Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-04-28
LIEUT.. HARDENS REMAINS
rs
His Body Included Among Those Last
Brought Prom Cuba.
REMAINS
The District National Guard to At.
tend Funeral Cerem Ohies-Emmet
Guard Special Escort,

The War Department. has been informed
that the body of Lieut.. Richard J. Harden,
late of the LIST District Regiment, was in
cluded among those brought to New York
| on the transport Crook, as was intimated in
The Star of yesterday. Lieut. Harden died
| soon after the arrival of the District regi-
nent in Cuba, and was buried near the
Siboney hospital. His remains will be in
| tered in Arlington National cemetery aIons
| with pa other bodies from Cuba A special
funeral train viii leave New York tonight
| and will reach Washington tomorrow morn
! ing. The arrangements for the final GER
| emonies have not been completed, but it is
| expected they will take place early next
| week. All of the bodies will be in charge
| of the government officials until their in
| terment
The Crook brought 356 dead from the
! West Indies, 245 being taken on board at
| Santiago. 9S at Porto Rican points and u
| at Guantanamo
| A number of passengers came back from
| the islands the ship, the list including
| Miss Condit-S1nith of this city
| On the occasion of the funeral exercises
| the entire District National Guard will turn
out to honor the fallen officer of the 1st
! Regiment. The Emmett Guard. with which
| Lieut.. Harden was formerly connected, will
act as special guard of honor. under Capt.
Walsh.
| Guarding Against Danger.
| lowed to receive their own who come from
Cuba on this voyage. 1t has been decided
| by the authorities that inasmuch as there
is yellow fever in Santiago, it will be un-
safe during the summer to scatter the
bodies over the country. 1t is impossible to
obtain assurance that some of the caskets
may not be opened
All of the 245 bodies from Cuba will be
buried in Arlington cemetery, with the pro-
vision that the relatives may claim their
own during next winter. This decision has
created a great deal of disappointment. The
office of depot quartermaster, Col. Kimball,
in the Army building, New York, was be-
sieged yesterday by anxious ones camor-
ing for the bodies of husbands, fathers and
bl others.
The twelve bodies from Guantanamo will
be turned over to the navy yard author
tiles for burial in the naval cemetery under
the same provisions.
All of the dead from Porto Rico who have
relatives to claim them may be removed.
The unknown will be taken to Arlington.
The ninety-eight bodies brought from Porto
Rico on this trip are the last who fell on
the island. These, with the 100 brought
home on the last trip of the Crook, made
Us who gave up their lives on that island.
There yet remain about 100 dead in Cuba.
No more bodies will be brought home until
| the cool weather sets in next winter
Remains of Private Donohue.
The transport Crook has brought home
| the remains of Private George Donohue of
| Company II, LIST District of Columbia Vol
unteers, who died of fever at Guanica,
| Porto Rico August 10 last. Captain Look
| er, his commanding officer, is very DESTROYS
! Of having as large a turnout as possible of
his old command to- show honor to the
memory of the dead WHO suffered long,
| and finally gave up his life for the honor of
the flag. But for the disastrous hurricane
which destroyed the field hospital at GUAM
| ca DOnohue might Have pulled through
with the other sick men, but as he was the
| weakest of all at that time, the shock of
transportation across the bay to the
| emergency hospital-in the steam launch
| OF the Puritan (kindly, loaned at the cap
| tain's request from Captain Rodgers COM
| manding the monitor ffeett-was doubtless
| the immediate cause of death. He was
| buried with full military honors at Guanica
! under a grove of superb palm trees Just
| outside the little Spanish cemetery and
| headboard placed at his grave, and all pos
| slble precautions taken to identify the re-
| mains.
| These precautions are now shown to have
| been effective. Beside the grave of Dono-
| hue were buried two American soldiers
whose identity had been utterly lost. They
| Were probably recruits of Capt. Edgar HUI
! berts command, the latter dying himself of
| malignant fever a few days after the land
| ing at Guanica. Owing to the lack of time
| to make arrangem ents, it is suggested that
! company Ii meet near as possible to the
| grave at Arlington, where the remains are
! to be buried
LOCKER that Company A formerly of the
| District volunteers, will be invited to form
| on the left of the brigade on the occasion
| of DCnohue's funeral