The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-08-03
REPORTS FROM SKATER
OVER 5000 SICK SOLDIERS, INCLUD-
ING sPANIARDs, AT SANTIAGO.
Deaths from yellow and Other Fevers
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Prisoners Re-
leased by the General.

WASHINGTON, Aug. 2.-General Shat
ter's health reports to-day state that he is
now caring for over six thousand sick peo-
pie, including Spanish soldiers, many of
whom were found to be very i'll. The task
is formidable one, and the attempt TO care
for all patients probably explains in a
measure the lack of adequate preparation
of the transports employed in bringing
home some of the wounded and sick The
conditions on these boats were found to be
so shocking as to demand an immediate
official investigation, which was begun to-
day, and some court-martialS may be
looked for in high places unless it can be
shown clearly that the lack of preparations
was unavoidable
The detailed conditions of affairs at SAINT
iago, together with a list of deaths on each
day is shown in the following kilograms
from General Shafter
Sanitary condition for July 29-Total sick,
4,164; total cases of fever, 3,212; new cases
list: ' Private F. B. Gearny Company G,
Sixteenth Infantry, July Is, dysentery. On
July 20: Principal Musician George Holder
ness, Thirty-fourth Michigan, yellow fever;
ty-third Michigan, yellow fever; Private
William Brent, Twenty-fourth Infantry,
yellow fever; Private Edward Benjamin,
Company d, Thirty-third Michigan, dysen-
terry; Private David McCafferty, Company
=, Second Infantry, pernicious maiarial
fever; Private Gus Graem, Company l.,
Seventy-first New York, dengue; Sergeant
William s. Young, Company f, Seventy
first New York. dengue; Private Rinaldo
igan, acute dysentery; Private w. j. Dolan,
Company d, Thirtyfourth Michigan, mala-
rial remittent fever.
sick 1882; total cases fever 1882. new cases
fever, SAB; cases fever returned to duty,
SO; deaths on July 30; Captain Charles
yer; Private S. o. Johnson, Company +,
Seventh Infantry, asthenia, following yell
Grady. Ninth Massachusetts. functional dis
ease of the heart; Private John +. McGin-
mis-. Company H: Second Infantry. per-
cIease' Company a! E. Second infantry, try per-
nicious malarial fever. On July %: Private
Andrew Thorn. Company G. Ninth In
fantry, malarial fever and diarrhea.
Sanitary report for July a-Total sick,
4,255; total fever, 1854; new cases of fever,
653; cases of fever returned to duty, 722.
Deaths July 80: Private Bergh, Troop F,
Sixth Cavalry. malarial fever; Private Ed
ward Sutton, Troop G., Ninth Cavalry, ma
larial fever; Private staffings. Company B.
Private ]. Kosling, Company II, Thirty
third Michigan, yellow fever; Private Sam
uel ]. Powers, Troop F, Second Cavalry,
Company H. First Infantry, typhoid ma
laria; Private Harry Hague, Company H,
Eighth Ohio, malarial fever; Private Louis
Kocarnik, Battery F, Fourth Artillery, gum
shot wound of chest and heart, evidently
suicidal; Private f. J. Vivian. Company ID.
Thirty-fourth Michigan, remittent malarial
fever: Private John A Mcdonald, Company
D. Thirty-fourth michigan, remittent ma
larial fever
In another dispatch, dated Santiago, to-
Cay, General Shafter says he has now in
the hospitals 2181 wounded and sick pris-
oners.
General Shafter also sent the following:
"Al political prisoners have been imme-
diately released as soon as we reached
them. Have not heard from Guantanamo,
but General Ever went three days ago to
receive the surrender of arms and political
prisoners They were undoubtedly released
on his arrival