The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1900-10-08
10 TAKE AWAY THE DEAD INSTRUCTIONS 70 1NGER
TRANSPORT HANCOCK AFTER
REMAINS OF SOLDIERS.
Undertakers Disinterring the Bodies of
Those who Died in Honolulu-Pre-
cautions taken Against any Infection.


Fifteen undertakers arrived here this
morning on the transport Hancock,
having been sent by the War Depart
ment to carry out the new American
policy of taking home the remains OF
soldiers and sailors who have been
buried in foreign lands. This is. a
policy no other country has ever adopt
ed. The bodies of the 81 army and navy
men who died in Honolulu are now be-
ing disinterred, to be taken on the
transport to Manila and then to San
Francisco where the bodies that are
not claimed by relatives will be buried
will all the honors due to soldier who
died in the service of his country, in the
national cemetery at the Presidio.
The work of disinterring the remains
of the men who died here was begun
this morning There were Sc army
men and one navy man buried in Nuu-
anu cemetery. They were nearly all
victims of the typhoid fever epidemic
at Independence park, during the war
with Spain
The bodies of these men will be
placed in collins on the transport. At
| Guam the steamer will make another
| stop and there she will add the bodies
of eight United States navy men to
her grewsome cargo. Then will come a
call at Manila, where the number of
dead Americans soldiers whose bodies
are to be taken to their native land in
order that military honors may be ac-
corded them at the last, is up in the
thousands. From Manila the Han
COCK goes to China, where there are
more Americans buried on foreign soil.
Though Honolulu is American terri
tory now, the war department decided
to remove the bodies that are buried
L In S,Tt tl,l
YES have asked for the remains, want
ing to lay them in their own grave
yard plots. Uncle Sam will bear all the
expense in such cases. The parents of
soldier or sailor who has died while
serving under the Stars and stripes no
matter how many miles from home
his body lies, may have the remains by
asking. The government disinters the
I bodies from where they were buried
provides a coffin and a steamer and
delivers any body where it is asked for,
where friends and relatives may gather
to pay the last tributes.
! d. H. Rhodes. national inspector of
cemeteries, is the chief of burial corps
on board the Hancock. The present
work that has devolved Upon Mr..
Rhodes is incidental to his regular
duties and has resulted from the wars
that have followed the fight with Spain
Inspector Rhodes, with a corps or un-
| dertakers, has already been to Cuba
to carry out the war departments or
ders there The bodies of over 1.200
men who died on Cuban soil in battle
or from disease, have been dug from
the ground, placed in the government
coftins and sent home, either to be de-
llVered to friends or to be placed in
some of the great government ceme-
teries, where for many years it has
been Americas beautiful custom to
provide graves for those who have
fallen under the flag.
When the Hancock goes back to Sar
Francisco after her present trip she
will have hold full of coffins contain
ing what is left of the bodies of severa
thousand officers and priVates who
have lost their lives since Dewey sunk
the Spanish fleet in Manila bay. In the
Philippines are the bodies of 40 Off.
GERS and 1150 men, 2S of them navy
men, who have been buried after Fill
plno bullets the dreaded chronic
dysentery of the tropics. smallpox OF
some other disease, had ended theil
lives. On Chinese soil are buried the
remains of 5S army men, officers anc
81 navy men.
Inspector Rhodes stated this mornin,
that he would be through with tn,
work OF disinterring bodies in Honolulu
in about two days. Though most o
the dead soldiers whose bodies he AM
his assistants are to unearth died from
typhoid fever, he says that there Is no
the least danger connected with tn,
disinterment.
This time we are going to take bacl
the bodies of men who. fell victims t
smallpox in the Philippines" said MI
Rhodes. "A year ago we could not ID
this, as the authorities at San Fran
cisco refused to allow us to land them
fearing infection. Since then they hav
learned that there is no danger.
Among the 1900 or more bodies W
took from Cuban soil were those o
over hundred victims of yellow fever
but there was no infection. We TAX
every precaution, using disinfectant
freely, and anti-septic cloth. The bodle
are all practically sterilized
The collins of which we have sew
eral thousand on board, are finely mad
cottins. They are of metal, with WOO
outside and each one is packed in
: heavy shipping case.
mo nation has ever done what Anne
= rica is doing at this time In the matte
! of reclaiming for her own soil tn
: bodies of those who have died while 1
service in foreign lands. Other nation
. leave the bodies of their heroes scat
tered over the earth where they fall. ]
is beautiful custom that the Unite
States has adopted, and many sorrow
lhb IeldINeS are hdde thankIul De
!, cause they are able to have the los
ones in their own graves and to la
= them in the graves with proper reli
gious services.
, 'The others, the dead soldiers an
= sailors for whose bodies no relatio
y makes a claim, are given graves anon
a the rest of the nations hOnored dead.
The men who are with Mr.. Rhodes q
members of the burial corps are A.
, tRhodes, assistant, John Fuldner, o. ]
" Jenkins, j. Il. Bell w. Marcy, II.
? Dickman, f. S. Croggon. A. F. Dinkei
!, ton, f. e. Dean, f. d. Nudd. A. j. Hal
!, vey, s. w. Sigourney, S. j. Burch an
- j. c. owen.
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