Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1913-07-04
STRENUOUS REUNION TOO MUCH
FOR MANY.
MANY ALREADY LEAVING
AN UNEXPECTED RUSH RESULTS IN
hARDSnIPS....FOUR DEAD, 300
IN HOSPITAL CAMP.

efforts of the regular army to do i'm.
possible things, thousands of veterans
spent the night July 1st on Gettysburg
field with nothing between them and
the stars, but their clothes and their
courage and nothing between them and
the hard earth but q little more of the
same thing.
II was not the fault of the regulars,
and 1t was not the fault Of the veter-
ans. The railroads poured the thous.
ands into Gettysburg the beet they
could, but train after train that was
looked for early, came crawling in near
midnight and afterwsrd. They kept
coming from that hour until long after
daybreak aud shortly after breakfast
the rush began again.
Major Normoyle, Of the quartsrmas-
ter's department., United States army,
who has the pulse of the vast camp un-
der bis fingers, did not go to bed at all
and his little force of army officers
kept him company.
They also provided blankets and
poiuted out tents and did all they
could to satisfy the veterans that
everything would be all right later.
5000 IN CAMP.
Major Normoyle declared that proba-
bly, 5000 veterans we're on the field
5000 more than have been looked for.
Although half that number would Ali
the camp in comfortable fashion, Ma
jor Normoyle said he would see every
one taken care Of; that nobody would
60 hungry and would have blankets
and tents
In their rounds of the main streets
Of the camp in the early morning the
regulars found a Pennsylvania in his
tent lying on three blankets with three
over him aud nine beneath his cot. He
was keeping them for friends, he said,
but the regulars forced him to give
them up. =
Tuesday was the first formal day of
the semi.centennial celebration. AL.
though Buford and Wheeler had q
skirmish near Gettysburg so years ago
June Goth. it was on July l, that the
battle began which forced the union
troops out of Gettysburg back toward
Cemetery ridge.
Col. j. NJ. Schoonmaker, chairman Of
the Pennsylvania Gettysburg commits.
sion, was the presiding officer for the
first days meeting in the big tent and
Secretary of War Garrison, Governor
Tener, Of Pennsylvania, Commander in
Chief Alfred B. Beers, of the G. A. r.,
and Commander in Chief Gen. Bennett
H. Young of the United Confederate
veterans, we're listed as the principal
speakers.
DEATH COMES TO FOUR.
The army surgeons are surprised at
the endurance shown by the veterans
Major Collins, Of the army medical
staff, said:
"Only q few score men in nearly
$4,000. all of them near 70 years old.
have been taken to the hospital, and
only four have died. It is q remarkable
record"
The army doctors and DIR. Samuel
Dixon, of the Pennsylvanis state heslth
department., continued their effort to
stop the sale of liquor in the town of
Gettysburg.
The officials of the two railroads
running into Gettysburg said that the
movement of the trains to camp on the
battlefield was proceeding with the
regularity of clockwork today and that
less than dozen trains are yet to ar
rive. When these are in all of the vet.
Grams will have arrived.
MANY IN HOSPITAL CAMP
The rush Of veterans who are leaving
after an experience Of several hours ia
camp is so great that special trains are
being made up for their accommodation
Some Of there have become i'll because
Of the heat and lack of accommoda-
tions In the great camp. Others are
Pennsylvanisns who had been here
since last week attending the annual
encsmpment of the Pennsylvsnia de-
partment of the g. A r. Less than
800 men are in the hospital camp, most
of them suffering from intestinal com
plant due to uncautious eating.
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