New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1898-07-21
PORTO RICO EXPEDITION.
MILES CHAFES AT DELAY.
TRANSPORTS FROM TAMPA REACH HIM
AND THE EXPEDITION Is NOW
SAID To BE WELL IN MOTION.
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WASHINGTON. July 2O.--General Miles had not
left Guantanamo to-day for Porto Rico when
the Department Offices closed this afternoon,
and the authorizes puzzled To account LOT
the delay. In his dispatches. the General says
that the Nay has not yet furnished convoy
and he expresses considerable evaporation that
he should be kept waiting when the ships nave
nothing else 70 do now that Santiago is in COM
plete control. He announced this morning tAat
the transports Lanlpasas and Nueces. from
TAMPA had ioined him with the artillery ana
siege train and about six hundred Regulars
and engineers This. he said. gives him ten
vessels under his immediate command lie dld
not mention which ones they were, but IL i
known that the Yale. Columbia and St Paul.
carrying General Garretson's entire brigade are
with him, and II is presumed that he mas re-
embarked the Rough Riders and Grimess ana
Capron's batteries General Miles says the men
are extremely restless under their close ana
unnecessary confinement to the transports. and
his horses are dying.
SAMPSON TOLD TO MAKE HASTE.
Upon receipt OF this information an urgent dis
patch was sent by Secretary Long 70 Admiral
Samson directing that a sufficient force OF yes
sells be furnished at once for the safe oonduct
OF General Miles's expedition. 1t was said that
these vessels need not necessarily be armored
but had better be selected from among the
smaller cruisers and auxiliaries II the Admira
receives the dispatch in time. perhaps the no.
tia will start tonight Secretary Alger mas
cabled to General Miles to send him COM
plete list of the men he had drawn from
General Shafters Fifth Corps. and Informed
him that the Navy Department had given as
surances OF Admiral SIMPSONS prompt cooper
alton.
Fears were expressed at the War Department
to-day that Admiral Sampson may have misun-
derstood the instructions sent him several days
ago and decided TO wait for the double-turreted
mentors Puritan Miantonomoh and Amphitrite
before starting for Porto RICO. rhe monitors
are destined solely for the bombardment Of San
Juan. Will, General Miles's advance movement
is not Immediately concerned with tho capture
o. that city but is intended 10 occupy other por-
tions Of the island.
GETTING AWAY FROM CHARLESTON.
Word was received from Major General Will
son at Charleston this morning that General
Ernst's brigade under his command would
surely get away tonight II consists Of the "a
and 3d Wisconsin and 10th Pennsylvania, ard
they were aboard the Mobile. Obdar ana La
Grande Duchesse yesterday. Their wagon train
had arrived and practically loaded. An an
swer was made to General Wilson, urging him
To start at the earliest possible moment Ihe
wagon train belonging TO General Hainess ori-
gade has also started forward from Chicka-
mauga, and will be embarked at Charleston be-
fore the end of the present week. General
Hainess brigade consisting of the Sd Illinois,
4th Pennsylvania and 4th Ohio, with detach-
ments Of the Signal and Hospital corps. Is 70
leave Newport News on Saturday, and General
Brooke may accompany II. 1t Is understood that
the brigades OF General Ernst and General
Haines will go directly TO the east coast Of
Porto Rico to occupy Mayaguez and use 1t as a
base Of operations against other towns in that
neighborhood. relieving the force under General
Miless immediate command to press forward to
Ponce and thence across the island TO San Juan,
which the Navy is expected 10 force into sub
mission by that time