The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1898-07-29
It LOOKS LIKE WAR TIMES
Stirring Scenes at New
port News.
SOLDIERS ARRIVING

At ali Hours of the Day and N~ight-Six
Thousand Troops Now In the City
Awaiting transportation TO Porto
Rico - Others to Arrive - General
Brooke Observation-Disclosures to Be
with Sick Soldiers.
Newport News, Va, 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 south
under the Stars and Bars to the
strains of Dixie" have there been as
many troops in Newport News or this
vicinity as are now in camp beyond the
works of the Newport News %Shipbuild-
ing and Dry Dock Company, waiting
to go aboard transports to be taken to
the Gem Of the Antilles" Porto Rico,
where hey will strike one Of SPANS
richest possessions in the western hem
isphere in order that it may become a
free and Independent republic or a part
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guarantee Of a war indemnity. In
coming trains during the last thirty
six hours have brought nearly 5000
troops to his city. This includes the
Second brigade Of the First army
corps. in command of Brigadier Cen
eraI Haines, from ~Chickamauga park,
Tenn, and five troops of cavalry from
Camp Alger.
The first train reached the city at
noon Sunday, and from that time I'M
til late yesterday afternoon section fol-
lowed section. The trains stopped
within a 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 the
Fourth Pennsylvania, Colonel Case,
which arrived in the order named. The
regiments arrived in battalions on
three trains. All 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 at
2:30 o'clock this afternoon and Gen
eral Brooke Immediately repaired to
the Warwick hotel, where he will re-
main till he sails for Porto Rico on
the auxiliary cruiser st. Louis.
The last train to arrive that had on
board troops was the one bringing the
brigade of hospital corps from Chicka-
manga, which included $50 men, and
the train arrived late this evening with
the ambulance wagons
No more troops will come in till day
light tomorrow morning. the sig
nal corps will arrive. At IL o'clock
four batteries of light artillery will ar
rive from Chickamauga. They are
Battery A, Illinois,; Battery b, Penn
~sylvania: Battery A, Missouri, and the
Twenty-seventh Indiana battery.
Orders were received at Camp War
burton this afternoon directing Batter
les A and G, Pennsylvania national
guard, to be ready to leave with this
expedition. These two batteries have
been stationed here since May 9Th, hav-
ing been ordered to Newport News to
protect the battleships Illinois, Kear-
sarge and Kentucky, now under course
of construction. Battery A is com
manded by Captain H. Warburton, of
Philadelphia, ~sOn-in-law of John Wan
amaker. 1t is probable that all seven
of the batteries will leave on the same
transport.
General Haines' brigade will begin
to embark early tomorrow morning.
The transports Massachusetts, Rou-
mania and City of Washington are now
at the piers, taking on provisions. The
auxiliary cruiser St. Louis is expect
ed to come up Hampton Roads to-
morrow morning and it is probable
that the vessel will sail in the after
noon with General Brooke and his staff
and 1900 troops. The ST. Paul is ex-
pected to steam into port tomorrow
mnrnjno from Nauv V0rE Cha will
also take on troops and provisions.
The transport Hudson, from Santa
go, arrived in Hampton Roads at noon
today. From the foremost floated a
yellow flag, indicating sickness aboard
DIR. Pettus, the national quarantine Of
fcer, boarded the vessel just as she
cast anchor. He remained on the yes
sci for some time, and when he came
ashore it was learned hat he did not
feel justified in permitting those on
board to land. The Hudson is under
stood to carry a number of sick and
wounded soldiers from Santiago. The
bodies of Captain CaprOn and Lieuten-
ant Hamilton Fish are on the ship en-
route for interment. 1t is said that
Sylvester ScOval, the New York news
paper correspondent, who vas ordered
from Cuba because of insulting con-
duct towards General Shafter, is also
aboard.
Eleven wounded. principally Off
GERS. arrived on the Hudson, in charge
of Assistant Surgeon Shannon. Among
them was Private Stanley HOLSTER, OF
the Rough-Riders. He was a famous
football player at Harvard. He suS-
tanned a shell wound in the left breast
and a gunshot wound in the left hip
joint. The wounded were transferred
10 the field hospital.