Arizona republican., 1898-09-05
Told by a War
 Correspondent.

but the surgeons seemed aware of it's yivors of San Juan, Fl Poso and Fl Caney by the hundred 1t is said the surgeons were the first to take fright. but I cannot verify that statement. Ore day Chaplain Eateman drew me aside as I was passing and whispered secret to me.
 "The fever is increasing" he said. ''in what way?"
 We've got $50 cases in the hospital: today"
 What kind of fever is it?"
 Pretty bad
 Amy veilowf"
 They establish an isolation camp today"
 That means yellow fever"
 ''rThe horrors of this war have just begun.''
 That evening a surgeon friend told me ia confidence that he had just seen a case of genuine yellow fever. He cautioned me rot to say anything about it.
 'It's one of you fellows, too," he added.
 'WhO?"
 A newspaper man"
 Whats his name?"
 Eur Mcintosh"
 The next day Major Webb of the Thirty-thlrd Michigan and General Duffield were under suspicion" After that 1 noticed that the transport ships returning carried plenty of surgeons. The soldiers didn't seem to pay any attention to the fever until they got it themselves. The newspaper men, who until that time constituted fair 1y large body in Cuba. exhibited no more concern than did the soldiers Ore day, when nearly a dozen of us were dining on the "s1umgudgeon" Black John had made for us, two hos pital stewards came and sat near They waited untl we had finished din- her end then taey seized Jimmy Bennett and leo him away. Bennett had been sick for TWO days, but we didn't know what war the matter with him.. At the same tiIca Steep Of Cin- cinnati was lying in a shack, or bale Of hay, grooming with tho fever The hospital stewards returned little while later and found Ste2D eating some dinner. They took him on each side and led him away too. They came back and in a similar manner made prisoner of Ewen of Toronto. We had only fairly begun discus sion of the extraordinary train of events when the two stewards came hack another time.
 Are you going to take away any more of our mess?" asked Major Rom eyn. who is a retired army officer do- ing newspaper work.
 "yes, one mere out of this bunch, '' said the cheerful steward.
 Who is It this time?"
 You"
 What do you want of me?''
 'TEe surgeon wants to see yOu.'' What aboIt?'
 ''fIc Il tel you"
 Major Romayn was trained to obey orders and he went. That same after neon the stewards came again. They said they were looking for a newspa- per man who had belonged to another mess and who had run away after they had told him to wait for them While they stood there lamenting the disap- pearapee Of their quarry Rathom oi San Francisco came lettering up the path. dragging his blanket after him. "Tnere he is,' cried one, and they made for him.
 Rathom didn't want to go and he struggled to free himself. He was g man of huge proportions, but he was as weak as child and his struggles were pitiaEly feeble
 They want to take me off to the yellow fever camp. Won't some o you fellows help me- he cried
 The stewards pleaded with him ant we argued with him. They said ht would die If he didn't go.
 ''That satisfies me- he said calmly DC you want to die here?"
 ''Ies, if you will go away from me. The fever was then in his brain.
 When the stewards had grown wear! of trying to persuade him to go witt them they pieked him up and carried him off by force. When I left Santi ago n the last days of July this pool fellow was still in the yellow fevel camp on the hillside near Siboney Armstrong Of New York, who saw hin there, said he was wan and haggart and prematrrely aged. At the begin ming he was the most dashing fellow in the lot
 The four who were taken out of ou mess we never saw again in Cuba When one Of our group went to tn yellow fever camp as soon as we ha learned why they had been taken, h was denied admission.
 "How are they getting along?" h asked.
 ''Hh, all right"
 Are you sure !"
 Well, they are not on the deat list"
 Sc rapidly did the fever sprea among the soldiers that camps for tha class of invaiids wore set up at all ( the divisional hospitals In thes camps the fever patients were in "pup tents, lying or the ground. Others ( them were lying on the ground wit not so much shelter as a puny "pup tent. One fever camp is miserabl provided as this was located withi 100 yards of General Shafter's ten where he was compelled to pass every day