The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1898-09-05
TROOPS TO RETURN HOME
ROUGH RIDERS WILL DISBAND
THIS WEEK.
Troopship Roumania Arrives From
Santiago and Reports Seven
Deaths and Burials at
Sea.
Special Dispatch to The Call.

| CAMP WIKOFI' MONTAUK
| POINT, Sept. 4.-This great camp will
dissolve during the coming three weeks
and by October l it will have shrunk
to slender proportions The well men.
according to the War Departments set
designs, will leave the camp as fast as
| transportation can be conveniently
provided, probably at the rate of 5000
or 1000 week. The -ouvalescents from
the transports, instead of being again
sent into camp, will so to their homes.
The President Secretary Ale and
General Wheeler had a talk about it
yesterday, and although General
Wheeler thought the men would do well
in camp until October l, it was deter
mined to continue sending them away.
The regulars taken from the posts east
of the Mississippi will, according to the
present directions, be sent where they
were before the war. The War Depart
ment has not transmitted the order to
General Shafter yet, but it will no
doubt be received by Tuesday.
The Eighth Ohio and First Illinois
will break camp on Tuesday. The
Rough Riders will muster out toward
the end of the week probably, and will
not narade. The Rough Riders had re-
lieious services in their camp to-day.
COLONEL 1lOOSeNSll, dlISI OHdDletllI
Grown had concluded made little
speech, sort of farewell, some of the
men took it to be. Colonel Roosevelt
| commended the daring and gallantry
of the men, and their skill in managing
horses and in the use of arms.
When the regiment was forming. he
said, many men had offered themselves
who announced they were ready to
storm the MORO or fight HE'LL but
would not take kindly to camp rou
tine and drill. All such men had been
rejected. The Rough Riders had all
the forces of individual strength. and
in battle were as coherent and effective
as a prOject1le.
General Wheeler said that Lieutenant
Colonel Smart of the medical staff of
the army, had come to chemically ex-
anime the water supplies to the camp
He was at the top of his profession and
would, in about three days, be able to
give an absolutely authoritative deci-
sion as to the purity of the water.
Women passing through the camp
were displeased by seeing that s5me
of the tents did not have floors and
fancied that the men must sleep on
the ground They were wrong in sup
posing that. In tents without floors
were wooden hunks or thick straw. AS
! for himself, General Wheeler said, he
| liked the camp better every day and
! WOuIQ ike TO i've III 1t unlll OclODeI L.
The season Oh September gales is APP
preaching and the War Department
forsees that the Long Island Railway
may not be able to move conveniently
more than 1000 men day Plans have
been partially made to transport troops
to New York by water if it should be
! advisable.
The troopship Roumania, five days
/ from Santiago, came in to-day with
| T1ia M hn =
! chusetts and convalescents from vari-
Gus companies, in all about 600 men.
| Seven died on the voyage and were
! buried at sea- They were:
Daniel K. Reynolds, Seventy-frst
New York.
Charles Corners, Ninth Massachu-
sets, paralysis.
orville Dean, United States Engi-
neer Corps, acute dysentery.
Timothy O'Malley, Company K,
Ninth Massachusetts, acute dysentery.
Henry NJ. Blodrick, Company K.
Ninth Massachusetts, acute dysentery
Paul. w. Friedman, Company G, Sew
entyfirst New York, acute mania.
Joseph Franz. Company B, Sixteenth
Infantry, acute mania.
The Unionist also arrived from San
tiago with $50 men. Fifty-three were
of Company E, First Illinois Infantry
! The rest were teamsters and carpen-
| tiers. All on board are well.
Those who died in the general hospi-
tai to-day were:
Samuel Osborne, private, Company l.
Seventh Infantry.
Michael O'Hara, private, Company
! 3, Eighth Infantry.
James McGrath, private, Company
! T, Eighth Infantry.
Henry Sawyer, private, Tenth Cav
airy.
James Ray. private, Company H,
! Seventh Infantry.
Matthias Ills, private, Company F,
Third Infantry.
Elmer S. Greene, private, Company
F, Seventh United States Infantry.
Henry Bell, private, Company G.,
Twenty fifth Infantry.
The number of patients in the gen
eral hospital is 1040.
No one died at the detention hospital
to-day. 1t has 275 patients.
Arthur FEEBLE, a private in Company
F, Second United States Infantry
killed himself in his tent to-day by
shooting himself with a Krag- Jorgen-
sen rifle He was recruited in Tampa
went to Cuba. fought, caught the fever
and was out of his mind for some time
The signal men predict windstorm
tonight Warning was sent through
out the camp to peg down all tents.