The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1898-07-23
en- PUERTO RICO
d. Will OCCUR SOON
Several Transports Under Way and
More are About Ready to
Follow Them.
LARGE ARMY WIFE BE SEMI.
Thought That With So Great a
Force the Spanish Will
Be Greatly Awed.
A BLooDLEss VICTORY EXPECTED
No Attempt to Concentrate tile Force
Before S~t.rtinR---As seon as
Transport Is Ready
1t Will Start.

Washington, July 2o.-Miles, lead,
ing the Puerto Rican expedition, left
IN the Iale.todny with four batteries
Of artillery and u few seasoned troops.
The two hrigades now ut Charleston.
are embarlSing today on transports to
take them TO Puerto Rico.
MI the force ut Tampa. 10000
strong, embracing artillery, will be
put aboard ship as rapidly as the
transports can be gotten there and
will be sent to reinforce the other
troops. General Brooke will take the
First and Second divisions of his corps
from ChiclSamanga o Puerto Rico.
Brooke leaves here this afternoon for
tCh:clSamaugn to get his troops start
ed. 1t is expected the whole eXpedi-
ton will be under way Within the next
four days. 1t has been decided to re-
tlin Shafter's brigade at Santiago for
IN indefinite period.
Washington, July ao.-After three
days consultation between the presi-
dent, Secretary Niger and General
Brooke during which there was fire.
luent communication with General
Miles Mt Sihoney, the details of the
Puerto Rican expedition were perfect
ID and the expedition itself was got
;en under way, General Miles with
some artillery and troops, sailing yes
terday for Puerto Rico, 500 miles dist
ant from Santiago, Oh the converted
,ruiser Iale. to be followed quickly
by an army of 10000 men. There are
some noticeable differences in the
plans for this expedition and of the
stately naval pageant that sailed away
from Tampa under General Skaters
orders to attack Santiago. First there
will be practically no naval convoy, the
navy department declaring that they
are Unnecessary; that there is not a
Spanish wnrship in the West Indies
that dare thrust its bow out of port. In
the second place the expedition does
not start from one point, but win be
dis sd among the several ports. thus
preventing the tremendous congestion
that was encountered at Tampa in the
effort 10 start the big fleet. Lastly,
here will be no effort made to get the
ships away together, but the trans
ports will be allowed to find their OWL
way'to their destination without ON
.erted movements. General Brooke
will be the senior officer in General
Miles command and upon him will fall
The responsibility for the execution of
the details of his superior's plans. 1t
$ estimated that General Miles should
arrive by Wednesday night at the
point selected for the landing, and will
aoist the American flag at once on
Puerto Rican soil. The point chosen
Tor his landing is kept secret, as the
general will land before the full body
ofsthe expedition is ut hand, and it is
consequently not desirable that the
enemy should be able to assemble a
superior force to meet him. The dis
,ance from Charleston, from which
olace the first body of troops for Miles
expedition was to start today, is more
han double the distance from Santa.
20 to Puerto Rico. so that transports
hat sail from the former city can
scarcely reach General Miles before the
.arlyr part of next week. These
Charleston troops are the First brigade
If tie First division of the First army
.orPs, and are commanded by Driga-
1ier General George Ii. Ernst. The
brigade comprises the Second Wiscon.
sin and the Sixteenth Pennsylvania
regiments.
May send 10000 Troops Over.
The order of Secretary Alger is to
make the campaign II short one. An
overwhelming force will be thrown
lpon the island andEif possible a blood
.ess victory will be achieved when the
Spaniards become convinced that they
aave no reasonable chance to resist
successfully. The expedition is to com
prise 10000 men at the start, and it will
be sWclled soon to 10000 men. and if
necessary to 10000 men, the equip
mcnts of the volunteer forces having
now progressed so well as to warrant
he statement that that number OF
;nen can be ready for service in Puerto
Rico within a very short time. The
entire body OF troops at Tampa will be
taken, numbering about 10000 men,
Ind including II lot Of heavy and light
artillery under command of General
Rodgers. The expedition will be par.
ticularly strong in artillery, as some OF
that at Santiago, commanded by Gen.
tial Randolph. isto bedrawn upon. The
Iampatrcops are known rs the Fourth
.orps, under Major General Coppinger,
comprising:
Second division under Brigade Cen
raj Snyder, and made up as follows:
First brigade, Brigadier General
scllwan. Eleventh and Nineteenth
tiliised States infantry; Second Brig
lGc, Rrigadier General Carpenter, See
ond New York and Fifth MARYLAND;
Third brigade. Brigadicr General Hale,
Third PENNSYLVANIA, One Hundred and
Fifty-scyenth Indiana md First Ohio.
Third Division, Brigadier General Kline.
Commanding-FfIst brigade, Colonel c. l..
KEENAN,, Fifth Chic. First Florida and
Thirty-secord Michigan; Second brigade.
Erigadier General Lincoln. sixty-n,nth
New York, Third Ohio and Secont! Geor-
Ella: the provisional cavalry brigade, Colo
mel Noyes.. Fifth United States and de-
tachments of First. Second, Third. Sixth
ard Tenth cavalry and eight troops of
rough riders; artillery brigade. General