The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-07-19

WINGED that they have no reasonable
chance to resist successfully. The eX-
petition is to comprise 10000 men at
the start. and it will be swelled soon TO
10000, men. and necessary to iO,OuO
men, the equipment of the volunteer
forces having now progressed so well
as to warrant the statement that that
number of men can be ready for serv-
ice in Porto Rico within very short
time
The entire body of troops at Tampa
will be taken. numbering about $4,000
men and including a lot of heavy and
light artillery, under command of Cen
eral Rodgers. The expedition will be
particularly strong with artillery. and
some of that at Santiago, commanded
by General Randolph, is to be drawn
upon. The Tampa troops are known
as the Fourth corps, under Major Cen
eral Coppinger, comprising the Second
division, under Brigadier General ST.
mon Snyder, and made up of the First
brigade, Brigadier General Schwan,
Eleventh and Nineteenth United States
infantry; Second brigade, Brigadier
General Carpenter, Second New York
and Fifth Maryland; Third brigade,
Brigadier General Hale, Third Penn
sylvania, One Hundred and f'ifty-sev-
enth Indiana and First Ohio; Third
division, Brigadier General Kline, COM
handing; First brigade, Colonel c. L.
KEENAN,, Fifth Ohio, First Florida and
Thirty-second Michigan; Second brig
ade. Brigadier General Lincoln, Sixty
ninth New York, Third Ohio and Sec
ond Georgia; the provisional cavalry
brigade, Colonel Moves, Fifth United
States and detachr y nts of the First.
Second, Third, Sixth and Tenth United
States cavalry, and eight troops of
rough riders. Artillery brigade, Cen
pr1l Randnlnh- wv Iehf faT
heavy batteries. 1t is possible that all
of the cavalry will not be called upon.
BROOKE'S FORCES.
General Brooke will take with him
from Chickamauga park most of the
First and Second brigades of his
army corps, the First. These are, in
addition to General Ernst's brigade
at Charleston, Second brigade, First
division, General Haines; Fourth Ohio,
Third Illinois and Fourth Pennsylva-
mia; Third brigade, Colonel ]. S. Gull
yer, First Kentucky, Third Kentucky
and Fifth Illinois; Second division,
First brigade, Brigadier General c. T.
Root, Thirty-first Michigan, First
Georgia, One Hundred and Sixtieth In
diana; Second brigade, General Nc
Kee, Sixth Chic, One Hundred and
Fifty-eighth Indiana, First West Vir-
GINA; Third brigade. Brigadier Cen
eral Rosser, Second Ohio. First Penn
sylvania, Fourteenth Minnesota
NAVY WILL COOPERATE.
The part which the navy is to take in
the assault against Porto Rico has
been fully matured. The several trans
port fleets will have with them one or
two auxiliary cruisers. carrying strong
secondary batteries of six or eight
nOlln6pTS- Secretary LONG said this
afternoon that no time had been fixed
for the departure of Admiral Samp-
sons fleet for San Juan. AS to the
naval plans, he would only say that
they would cooperate in every way
with the movements of the army. The
reports that three monitors are on
their way from Key West to San Juan
was chara cteriZed by the secretary as
unauthorized. 1t is the general I'M
Outstanding, however, that the navy
viii rely mainly on armored ships for
tie bombardment of San Juan, as the
big battleshipS and monitors afford the
best means of offensive warfare, while
their. arnor belts protect them from
such fire as the San Juan batteries
can bring to bear
The Notifications there are much
like those of Santiago, with a MORO
Castle at the entrance of the harbor
and a number of lesser Notifications
leading up to the city. These, however,
are viewed with less awe since an ex-
animation of the batteries at Santiago
has shown them to be Anticipated and
capable of little effective resistance.
The movement of the ships from
Santiago to their new fields of action
will begin at once, and it is probable
that some of Admiral Simpsons ships
were detached today and proceeded
with General Miles with the expedition
towards Porto Rico. They will be
needed to cover the debarkation of the
troops on Porto Rican soil The others
will follow as soon as the full army
expedition is ready to make a landing,
when the attack will begin simultan-
eously from land and sea.
SKATERS ARMY REMAINS.
1t has been finally decided that none
of the troops that participated in the
actual fighting before Santiago shall
be employed on the Porto Rican expe-
dition. There are two reasons for this
first, the men have suffered severely