Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1898-09-13
ROUGH RIDERS ARRIVE.
c,o STORIES or DISEASE AND DEATH.


This morning al 4 o'clock a detaoh-
mtnt OF nine Of Torreys Rough Riders
reached me city. Thcy are all on sick
leave for thirty days and have 20 re-
Dor, a. Jacksonville on iha IN Of ocio-
Der. from whore u Is now supposed the
rsrimrut Will ~ 90 Havana under
General Fi.zhurh Lee. Tha boys pre-
sent sorry pictures being only the
nCreai shadows of .hfir former selves
and though most Of ihem are around.
SCI. ehoy look rs II thcy owed Il to
themselves 30 be- ln bed All that were
sen expressed the utmost ioy al being
home again. !, may safely be sud
that not one OF them will ever again bg
che man h. waa before h. marched
away for she front.
Sergeant Spryai was seen NJ the star
bakery which ls kept by HE brother on
the corner OF State and Second South
streets. The home coming party was
under his charge and whom asked na TO
how things ar conducted az Jackaon-
VILE, said hat Ne could not talk. n ne
said anything he would say too much
and h. was not nd liberty % ray how
things were golnE on. The rest N The
boys may talk he continued. and thly
doubtless Will. The worst complaint ls
that they were coopcd w IN camp 90
waste with fever and not given
chance Go do Anything during the war
The conditions OF The camp were bad
and thing had been going on from bad
to worse nli the time. Lieut.. Andy
Hurt II now In command NJ Troop j,
Captain Young being detailed for
duty at Pablo Beach. whore the nos
pitai has been osiabliHhei. Col, cannon
was not feeling well when fhc boys leit
Jacksonville and was al g. Ahghatlnq
where h. was trying to rcsain MS
heath.
Private Page of troop was AZ his
Oh haunta al che Walker House. lshn
Sergeant spr0it he ala not want 20
iaik. and would answer no questions ~
camy. In the course o. a conversiilon
h. ta1 that the camp wsa on the ~
Johns river, the banks % which wcre
lust above 50 level. All me on
from a camp of 20. 900 men was thrown
Into ghc stream and az 10 had no per-
cfpllblt current and rose ami icl Win
the tlde. ihla offal kept runnlng
forward aul backward until ~
had bucumc 4 veriiaola atench mole OF
disease anu death.
TIE though Riders used the wafef
ftum an arsf ran well which NlH fAii
to be pure hui an order had been Issued
Just before tha hUyH loft g. allow the
water % stand over nlghi In gpen alr
vessels before using. Wh0n ne lefi
there were ewo hundred AMI 1Nty Of
the regiment sick out of a possible nine
hundred.
9. e. u. Drake IL a very sick man.
Any one cnn see that biz health ~
broken. Every line IN his face be-
species the invalid and h. IA only the
shadow N hin former self Lake the
others he said he could not talk.
"iiut will say" he remarked. "that
the people " the north and west have
not heard ona-hhlf Of the HunerlnEa
ana hardnhlpn their boys are com
Everything you have heard through
the press II true and only onc-half has
been told"
when asked II the Torrcy boys were
suffering greatly he refused 20 answer.
but remarked that the time would
come when hla mouth would be opened
II was only when furrlcr Cumming.
was seen that anything like dctail1
were given aud he. too. was very
guarded In hla statements when told
hat MIR. Page had said that 900 of the
boys were sick In the regiment. he
said that 600 would be nearer the mark
They had tried 20 get the condition u
1.-The boys published In His plpffr al
Jacksonville. hut had never succeeded
In doing 20, 4, was said that even the
! private letters ~ the boys were under
censorship and anything that was
suspicious was detained.
The government had sent supplies
which never reached the soldiers. and
the food was The poorest character
| The condition nf the sick WAS plillhIn.
tie spoke OF Trooper Drake. and said
hiatt while he was yet sick ANA under
the surgeons care. he had been de-
tailed Tor guard duty when h. could
hardly walk and his was no. the only
case, Sick men wero ordered On duty
whose conditions were such that they
could not perform service. and for lapse
OF duty were thrown Into the guard
house and allowed 20 rcmnln there Tor
hours before eases were heard. The
boys were using ~ their reEimeutnl
fund and got some things Tor the sick
but only the blrcat necessities were
given from the army supplies.
THE 81 Johns river In stink hole
and breeds malaria. / am safe In say
Ing there II not really we'll man In
the camp.
al any hour n the day ana nlght
one can hear shots being urea over
neW-mado gfayCA The deaths At
jacksonville are greater than have ever
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