Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1899-02-08
On. the famine and the fsveri Oh. the wasting of the fsmiuei Oh, the blasting of the fsveri

Stories of exalted daring and berofEm have failed to remove from my mind its first impression, which was that l was in pest camp.
 An extreme example of distress was the Eighth regulars which was just out of Camp Detention when visited the quarters. It had been among the last to leave Cuha. About 40 sick were left at Santiago, many having been sent north earlier. and there were SO technically sick at Muntauk. This regiment came up on the transport Mobile. where II died from the ranks of well men as against destba assC, Y the sick on the hospital sblp CIiy0&te. A,-ou 1 asked the commandant how many men he could muster for battle or heavy fatigue duty, be answered. "NoneP' For ex- planstion ! was invited to walk through the company streets. Every tent had from two to four prostrate men rolled in blankets. their faces the picture of deep and prolonged suffering. due, as was stated, to general debility and fever. Every regiment had a sad story of sick in quarters. not varying. relatively. from the following statement taken verbatim at the headquarters of the Second Massachusetts:
 Went to Cuba, gaS strong: sfectives ou paper at Aontauk. 800; ht for duty. So Came north on the Mobile; over s0o sick all the way from Santiago; left G sick of yellow fever in Cuba under care of an oflcer a surgeon and ten men. besides about 70 sick in Santiago hospi- tals Have put in Aontauk hospital 60 sick and suffered in all 60 deaths Colonel Clark thinks that i50 men will be disabled for life from hardships fever and wounds
 For the sick in quarters at Camp Wi koff there was no government medicine and no aid up to Sept l. Coarse field rstions formed the staple diet until they got into the hospital Half the du- ty men were too weak to walk from the wharf to Camp Detention. One trans port came to the offing flying a flag of distress and signaled: "Men starving. Send food. !" On the 2sth of August out of l5 fever applicants for the general hospital l2, having a temperature of 106, were sent back to the regiments Colonel Forwood said that his hospital carried already a third more than its normal capacity, and l06 vas not a high tenn perature.
 There were positively no medicines for the camp sick in the government supplies l saw acquisitions reiterating demands that had been repeated daily many times, and heard official state ments made to cover a whole division, while Colonel Forwood admitted as much for the entire camp. Knowledge of this lack of medicine reached Gener- al Wheeler late on Aug. 27, and on the 2Sth there was a council of surgeons lasting five hours. St this council it transpired that there were 6, 900 sick soldiers in the camp out of about l2, 900 men, including those who had not been in Cuba; also that there was no medi- cine except for the 5000 actually in hos pitaL General Wheeler took the matter in hand, cutting red tape and wiring rush orders for medicine, as well az outfits for division hospitals to receive the overflow at the general hospital.
 By the way, General Wheeler was the man for the hour at Camp Wikoff, as