The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-08-15
HONE FROM SANTIAGO
Skaters War-w0rn Veterans Are
Glad to Return.
FOUR VESSELS ARRIVE
NO SERIOUS SICKNESS AMONG
THE TROOPS.
Given a. Path and Clean Clothes and
Sent to Camp-Last of Skaters
Army Will Leave Santiago This
Week-All But 5000 Have Al
ready Sailed.

New York, Aug. 14.-Four transports
the ST. Louis. Vigilancia. Mattewan and
Miami, having on board troops who
were ordered home from Santiago, have
arrived off Camp Wikoff, Moatauk
Point, Long Island. The troops aboard
the transports are the First volunteer
| cavalry, First regular cavalry, battery
H, Fourth artillery, and the Sixth,
Ninth. Tenth and Thirteenth infantry.
All the transports, excepting the st.
Louis. sailed from Santiago on Aug. 8.
The ST. Louis. which left some days
later, brought up 722 soldiers. There
was little sickness aboard the former
American liner. and but one death
Private Oliver Longwood of company
D, Ninth regiment, who died from yell
low fever. Twenty-four sick, none of
a serious nature, are aboard the st.
Louis.
The Vigilancia has 500 men of the
Sixth and Thirteenth regular infantry,
and the condition of the boys is excel
lent. Twenty-one sick are under treat
ment. but there is no fever. General
Ames is on. board the Miami, which
came up slowly and anchored in the
quarantine grounds late today. She
was not boarded. Colonel Theodore
Roosevelt and his rough riders are on
the MldHll. Inc MdllSMdIl HdS IOI
been inspected.
The work of disinfecting the st. Louis
was begun this afternoon. The sick on
board were attended by the hospital
corps, and the soldiers were given
baths and provided with clean clothing.
They will be allowed to land tomorrow
morning, when they will be marched
to the detention camp.
The work of disinfecting the other
L. 10 %l,as Ia COR
ried on as rapidly as possible.
The soldiers who arrived by the Gate
City Saturday night were landed to-
day. They were a worn J "a ing lot of
men, but app Jared to be IL high soir-
its. They were marched to the deten-
ton camp, where they at once wect
into quarters.
NEARLY ALL EMBARKED.
Washington, Aug. 14.-By Wednesday
or Thursday of this week it is expect
ed by war department officials that all
of General SKATERS command will have
left Santiago for the United States. In
a dispatch to the war department to-
night, General Shafter says that | he
early departure of the troops now de-
ponds entirely upon the transports,
which are daily expected to arrive. All
but about 5000 men of General Shat
ter's corps have already sailed for tbs
country
General Skaters report to the war
department concerning the departure
of the troops follows:
''All of cavalry division, Kent's di-
vision. Lawton'S division, except SeV-
enth and First infantry and sick AID
of these commands, have al
ready sailed. leaving Bates division,
Eighth Ohio infantry, battery of light
artillery, one battery of heavy artil-
lery, four troops of Second cavalry and
two companies of engineers to go. If
ships expected with immunes get here,
as they ought to, today or tomorrow,
will get the most of the command away
within the next two or three days. All
depends on the transports, and as they
have not arrived, cannot closely ap-
time.
'"Rio Grande, Seneca and Comanche,
with Ninth and Tenth cavalry, Fourth
and Twenty-fifth infantry, all loaded
and will go out this afternoon, unless
hurricanes, of which reports have been
had as blowing south of Jamaica, pre-
vent. The Breakwater, City of Macon
and Arcadia will go tomorrow with
two light batteries and Twelfth and
seventeenth infantry. One of the hard |
est transforms we have had is raging /
his afternoon. Am getting the sick /
that have to be left in very comfort !
lble condition. Two thousand Spanish !
.roops to be loaded tomorrow and only /
)ther ship that is in as soon as it can /
De coaled, probably two days. Hope to |
get troops off so as to be able to start !
after part of the week for the United /
states. Will ship 400 convalescents on /
Monday