The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1899-07-22
IMAnY SOUTH DAkUIA
SOLDIERS ARE SICK
Major Warner Writes That Over 400
Members Of the First Regiment
Are Unfit for Service.
he SENDS SENSATIONAL LETTER
Surgeon Calls Colonel Frost a Low
Contemplate Cur--Warner BE.
lieves that the FsItpinos Are
In the Right.

Sioux Falls, S. d., July 19.-Senator
Pettigrew yesterday received from
Major and Surgeon r. C. Warner, of
the First South Dakota, q letter in
which he states that he has sent a
communication to Adjutant General
Corbin asking that he be ordered to
the United States for the purpose of
resigning his commission and asking
the influence of the senator to have
the request granted. Major Warner
continues as follows:
'The boys all want to come home,
excepting six, who wish to enlist in
the regular army, and who wish to be
mustered out here for the purpose of
prospecting or going into business.
Our regiment is practically busted.
For three months they have had hard
field service and are physically worn
out. We have only about 400 able
men for duty. There are over 400 sick
lin quarters and in hospitals. We are
simply worn out.
..The Nebraska regiment and the
South Dakota regiment have had all
the hardest work. They have nobly
done all that has been asked of them.
For the past two months neither of
our surgeons has been allowed to go
to town to look after our own. A
week ago our men sick in quarters in
Manila were examined by n regular
surgeon and over $50 ordered to the
front. OF these so ordered three faint
ed in the streets of Manila before they
reached the station and had to be TAX
EN- to the hospital. Eighty of the men
were unable to walk from the end of
the railroad to this point and were
carted there on bull carts. Nearly all
of these sick men are now in hospital
or are sick in quarters here. Captain
Cox is in Corregidor hospital, sick,
with bowel trouble. DR.. Thompson is
sick with fever. Many of the men
have attempted to apply for their re-
turn home and discharge through mil
iitary channels, but Colonel Frost has
held them up.
To-day the colonel called the cons
'pany commanders together and told
them that they We're towards to allow
their men to request to be sent home,
that they were towards to allow their
men to go on the sick list. For the
good of all concerned Frost should be
sent to his WI regiment. lie is a low,
contemplate cur, looking only to his
own interest, selfish in the thought
only for his good. He would gladly
sacrifice every man in the regiment for
a few dollars in his pocket or a little
glory for Frost. He has no interest in
our state, has no interest in our men,
except to use both for his own self
advancement.
Many of our wounded should be
sent home at once. The situation here
has turned out to be nothing but q
,bushwhacking scrap. Day before yes
terday we had one killed and seven
wounded. AS the right is concerned
the Filipinos are in the right. They
have been treated more false by Amer
lean authorities than by the Spanish.
When the truth and the politics of this
affair is known the American people
will be unable to look an honest man
in the face for shame. II the boys are
compelled to stay here through the
rainy season many will have 10 go
through the home trip in a box"