Barre evening telegram. (Barre, Vt.) 1898-19??, 1898-07-21


Ruy Lopez-No Official Announcement
to BE Made of the Raising of the Block
ade at Santiago-Hurrying the Immune
Regiments to General Shafter For Pick
ct Duty-Movement to Ship Surrender
ed Spaniards Home May Not Begin For
Month.
Washington, July 21.-If the hopes
expressed by Major General Wilson in
a telegram to the war department from
Charleston are realized three regi-
ments of the Porto Rico expedition will
leave that place at once. These are the
regiments composing General Ernsts
brigade and are made up of the follow
ing: Second and Third Wisconsin and
Sixteenth Pennsylvania.
They are aboard the steamers Grand
Duchess, the OLDHAM and another ship
and will sail for the rendezvousing
point of the expedition without delay
A large consignment of wagon trans
portation also accompanies this eXpedl-
ton. 1t includes the wagons intended
for the brigade commanded by General
Ernst and also the brigade of General
Hams, which is to embark from New
port News.
This transportation is regarded as a
most important feature of the eXpedl-
ton, and it's necessity was urgently set
forth by General Miles in his kilograms
to the department.. The latter had not
ed the tremendous efforts required for
shipping the subsistence stores and am
munition overland at Santiago and de-
sired there should be no lack of facili-
ties for this work in the Porto Rico ex-
petition.
General Miles has been again delayed
in sailing from Siboney for Porto Rico.
The delay in this case is charged to the
failure of the navy to provide the re-
quired convoy. The war department
has been in cable communication with
the general, and again he expects that
the Yale will sail at once.
Troops Off From Tampa.
Meanwhile the reports to the depart
ment from Tampa show that so much of
the expedition to Porto Rico as was to
be drawn from the camp there has al
ready started, though it may be day
or two more before the ships leave Key
West.
from Gibraltar that three Spanish trans
atlantic steamships had taken refuge in
that neutral port, having learned that
Commodore Watsons squadron had ap-
peared off Cadiz. AS a matter of fact,
Watson has not yet started, and it is
not believed that any concealment will
be made of his movements when he does
start.
70 f1n o,f, ry1t
that the Spaniards in Porto Rico have
succeeded in landing from the wreck of
the steamer Antonio Lopez nearly all of
the cargo carried by that ship when she
was run ashore and set on fire by one of
the American cruisers. The Lopez was
loaded with supplies and was about to
run the blockade into San Juan when
she was cornered. 1t was hoped the fire
had destroyed her cargo.
The state department has decided that
1t is not necessary to give formal notice
to the world of the abandonment of the
blockade at Santiago. The capture of
the town is supposed to be sufficient
notice to everybody concerned.
Hurrying the Immunes.
The war department is doing its best
to hurry forward the immune regiments
General Shafter has urgently requested,
and it is hoped that they will be got off
within "a hours. They are wanted by
General Shafter to serve as military
pickets for the city of Santiago proper,
thus obviating the necessity of retain
ing within the zone of infection any of
the men who now constitute his army.
The situation at Guantanamo among
the Spanish troops there surrendered is
calculated in some measure to disturb
the departments plans for the shipment
of the soldiers back to Spain. The de-
partment is under obligations not to
place aboard the steamships that are to
be used for the conveyance of the troops
any soldiers having yellow fever, so it
probably will be necessary to place the
surrendered camp under very rigid SAN
itary rules and to sft out carefully all
persons showing the faintest symptoms
of disease.
When the others have been isolated
for a sufficient period of time to make
sure that they have not contracted the
fever, they will be ready to go aboard
ship, but it can be readily seen that the
adoption Of these precautions involves
a considerable delay in the return of the
Spanish troops to Spain, and it is doubt
full If this move can be initiated within
a month. This delay is unfortunate in
view of the possibility of trouble ensu-
ing from the presence of the two armies
as well as the Cubans at Santiago, but
as the Spanish officers have been or
will be paroled it is presumed they will
use their influence among the enlisted
men to prevent any friction.
Secretary Alger has cabled to General
Shafter, directing him to cause to be
prepared at the earliest possible mo-
ment a complete list of the American
soldiers suffering from yellow fever as
well as the names of those who have
lost their lives from that disease. This
information will be telegraphed to the
war department. and, it is expected.
will serve to allay the apprehensions of
the relatives and friends of our soldiers.
Van Reypen Reports.
Surgeon General Van Reypen of the
navy is back from visit TO the wound
ed brought up from Santiago by the
hospital ship Solace. These embrace all
of our men wounded at the battle with
Admiral Cervera's squadron, 20 in num-
Der, as well as 25 sick sailors from
SIMPSONS fleet. The fact that only %
men were wounded in this notable en-
gagement Is regarded as one of the
most remarkable circumstances con-
nected with that event. DR.. Van Eey-
pen found that all but two of the men
were moving about, and these two more
seriously injured are on the road to re-
covery. The wounds are from bursting
shells and in a few cases from bullets.
The % include some marines, so that
the actual number OF those wounded in
the sea fight is even less.
There is not case Of fever of any