The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1898-06-22
EIGHTEEN THOUSAND SOLDIERS
LEAVE TAMPA BAY.
The Fleet Consists of Thirty-siN YES
sells, Transports and Men of War
Infantry, Cavalry, Artillery.

TAMPA. Fla, June 14.-Just eigh-
teen thousand and IA few odd men of
the Fifth Army Corps and the Third
and Ninth Infantry and four battal-
ions of cavalry from the Fourth Ar
my Corps at Mobile are now on the
waters of the Gulf \ powerful CON
voy has doubtless met them by this
time
The troops that go are the Engih-
eer Battalion. under Captain Graham
D. Fitch. including Companies c and
F.; siege batteries. including II of the
Fourth. G of the Fourth, X of the
Fifth and VI of the Fifth, and of light
artillery X of the First and \ and +.
of the Second.
About 500 men constituted the
strength of the artillery. There are
four six inch batteries. eight five inch
siege guns and eight seven inch NOR
tars. The regular infantry regiments
taken We're the First, Second, Third,
Tenth Twelfth, Thirteenth. Sixteenth
Seventeenth, Twenty-first, Twenty
second. Twenty-fourth and Twenty
fifth, and from the volunteers the
Second Massachusetts and the Seven
ty-frst New York.
The provisional division which will
remain here for the present includes
the Thirtv-second Michigan. Third
Ohio, Fifth Ohio, Second Massachu-
setts, First District of Columbia. the
Fifth Maryland. First Ohio. One Hun
dred and Fifty-seventh Indiana, Third
Pennsylvania.
Fifty-one newspaper correspond
ents representing papers from every
section of the country and from Eng
land are aboard the Olivette. The OIL
ivette also carried the surgeons and
the hospital corps. The Red Cross
ship. State of Texas, did not go along
with the expedition.
The formation from this point to
Cuba will be made in three lines. each
| line containing twelve ships. there be-
! ing now thirty-siN in all, inclusive of
war vessels. The Indiana and Detroit
will lead the central column and fol-
lowing them will come in order and
with gaps of 400 yards the Berkshire,
Whitney, Olivette (the tlagship). Sc
guranca. Knickerbocker, Concho the
| City of Washington, Allegheny. San
Marcos. Decatur, II. Miller, Saratoga
and Laura. the last named being a
steam barge carrying feed for horses
and tackle to be used in effecting a
landing.
On either side of this line and 100
yards away from il are the other two
columns. That on the left will be led
by the Miami and after her comes the
Saratoga, Gussie, Cherokee, Seneca.
Alamo, Comal, Yucatan, Rio Grande,
Nigilancia. Orizaba and Iroquois.
| The Mattawan leads the column on
the right with these ships after her:
| The Arkansas. Saltwater, Breakwa-
ter. Morgan, Clinton. Manteon. Kama
wha, Resolute, Cumberland, Leona
) and Florida.
The Kanawha is water steamer
carrying 100000 gallons. The Annap-
| oils and Castine will bring up the
rear of the fleet. and the Hornet, He
lena and Newport are to skirmish up
and down the outside lines during the
whole trip.
Our speed has been placed at lim-
it of eight knots.
NEW YORK, JUNE 1.-THE troop
ships and most of the naval vessels
assigned to convoy them will meet at
Rebecca shoals, one of the keys of the
long, thin archipelago, that extends
westward from Key West to Dry Tor.
| tugas.
1t lies almost due south of Tampa
and is $50 miles from that place.