The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1898-08-20

SAaf;ars Army VIII Leave
Santiago in q Few Days.

| WASHINGTON, Aug. l4.-By We'd
nesday or Thursday of this week. it Is
| expected by war department officials
that all of General Skaters command
will have left Santiago for the United
| States. In q dispatch to the war de-
! partment tonight, General Shafter
says that the early departure of the
troops now depends entirelysupon the
transports. which are daily expected
to arrive. All but about 5000 men OF
General Skaters corps have already
sailed for this country. General
Skaters report to the war department
concerning the departure of the troops
is ds follows:
Santiago de Cuba, Aug. II, 3:l7 P.
Ali of the cavalry division, Kent's
division, Lawton's division, except
the Seventh and First infantry and
suspects of these commands, have al
ready .aile1, leaving Bates division,
the Eli hit Ohio infantry, battery of
light artillery, one battery of heavy
artillery, four troops of Second cavalry
and two companies Of engineers to go.
If the ships expected with immunes |
get here as they ought to, today or to-
morrow, will get most of the command |
away within the next two or three |
days All depends on the transports. |
and as they have not arriN ed. can not |
alOCalu opnrovinota tina
Adjutant-General Corbin has re-
ceived the following:
santiago. Aug. 13-The Rio
Graz de, Seneca and Comanche, with
the Ninth and Tenth cavalry, Fourth
and Twenty fifth infantry, are all
loaded and will go out this afternoon,
unless hurricanes of which reports
have been had as blowing south OF
Jamaica, prevent. The Breakwater,
City of Macon and Arcadia will 90 to-
morrow with two light batteries and
the TIVE, 18th and Seventeenth infantry.
One OF the hardest transforms we
have had is raging this afternoon.
Am getting the sick that have to be
left in very comfortable condition.
Two Thousand spanish troops are to
5e loaded tomorrow. Hope to get the
troops of so as to be able to start the
LITTER par5 OF the week for the United
States. VIII ship 400 convalescent
Monday. SHAFTER.
a dispatch received by Adjutant
General Corbin today from General
Shafter indicates that the health con-
ditions among the troops at Santiago
are improving at the prospects of re-
to the United States. Skaters
dispatch, which was bui!etined at5he
war department tonight, is as follows:
"Santiagu de Cuba, Aug. II, 7:30 p
m.-Everytning is going very we'll
here. Men that under ordinary cir
would be sick are trying to
pull themselves together so as to be
ready to go. There ara large num-
Der of typhoid cases. [ think l shall
have things in three or four days so
that [ can leave, but 1 cannot do so
until the arrangements for those left
behind are made"
General Skaters report of the
health conditions of his CORDS follows
''San siago de Cuba, Aug. I4.-Sani-
5ary report for August 13:
Total number of sick .2514
Total number of fever cases -... 1915
Total nun GER fever cases returned
W oNOs -DA
"SHAFTER.
1t is quite evident from a dispatch
received by General Corbin tonight
from General Shafter that the Spanish
Transatlantic company, in transport
ing the Spanish prisoners from San
tiago to Spain, is economizing space
IN its shi 5. The dispatch from Shat
ter, which was dated at Santiago this
evening, reads:
"Luzon sails this afternoon for
Spain with 2056 soldiers, four priests,
l6 women, - children anG l37 officers:
-oUal, 2247,"