The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-07-28
Gen. Skaters Response in Answer to
the War Department Query as to
the Turning Away of Ships.
TRANSPORTS FOR SPANIARDS
THREE STEAMSHIPS ON THE WAY TO
SANTIAGO DE CUBA.
DIR. Sem on the Yellow Fever Situa.
tiOn-Surrender of Guantanamo
and Caimanern GarrisOns.

WASHINGTON, July 27.-At 10 o'clock to-
night the War Department posted the fol-
lowing dispatch from General Shafter, dated
Santiago de Cuba, July q:
Reports of yesterday show total sick,
S,77O; total fever cases, 1924; new cases OF
fever, 6S9; cases of fever returned to duty.
538
Death list for yesterday: First Lieut.. A
]. Babcock, Thirty-third Michigan. yellow
fever; William Francis Poore. Company D,
First District of Columbia Volunteers, ty-
phoid fever; T. H. Mahoney, Comany D.
Twentieth Infantry, typhoid; Corporal Chas.
E. Wangle, Company E, Twenty-fourth In
fantry, yellow fever; civilian teamsters +.
G. Coba, yellow fever, and Moore Stuart,
yellow fever All at Siboney. Privates AL
bert Bergunde. Company G, Sixteenth In
fantry, pernicious malarial fever. and Chas.
Clemmons, Company H, Thirty-fourth Mich
igan, malarial remittent fever, both with
regiments.
Deaths not previously reported: Privates
Brooley, Company G., First Infantry, dysen-
terry; July II, j. Lame, Company c, Ninth
Infantry dysentery July 10, G. T. McLena-
than Troop A, Second Cavalry, yellow
fever; July 20, w. E. Hamill, Troop A, Sec
"
Johnson, Troop F, Second Cavalry, yellow
fever; July 20, Walter Wischman. Troop F,
Second Cavalry, yellow fever; Harvey At
kins, Company 1, Second Massachusetts,
nostalgia; July %, colored soldier, name
unknown at detention hospital.
The War Department to-day made public
the following dispatch from General SHAFT
ter, in response to a query by the depart
m from
Santiago: ..
Santiago, via Haiti. July 26.
Press reports not true. | only know OF
three ships having arrived; one from hln 1Ss-
ton the others from the United states. Tine
Bratton has sold its cargo; another, snip
from New Orleans, sold only a part OF IT
and tells me ne Is golng away W. a0,ngn1 The
trouble is they did not expect TO pay any
duty and arrived here without money. The
Spanish customs, as appled 10 Spa pan 81
subjects has only been collected ana the ~
cents per ton as ordered by the secretary
II discovered this morning an attempt on
the part of the municipal authorizes 10 col
lect port tax of 20 per cent on one nun
dred kilos, in this instance amounting 10
81 5OO / had already settled this matter by
ordering its noncollection. 1870, hove % 10
1.-The fact is there is no money here 10 Go
business and merchants are very tlmld
about making purchases, fearing the effect
Of the Red Cross supplies, VINO reaiiy ,,, are
for instance brought twenty mine head OF
cattle. which he sold at $S5 per head The
nerson hllying kills one q day, selling the
meat at 20 cents per pound. OF course only
o few people buy The first week we were
here people were starving to death and |
think a few now are dying from the ef-
fects of starvation. / am positive, however,
that the customs have been honestly ad-
minstered."
The second captured battle flag was re-
ceived at the War Department to-day with
a brief note from General Shafter, as fol-
lows: Fragment of Spanish flag captured
by the Thirteenth United States Infantry al
San Juan July l."
1t is expected that the embarkation OF
the Spanish prisoners will begin very soon
The Alicante sailed yesterday from Mar
Unique and the hospital ship San Augustin
sailed to-day. The Isla Luzon and the Isla
Panaya sailed from Cadiz to-day for Santi'
ago. The Leon XIII, the Salrustigen, the
Cavodonja and the Colon, all at Cadiz, arc
expected to sail very soon. The capacity
of these various ships is as follows: Ali
cante, 1880; San Augustin 800; Isla Luzon
1,SO0; Isa Panaya, 1880; Leon. XIII, 1000
Salrustigen. 1850; Cavodonja, 2,210; Colon
2,170. 1t will be observed that none of these
ships was in Mexican ports. as has been re.
ported. The provisioning and loading OF
the ships at Santiago may take some time
but all possible speed will be the policy OF
the War Department.