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la ouum.no hi TiHnonii |uDIE WITHOUT INSURANCEAn Investigation Is Made by the War Department at WashingtonNO BLAME IS ATTACHEDfww a) ilt;*WAbHiNLTON Jan 4 —Nineteen soldier* stationed at Camp W mona Warsaw died during the recent m J fluenza epidemic without insurance and di a result a thorough irnestiga I tlon hi a been made hv the wai de i fmrtment It has been found how*- | \ ever that no blame is to be at , tached to an one There wai v» negligence it is reported and while | the Incident was exceeding! v regret table th*re was no waj of guarding against itThe Lolonel under w'hose direction the investigation was made has made the following explanation of the 9 If uauon at WarsawThe men. and the influenza ar rued at Warsaw simultaneously In faov some of them had it before thev arrived Because of their condition ii was-, impossible to give them the examinations required under the war * nsk law and they consequently died Nwithout having properh made apph cation for insurance I was informed thu the officer commanding the mon arrived about fortv eight hours alter the men had arrived but I am sure that even s£ hi. had been theie wlvcrt thev arrived he could not have |re vented what happened The whole thing is an exceedinglv regrettable incident But it mu*l be remembered that we lo^t more men through the influenza than we did b\ bullets Jy \ i uhng h \b been made b\ the ivar rich insurance bureau that none of the relatives is entitled legally to insurance although officials of the bureau believe that morallv benefits v are due the relatives An effort v being made to find a legal method 1f compensating the dead soldiers families Senator New conferred cO da with war department ©facials and probably wil* introduce a bill granting specia1 insaran.ee tu the dependents994 Arrive in One Day -v total force of 9B4 draft recruits arrived at Camp Winona. Warsaw October 15 The commanding officer for the camp Captain Ostermn.ier was not assigned to the camp until October 1A the da.' the men arrived and did not get there until Octobet IS although a lieutenant arrived Oc tober 16 Lntil the rmlnnrv officers arrived the men were taken care of by the Cnamber of Commerce and another man not an officer who had 6- been sent by the government The nineteen men who died and who were unprotected b insurance and the dates of their death wereAlfred Shell cross October 4 Eric Hobson October oc: James HWilliams October ~o Everett Rapp October 26 John L \\ llson October \ 26 Hoy Hess October 2 Herbert Barker October °7 Robert J Kx\ miilei October 26 Leonard Fatter eon October 26 W allace K Barbour3 October 29 Clarence H Messznan jf October 29 Harvev E McK night4 October 20 Cecil ’VTaddocks Octobei | ?. 31 Howard Stoop November 1 JesseB Hoover November 4 Arthur B Trosln November 5 Charles .T \tc CoIIv November 11 Lari Rav Hun ter November 13
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Fort Wayne News and Sentinel
Fort Wayne, Indiana, US
Sat, Jan 04, 1919
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