The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-09-05

! 4.-ThiS great camp will dissolve during
the three coming weeks and by October
| 1st it will have shrunk to slender
proportions. The well men, according
| to the war departments set designs,
will leave the camp as fast as trans
| portation can be conveniently provided,
probably at the rate of 5000 or 1000
week. The conValescents from the hos
pitals, instead of being again sent into
camp, will go to their homes. The presi-
dent, Secretary Alger and General
| Wheeler had a talk about it and al
| though General Wheeler thought the
men would do well in camp until Oct.
1, it was determined to continue send
ing them away. The regulars taken
from the posts east of the Mississippi
will, according to the present direc-
tions, be sent where they were before
the war. The war department 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
Tuesday. The rough riders will muster
out toward the end of the week prob
able, and will not parade.
ROOSEvELTS SPEECH.
The rough riders had religious serv-
ices in their camp today. Colonel
Roosevelt, after Chaplain Grown
had concluded, made little
speech, sort of farewell, some
OF the men took it to be. Colonel Roose-
welt commended the daring and gal
lantry of the men, their skill in manag-
ing horses and in the use of arms
When the regiment was forming, he
said, many men had offered themselves
who said they were ready to storm
the MORO or fight hell" but would
l.. Il
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 pro-
jectiIe.
WATER SUPPLY.
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 two or three days be able to
give an absolutely authoritative de-
cision as to the purity of the water.
Women passing through the camp
were displeased by seeing that some
tents did not have floors and fancied
that the men must sleep on the ground
They were wrong in supposing that.
In tents without floors were wooden
hunks of thick straw As for himself,
better every day and would like to live
in it until Oct. 1.
The season of September gales is
approaching, and the war department
fOresee that the Long Island railway
nay not be able TO move conveniently
more than 1000 men a day. Plans have
been partially made to transport troops
tc New York by water, if it should be
advisable.
SEVEN DIED AT SEA
The troopship Roumania, five days
from Santiago, came intOday with COM
pany K and two of the Ninth Massa-
chusetts, and convalescents from var
ious commands. IN all about 500 men.
Seven died on the voyage and were
buried ct sea. They were:
Daniel K. Reynolds, Seventy-first
New York.
Charles Conners. Ninth Massachu-
sets, paralysis.
Orville Dean. United States engineer
corps. acute dysentery.
Timothy O'M9lley, company K, Ninth
Massachusetts,. acute dysentery.
Henry NJ. Bloddick, company <,
Ninth Massachusetts, acute dySentery.
Paul ". Friendmann, company G.,
Seventy-firSt New York, acute mania.
Joseph Franz, company B, Sixteenth
infantry, acute mania
Inc dlSO dTI1NSQ 4IOu Sail
tiago with $50 men. Fifty-three were
of company Z, First Illinois infantry.
The rest were teamsters and carDen-
ters. Al on board are Well
DIED IN THE HOSPITAL.
Those who died in the general hos
pitaI today were:
Samuel Osborne. private, company 1,
Seventh infantry.
Michael O'Hara, private, company 3,
Eighth infantry.
James BIcGrath, private, company f,
Eighth infantry.
Henry Sawyer. private, Tenth cav
airy.
James Ray. private, company H, Sew
enth infantry.
Mathia his. private, company F.
Third infantry.
Elmer S. Greene. private, company
z. Seventh U. S. infantry.
HezeNiah Bell. private, company u,
Twenty infantry.
Number oe patients in general hos
oital. 1,040.
No one died at the detention hospital
today. 1t has 275 patients
COMMITTED SUICIDE.
Arthur Fieble, private in company
F, Second United States infantry, kill
ed himself in his tent today, by shoot-
ing himself with a Krag-Jorgensen
rifle He was recruited in Tampa, Fia-,
went to Cuba, fought, caught the 1eVer