The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1898-07-26
GATHERING At
NEWPORT NEWS
Troops Pouring in for the
Embarkation.
BROOKE AND HAINES
WITH NEARLY SIX THOUSAND
MEN ALREADY THERE.
FIVE HUNDRED NEW FEVER CASES NOW
But Only one Death Yesterday, and Shafter
Thinks Situation Improved German
Steamer Fired on--Spanish
Prisoners Cheer.
Prisoners Cheer.

Newport News, July 25.-Not since
the stirring days of the sixties. when
the North was fighting under the stars
and stripes, to the tune of THE Star
Spangled Banner and the Souh under
the stars and bars to the strains of
Dixie have there been as many
troops in Newport News or this vicin-
ity as are now encamped beyond the
Building and Dry Dock Company wait
ing to go aboard transports to be taken
to Porto Rico. Incoming trains during
the last thirty-six hours have brought
nearly 5000 troops to this city. This
includes the Second Brigade of the First
Army Corps in command of Brigadier
General Haines from Chicamauga Park,
Ga. and five troops of cavalry from
Camp Alger, Va.
The first train reached the city at noon
Sunday and from that time on till late
this afternoon section followed
section. The trains stopped within Il few
hundred yards of the camp grounds and
as fast as the troops arrived they were
marched to the grounds where they
pitched dog tents and made themselves
comfortable. General Haines' brigade
is composed of the Third Illinois Colonel
Bennett Fourth Ohio, Colonel Coight
and Fourth Pennsylvania, Colonel Case,
which arrived in the order named. The
regiments arrived in battalions of three
trains each. The first battalion of the
Third Illinois regiment reached the city
Sunday shortly after II o'clock, but it
was not until 2 o'clock this afternoon
that the Third battalion of the Penn
sylvania regiment brought up the rear.
Meantime the five troops of cavalry ar
rived from Camp Alger, Troops A and c
of New York reaching the city Sunday
afternoon followed this morning by
Troops A, b and. G Of Pennsylvania.
All of these troops went into camp
Major General Brooke's special train
which left Chickamauga Sunday after
noon with the commander of the First
Army Corps and his staff, pulled in al
$50 O'Clock this morning and General
Brooke Immediately repaired to the
Warwick Hotel. where he will remain
till he sails for Porto Rico on the Aux,
iliary cruiser st. Louis. The General
was enthusiastically received when he
put foot in the city. The last train to
arrive that had on board troops was the
one bringing the brigade hospital corps
from Chickamauga, which included
$50 men and the train arrived late this
evening, with the ambulance wagons
No more troops will come in till daylight
tomorrow morning. Then the signal corps
will arrive at IL o'clock. Four batteries
of light artillery will arrive from
Chickamauga They are Batteries A, ii
linois; b, Pennsylvania: A, Mis-
souri, and the Twenty-seventh In
diana battery.
orders were received at Camp
Warburton this afternoon direct
ing Batteries A and c, Pennsylvania
national guard, to be ready to leave with
this expedition. These two batteries
have been stationed here since May g.
having been ordered to Newport News ia
protect the battleships Illinois, Kearsarge
and Kentucky now under course of con
struction. Battery A is commanded by
Captain Barclay III. Warburton, of Phil
adelphia, son-in-law of John Wanna
maker. 1t is probable that all six OF
the batteries will leave on the same
transport.