The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-08-15
All of Skaters Army Will Be
Embarked
For Home by the Middle of This
Week.
SICK ARE IMPROVING.
Large Drop in the Number of
New Cases.
Over $4,000 Collected in
Customs Dues.

Washington, Aug. 15-By Wednesday
or Thursday Of this week it is expected
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 Gen
era1 Shafter says that the early depart
ure of the troops now depends entirely
upon the transports, which are daily
expected to arrive at Santiago. At the
present time only about 5000 men of
General Skaters corps are at Santiago,
the remainder having already sailed
for this country. General Skaters
report to the war department concern
ing the departure Of the troops follows:
Santiago, Cuba, Aug. IA. S:17 p m.
III. c. Corbin, Adjutant General U. S.
A, Washington.
"An of the cavalry division, Kent's
division, Lawton's division except Sew
enth and First infantry, and sick and
suspects of these commands, have sail
ed, leaving Bates division, Eighth Ohio
infantry, battery of light artillery, one
battery of heavy artillery, four troops
of Second cavalry and two companies
Of engineers yet to go. If ships eX-
Dected 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 de-
ponds on the transports, and, as they
have not arrived, can't closely approx
innate time. SKATER,
Major General"
A dispatch received by Adjutant Gen
era1 Corbin last night from General
Shafter indicates that the health con-
ditiOns among the troops at Santiago
are improving. It is as follows:
Santiago de Cuba, Aug. IA, 1880 p. m.
Everything is going well here Men
that under ordinary circumstances
would be sick are trying to pull them
selves together so as to be ready to go.
Large number of typhoid fever cases.
1 think I shall have things in three or
four days so that I can leave, but
cannot do so until arrangements for
those left are made. SHAF'TER,
Major General"
General Skaters report of the health
conditions of his corps, also received
last night, follows:
Santiago de Cuba, Aug. IA, 1898.
Adjutant General, Washington.
Sanitary report for August 10: Total
number of sick, 2,514; total number of
fever cases, 1916; new fever cases, 179;
total number fever cases returned to
duty 357 Deaths-Privates William H.
Sanders, Troop B, First United States
volunteer cavalry, remittent malarial
fever; Corporal Henry I. Jennings, Com
pany K, Ninth Massachusetts, typhoid
fever; Private John E. FallOn, Com
pany H First Illinois, yellow fever;
Private John Mallory, Company u,
Thirty-third Michigan, yellow fever;
Private Irvine LautZenheiser, Eighth
Ohio perniciOus malarial fever; Private
Edward Myott, Company T, Thirty
fourth Michigan, typhoid fever; First
Sergeant E. L. SherrOtt, Company Z,
Seventy first New York, typhoid fever.
SKATER, Major General.
It is quite evident from a dispatch
received by General Corbin last night
from General Shafter that the Spanish
Transatlantic company, in transporting
the Spanish prisoners from Santiago to
Spain, is economizing space in it's ships.
The dispatch from Shafter, which was
dated at Santiago, reads:
'Luzon sailed this afternoon for
Spain with 2,O56 soldiers, 4 priests, 16
women, "a children and 137 officers;
total, 2.237.''
General Shafter reports to the war
department concerning the customs re-
ceipts at Santiago as follows;
Santiago de Cuba, Aug. IA, 5:37 p: m
III. c. Corbin, Adjutant General, United
States Army, Washington.
81 have the honor to report for your
information that there was taken in at
the customs house here. from July ~
to August 10. inclusive, $58, 445-24.
"SHAFTER, Major General"