The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-05-23
PUTTING IN WATER WORKS.
Government VIII Pump Water from
Creeks TO Camp Thomas.

Creeks to Camp Thomas.
CHICKAMAUGA NATIONAL PARK.
| Ga, May 22.-This has been quiet day at
| Camp Thomas. The Second Nebraska Regi-
ment, which reached Chattanooga yester-
day afternoon, arrived this morning and was
assigned to the camp grounds selected for
| the First Division of the Third Corps and
the men have been busy getting into their
tents during the day. Only two battalions
arrived during the day. The second bat
talon of the Second Nebraska, which had
become separated from the regiment at St.
Louis, reached here at o'clock. They came
in to-day over the Cincinnati Southern. The
belated battalion was commanded by Major
W. c. Mace The first battalion of the
One-hundred-a nd-fifty-seventh Indiana In
fantry arrived in Chattanooga at 9 o'clock,
accompanied by the regimental band Of
twenty-four pieces. The battalion spent the
day on Lookout mountain and reached the
park at $50 o'clock, sleeping under the stars
on Lyle hill during the night.
AS result of the few arrivals the rail-
road yards, which have been enormously
congested with loaded and empty cars for
nearly week, had an opportunity to clear
the tracks and sidings to make room for
the troops that will begin to arrive at a
cars of provisions arrived to-day and were
stored in the large warehouses now COM
pleted on the park grounds near the depot
OF the railroad company. Fifty-one of the
latest and most improved ambulances, built
with a special view to adaptability in a
not climate, arrived from South Bend, Ind,
to-day and will be distributed to the First
Corps
Inc park force of men, under the direction
Oh General Boynton, was at work all day
preparing for the engine and pumps to be
USED In piping water from the Chckamauga
river TO the various camps. 1t has been def
hitely decided to erect improvised water
works and contract has been let and all
the material ordered, the first consignment
OF pipe arriving to-day. There is no scarcity
OF water now, but it is feared that some
OF the wells are from wet weather" springs
ana that later they will dry up and the pip
ing or water from the creek and Crawfish
springs is precautionary measure.
General j. S. c. Bates, recently ordered to
Mobile, left tonight at $50 o'clock to take
command of a brigade at that point The
work of completing the Third Army Corps
was begun to-day. General Lewis H. Car
penter, who arrived to-day and reported to
General Brooke has been assigned to the
command of the First Division of the Third
Corps. The organization, so far as per-
fected, is as follows:
First Brigade-Col. Fred D. Grant, COM
handing; Fourteenth New York, Lieut..
Col. H. l.. Kline
Second Brigade-Colonel Hardin, Second
New York, commanding; Second New York.
Lieutenant Colonel Lloyd; Second Nebra ska.
Colonel Bills. The first regiment to arrive
tonight will complete the brigade.
The Fourth Ohio Regiment, under Colonel
Colt, has been assigned to provost guard
DUTY in Chattanooga by order of General
Brooke, made necessary by the disorderly
conduct of many of the young soldiers, who
nave been guilty of many lapses of dis
cipline in number of cases of violence and
insulting women on the streets. Colonel
Colt will begin his duties tomorrow.
The four members of the First Missouri
Regiment injured in yesterdays accident,
and who were sent to st. Vincents Infirm-
airy. are doing well and will be out in a
few days.
Gen. E. B. Williston from the United
States Third Artillery, who has been as
signed to the artillery brigade here, ar
rived to-day and reported to General
Brooke. General Williston states that he
found his brigade about complete and
equipped, with the very important excep-
lions that they have neither field guns,
horses nor ammunition. A part of these
equipments arrived yesterday, and General
Williston hopes to get all needed supplies
by the middle of the week. General Breck-
inridge and staff did not visit the park to-
day for inspection. They will inspect the
Second and Third divisions tomorrow and
hope to complete their inspection of all or
CARNATIONS perfected up to Wednesday
evening, when they go to Tampa.
The report that Lieut.. Col. John Jacob
Astor was injured in the railroad accident
yesterday is absolutely false. Colonel AS
tor was not even bruised