Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1898-08-05
HOMEWARD BOUND
Cavalry at Santiago Ordered to Be
Ready for Embarkation by
Sunday Morning.
TRANSPORTS IN READINESS
Spaniards at Manzanillo Disheartened-
Florida Expedition for Relief of General
GomezSuccessfully Landed Span
ish in Cuba Demoralized

Santiago de Cuba, Aug. 4.-From the
moment Secretary Algers cable mes
sage was received this morning order
ing the instant removal of the arm,
north, everything has been hustle anc
activity at headquarters. Six trans
ports here have been ordered to dis
charge cargoes and get ready without
loss OF time to take on board the first
shipments for home. 1t is expected IS
transports will soon be conveying the
soldiers back to the United States.
The Yale and Harvard, among others,
are understood to be on their way here.
The 1st, 3rd and 9th regular cavalry
and the 1st volunteer cavalry Rough
Riders have been ordered to be ready
to go on board ship day after tomorrow.
For the present the 9th and 10th cav
airy will remain in camp. Only the
private horses of the officers will be
taken All tents will be left standing
and all extra worn clothes and bedding.
which may possibly be infected, will be
destroyed. The 1st brigade, General
Lawton'S division, under General Chat
fee, will 60 next. All men able to ride
will be put on ponies and taken to the
wharf and the others will be conveyed
there in wagons.
All the men suffering from yellow
fever or infectious disease will be left
here. The volunteer regiments will
next be shipped in the following order:
lst Illinois. lst District of Columbia list
New York, 9th Massachusetts, 2nd
Massachusetts, Sth Illinois, 33rd Michi-
gan. 34th Michigan.
The warships Massachusetts and
Dixie arrived at Guantanamo bay last
night and Immediately started cOaling.
Commander Todd, of the Wilmington.
reports the conditions at Manzanillo as
learned from General Rios, as follows:
There are about 1000 regulars. 1 900
volunteers and 500 bombarders or fire.
men there. They appear well supplied
with cattle and provisions, but are be-
lieved to be short of ammunition. Re-
cent events in that vicinity have dis
heartened them 1t is believed the ap-
pearance of an American force. even if
only 200 men, would result in the
capitulaton of the place. The forts
amount to little beyond some field
pieces temporarily placed in position
and belonging to the army, but it is SAID
there are about 20 field guns in the vi
cinity.
The general feeling of the Spanish
forces of Manzanilo and the vicinity is
best shown by the fac, that the in
surgent leader. General Rios, is en-
camped within five miles of the place
with only $50 cavalrymen and oc-
casionally makes raids on the outskirts
of the town itself in order to obtain cat
tie belonging to the Spanish. General
Rios says 500 additional men are now on
the way from the interior to join him.
Confirmation has been obtained of the
report that the Florida expedition for the
relief of General Gomez has been sue
cessful. July 25, Gomez was encamped
25 miles northwest of Jucaro, the south
ern extremity of the Moron Jucaro
trocha. A squadron bulletin says the
Spanish forces generally, from Manza-
Milo to Trinidad, are evidently in de-
mOralized condition.