The evening times., 1898-05-21
THE GnPs uITHaS
A New Terk S. ller Dies Frsn
Heat q Clettaaeega
MORE TROOPS MU sT7RED IN
The Heat ana Heeyy Knapsackb
Cause Mueh suaerins-yeteran
oacers cratitik 6le manner In
wSsch Men Were Forced to March
Under : BroiIi1k So.
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cready. Of Company P. Tweifsh New
York Infantry. is the first victim from
the Empire State of the campaign abou
to be commenced in Cuba The cause o
the soldiers death u aaeribed to hear
failure. The general belief Throughout
the regiment Is THAI tho intense heat
which yesterday caYsed, great suffering
among the New York volunteers an<
throughout the entire -eanp. was respon
sible for the death of Mccready.
Col Leonard's men started to camp IL
heavy marching order. When the ther.
mometer indicates 80 in the shade and a,
the least 100 In the open. heavy II nc
misnomer. for the weight carried is al
least sixty pounds. The march was ai
least ten miles. and veteran oflicers whose
camps the Twelfth passed were loud In
their condemnation Of the manner In
which the men were forced 70 rush along.
While Company D was passing this
Brock House under q scorching sun. Nc
Cready was seen to stagger, and IN
moment had tumbled on his face In the
dust. The man behind stepped over the
PROSTATE form, and three more men had
>@ssk>-~>sS
was heard. When the ambulance wagon
came up, the soldier was dead. His COM
rades say that he had not been complair-
ing, and they believed that he died from
the heat. 1t Is understood he will be
buried in the National Cemetery, near
this city.
With this exception the Twelfth reach
ed camp In good shape. There we're q
few prostrations from heat in this
and Col. Grants regiment. but none OF
them We're serious.
Colonel Leonard reported to General
Brooke in the afternoon. and the regiment
was assigned to the First Brigade OF
Third Division of the First Army Corps.
By nightfall camp routine had been es-
tablished and today the regiment will
begin drilling.
The Fourteenth New York. Colonel Fred
Grant, arrived at the battlefield at noon.
after long wait in Chattanooga iney
rested In the shade on the west side OF
Lytle Hill. established a camp and pre-
pared to spend the night in bivouac. Col
onel Grant and his command Stood the
journey and climatic change well.
While nearly all the volunteers are gen.
tlemanly, well-behaved young men, there
are few "toughs wearing the blue uni
form. and their disgraceful action in in
sulting women in the streets is causing
In the morning several soldiers entered a
restaurant and grossly insulted some wo-
men in the dining-room. One of the wo-
men screamed and the soldiers fed. A
policeman gave chase and caught one of
the fleeing men, who was locked up He
refused to give his name, and last night
his officer had not reported at the police
station.
Cornelius Nye and Joseph Jones, of the
Nax tod ap ha
charge of looting stores and insulting wo-
men. An officer of their company obtain
ed their release on condition that the Of
tenders be court-nartialei. it.1
Spanish spy" fakes are fiourishing at
Camp Thomas. Reports have been sent
broadcast that attempts have been made
to poison the wells at Chickamauga. The
'rumor'' was posted. on a yellow bulletin
board, and 1t was announced that three
men had been arrested on the charge of
putting arsenic in the wells.
SUSPECTED SPY.
Tampa, Fla, May 21.-Lieut. Miley ar
rived here today for the purpose of in
vestigating the case of Frank Garcia,
seventeen-year-old Spaniard. who was
arrested near the Ninth Cavalry camp,
Thursday evening on suspicion of being
Spanish spy. A Photographic camera
was found in his possession. which con-
tanned photographs of scenes about the
camp. ns
Garcias father is an American by nat
uralization. and is also an Alderman of
Port Tampa City, and pilot inspector.
Lieut.. Miley found there was no war
rant for the boys arrest. and having so
reported, Gen. Shaf,er ordered the boys
release.
Brigadier General Ludlow. of the Engi-
neer Corps, has gone to Washington In
obedience to orders from the War De-
partment. Col. Babcock, who has been
on the staff of Gen. Shafter, has gone to
San Francisco. where he will await the
arrival of Gen. Merritt. and proceed with
him to the Philippines as a member of
his staff. Gen. Wade left tonight for
Army corps. Gov. Bloxham returned to-
night to Tallahassee.
William Astor Chanler returned today
to New York. He has accepted the posi-
ton of inspector general of volunteers.
and has been assigned to the staff of
Gen. Shafter.
Joseph Wheeler. jr., son of Gen. Wheel
er, arrived here today. His father has
appointed him one of his aides.
At Camp black.
Camp Black, Hampstead, L. L, May q
There are but two regiments of the Ma
tional Guard of the State of New York
now stationed here. They are the Twen-
ty-second. of New York, and the Forty
seventh, of Brooklyn. Captain Schuyler,
he recruiting officer, did full days work
Early in the morning he mus
tered in Troop A, Of New York. and then
Troop c. of Brooklyn. He placed Captain
Of the New York troop, In COM
nand of both troops, because of seniority,
he having been mustered into the Yolun-
.eer Army first. Captain Schuyler mus
tered in the First Provisional Regiment.
There are about $500 men stationed here
At present, and orders to move are ex-
pected from the War Department for the
Sixty ninth, First and Third Provisional
and the troops Of cavalry, to
move at any minute.
An amusing story is going the, rounds
of the camp about Private ]. H. Sevigue,
,f Company /, Twenty-second Regiment
He was anxious to go to the front, and he
wanted to go with the Twenty
second. He found, however, that he was
about one-third Of an inch below the re-
luisite height. He was dOwncast over the
prospect Of rejection. until he suddenly
had bright idea He proposed to Pri-
Yates H. T. Cook and C. C. Van Fleet.
who shared the tent with him. that thew
lay him out on board, tying his feet
and hands to weights at each end, and
stretch him to the required measurement.
The latest reports from the tent were
that the experiment. Is being tried and
that Sevigue will pass the surgeons.
E. 7. Cody. jr.. a, nephew OF Buffalo
Bill" Is q private hi Company ], Of the i
Ha IL an excellent rife
shot. and hopes to be assigned to