The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1898-06-02
MAI. GEN. MILES
NOW AT TAMPA
Established His Headquarters at
the Tampa Bay Hotel.
RAINY SEASON HAS BEGUN
Terrific thunderstorm Experienced, the Rain
fall Being tnormous-The Florida Expe-
ditlon Was Success in Every Partic-
ular-flag Raised on the Island.

Tcmpa. Fla, June Mai. Gen. Nelson
A. Miles. commanding the United States
army is now in Tampa. The general with
his staff and large office force. arrived
here today over the Florida Southern and
Peninsula railroad from Washington and
established his headquarters at Tampa
Bay hotel. Mrs. Miles, Miss Miles and
Sherman A. Miles, were also in the party.
General Miles was apparently thoroughly
tired out by his hot journey and remained
in the hotel all day conversing over the
situation with Generals Shafter and
Wheeler and renewing old acquaitances
,mong the veterans who were with him
on the frontier. The rainy season on the
Florida coast may now be said to have
fairly commenced. A terrific thunderstorm
was experienced here today. The rainfall
for half hour was simply enormous, but
the ground. dried into powder by drought
that has lasted for eight months, readily
+. absorbed most of 1t and but little discom-
fort was caused among the camps of the
soldiers. A few tents were blown down by
the occasional squalls and some lively
scrambling among the unfortunate occu-
pants of those tents resulted, but no ma
terial damage was done. The dust and
heat for the past two weeks have been
almost unbearable and in consequence
drilling hoaTs in many cases have been
shortened, 1t being simply impossible for
even the regular troops, hardened as they
are, to stand 1t.
Complete Success.
An official notice of the complete success
Of the expedition in command of Lieuten-
ant Colonel Dorst, which sailed from this
port on the steamer Florida two weeks
ago, carrying arms and ammunition, COM
missary supplies. horses and mules for
the insurgent army under General Garcia,
besides one of the largest and best equipped
bodies of men that has yet volunteered for
service in the cause of Cuba, was posted
en- the bulletin board at army headquar-
tiers today. 1t reads as follows:
Colonel Dorst returned to Key West
yesterday, after landing a successful expe-
dtion on the northeast coast of Cuba. He
landed at Point Banes directly north across
the island from Santiago de Cuba. He
took with him from Tampa 400 Cubans fully
armed and equipped and to some extent
drilled, ard landed these together with over
o million rounds of ammunition, between
1000 and 5000 Springfield rifles and steam
er load of munitions of war, including
horses and mules" &C.
This makes the third successful exped-
ton in landing munitions of war and armed
Cubans on the coast of Cuba. Colonel
Dorst the first to land American
troops on cuban SOIL "a ii to raise the Amer
lean flag on those shores He was also the
first to whip body of Spanish troops in
which the commanding officer and two or
three men were killed, and he is the first
to capture one of the deep water ports on
the north coast of Cuba 1t is a little
singular that while at almost the same
time that Commodore Schley was inclos-
Il s the Spanish fleet in the port of San
tiago de Cuba, Colonel Dorst was and had
bccn for two DAYS unloading munitions OF
war in port. directly north and within
sixty miles of II.