Gen. Lawton Reports Nearly 1,2OO as
Being Sick with Various Fevers
and Many Deaths.
WASHINGTON, Sept. 20.— Nearly 1,200 of the American troops at Santiago are on the sick list, and Gen. Lawton reports eighty-eight new cases of fever to-day. His report sent to the War Department to-night is as follows:
Santiago de Cuba, Sept. 20, 1898 .
Adjutant General, Washington: Sick 1,087; fever, 679; new cases, 88; returned to duty, 289.
Deaths: W. M. Johnson, Eighth Illinois Infantry, teamster, thermic fever, Sept. 19; Felix Boswell, Company D, Ninth United States Volunteers, bilious fever, Sept. 18; Albert Richardson, nurse. Company L, Ninth United States Volunteers, pernicious malarial fever, Sept. 17; John J. Nicdeden, Company K, First Illinois, typhoid fever, Sept. 17; John J. Blake, private, Company F, Fifth United States Infantry, typhoid fever, Sept. 19: Robert L. Courson, private, Company B, Third United States Volunteers, yellow fever, Sept. 10; Walter Gray, private, Third United States Volunteers, pernicious remittent fever, hemophysis.
LAWTON, Major General.
Published: September 21, 1898 The New York Times
Gen. Lawton Reports Nearly 1,2OO as
Being Sick with Various Fevers
and Many Deaths.
WASHINGTON, Sept. 20.— Nearly 1,200 of the American troops at Santiago are on the sick list, and Gen. Lawton reports eighty-eight new cases of fever to-day. His report sent to the War Department to-night is as follows:
Santiago de Cuba, Sept. 20, 1898 .
Adjutant General, Washington: Sick 1,087; fever, 679; new cases, 88; returned to duty, 289.
Deaths: W. M. Johnson, Eighth Illinois Infantry, teamster, thermic fever, Sept. 19; Felix Boswell, Company D, Ninth United States Volunteers, bilious fever, Sept. 18; Albert Richardson, nurse. Company L, Ninth United States Volunteers, pernicious malarial fever, Sept. 17; John J. Nicdeden, Company K, First Illinois, typhoid fever, Sept. 17; John J. Blake, private, Company F, Fifth United States Infantry, typhoid fever, Sept. 19: Robert L. Courson, private, Company B, Third United States Volunteers, yellow fever, Sept. 10; Walter Gray, private, Third United States Volunteers, pernicious remittent fever, hemophysis.
LAWTON, Major General.
Published: September 21, 1898 The New York Times
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