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THE DALLES, OREGON. SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 3, 1898
NO 148
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CONDITIONS
NOT SO BAD
IS PAINTED
General Wheeler on the Sit
uation of the Army.
BLAMES THE NEWSPAPEES
He Says the Soldiers at Camp Wikoff
Are Perfectly Contented and Well
Treated.
, Camp Wikoff, Montauk Point, N. Y.,
Sept. 2. Major-General Joseph Wheeler
gaye the following to the Associated
Presa today.
"Headquarters United .States Forces,
Camp Wikoff.LonR Island, Sept. 1. The
following is a sample of the letters which
are constantly received regarding the
soldiers in camp:
'In regard to my stepson, we feel
very uneasy about him on account of the
newspaper reports of the privation and
Buffering inflicted upon the privates.
Although he has never entered a com
plaint since be has been in the army, we
hear from other sources of the cruel and
horrible treatment inflicted upon our
soldiers under the pretense of humanity
for our neighbors, and the whole coun
try is in a state of terrible excitement.
I should not be surprises if the ieeling
should lead to a revolution of some kind,
for I assure you I hear on all sides the
most violent and bitter denunciations
of the war department and the adminis
tration. It is, indeed, a great pity that
the glory of our triumphs should be
dimmed by such a shameful thing as
the ill treatment and starvation of our
brave soldiers, while the Spanish pris
oners have the best treatment that the
country affords.'
"It will be seen that this letter says
that not a word of complaint has been
received from the soldiers, and so far as
my investigation goes, no complaint has
been made by any of the brave soldiers
who have added glory to our arms in the
Cuban campaign.
"A great many anxious fathers, moth
ers, brothers or sisters, arrive here from
all parts of the United States to look
after their relatives, whom they say the
papers tell them are suffering, and many
of them have heard that their relatives
are in a condition of starvation. Most
of these people are little able to spend
the money for such a journey, and they
are surprised when they come here to
find their relatives surrounded with ev
erything to eat which can be produced
by money, and, if sick in the hospital,
they are gratified and surprised to find
that they are given every care that is
possible.
"In reply to a direct request that I
give the exact facts, as I see them, I
will state : - -
"Every officer and soldier who went
to Cuba regarded it that he was given a
great and special privilege in being per
mitted to engage in that campaign.
They knew they were to encounter yel
low fever and other diseases, as well as
the torrid heat of the country, and they
were proud and glad to do so. They
knew that it was impossible for them to
have the advantage of wagon transporta
tion, which usually accompanies' an
army, and yet officers and men were
glad to go, to carry their blankets and
their rations on their backs and be sub
jected, without any shelter, to the sun
and rains by day and the heavy hazes
by night. They certainly knew that the
Spanish had spent years in erecting de
fenses, and it was their pleasure to as
sault and their duty to capture the
Spanish works.
"They were more than glad to incur
these hardships and these dangers. They
went there and did their duty, each man
seeming to feel that American honor
and prestige was to be measured by his
conduct. The brave men who won the
victories did not complain of the neglect
of the government, but, on the contrary,
they seemed grateful to the president
and the secretary of war for giving them
the cpportnnity to incur these dangers
and hardships. They realized that in
the hurried organization of an expedition
by a government which had no one with
any experience in such matters it was
impossible to have everything arranged
to perfection ; and they will teetify that
under the circumstances, the conditions
were much more perfect than any one
would have reason to expect, and that
the president and secretary of war and
others who planned and dispatched
these expeditions deserve high com
mendation. "One reason why our army was lack
ing in eome respects in equipage was
that a telegram was received from Ad
miral Sampson stating if the army
reached there immediately, they could
take the city at once, but if there should
be delay, the fortifications of the Span
iards would be pertected, so that there
might be great difficulty in taking it.
On receiving this dispatch fiom Admiral
Sampson, the war department directed
the army to move at once, and as all
connected with the army will recall, the
orders were received after dark, and the
army was in motion, had traveled nine
miles and was on the ships at daylight.
"When the expedition sailed for Cuba
it went there escorted by a large fleet of
warships. At that time, it was regarded
as impossible for a merchant ship to sail
on the ocean safely from any American
port to Santiago, but as soon as the
fleet was destroyed, so that it was possi
ble for unarmed ships to sail eafely to
Santiago, the generous people of the
United States subscribed money without
limit .and dispatched ship after ehip
loadod with luxuries and delicacies for
the Santiago army, and everything that
could be accomplished for their comfort
was done by the president and secretary
of war.
"After the surrender had been com
pleted and arrangements perfected for
transporting the Spanish army to Spain,
the president and secretary of war eent
shipping to Santiago and transported
our army to one of the most healthful
locations in the United States. The
point selected by the secretary of war
was so situated that thorough protection
was given to the people of the United
States from the danger of yellow fever
contagion. The soldiers, upon . their
arrival at this place, received every care
and bounty which could be procured by
money. The president and secretary of
war directed that their health and com
fort should be cared for without refer
ence to expeuse, and in addition, the
people within a circle of 100 miles vied
with each other in shipping to them
carloads and steamboat loads of luxuries
of all kinds.
"I have just finished my daily in
spection of the hospitals. With rare ex
ceptions the sick are cheerful. I have
nurses and doctors to care for them, and
in all my tours I have not found a single
patient who made the slightest com
plaint. It is true there has been great
suffering. The climate of Cuba was
very severy upon all our soldiers, but
instead of complaining, the hearts of
those braye men are filled with gratitude
to the people for the bounteous gen
erosity which has been extended to
them.
"There is no doubt that there have
been indivual cases of suffering and pos
sible neglect among the soldiers, not
only in Cuba, but since their arrival at
this place. Nearly 20,000 men were
brought from a yellow fever district to
the United States. It would have been
crimnal to have landed them and
allowed them to go promiscuously among
the people. It has been stated by the
physicians that if it had been done, yel-;
low fever would have spread through
many of our states.
"To avoid such a catastropby a point
which is more tborougoly isolated from
the people than any other locality which
could be found was selected. By these
wise means the country has been saved
from a scourge of this fearful disease.
Every one will realize that to land 18,000
men and put them .on bare fields, with
out any building whatever, conld not be
done without eome hardships. Over
5000 very sick men have been received
in the general hospital, and as many
more sick have been cared for in the
camps, and yet only about 60 deaths
have ocenred in these hospitals."
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SOLDIER BOY
VICTIMS OF
Comparative Fipres of Those Killed in
Battle ana Tiiose Who Have Died
of Disease Earing the War.
DYING BY THE HUNDREDS
Three Hundred and Fifty
Officers and Men.
Appalling Showing Made By a Partial
Record of Deaths in the Various
Camps in the Country.
Chicago, Sept. 2. The Tribune this
morning prints statistics showing the
nambar of soldiers who have been killed
in battle and have died ot disease dur
ing the war with Spain.
While 850 officers and men have been
! killed in battle or died ot wounds re
ceived, there have died of disease in
camp between 1200 and 2000 volunteers
and regulars.
The Tribune has eecured the names ot
1284 who died in camp or on transports,
or at home after contracting malarial fe
ver at one of the camps. There is no
doubt about the 1284 men whose names
have been secured. Neither is there
much doubt that there are hundreds of
dead whose names could not be secured
on account of the lack of records and the
inability or the unwillingness of any of
ficer to furnish lists of the dead.
The Tribune gives statistics of the
dead in each camp, giving in every in
stance a full list of names and the na
ture of the disease.
The record by camps is as follows :
Camp Thomas 352
Santiago 341
San Francisco 78
Camp Alger 75
Camp Wikoff 63
Jacksonville 50
Tampa 58
Maiama 76
State and Minor Camps 201
Transports and Hospital Ships 90
Total 12S3
Deaths are attributed to the following
causes :
Typhoid fever 515
Yellow fever 84
Dysentery 63
Miningitis 47
Malarial fever 81
Pneumonia 61
Other cases reported as fever 106
Diagnosis not reported 107
Miscellaneous ailments 220
Total 1284
Ot the regular army, 30 are dead ; Mas
sachusetts is second with 130, Illinois
third with 100, Michigan fourth with 91,
and New York fifth with 85.
RETRIBUTION NOT
QUITE COMPLETE
Cuban Commissioners Will Make an
Attempt While in Havana to Fer
ret Out the Persons Who Des
troyed the Maine.
Washington, Sept. 2. Avenged but
not forgotten is the Maine. At present
the full attention of the administration
is occupied with matters more immedi
ately pressing, but the determination is
general in official circles that when the
proper time arrives, the manner of the
destruction of the Maine must be posi
tively learned if the thing be possible,
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for shall be brought to justice.
Members of the American commission
to superintend the evacution of Cuba
were fully informed regarding the pur
pose of the government in this matter at
the time instructions regarding the work
to be done in Cuba were given them.
It was decided that the American com
missioners will discuss nothing with the
Spaniards that is foreign to the manner
and time of evacuating Cuba, but while
the commission is sitting at Havana it
will investigate on its own account the
blowing np of the Maine.
When General Fitzhugh Lee was in
Washington recently lie went over the
evidence he had collected in Havana,
and expresses the opinion that after the
evacuation of the Spanish army many
people in Havana would open their
mouths and give testimony that would
show the crime to have been committed
by officers connected with the Spanish
army.
The refusal of Captain -General Blanco
to serve on the military commission and
his apparent desire to hurry away from
Havana is taken to indicate that he
fears there will finally be an expose, and
he does not want to be around at the
time it is made.
The names of a dozen men have been
obtained by the United States govern
ment, and the American military com
missioners will interview the witnesses,
who will doubtless hasten to confess all
they know as soon as the dreaded Span
ish soldiers are out of the city.
ANNOUNCEMENTS
OF IMPORTANCE
England Agrees to Support the Kaisers
Claims in Egypt.
London, Sept. 2. A report was cur
rent today that Great Britain and, Ger
many yesterday signed a treaty of alli
ance for Germany's support in'Egypt.
England will recognize Germany's
claims to Syria as an outlet for her ear
plus population.
Czars Conference to Meet.
Berlin, Sept. 2. Reliable informa
tion obtained by the Associated Press is
to the effect that Russia intends to con
vene the international peace commission
at St. Petersburg one month after the
adjournment of the Spanish-American
peace conference at Paris.
Reduce Her Naval Gorce.
Berlin, Sept. 2. A semi-official note
says that peace having been re-estsb-lished
between the United States and
Spain, orders have been given that the
German naval force at Manila be at once
reduced to one or two ships. "
Murmuring is Loud.
London, Sept. 2. A Madrid corre
spondent says :
"All Catalonia protests against the
continuance of the special war taxes,
and insists upon their immediate repeal,
threatening to close all the factories if
the demand is not complied with.
"The lower classes are deeply and per
haps dangerously impressed by the
ghastly appearance of the repatriated
soldiers from Santiago."
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Prominent Citizen of Chatanooga De
mand That He Be Court- Mar
tialed for Causing the Death of
an Injured Sergeant.
Chickamauga, Sept. 2. General
Frank, commander of the Third army
corps, accompanied by his staff, left this
morning for Anniston, Ala. Tomorrow
the headquarters of the Third and
Second brigades and Fourteenth New
York will go.
Six prominent Chattanoogans, four of
them leading physicians, hava pre
ferred charges against Major Hubbard,
surgeon-general of the Ninth New York.
They charge him with being responsible
for the death of Sergeant Frank, who
was struck by a train a few days ago,
and with conduct unbecoming an officer
and gentleman. It is claimed Hubbard
caused the removal of Frank when his
life micht have been saved by keeping
him quiet, and say that when the other
physicians expostulated with him be
used lantrnaee unbecoming a gentleman
and an officer. A court-martial is de
manded. Rebels are Active.
Manila, Sept. 2' Several shiploads
of insurgents have invaded the South
ern islands with a view of seizing every
thing possible prior to the settiement of
peace conditions. General Rios, the
Clothieirs.
Spanish commander, with a flotilla of
gunboats, is acting energetically, but the
insurgents have captured the outlying
islands of Roableon and Palawan, where
they found treasures-to the amount of
$42,000.
To Gather Up Sick Soldiers.
Columbus, O., Sept. 2. The Ohio hos
pital train left this morning for the
South to gather up and return the sick
Ohio soldiers. The train goes direct to
Fernandina, Fla., returning via Hunts
ville, Ala., Chickamauga, and Knoxville,
Tenn. The trip ia- expected to occapy
six days. v
Short In His Accounts.
St. Cloud, Minn., Sept. 2. L. T.
Troutman, Secretary of the St. Cloud
Building and Loan Association, accord
ing to a report which has been presented
to the directors of the association by an
expert accountant, is more than $30,000
short in his accounts. It is thought a
settlement will be mada.
Ordered To Starting Points.
Washington, Sept. 2. Orders have
been issued by the war department that
all the regular army regiments now at
Moutauk, which were etarted previously
east of the Mississppi river, shall return
to the stations.
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