The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1898-09-13
GREAT ACTIVITY

AZ Camp WikoH, owing to the Recent Or
der or General Miles 10 Abandon the
Camp.
CAMP wIKoFF, Montauk Point,
Sept 12.-The entire attention OF the 15,-
900 soldiers still quartered at Camp WI
koff .is now directed toward the latest
Developments in regard to the aban-
donment OF the camp here and their re-
moval to the barracks occupied by them
before the commencement OF the war.
General Bates orders are TO get all the
troops away from here as soon as pos
slbIe, but according to statement
made by him to-day he is not informed
In regard TO the means OF transporta-
tion 10 be provided by the qunrtermas-
ter's department. He Is unable to es-
tlmate the length Of time that may be
necessary TO remove the troops. The
troops now here comprise seventeen
regiments OF infantry, seven regiments
OF cavalry, six batteries OF light artll-
lery, four batteries Of heavy artillery
and six companies OF the signal corps.
The infantry, cavalry and artillery here
are:
Fourth, Sixth, Seventh, Eighth, Tenth,
Twelfth, Thirteenth. Sixteenth, Seven
teenth, Twentieth, Twenty-frst, Twen-
ty-seeond. Twenty-fourth and Twenty
! nth regiments.
Cavairy-First, Second, Third. Sixth,
Ninth. Fifteenth regiments and Roose-
velt's Rough Riders.
Artillery-LIght batteries z, OF the
First; X, OF the First; A, OF the Second:
Z, Of the Second; F. OF the Fourth, and
r, OF the Fifth; heavy batteries A and
b, OF the First; G and n. Of the Fourth.
Great activity Is being displayed by
the medical department TO free the hos
pItais here Of all patients who can pos
slbly be removed. Between three and
four hundred sick were sent to New
York and Brooklyn hospitals on Sun
day on the steamer Shlnnecock and by
rail. The army hospital boat Relief ar
rived here from New York this MORN
Ing, and during the day she took aboard
about 250 sick men, 100 Of whom were
from the general hospital, % from the
detention hospital and the remainder
from three division hospitals and the
regimental hospitals.
The Relief left with these patients to-
night for Boston, md they will be placed
in hospitals In that city. The steamer
will return here from Boston at once.
probably arriving Wednesday, and VIII
then take perhaps EUU more phlltllh9 "
NewJYork and Brooklyn hospitals. The
shlhnecock is expected to nrrlye here
tomorrow morning, and she will take
probably two to three hundred sick TO
New York.
a medical board is now engaged In
making an examination OF all patients
in the hospital, and determining which
nre In proper condition for removal to
outside hospitals. The members Of the
board say that every man who can be
sent away with safety will be sent JUST
as soon as possible. With the depar-
t1re Of the Relief tonight there are
about 800 men in the general hospital
and two or three hundred more in d.
vision and regimenial hospitals. The
detention hospital has been abandoned
All patients remaining there. number
ing about forty, were removed to tho
general hospital tonight IT Is expect
ed that before the end OF this week
Mi the patients in all the hospitals N
camp will have been removed TO hospkz
tals In New York and other places, eX-
cent perhaps 100 TO 200 men suffering
from aggravated attacks OF typhoid ana
Intermittent fever, malaria ana dysen-
iery, whom II Is considered unsafe TO re-
move for from two or three weeks more.
They Will remain In the general hos
piiai here as long as may be necessary
without regard to whether the troops
are removed TO their barracks or not