New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1898-08-20
MORE MEN AT MONTAUk.
THREE TRANSPORTS DIsEMBARK THE
SICK ABOARD.
THE OTHERS WILL. co ASHORE To-DAY-NEED OF
MORE HOSPITAL sHELTER-THE
LIST OF THE DEAD
LIST OF THE DEAD.



! Aug 19-Hhis has been curious day OF rain
| and sunshine. which. born in night OF fog
finally went out In n beautiful sunset. Al
times the clouds would break away and let the
| sun shine through the falling rain. then they
| would close In again for another shower. 1t
| was not until late in the afternoon that IL
finally cleared for good, and then the ROADS
| were rivers of mud again. and more than halt
| the day had been lost to the carpenters VINO
| are working on the new hospital. the need OF
| which daily grows greater.
There were 43O men in the General Hospital
| this morning. and 900 more from one OF the
| late arriving transports, were taken there
| this afternoon. The hospital was first intended
| for five hundred patients. which gave more than
| the usual space allotted to cots In hospitals,
but at n pinch Il could accommodate several
dred more II is this pinch that IL being en-
n, ,ycd now With the cessation Of the rain the
work on the new one went on again. brskly. and
every man and moment that could be given to
the work or spared was diverted and given to
this labor
There are many sick men out the three
transports which arrived last night and their
care and comfort are going 10 be the first
thought Of General Wheeler and the medical
stan, Just as It was under General Young.
The transports which came in last night were
not inspected until this morning and then DR..
Magruder came ashore with his report. He
said the first TO arrive had been the Seneca.
which sailed from Santiago August H. with 416
mon and eighteen horses OF the 4th Infantry,
Major Baker being in command OF the troops
She arrived a Quarantine last night at D O'Clock
There were seventy-three sick board, but
none Of the cases were contagious and there
had been no deaths on the voyage
The Seneca was followed an hour and half
later by the Comanche. which had also sailed on
August 49, The troops on board were 4sS ~ the
10Th Regular Infantry. In command Of Colonel
A. s. Daggett General Charles McKbbin. OF
the Second Brigade and his staff consisting OF
Captain c. D. Rhodes. Lieutenant Joseph O'Nei.
Lieutenant Dennis T.. Nolan. Lieutenant William
NJ Morrow and Major and Brigade surgeon
Paul Shllloch were also on the vessel There
were ia Of the troops sick. but none OF them
with contagious diseases. and there had been no
deaths on tho voyage UP to Montau':.
THE LAST TRANSPORT TO ARRIVE.
The last transport 10 arrive the Mobile.
She had been sighted early last evening. but
such n fog settled down on the ocean and Sound
that no one ashore knew the time Of her ar
rival. until this morning. after the fog lifted.
When pr Magruder went on board ne round
she had dropped her anchor at y o'clock away
to the east Of where the quarantine anchorage
is located The troops she brought were the 18th
and 22d United States Infantry and the I'd Mas
sachusetts Volunteers. sixteen hundred in all. In
command OF Brlgaiier-General Ludlow.
There were no contagious diseases on board.
but there were three hundred sick In the ships
hospital. Ten had died on the voyage and
tha No thor mn
ton company. died on board last night His
relatives live in New-York. but his homo vas In
NORTHAMPTON at the time of his enlistment. Tho
other Massachusetts, men who have died are Sec
ond Lieutenant Harry J. vesper. Company p;
Sergeant II Il. Wentworth Company c: George
Higgins. Company F. f. C. Clark, Company II;
F. NJ Manning Company NJ; p ]. Kingston.
Company q and Charles II. Cranston. Company
l. The latter buried NJ sea
Only the sIckcst on board taken ashore
this afternoon and they for the most part
.ore from Mobile The big ship was warped IN
at the railroad wharf in the early afternoon for
the purpose Of landing them and her decks.
which doomed away above the wharf on the
shore side were thronged with soldiers anxious
TO set foot on American soil. They did not get
ashore for they we'll. and the we'll men
are not to be dsembarked until Tomorrow
Two or three slipped down the gangway. and
one man got as far the guard line on the
beach where he found some one TO take a
telegram to the station to be sent to his mother
He looked fairly we'll. but the regiment as a
whole he said was IN pretty bad shape; nearly
every one Of them full Of malaria and all
we're exhausted and out from the hard
ships they had gone through. As ne sat on
log cast up on the beach. switch engine on
the tracks near by went pulling past with
Changing bell
"Myw he said but It does seem good to hear
an American bell more
While the Mobile was lying at the railroad
wharf across the way at he quarantine pier.
Large was landing the last remnant Of the
list Regiment those who had been too sick to
move yesterday. and Colonel Wallace A. Downs
and staff and Major John A. Logan who had
remained behind with them. Mrs. Logan. Mrs.
Downs and a number OF other people who had
n particular interest in those coming ashore
stood about Mrs Downs had a OF milk.
boxes OF sandwiches and other good things,
which were passed up in the ambulances.
Colonel Downs came up and chatted few min
utes with Mrs. Downs over the guard line and
Major Logan kissed his hand to his wife he
rode by.
AN INCIDENT OF THE LANDING
There was one incident Of their landing that
has a peculiar interest at this time. An elderly
man stood in the group looking for his SON. The
captain OF the company to which the young man
belonged said he would bring him over to the
picket line so that his father could talk to him.
He went back up to the quarantine station and
returned presently with broad-shoudered.
rugged young fellow whom the father failed to
recognize AS he drew nearer the father knew
his son. and the latter grinned a. he took his
fathers hands He had been engaged In q large