The Jersey City news., 1898-09-16
FIGHTING FOURTEENTH
Brooklyn's Crack Regiment
Arrives in This City
From Alabama.
HOSPITAL TRAINS QUICK TINE
Transport Alamo Brings Four
States Troops From
Porto Rico.
HOSPITAL TRAINS QUICK TINE

The first section of the train carrying
the Fighting Fourteenth" from its camp
at Annistol Alabama, to It's nome -
BROOKLYN. arrived in jersey City at SIX
o'clock this morning. 1t was composer
of four sleeping cars two baggage cars
and a stock car in which We're the horses
of the officers. There were seventy-three
sick men aboard the train, which was IN
charge of Major and Surgeon Arthur A.
Bogart. assisted by Captain Thomas =.
spenee. only six Of the sick are in
dangerous condition Fifty are confined
TO their beds. The remainder are con-
valescents. Those seriously i'll were held
to await the arrival of the General Meisss
with Major Appel in charge, to be taken
to the hospital on Governors Island Inc
convalescent will be permitted to go 70
!. their homes.
The six men whose condition is danger
Gus are suffering from an aggravated
form of malarial fever. Among the SICK
are Adjutants Charles Beatty Calhoun
and Regan.
The Fourteenth left Admission Wednes-
day afternoon at four o'clock. The hos
pital train made a fast trip, which was
due to the fact that the Pennsylvania
Railroad officers had representative
aboard to see that the train was nowhere
needlessly delayed The hospital cars
were several nours ahead of the other
three sections of the train having the
well members of the regiment. The hrst
of these sections is in charge of Colonei
w. E. Miller, who succeeded Colonel Fred
Grant to the command of the Fourteenth
when he was promoted to Brigadier Cen
eral Captain W. L. Garcia is in com
mand of the second and Captain Richard
Harding in command of the third section.
Owing to the early hour at which the
hospital section arrived there was no one
on hand to meet the soldiers. AT seven
o'clock, however, the friends of the men
began to gather in the railroad yards at
Harsimus Cove in large numbers. A strict
guard was kept over the hospital tram
and no person not connected with the
train was permitted near it. MAJOR
Bogart said that the regiment lost eight
men at Chickamauga, but that the heaItn
of the men was excellent at Annlston; f1e
refused to make public the names OF the
sicl. in his care.
The first section Of the train carrying
the well soldiers of the Fighting Four
teenth'' arrived in Jersey City at 1:35
o clock this afternoon. On the train were
Company G, Captain Homburg; Company
B. Captain Foote; Company e, First
Lieutenant
Lieutenant Horton. Each man on the
train wore a cotton blossom stuck in the
band of his hat. Colonel Wilder was in
charge of the First Battalion. There were
six men aboard the train who were taken
sick on the trip from Admission. Not one
of them is seriously i'll.
The men were met by hundreds of their
friends who had been waiting in the rail
road yard all the morning for their ar
rival The second section comprising the
Second Battalion, Companies NJ, H, L
and c, under command OF Major Mitchell
arrived twenty minutes late, and the
Third Battalion, Captain Garcia, acting
major, composed of Companies ID, K,
and F, was half an hour behind the sec
pennsylvania ferryboats and was taken
to Jewelps wharf, Brooklyn.
The United States transport Alamo,
from Porto Rico, docked at Pennsylvania
Railroad Companys pier IA, Harsimus
Cove, at 9.45 o'clock this morning No
time was lost in getting the men and
baggage ashore. Trains were in waiting
to take the troops to their homes. Major
F. H. Gruetzbacher of the Second Wis
consin Regiment was in command of all
the troops. There were aboard 251 men
and twelve officers of the Second Wis
consin Volunteer Infantry Company A
of the Provisional Battalion of Engineers,
composed of picked men, engineers and
mechanics, from the First Illinois Volun-
teers, under command of Captain Taylor
E. Brown; Company II of the Engineers,
composed of men from the First District
of Columbia Volunteers, commanded by
Captain Henry 3. LOCKER; Battery C,
Pennsylvania Artillery, composed of 166
men and two officers, under command of
Lieutenant Bean. There were 1874 men in
the Engineer Corps. under command of
Major Sackett They claimed the dis
tinction of being the first United States
troops to land on Porto Rican soil
Hundreds of persons were at the pier
to- witness the docking of the Alamo. The
crowd was composed for the most part of
those who had gathered to await the ar
rival of the Fighting Fourteenth The
police kept the crowd off the pier. The
soldiers crowded to the deck of the trans
port as She was drawn into the dock
Men were In the rigging and there was a
head sticking from each port hole. As
the ship swung in the breeze the fol-
lowing words, chanted by the District of
Columbia Volunteers to the crowd:-
One, two, three. who are we?
Company H Of d. of C.
Are we In it? should smile
We've been in it a he'll of while.
porter for 1.-THE Jersey City News" He
said that the health of the men was good
"A great many of the men were sea
sick" he said "but there was no serious
Illness aboard. We thought for three
days that we would never reach home
We got caught in hurricane which
tossed the ship about like a rubber ball.
ard sent the waves dashing over the
IN at Hampton Roads. The lack of sick
ness aboard is due to the fact that the
quarters of the men have been kept
comparatively clean. made personal
inspection OF the quarters each day
The men all seemed cheerful and happy
Snatches of song were heard in all parts
of The vessel The attention of the visitors
T.vas attracted by q Ileiodious voice in
The hold singing the words of illinois =
while a crowd OF the engineers from that
State Joined in the refrain. 1t was with
something akin to reverence that the men
sang
BY the prairies verdant growing,
Illinois Illinois.
BY the rivers gently flowing,
Illinoisi illinois,!
Comes an echo on the breeze
Rustling through the leafy trees,
And its mellow tones are these
Illinois Illinois!
The soloist was Private Frank M
Campbell. In less than an hour all the
men were landed The District of Column
bia men were put aboard a train of four
ears. which were attached to the regular
Washington express leaving at I:13
o'clock The men of Battery G. Pennsyl-
vania Artillery from Pnoenixville. were
met by Major Richards of Governor Hast
ings' staff and John y. Null. representing
NJ II. Biting, burgers. Of Phoenixville.
arrangements were made for their COM
fort aboard the train. Dinner was pros
xiGed by order OF Governor Hastings
The Illinois ana Wisconsin troops will
s leave for their homes this afternoon in
special trains oyer the Pennsylvania Rail
road. Two sick 1nc;l were taken from the
Alamo by the members Of the Soldiers
Comfort Committee and were taken to the
relief hospital in the Pennsylvania Rail-
road Depot. They were Harry Howard,