The Saint Paul globe., 1898-08-09

turally strong constitution will assert
for duty again.
Mr. Page first learned that his broth
er was sick by a telegram from Capt.
Omar Bundy, Of his regiment, who had
arrived at Fortress Monroe, stating
that Col. Page had the yellow fever. Mr..
Page Immediately wired Adjt Gen.
Corbin stating that he. must go to his
brother to care for him, and begging
that he be given the privilege of go
ing to Cuba on a government trans
port at his own expense, and Of bring
ing Col. Page north. He received a
telegram from Secretary Of War Alger
granting him the authority to go to
Cuba on any vessel chartered by the
United States. Later he received a
telegram from Adjt. Gen. Corbin asking
him to defer his trip a few hours un-
Col Pages condition, because if he had
the yellow fever the medical depart
n1ent probably would not permit amy
person, even brother, not an immune
: to approach the hospital. Shortly after
another dispatch was received that Col.
Page was on the transport Iroquois OH
the way to New York, where 1t was due
to arrive on Friday
Last Wednesday Mr.. Page left for
New York and arrived there just as the
Iroquois was sighted. He went to the
army headquarters, procured tug, and
went to quarantine at once. He found
that his brother had not yellow fever,
but a most malignant type of malarial
fever. He procured from the quaran-
tine officer permission to take him to
New York and boarded the Iroquois.
Col. Page is too weak to be interview
ed as yet, but his brother, who met
the transport at quarantine at New
York, tells story gathered from those
on the boat.
'When 1 saw my brother I was
shocked beyond expression said Mr..
Page to a reporter. "When I saw him
last, when he went through Chicago
on the way to Cuba, he was a big, pow
erful man, the very picture Of health,
and as straight as an arrow. I could
scarcely believe that the shambling,
bent, unkempt,. wild-looking object that
came toward me when I boarded the
Iroquois was the same person. He was
gaunt and thin, his eyes were hollow
and expressionless, his hair long and
tangled, and his face was covered with
an unkempt growth Of hair. He was
bent nearly double. His clothes hung
on him in tatters. All he had on was
ragged army blouse, pair Of duck
pants torn nearly to pieces, and a
filthy shirt. He looked the picture of a
wild man.
"He had a very vague appreciation
Of where he was and of his condition.
Two things evidently weighed upon his
mind, judging from his incoherent raw
ings. The first was to keep possession
of his saddle bags. The second was
egret-heart-broken regret-that the
transport Iroquois had sailed from
Cuba with only seventeen passengers,
and had left his old comrade in arms.
Capt Joseph Hale, with whom he had
served for thirty years, sick unto
death on the panfc-stricken Cuban
shore, despite his earnest protest
In connection with the latter subject
Mr.. Page learned that the Iroquois,
with capacity Of between 400 and 500,
splendidly equipped with clean, whole
some cabins, had sailed away from
Cuba with seventeen persons, nearly
all seriously i'll. Thousands of officers
and soldiers were left sick and dying.
In Col Pages saddle-bags his broth
er found a. rusty plate, knife and fork,
and file of orders. It Is probable
that the latter accounted for the Off
GERS instructive interest. These orders
consisted not only Of his orders to re-
turn to the United States, but orders
received upon the battlefield Of Santi-
ago directing him where and how to
move his regiment.
Mr.. Page took his brother on the tug