Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1898-06-11
TO TAKE SHIP FOR CUBA
DESTINATION IS KEPT SECRET.
work of Loading Transports with
Horses. Guns, Ammunition, stores,
Equipment and MedicnI Supphes
Many Extra Transport NesseIs
Chartered.

Chicago. June "A Tampa dispatch
| from a reliable correspondent of the CHI
cago Daily News, dated June I, says the
work of loading transports with horses'
guns, ammunition, stores, equipment and
medical supplies for the first great lnya-
sion of the Spanish West Indies Is almost
completed, and before many hours Gen
eral Skaters corps, the Fifth, is expected
to sail away for destination known only
to few, and not to be given out until
/ the fleet of transports with its convoy OF
war vessels is we'll on its way to Cuba.
Regulars Mnssed at Tampa.
! New York, June IA special to the
Times from Washington says:
Signs are multiplying here which con-
| firm even in the minds of the most eau
tious observers the reports that hurry or
ders have been sent to the troops at Tam
pa. which have been current for the last
few days. The circumspection of the re-
sponsible members of the war administra-
ton prevents the exact nature of those
orders from becoming known.
That every effort is being made by all
branches of the department to get troops
ready to move from Tampa at very
early day is beyond question. Every
available soldier of the regular army not
actually set aside for duty has been sent
to Tampa Every regular regiment has
been sent ther except the Fifteenth
Eighteenth and Twenty-third infantry
which are going to the Philippines, the
Third cavalry and Fourth artillery, bound
for the same destination, and the Fifth
infantry, which is distributed all along
the gulf coast with a detail at Atlanta
doing guard duty. The mobilization was
completed when the camp of regulars at
Mobile was broken up last week and
transferred to Tampa.
Rush orders for ammunition and sup
plies for Tampa have been bestirring the
activities of the subsistence and ordnance
departments in the last few days. Last
Thursday, for instance, imperative de-
mands were made from army headquar-
tiers at Tampa that 100000 rounds of
ammunition should be delivered at that
point by Saturday night. SO promptly
was this order attended to that the am
munition was taken from the government
arsenal at Governors island Thursday
afternoon and delivered at Tampa within
the time prescribed, going faster than the
mails. At the same time a train load OF
subsistence supplies went forward on the
same hurry schedule. These are incidents
in the proceedings of the last few days
which indicate an accession of haste at
the front since General Miles reached
there.
Another indication of the approach of
the long deferred forward movement Is
the chartering by the war department OF
new transports after it had announced
that it had all it would need for the Gu
ban invasion. That was that the trans
ports were to be called ON to transport
some 10000 or 25 600 men directly across
the gulf to the northern coast OF Cuba.
Now that Puerto Rico is to be occupied
and an army landed to assist in the cap
tme of Santiago it is found that more
ships will be needed to supplement the
fleet of 30 already secured.