The age-herald., 1898-07-20

Chickamauga National Park July 1s.- There is no longer any doubt that Camp Thomas is going to furnish a large force of troops for the Porto Rican expedition. The details cannot be had tonight, but it is safe to assert that two divisions and probably more of the First corps will be ordered out, and the movement is expected to begin tomorrow or Thursday. General Brooke will be at the park tomorrow.
 The following organizations were today placed under orders to go to Newport News, where they will embark for Porto Rico:
 The Second brigade of the First division of the First corps, the Fourth Pennsylva- mia, the Fourth Ohio and the Third Illinois, under command of Brigadier-General Haines light battery B of Pennsylvania, A of Missouri, A of Illinois and the Twenty seventh Indiana battery; the signal corps, under Major L. s. Smith, and the reserve ambulance corps, with twenty-three am- balances, under Major Frank Boyd.
 That these will all go Thursday there ap- pears to be no doubt, and it is more than likely that a larger force than this will be started by that time.
 The regiments of both of the First and Second divisions, First corps, have received various orders which they accept as almost positive evidence that they are to go. Still for some reason changes might be made and the fact that the regiments of the en- tire First corps have been fitted out alike suggests the probability of some changes in making up the force.
 The First Corps Equipped
 By noon today Colonel. Rockwell and Colonel Lee had finished what had seemed the amending task of equipping the First corps. There is now perhaps not a regi- ment in the corps that does not feel that it will be among the picked out to go with General Brooke and therefore there is go- ing to be some sadly disappointed volun- teers, for there is not regiment at the park that does not feel there are various reasons why it is better suited to go to the front than any other regiment.
 Colonel Lee issued considerable wagon transportation to the First corps and Colonel Rockwell handed out some ord nance to regiments of the corps. If there is no delay in shipping stores it will be only a few days. until the corps is thor oughly equipped.
 Private Hutchinson, Company H, Four teenth Minnesota, dsed at the regimental hospital today from paralysis. His friends in the regiment made up a purse and sent the remains to his former home at How ard Lake, Minn., for interment.
 Crepes Colgan private of the First South Carolina, died today at the division hos ptal in great agony after a brief illness A post mortem was made and it was found that death had been caused by mixture the young man had drunk which he thought was whiskey. It developed that a private of the First South Carolina whose name could not begiven out today had tried his hand at making whiskey; he had taken alcohol, wood ashes, pepper and few other ingredients, put them together with large fluid and sold the connections to the boys for whiskey. The surgeons making the examination stated that the stuff had fairly eaten holes in the unfor- tunate mans stombach. Four others are sick from the same cause, and it is feared that other deaths will follow. The man who made the stuff is under arrest.