The record-union., 1898-07-03

roe, where the extra forces of surgeons
will board her. She will reach Fortress
Monroe tomorrow, and will take on
the physicians. and then proceed hur-
riedly to the aid of the wounded under
Skaters command. Surgeon General
Sternberg of the army was unable to
make arrangements to-day for all the
medical assistants which General Shat
ter asked for. After considerable Ia
bor he got together a force of probably
a dozen physicians, and these, with the
surgeons already aboard the vessels,
will approximate about twenty in all.
These General Sternberg hopes viii be
enough to supply the pressing wants of
the army. The Relief should reach San
tiago in four or five days. If additional
physicians are needed they will be sent,
General Sternberg says, on the cruiser
Yale, which is scheduled to leave Nor
folk about the middle of next week
with large detachment of General
Garretsons brigade as reinforcernents
to Shafter The personnel Of the sur.
gical corps of the Relief so far as they
could be ascertained to-day here is as
follows:
Major George H. Torney, surgeon in
"; Lieutenant Colonel Nicholas Sem of
Chicago, Captain w. M. G. Gordas and
the following contract surgeons: Fran
els Metcalfe, Randolph M. Myers, Fred
NJ Hartsok, Ernest c. Schultze, George
H. Torney, Jr., John r. Hicks, Henry
L. Brown, James T. Artwine, Jesse
Ransburg, Ruphus r. Ross A. A. Sny-
der, Charles c. Marbury, James Nc
NIL Wtor
Surgeon General Sternberg left here
this evening for Fort Monroe, where
he will make personal examination Of
to Santiago.
During the afternoon a. sensational
rumor was current that radical changes
of the plans for the occupation of Cuba
were likely to be adopted by President
Mckinley 1t can be said upon the
highest authority, however, that moth
ing of the kind is in contemplation. 1t
IS proba BILE that the story was due, in
a degree at least, to a long conference
held during the afternoon between Sec
retary Alger and Major General Miles.
The conference led to the report that
General Miles was to go Immediately to
the front, probably to supersede Cen
eral Shafter in command of the army
of invasion. Secretary Alger informed
the Associated Press enphatically that
absolutely no change was to be made
in the Cuban plans, or was even in con-
temptation.
Another prominent official of the War
Department characterized the rumor
that Shafter was to be superseded as an
Injustice to one of the finest officers the
army ever had
The intimation that General Miles
may soon leave Washington for some
point where action is expected is likely
TO prove true but as yet is nothing
more tangible than a rumor. 1t is
the very evident purpose of the war
officials to send more troops to Cuba
as soon as possible. In response to a
message to General Shafter two days
ago a reply was received that the trans
ports now off Santiago would be sent
back to Key West at the earliest mo-
ment. The transports are needed to
convey the additional troops to Cuba
troops that are evidently intended to re-
inforce Skaters command.
Word reached the Marine Hospital
to-day that suspicious case, probably
a case Of yellow fever, had developed at
the naval hospital at Key West, the
patient being a sailor from the auxil-
iary ship Yankee. The facts were re-
pored to the department, and inquiry
was at once instituted by the Surgeon
General of the navy. He is not appre-
hensdve on the subject as the latest re-
ports from the hospital show no evil
dences of yellow fever, and it is prob
ably that the case is nothing more than
one having suspicious symptoms.
Secretary Long said tonight that no
change had been made in the naval
programme. Commodore Watson's
fleet, he said, would sail for Spain in
few days, even should Camara's s
squadron return to Spain.
At 11:20 o'clock to night Adjutant
General Corbin, on leaving his office
for the night, announced that no word
had been received from General Shae-
ter.
General Corbin said there should be
no concern over the absence of advices
from the first expedition to the Philip
pines, as it might take week after is
arrival at Manila for word to reach the
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