Show AFRAIO TO TALK NOW But Indiana Tigers Will Talk Strong When Mustered Out HMNAS EXPLANATION BANANAS BEER A POP CAUSED CA3l SICKNESS Senator Allen Woke Up Alger Cleaning IJp Cap Wiof For Mcineys VisitGenerl Wheelers Wheel-ers Reply to a Letter of Inquiry Record of Health Conditions Indianapolis Sept 2The One Hundredth Hun-dredth and Fiftyseventim Indiana the Tiger arrived in this city this aft ernon and was given a reatoaton The regiment left its cap at Ferna dma last Tuesday evening This regiment regi-ment left Indianapolis Sunday May 15 for Chickamauga Pak There are 130 hospital patents in the regiment and 200 were unable to march Two dead bodies were brought home Colonel Studebaker sad This is not the same regiment I took away frbm Indiana regmenL The personality is the same but it is made up of a dir ferent let of men They have fever in their very bones they are hungry and their strength Is wasted I is all due to the cesspools in which we lived in the south When the men left Indiana polls they were strong and showed their hardiness They were all right when we left Chickamauga Park Port TnpaI charge the condition of my men to i and to the conditions surrounding it For eight weeks we were in cqmp there exposed to the fevers fev-ers and the unrelenting sun or Florida Ve have not been in the shade of a tree since lat June I was a happy day for us when wc received orden to 1 leave there But when we moved we I did not better our condition much The i fevers followed us and day by day the I regiment became weaker At Fernan dma we had the same difficulty to obtain ob-tain proper food The authorities seemed willing enough to provide us with what we needed but Fernandina is such an out of the way place that it is difficult to reach I One railroad runs to the town I When men who have been investigating I gating the condition of the Florida camps say we llave not been infactual ned of food and medical assistance they do not know what they a taut lag abut My men cannot mach in straight lines on account ot their weakness weak-ness They cannot carry their rifles at the right position They cannot march any distance without many of them having to drop out of the rank to rest I think that our coming home has saved ment the lives of hundreds in the reg The officers of Colonel Studebaers regiment hesitate about fixing blame on any particular government officer They say they are still In thc servIce and a courtmatal might met them |