Barre evening telegram. (Barre, Vt.) 1898-19??, 1898-08-27
SAILING TO SPAIN.
Over Four Thousand Spaniards Departed
From Snntla o--shafter Also Leaves.

| Over Four Thousand Spaninrds Departed
| From SANTA o--shafter Also Leaves.
Santiago de Cuba, Aug. 27.-The Span
ish transports San Francisco. San Au-
gustin and Colon have left for sp in h
4,5GS Spaniards, including 10 Officers ana
their families and priests. Eight men
died on the way to the ships. Their
corpses were checked off" as passen-
gers 1t appears that there have been
many instances of this during the en-
barkation of the Spaniards, the trans
portation company thus being enahl d
to collect the passage money, thing
readily managed under the easy inspec-
ton of the Americans.
General Toral, when bidding adieu to
the Spanish officers and men who We're
leaving, said
conquered, we yield with honor to
ourselves and to Spain. Whatever may
be the future of Cuba, history will pre-
serve the story of your heroic and noble
deeds in this country We regret our
failure and its cost in treasure and in
blood, but you have noby fought and
nobly lost"
General Shafter and his staff have
sailed on the United States transport
Mexico. His departure was not mark
ed by special incident. On arriving at
Montauk PoiIt he will go, with Major
Miley, to Washington to meet President
Mckinley and Secretary Alger, after
ward proceeding to San Francisco.
Colonel Green of General Skaters
staff and chief of the signal corps will
remain here for another ten days until
he is relieved by Captain Leigh, who,
with So men of the signal corps, is eX
pected on the Seguranca. Maps and
charts have been prepared for a mill
tary telegraph and telephone service
between Santiago, Guantanamo, Ba-
racoa, Ssgua de Tanamo and San Luis,
all garrison points, and Captain Leigh
will begin the work Of strngng the
wires as soon as he arrives.
On the recommendation of Washing
ton a bank of exchange will be estab-
lished here. The scarcity of small coin
is a grea' Inconvenience and a cause Of
mach trouble among the soldiers and
local merchants. One result is eXorbi-
tant prices.
The transport Roumania has arrived
from Ponce. The ransport OriZaba has
left for Porto Rico. The Berkshire, with
$50 convalescents from Siboney. has
sailed for Montauk Point. She was soon
followed by the Berlin, with General
Bates and his staff and the First Hi
nois infantry.
Owen to Command Hospital Troops.
San Francisco, Aug. 27.-General Mil
Ter has designated the men who are to
constitute the hospital troops Of the
transport Scandal. Major w. O. Owen, |
who has been in charge of the field hos
ptal, will be chief surgeon and chief
medical officer of the vessel.
The others who have been selected |
are the following: Lieutenant Henry |
Page, assistant surgeon; Taylor Mala-
by, Ernest K. tombstone and Henry
Phelan, assistant surgeons; Robert F. |
Gerahty Frank X. Lar and Shelby G.
Cox, hospital stewards; S. Fl. Cappelan,
Frederick Gibke D. S. Hutchins, r. E.
Paterson, o. Rynning and Eugene
Wood, az ting hospital stewards, and |
1879 rrvates of the hospital corps.
Several Red Cross nurses will also be
taken. Colonel Stackpole of the New
York volunteers will be in command of
the Scandal when she sails, but the hos
pital corps will be under the command
Of Major Owen.