Show ROUGH RIDERS STARVED Roosevel ts report on conditions at santiago washington dec 22 the war department part ment today made public two reports of colonel roosevelt Koo sevelt on the fights of the first united stales states cavalry rough riders in front ot of santiago one Is addressed to colonel wood commanding and the second Is to brigadier general wood after colonel roosevelt took command of tho the regiment the war department has hitherto refused to make these reports public the second after reporting operations up to the time of the truce says the spanish guerrillas were very active especially in our rear where they seemed by preference to attack the wounded men who were being carried on litters the doctors and medical attendants with red cross badges on their arms and the burial parties I 1 organized a detail of sharpshooters and sent them out after these guerrillas bof of whom they killed thirteen two of the men thus killed were shot several hours after the truce had been in operation because in spite of this fact they kept firing on our men as they went to draw water they were stationed in the trees as the guerrillas were generally and owing to the density of the foliage and to the use of smokeless powder rifles it was an exceedingly cee dingy difficult matter to locate them for the next seven days until the we lay in our line while the truce continued we had continually to work at additional bomb proofs and at the trenches and as we bad had no proper supply of foad and utterly inadequate medical facilities the men suffered a great deal the officers chipped together together and purchased beans tomatoes and sugar tor for the men BO so that they might have some relief from the bacon and hardtack with a great deal geal of difficulty wo we got them collee coffee As A for the sick and wounded they suffered so in the hospitals when sent to the rear for or lac lack k of food and attention that wo we found it best to keep them at the front and give them such care as m our own doctors could we vc continued to watch and dobur best to get the men especially the sick properly fed led and having no transportation and being a able ble to get hardly any through the regular channels we used everything we could find captured spanish cavalry I 1 horgea s abandoned mules which bail bao be been en shot but which k our men took and cured diminutive skinny ponies purchased from the cubans etc uy by this means and by the exertions of the officers viel boere were able from time to time to get supplies of beans sugar tomatoes and even oatmeal while from the tile red cross people we got our valuable load of 0 rice earn cornmeal etc all ot of this being of 0 the utmost consequence as the lack of proper food was telling terribly on the men it was utterly impossible to get et them clothes and shoes those they had being in many cases literally dropping to pieces yesterday I 1 sent in a detail of 0 six men and officers to seo see it they could not purchase or make arrangements tor for a supply of proper food clothing etc tor for the men even it we had to pay tor for it out of our own pockets our suffering has been bein due primarily to lack of 0 transportation and proper food or sufficient clothing and of 0 medical supplies we should not have wagon sheets for or |