The San Francisco call., 1899-09-28
DISEASE AMONG
THE MEN FROM
SOUTH DAKOTA
A Case of Suspected
Smallpox.
IT DEVELOPED IN THE CAMP
USUAL PRECAUTIONS TAKEN TO
PREVENT INFECTION.
The Thirty-Third Ordered Away OH
the Sheridan and the Thirty
Second TO Go the Same
Day.

There are reports of more sickness
among the volunteer regiments, the las
case having developed among the meI
of the South Dakota regiment now await
ing muster out. The case is that OF
Wayne Larrabee of Company NJ of the
South Dakotas He was taken to the
general hospital yesterday morning suf
fering from a high fever. He was not il
the hospital more than a few hours be
fore he began 10 show symptoms of small
pox, and the fact was at once communi
Gated to Captain Kennedy, surgeon ir
charge of the lower volunteer camp, anC
to Colonel Forwood chief surgeon of the
department. Orders were issued to take
at once all precautions against danger
of the spread of the disease. The mer
who have associated with Larrabee have
been placed in detention and isolated, the
property belonging to them that has beer
in the tent has been fumigated or de-
stroyed and the tent and floor will proba-
bly, also be destroyed.
Larrabee has not yet been sent out tc
the detention camp, for while he has
shown undoubted and developed symp-
toms of the disease, the surgeons are not
willing to risk a mistake. He has been
isolated in the hospital and those who at
tended him have also been detained, sc
there can be no harm in keeping him
there until the last moment. Should the
last doubt disappear he Will be sent out
at once TO the camp on the hill.
1t is not known how or where LARA
bee contracted the disease, but II is sup
posed he associated with some of the mer
from the Thirty-tirst who were infected
There has been no smallpox in the South
Dakota regiment since early in the cam
paign at Manila. and the officers of the
regiment are sure he did not bring the
disease with him from across the ocean
If it did come with the regiment there
may be more cases in the command.
Word has been received from the Thir.
ty-first Regiment. in quarantine at Ange
Island, that another of the suspects has
developed into a case of smallpox, making
five in all at the island; and there are
five more at the camp Of detention at the
Presidio
Orders are out for the Thirty-third
Regiment to proceed to Manila on the
transport Sheridan, which is scheduled
TO sail on Saturday next. In addition tC
the Thirty-third. the Sheridan will take
seventy-five assigned recruits and three
companies of the Thirty-second. The
headquarters and band and seven com
panies Of the Thirty have been or
dered to sail on the Glenogle the same
day as the Sheridan leaves, and the other
two companies of the Thirty-SeCond vii
sail on the Charles Nelson, also on the
same day.
Captain Carver Rowland, Fourth In
fantry, has been ordered to report to the
general hospital at the Preside for treat
ment
Acting Assistant Surgeon F. f. Bowman
has been ordered to proceed to st. Paul
Mimi, for the annulment of his contract.
The following officers have been as
signed TO duty with the recruits at the
Presidio pending their assignment TO
Manila; Second Lieutenant Charles L.
Ballard. Eleventh Cavalry; Second Lieu
tenant William n. Hughes, Thirteenth
Infantry; Second Lieutenant Charles E.
Kilbourne. Fourteenth Infantry; Second
Lieutenant James D. Keene, Eleventh
Cavalry; Second Lieutenant James n.
Petty. Thirty-siXth Infantry; Second
Lieutenant John T. Fuller, Thirty-sev-
enth Infantry, and Second Lieutenant
Reuben V. Baskette, Thirty-seventh In
fantry.