The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1898-07-20
Soldiers Heard From.
The Trip From New
mort News to San
tiago de Cuba.
The First Days ON Cuban Soil.
correspondents Tells OF Boys OF
company u and Their Exper-
fences In Hattie.

company ID ana Thehr EAPer
fences In battle.
ov BOARD HARVARD, June %, 1898.
The third day OF our voyage is about |
half gone and it will take until FRIDAY
Ion before we get to Santiago de Cuba |
ali goes all. dispatch boat has just
hoon sighted and the story goes that she
ill take our mail. Under ordinary cir
.nmstances we could have made the trip
:. three DAYS. but the Harvard could
onlv RIM eleven knots an hour as that is
% fast as the. Vulcan, which is accom-
psnylng us, can go.
II has been extremely hot ever since we
cot board but the sea has been quite
calm and not altogether unpleasant.
Everybody persDires freely, but the boys
don't mind it SO much as they did at
Camp Alger, for there is no dust to
make everything dirty.
Notwithstanding the fact that the Har-
ward is boat OF immense proportions
The enlisted men could not be accommo-
dated with staterooms and had to sleep
an the decks. The officers and non-com
missions OF both regiments were given
staterooms, but it is more comfortable
10 sleep on deck than in the little crowd
Cd rooms below where it is so sweterng
hot.
The men went on board the ship Satur-
dsy afternoon late, but the ship did not
leave before Sunday afternoon. Every
thing was confusion the first night and
il was hard work to get anything to
eat or drink, but the next day the COM
panies turned in their rifles and each CON-
pany was given quarters on the decks.
The men are given canned meat and
coffee for rations, but fresh water is what
everybody wants and what is very diff
cult to get.
Some OF the boys have already had
their first experience in sea sickness and
there has been little or no sea as yet.
Today it has been very calm, but good
breeze keeps blowing most OF the time.
At night it gets cooler, but at best the
heat is very band on the northern Michi-
gan boys.
Notwithstanding the condition OF
things generally the boys are all keeping
gay and making the most OF things as
they find them. Sunday night the band
gave concert on the upper deck which
was greatly enjoyed by all.
Iforgot to mention in my letter after
leaving Camp Alger that Corporal John
Trevarrow did not accompany the boys,
be having been detailed to drill recruits
when they came in. One corporal from
each company was left at camp with a
lieutenant in charge.
board as comfortable as could be Colonel
Petermannn established his headquarters
and orders tor routine OF duty were at
once issud. The only work done beside
guard duty is the officers, non-commis.
sions and company schools and consider
able time is thus put in in study.
Mail should be sent addressed to Com
pany-, Thirty. Fourth Michigan Vol
unteer Infantry, Santiago de Cuba, te
reach us. GucK.
THREE MILES FROM SANTIAGO, July 3, '9e
will try end make these few lines con
tain as much as / can concerning what
the boys Of Company d have seen in TIT
past few days, our first on Cuban soil
Fortunately not a man in the compan,
has been killed and none wounded 80 far
although six are sick in the hospital
None OF the sick men are at all serious.
We ran near Santiago harbor early OF
Friday morning, July /, and the boa
Immediately ran to the flagship. which
signaled to keep away from the LAM
batteries and ran back along the shore
mile so and landed troops. The Haryar'
then ran over to Sebano port and tn
men landed on thes spot where few day
before Teddy Roosevelt and his roug
riders had fought their way mp the bill
The men were landed from the smal
boats and it took nearly all day to &c
all the troups off. Company d was tn
first company to land on Cuban sol
The location seemed a perfect one for
camp and the boys were more than we
pleased, but their pleasure was exceeding
ly ortlived. The regiment was marche
out hall mile. where tents were pitche
and camp Immediately located. Their
were few houses in the location an
quite number OF Cubans about. The
furnished cocoanuts and mangoes Ia sol
OF yellow fruit which the boys have a
ready learned to eat and relish) whic
were qnite treat.
Late Friday afternoon word was r
ceived ordering our regiment to THERON
During the day the Thirtv-third Michiga
boys were rouuhlv uaod down the cOal