his son and gave him big
kiss of thanksgiving, little sighs Of
sympathy escaped from many lips.
GREETINGS DELAYED.
There were several such scenes, but
many sorrowing mothers and fathers
trudged away through the dust into the
darkness to pass a sleepless night Of
waiting. Even this morning many will
not be enabled to more than grasp
their boys by the hand for thirty will
be taken directly to the St. Paul hos
pitals. and cannot be visited for some
time to come.
While the people pushed and crowded
without, the convalescents and nurses
within, were bidden to dinner and made
their way through the coaches to the
brightly lighted and handsomely ap-
pointed diner. But there were many,
some with heads propped up on pillows,
others too i'll to even raise hand, who
were cared for where they were, and
for whom the menu of the dining car
was not selected.
RED CROSS WORK.
The Red Cross society was on hand
at the request Of DR.. Higbee, and found
that only fruit. jellies and fruit juices
were needed last evening. These were
Immediately procured.
Only a few people were fortunate
enough to get aboard the train, and
the surgeons in charge discovered them.
Chief Goss and a large detail Of officers
were on hand and in less than half an
hour had cleared the place Of every
| body.
This was absolutely necessary. The
men are fever patients, many of them
out Of their heads, and very i'll. They
| could not be removed from the train
| last evening or be disturbed by visitors
except at very great risk. They were
brought here direct from a warm cli-
mate in close coaches, and to have talk
en- them into the chill night air of Min
nesota, might have meant certain
death to any of them
FEW IN DANGER.
DR.. Arthur Caine, one of the volun-
teer nurses from Minneapolis. was on
the train and said:
1--WE left DR.. Clark at saltwater. He
Is suffering from fever, but is in no
immediate danger. Few of the men
are in any real danger. The worst case
Is that Of Fred McDermott, of Company
F, Of the Twelfth. He is very ILL.,
Atherton. Of Company B, Of the
Twelfth, and Nedd, of Company L, Of
the Twelfth, are also very sick. We
will discharge eighty men In st. Paul.
! OF these thirty will go to the hospitals"
I'VE had very easy trip. The men
stood 1t well and there was no mis-
haps. We made speedler trip than