Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1899-09-02
TRAGEDIES OF WAR.
TOUCHING SCENES IN ONE OF sANTI-
Aoo'S HOSPITALS.


over Again-Brsve Miss wheeler. the
General Director, Does Not Quail at Her
Awful Experiences.
The New York Worlds special cor
respondent of Santiago, writing under
the date of Aug. ID, describes the scenes
in the hospitals there as follows:
1t is in the hospitals IN and around
Santiago where the real tragedy of war
is to be seen. While the fighting went
on the men who manned the trenches
under the blazing sun and fierce tropic
al storms did not realize that they had
physical constitutions delioately con-
structed. They began to find II out
when the Spanish troops a mile distant
put down their arms In obedience to
the demand of the United States gov
eminent for their surrender and nature
began to exact payment for the liber-
| ties which had been taken with her
Within five days after the last gun had
| been fired the men tumbled over with
| the calentura fever and various other
ailments which were frequently mis-
taken for yellow fever.
The Red Gross society was the first
to establish any thing like a systematic
and intelligent plan of caring for the
sick. The best and most important hos
pital in Santiago is in boathouse
fronting the bay and known as the
| Club Nautica. The general director of
the hospital in the Club Nautica is
| Miss Annie Wheeler, q daughter of
Fighting Joe" Wheeler. Among the
patients Of the hospital she is known
as "the angel, aud her sweetness and
title conferred by her grateful chill
dren, as she calls them.
At one time there were 40 patients
crowded in the one large room previous
ly used as q dancing pavilion and on the
veranda, which extends around the four
sides of the house. The boathouse is
separated from the shore by long pom
toon, and is admirably adapted for hos
pital purposes ON account Of its isola-
ton from troops on shore.
saw a man there yesterday who had
me send letter to his wife in Ohio,
telling her that she was all right and
! coming home soon." An hour later he
was taken over to the yellow fever hos.
pital, and from what DIR. Gonzales told
me tonight he may never get home at
all His case is one of genuine yellow
fever. He knew he was infected with
the disease when he dictated the letter,
He talked to me very frankly about it
and did not want his wife to know.
i A man who lies on cot within ten
feet of the one upon which the Ohio
man reclined until be was taken across
the bay has his throat all done up in
bandages. He tried to decapitate him
self on Sunday last while raging with
delirium which the calentura brings to
paralyze brain and body. The surgeons
have sewed up his throat and noble lit
tie Miss Wheeler is nursing him back
to life for the wife and three children
who are waiting for him back in New
Hampshire. There is another man there
Wilson of the Ninth cavalry-a
splendid type of the colored trooper.
He thrashes about his narrow cot with
calentura, and awakes the echoes of the
day and night with reciting the dra-
matte incidents connected with the
charge Of San Juan hill. He says as il
to companion: "That's my Spaniard,
Sandy. I'm going to have him. You
take that fellow in the tree" Wilson
has strong constitution, and will
probably get well,
None of the other patients object to
the noise he makes except the man in the
next cot, who looks about rs much a col
ored man as Wilson himself. He is not,
though, and when the tan disappears
he will probably be good looking
white man with o brown beard he did
not have when he left home. This pa
tient, who is private in volunteer
regiment, staggered up the steps of the
hospital five days ago and fell at the
feet of Miss Wheeler and Mrs. Fannie
B. Ward. He was put to bed and has
remained unconscious ever since except
at rare intervals. Mrs. Ward, who Wis
its the hospital for several hours every
day, sits beside him, and he persists in
calling her Rosalind. and then goes tC
sleep obediently in answer to the cares
Of her tender hand. Nobody knows
who he is, but the doctor says he will
DO able to tell all about himself in few
days
Out ON the yeranda overlooking tn,
hay is n Cuban, one Of the few wht
= really fought as loyal ally of thu
J United States troops, and therefore al
, interesting figure. Few Of the Cuban
: really rendered any service. This Gu
, ban, who has an unpronouncable name
q n. a l..