The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1898-11-11
INQUIRY At DETROIT
Results in a Fresh Batch of
Complaints.
ONE WOMAN TESTIFlES
Who Tells of Dirt, Flies and
Stencil at Chickamauga.

section or the war investigating conlIhlS-
| sion today began the examination Of wit
nesses at the Hotel Cadillac.
| Major A. W. Corliss, OF the Seventh
United States infantry. was the first wit
ness. During the war the major was in
camp at Chickamauga and Tampa. went
TO Cuba with the army of occupation. was
wounded at the battle of Ell Caney and
returned 10 New York on the transport
Seneca AT FL Caney, he said. his men
were supplied with fair quantity of ra-
tons. but there was some growing. After
being wrunded. the major was an inmate
OF several Cuban hospitals. and in all of
them he says he Jared very well
THE MAJOR GIVES THE LIE.
There were two contract surgeons on
board the Seneca" said the major, but
they could not get any thermometers or
matted milk and cereals. Most of the
supplies were obtained at the last moment
1 think, from the Relief. There was one
nurse tn board. Miss Jennings"
! DR.. COnnor-Do you know whether any
effort was made by those medical officers
| 10 secure supplies. except from the Relief?
Major Corliss-I do not. The Relief was
asked 10 furnish a certain amount If
drugs when it was discovered that there
was not a sufficient quantity on board the
| Seneca. The men were fairly well taken
care Of notwithstanding the scarcity Of
supplies.
ed to have been made by a solder of the
Seventh regiment, &c the effect that posi-
tons as corporal were readily obtained by
paying a stipulated price.
THAT is a lie" resptnded Major Cor
liss.
QUARTERMASTER ROSENBAUM
First Lieutenant O. B. ROsenbaum, quar-
termaster Seventh infantry. testified that
he was with the regiment in Cuba from
the time it left Tampa until it reached
Montauk Point, August p. His statements
were that he men Jared fairly well as to
food throughout the campaign. Witness
command returned to Montauk on the Yu-
catan, and the men were we'll taken care
of. according to his testimony.
MISERY ABOARD THE PRAIRIE.
Captain Charles Booth, Seventh infan-
try, testified that he returned with three
odd ctmpanies aboard the auxiliary cruis-
er Prairie, which had accommodations for
carrying troops. There were no regular
nurses aboard, and the two doctors. wit
ness considered, were young and inexpe-
rienced and hardly qualified to cope with
the conitions, especially as one of them
was II. Captain Btoth said the men were
all in such miserable condition from mala-
rial poisoning on reaching Montauk that
their stomachs would retain nothing
MAJOR APPEL WAS SCARCE.
DR.. Charles B. Nancrede, surgeon of the
Thirty-third Michigan volunteers. testi-
fed in relation to conditions as he had OBJ
served them at Camp AIger, Siboney and
Montauk.
Excepting in reference 70 water. he
thought the site of Camp A,ger satisfac-
tory.
Questioned by DR.. Connor as to whether
Major Appel surgeon in charge of medical
work and supplies at Siboney, fully attend
ed u his duties. DR.. Nancrede replied that
there was great delay in transferring the
sick and wounded from the hospitals to
the ships. They had much difficulty. he
said, in finding DR.. Appel, who stayed
aboard the hospital ship Olivette.
Witness said that the sick suffered. es-
pec.ally in the early part of the campaign.
owing to the multiplicity of duties imposed
upon the medical officers. The fault was
not so much the lack Of doctors, but Jack
Of proper assignment and management of
the whole.
NO WILLFtTL NEGLECT.
Asked as 70 the efficiency OF the division
as compared TO the regimental system Of
hospitals, the witness stated that in his
opinion he division hospital was all right
in dealing with regular troops, but that
with volunteers there should be more than
one surgeon with each regiment He said
Il saw at Montauk no willful neglect.
but I did notice inconvenience and dis
comforts consequent upon the lack of divi-
sion OF labor and responsibility. Interior
snce from friends and relatives was a
great source OF trouble and. I think.
caused the fur.oughing Of a great many
patients from the hospital before they were
well enough to be removed"
DR.. Lawrence D. Knowles OF Three
Rivers. major surgeon Of the Thirty-sec-
ond Michigan volunteers. was heard in
reference TO the hospitals Al Tampa and
Fernandina He said that at times they
were short on medical supplies at Tampa.
Or. Conner read from a report of an
inspection OF the Fernandina hospital
August Is. and called attention to the
criticism that the bedclothes were not
properly cleaned. Dr.. Knowles said that
these Clothes were sprinkled with chloride
o. lime and with bl-chloride Of mercury
when they could get il, and after that
we're thoroughly boiled He admitted The
truth ~ the inspection repor that the num-
Der Of nurses was totally inadequate. He
had made acquisitions 70 the chief surgeon
Of the corps. DIT. Henley. FOR more nurses.
but ne admitted that he did 10; 60 further
in his quest
DR.. Connor asked why he did not write
or wire the surgeon general OF the army
on the subject. The witness replied Inst
If ne did not have any better success than
in applying FOR lime it would have been Of
10 use.
DIRT. FLIES AND STENCIL
Rev. Helen Stuart Richards q Boston
testified upon the condition Of the hospitals
81 camp Thomas. where she Voluntarily
helped care for the soldiers from June