The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1898-09-19
FROM MoNTAUK To SOUTH.
CHESTER BaINGS TTO REGTAfENTs
AND W. BdTTERIKS HERE.

OhbabEh bdfNVA TWO IN IN
dND THO BATTERIES HERE.
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Their BoGGaRe md Horses Transferred to
Cars on Floats So No Time L. Loat-The
Regiments the sixth and Tenth Infantry,
U. S.A.-Coior sergt. Moore's Bad Fall.
The United States transport Chester. with
the Sixth and Tenth United States Infantry
and Heavy Batteries A and b Of the First
United States Artillery aboard, arrived here
from Montauk Point early yesterday morning.
and tied UP at Pier Il. North River. foot
OF Leroy street. Tho Sixth was bound for Fort
Thomas, Newport. Ky, where IL was stationed
before the war. and the Tenth for Huntsville.
Ala. whore it will 60 into camp until ordered to
Cuba. Tho batteries were under orders to pro-
coed to Hilton Head. near Port Royal. s.. @.
The Baltimore 4 Ohio Railroad got the con-
tract for transporting the Sixth. the West
Shore the Tenth and the PENNSYLVANIA the
batteries. Boon after the transport had tied
up at the pier. floats, with baggage cars and
cars for horses aboard. from the railroads
having the transportation contracts. cam
alongside and the troops began trans
ferring their baggage. equipment and horses.
The work continued until we'll into last oven
ing. This arrangement was a new one in the
transportation OF troops and was insisted upon
by Col. Kimball, Deputy Quartermaster-G Gen.
eral, stationed here. when he awarded the con-
tracts. The result was that. by the time
The ferryboats containing the men reached
the eastern termini OF the railroads over which
they we're to travel. the cars containing their
equipment and baggage were coupled to the
passenger cars, and all the men had to do was
to walk from the boats to the cars and the
trains started.
While the baggage OF the Sixth was being
transferred from the transport to the float. the
ganRplank connecting the two slipped and
Color Sergeant Daniel Moore. Company N, who
happened to be on the plank fell into the hold
OF the ship. In falling. both the Sergeant's
knee caps were broken.
An ambulance was called and the soldier was
taken to Bellevue Hospital. The ambulance
surgeon said the injuries were serious and
that, il Moore recovered. he would probably be
crippled for life.
Moore has been in the service twenty-seven
years and in three years he would have been
retired on ~three-1uarters pay. 1t was Moore
who first planted the flag on the summit of San
Juan hill after 1t had been stormed by our
forces. and he stood beside the Flagstaff when
Col. Harry G. Egbert, who commanded the regi1
ment. fell at his feet MORALLY wounded. Moore
helped to carry Col. EGbert from the field and
then returned to the trenches.
put the senior Major Of the regimment When
one &P SRn - th @sFG were aS Sis t ofiGe FSr and mnG men.
OF this number only eighty-tTo will return;
ho aP , Hsn while % 9$S are S!sns stlli f,f IN various ri Hs'R Ros1
pitfalls. The regiment lost the largest percent
sSet "a Snl' 81 of aHe n is lost e. ss saS per- 81 cens1 ana IL
One young officer went out with. the regi-
5}HiiesSGR 9, Ord. IN. q son %fo u ythe h late WI aiq Ps!ss .t ord:
couldn't get an appointmentto West Point. SO he
enlisted as a private in 1897. His promotion
MSs Ts s6Pmm asa In ten a}ys eS %or Re as had a6 o g hisnt 8Rs
watched and compounded by all the officers in
his regiment. and he won favorable comment
from at. least two department. commanders.
Besides being q fine officer. no was an authority
on entomology. and 1t was said Of him that he
to the Indian trail orto the ballroom. that he
didn't carry some specimen OF insect or reptile
Shortly after the regiment received orders to
proceed to Tampa, Lieut.. Ord was calling or, a
friend in Cincinnati. They were talking OF the
Fiji come back at least a Major or I'll come
At the battle Of San Juan Hill. SO the officers
regiment and then the whole BRIGADE He led.
the asef iiash o of Rls sw SSsIS ao afiif Be SP seem Sl'h IN hiim pon sa q
the lines until he fell with a Mauser bullet
t eta%p Of b nlf hs frsts on ai &c sFss ss juan and si6p 3 little
The Tenth. 175, men and three officers. was
Pearson, who commanded the regiment In
Cuba. having been made q Brigadier. The
Tenth went away from Fort Reno. Oklahoma,
with 300 officers and men.
The percentage OF loss among the officers
the Officers ' Killed was Capt. John Drum. Who
was for several years detailed by the Wal De-
partment as military instructor at st. Francis
Xavier's College here.
Another OF the oficers who lost his life in
Cuba was Capt. Gregory Barrett. the father-in-
law OF Capt. Isaac n. Littell. Quartermaster
us. A.. and an assistant to Col. Amos s. KIM
ball, Deputy Quartermaster- General here.
men enc ea osh'erl Bstt aq~P B was accom- somm nandetydihbS S
Capt. Abner II. Merrill. who won so much
n~otoriety a few weeks ago by his conduct
was in command and he refused to allow
anybody on board to talk above a whisper. and
after the transport came to anchor In the upper
bay he fired his revolver at a yacht which he