The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1899-02-28
CAKOLINA'S DEAD CUBA.
beautiful Resting Place OF the Two Dead
Soltliers of Our Regiment.
Especial to The State.
| ! YES.

Camp Columbia, IIahuna, Cuba,
Feb. 2l.-Tonight two South Caro-
lima soldiers are sleeping tho eternal
sleep, thoir bodies are resting sido by
side in the soil Of Cuba. Yesterday
while the escort for the remains Of
Private Jacpb a. EptiDg was at the
Hospital, Private Thomas Trivctt of
Virgil, North Carolina, who enlisted
last SnmmcE i'll Co. +, this regiment,
died OF the same disease that killed
young Epting-a most malignant
type Of typhoid fcver. Trivctt was
not over t'""hty.onr years of age.
lie leaves Il. vito and child. Tho
cases of typhoid fever in the army
are practically confined 10 this reyi
ment, but most Of those in tho hospi-
tai are convalescing.
1T may b" somo slight consolation
20 those to whom these soldiers were
dear, and to those having loved ones
in tho hospitals here, to hnow that
probably no soldiers in the world
have such care and attention as is
received by the sick of this govern
ment. Protiting by tho experiences
Of nearly a year, the chnf in the
medical department, hospital corps
and nurses has been eliminated, and
few private hospitals have better
equipment And in this department
there is neither stinting nor red tape;
nothing that Il pationt may need to
better his condition or add to his
comfort is FOO costly for tho muni-
licent government in whose service
he has enlisted.
Despite tho absence Of the South
Carolina regiment and band, these
soldiers were buried with appropriate
military honors, Col. Dwycr, of the
First TcXns regiment, leading his
band, and the guard at the camp
furnishing tho escort. The United
States cemetery is three miles from
the South Carolina camp, beyond the
town OF Mari mao, and on hill n
few rods from and overlooking the
little town Of Playa. whose main
street is washed by waves from tho
Gulf.
The Cuban hcarsc, snrmountcd by
silver images, and drawn rapidly
through the streets, with IA carriage
or two following, the horses trotting
seem to attract little attention from
the natives, but the sad note of tho
funeral march from an American
band brings the people to thoir doors
and when the procession goes by,
men and boys, white and black, afoot
or mounted, uncover. 1t is Il ton.h.
ing tribute to the dead Of another ma
ton, not always paid by Americans.
SO, just by Il Royal Palm that
stands like a giant sentinel in the
centre Of the government cemetery,
these South CnroIina soldiers sleep;
in a foreign land but not alone, for
besides those above the sod, TWENTY
eight Of their comrades of the
Seventh army crops are by their side.
And the company Of tho dead will
grow, recruiting for the Great Com,
mandcr, who, receiving these board
less boys who have offered their lives
at their country's call, will not exact
hard conditions.
They rest in n beautiful spot. The
Gulf is below and stretching away to
the land they came from. The mur
mcr of the waves gently breaking on
the coral beach, blends with tho
rustic Of the foliage Of the palm and
Cuban pines when stirred by brcezcs
that como from the mountains Of
Pinar del Rio, plainly visible thirty
miles away. 1t is m ideal spot to
sleep the noVer-onding sleep.
w. T.. G.