Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1898-06-16
Invaders BOUND FOR CUBA.
Sailed From Key West at the Break
of Day.
General Shafter VIII Lead $4,000 Boys in
Blue to victory-The Invading Army
Chiefly Composed of Regular
Infantry Regiments.

| Washington, June 1.-THE first
army of invasion to Cuba is now we'll
on its way, 32 transport steamships,
bearing $4,000 officers and men, con-
voyed by battleships, cruisers, gun
boats and auxiliary craft, sixteen In
number, having actually sailed from
Key West at daybreak Monday morn
/ ing. An authoritive statement to this
effect was made at the war department
yesterday, setting lat rest all reports
that the expedition was on its way or
/ had landed last week.
BY Thursday at the latest t, the trans
ports will be off Santiago, and large
American army will make its landing
on Cuban soil. Admiral Sampson has
cleared the way for this undertaking,
and little danger is apprehended in
getting ashore. 1t will be after that,
when the advance is made, that the
actual development may be looked
for.
The United States regular troops
make up the greater part of the force,
there being only three volunteer organ
izations on the ships. These are the
Seventy-hrst New York infantry vol
unteers, the Second Massachusetts, in
fantry volunteers, and two dismount-
ed squadrons of four troops each from
the first United States volunteer cav
airy, the regiment which Colonel Wood
commands, and of which Theodore
Roosevelt is lieutenant colonel
| Whether any of these officers are with
the two squadrons named is not yet
difficult to prevail upon the mounted
| rifiemen to leave their mounts behind,
but this was was matter of necessity
1t is said, owing to lack of accommo-
dations for the horse on shipboard.
The full list of the troops that made
up this expedition, as reported to the
war department by General Shafter,
is as follows:
Infantry regiments is Sixth, Sixteenth,
Seventy-first New York volunteers;
Tenth, Twenty-frst, Eighth, Twenty
fourth, Twenty-second, Second Massa-
chusetts volunteers; First, Fifteenth,
thirteenth, Seventh, Seventeenth,
Third, Twentieth. Total infantry,
sic. officers and 10, 5o9 enlisted men. :
Cavalry-Two dismounted squadrons
of four troops each from the Third.
Sixth, Ninth, First and Tenth cavalry,
and two dismonnted squadrons of four
troops each from the First United
States volunteer cavalry. Total dis
mounted cavalry, 158 officers, 2875 en-
listed men; mounted cavalry, one
squadron of the Second, officers and
$50 enlisted men.
Artillery-Light batteries e and k,
First artillery, A and F Second artil-
lery, IA officers and 323 enlisted men.
Batteries q and II Fourth artillery; 4
officers and 132 enlisted men.
Engineers-Gompanies G and E, 0 Of
ficers and 200 enlisted men.
Signal Corps-one detachment, of
fcers and As enlisted men.
Hospital ,detachments are included
in the above figures. The staff corps
numbers Is officers. The grand total
of the expedition is 773 officers and Ia
b64 enlisted men.
Aside from the men and officers
making up the expedition, the boats
carried vast quantity of supplies,
ammunition and war equipment, nee
essary to maintain an organization of
this size for at least 60 days