The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1898-04-21
A CONCENTRATION
Of United States Troops at Different
Points in the South, Going On.
Transport Steamers in Readiness to Carry
the Boys In blue to Cuba-The Fall
of Havana Hut y Question of
Very Few Days.

Very Few Days.
CHICAGO, April 1e-Telephone and
Telegram phic messages were sent satur.
day to the general offices of every rail.
road connecting with the south, and
terminal points near the various gar.
risons. The post quartermasters at
Fort Thomas, Columbus barracks,
Forts Brady and Wayne were wired
to notify the railroad officials in their
vicinity of the invitation for bids.
Quartermaster General Lee, in an.
ticipation of an order to move. has
been working on the question OF
transportation for the past three
weeks. Railroad companies have been
kept in touch with the quartermaster
and had the order from Washington
been an urgent one. the regulations
would have been set aside and Col. Lee
would have been in position to have
completed transportation with the
most direct lines within an hours
time and the troops could have been in
motion before noon Saturday. Such
is the procedure in times of war or riot.
While Gen. Brooke is ordered to the
command of the cavalry rendezvous at
Chickamauga national park, he will
remain In Chicago until all details for
the transportation of the department
troops are completed. Leaving Mon
day night or Tuesday morning he will
reach Chickamauga in advance of the
cavalry regiments 1t is probable that
his headquarters will be at the Chick
amauga Park hotel, at Crawfi,h
springs. on the border of the park 1t
may be that headquarters will be es-
tablishcd in the commissioners build
ing on the Davis farm in the central
portion of the park: One of the gem
erals aidesdecamp, either Capt. Rich.
ards or Lieut.. Dean, will leave for
Chickamauga either Saturday night or
Sunday.
Sr. LouIs, April 1s-Maj W.. II.
Vessels. jr., commandant of jefferson
barracks, IL miles south of this city,
where six troops of the Third cavalry
are quartercd, received orders Satur-
day from Gen. Coppinger to proceed to
Chickamauga park. A telegram from
Lieut. West. adjutant at the barracks,
says that the command will leave as
soon as transportation can be provided,
probably on Monday or Tuesday.
In the meantime tents are being
pitched at the barracks for the accom-
mediation of the headquarters, staff,
band and six companies of the Eleventh
infantry, which arrived here Saturday
night from Whipple barracks under
the command of Col. Isaac D. De
Russy. From here the infantry will
proceed to Mobile, Ala.
SAULT STE. MARIE, Mich, April 49,
The former telegram from depart
mental headquarters to Fort Brady
troops is rescinded. The troops are
ordered to move at 10 a. m. Monday in-
stead of Saturday.
SAN FRANCISCO, April 1s.-The troops
preparing to go to New Orleans from
California, infantry and light artil-
lery combined, number about $50 men.
AS the orders to Gen. Shafter instruct
him to lose no time, it has been deter
mined to start Saturday afternoon or
Sunday If possible
FoET LEAvFNwohTH, Kan, April l..
The Twentieth infantry, Col. Haw-
kins, has been ordered to Mobile, Ala Z,
and will probably leave within days
time.
WASHINGTON. April ls.-The order
of the war department that the entire
army of the United States, consisting
of more than %. 600 men, shall at once
be rushed to the Atlantic and gulf
coasts. is of the greatest significance.
1t anticipates action by the senate,
house and the president himself.
1t is not a mere demonstration, but
in the language of Gen. Miles, COM
mander-in.chief of the army, it
means business"
This distribution of the regulars
may be looked upon as the preliminary
movement of the war department for
the invasion of Cuba.
Troop transport steamers will be
held in readiness at each point of con.
centration. and at given signal the
boys in blue will be carried across the
waves to the Pearl of the Antilles, to
be landed, probably, near Matanzas
and in the rear of Havana, where they
will be joined by the patriotic troops
of the Cuban republic.
Cuban Gen. Gomez has perfect knowl-
edge of the situation, and while, per-
haps, the attention of the besieged city
is distracted by the bonn bardment of
an American feet. the allied forces will
swoop down from the rear, placing the
tyrannical soldiers of Spain between
fires