The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1898-08-13
WAR NOTES.
FRIDAYS DISPATCHES.

General Shafter, on Thursday, received
orders to remove his entire army north at
once. Six transports were to take the
first detachments. The embarkatiOn be-
gan today Transports now at Ponce and |
on the way to Porto Rico have been or
dered to Santiago.
Five thousand immunes are to take the |
place of General Shafter's troops at San
tiago. The Third Georgia and the Third
and Fifth United States Volunteer Regi-
ments are to sail from Savannah at once.
General Shafter's sanitary report for
August 3 showed that the total sick num-
bered 377S, of which 2696 were fever
cases; new fever cases, 449; returned to
duty, 5S5 There were six deaths
The camp of the surrendered Spanish
troops at Santiago is reported by General
Toral to be in an unhealthy condition.
The deaths average twelve daily.
American marines have landed at sew
eral points on the eastern coast of Porto
Rico, and lighted the lamps in the light
houses, which had been extinguished by
Spaniards
Governor Grout, of Vermont, has pro-
tested to the Secretary of War against
sending the First Vermont Volunteers to
Porto Rico
\ dispatch received in Boston from
Porto Rico says that the colonel the lieu
tenant colonel, the three majors and three
captains Of the Sixth Massachusetts Regi-
ment have resigned, and that they were
charged with incompetency and lack of
discipline It's also alleged that "white
officers refuse to return the salutations Of
the negro company.
Admiral Cervera and his son, Lieuten-
ant Cervera, arrived at Norfolk to visit
wounded Spanish officers in the naval hos
pital there.
Rev. Drs. Henry c. McCook and Jo-
seph Krauskopf, of Philadelphia, Pa,
National Relief Commissioners. Oh their
return from Santiago, told of the suffer
ings of the army of invasion, and said there
is still great need of supplies to be sent to
the soldiers DIR. McCook says :-''The
army was in awful condition The medi-
cal supplies were almost exhausted, some
of the most important remedies being ab
solutely run out. Many of the doctors
were sick. Of the sick men in camp there
was not one on a cot. There were no sup
plies, not even a change Of clothing for
these men that were stricken. They lay
on the ground in their blankets, which the
rains kept constantly in damp or soaked
condition Once or twice day came the
torrential rains to drench them, and make
them even more miserable than they would
be from the sickness alone Hundreds Of
men with dysentery and typhoid lay in
this wretched condition. With one-quar-
ter of the army on the sick list and large
part of the remainder convalescent, with
pestience among them, with the sun
shifting them by day, and the rains keep
ing them damp in spite Of the sun, with
nature exhausted after the long battle,
with inadequacy of supplies and hospital
equipments and clothing, and with lack of
variety of food, the army was facing a
terrible situation.
1t was but the natural result of this
awful condition of affairs that, as we went
among the soldiers, we heard this appeal
on all sides DO you know the Presi-
dent or the Secretary? Won't you tell
him for God S sake to take us away from
here? We are worn out, broken down,
and we never will get we'll until we get a
breath of other air. They were all anx-
ious to get away, for they felt that to stay
there would mean death.
Yet there was remarkable resolution left
in the men, for all that. Ibelieve if there
had been call to fight the troops would
have been found ready The conditions
that surrounded them appalled, them more
than prospect of battle could have done.
They were discouraged and dropping, but
if they had heard the bugle they would
have gone in with a good deal of vim. -
SATURDAY AND SUNDAYS DISPATCHES.
Madrid advices stated that the Spanish
cabinet met Sunday evening and completed
the answer to the American peace terms.
1t is reported that the terms are accepted.
General Miles troops in Porto Rico have
begun general advance. They have cap
tured Guayama.
The Rough Riders and several other
commands left Santiago for Montauk
Point, Long Island.
A number of hospital ships bringing sick
and wounded soldiers from Santiago have
arrived.
General Shafters latest report on the
sanitary condition of his army showed that
the total number of sick on August was
3.6S1, of whom ?, 638 had fever. Twen-
ty-one deaths occurred on August and
6, including eight from yellow fever. On
August 6, 431 new cases of fever were
developed.
MONDAYS DISPATCHES.
Spain S answer to American peace terms
was received in Washington. 1t is be-
lieved that some concessions are asked.
General Miles continues his successful
campaign in Porto Rico.
Eight hundred Spanish prisoners sailed
from Santiago for home yesterday.
The cost of the war up to the present
time is estimated at S100, 100000.
Admiral Cervera, in his official report
on the battle of July 3, is said to hold
General Blanco responsible for the destruc-
tion of the Spanish fleet
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