New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1898-10-04
FIFTH ARMY CORPS DTSBANDED.
BREAKING UP THE CAMP AT MONTAUK
PO1NT-MAJOR BROWN DEFENDED

BREAKING UP THE CAMP AT MONTAUK
PO1NT-MAJOR BROWN DEFENDED.
Camp Wikoff, Montauk Point. n. Y, Oct g.
The following general order has been issued:
General Orders No. so
In compliance with instructions Of this date
from the Secretary Of War. the disarmament of
the Fifth Army Corps is hereby announced The
short and successful campaign Of this corps be-
fore Santiago de Cuba will All q brilliant page
in the history Of our country.
BY command Of Major-General Shafter
f. j. MCLERNAND.
Assistant Adjutant General.
The 9TH Infantry will by Saturday be the only
command remaining in camp. with the possible
exception of the Volunteer Engineers When
General Shafter left camp yesterday it ex-
pected Brigadier- General Pearson would take
command. but the General has received orders
TO report at Washington for duty. Adjutant-
General McClernand has gone to Governors ISL
and to act in the same capacity there as he did
here Adjutant- General Captain Gilmore has
gone to Washington. and Colonel Young. of the
18th Infantry. is the senior officer of the camp
and has been ordered to take command. Pro-
vost Marshal Chase Colonel Greene. of the Sig
nal Corps. and Chief Surgeon Major kilbourne
have been ordered to Washington.
The remaining troopers of the I'd Cavalry, oSS
men. left camp this morning. They were under
command Of Colonel Norris and Major Wallace.
The 9th and 10Th Cavalry are all that remain in
camp Of General Wheelers old command These
two regiments will get away before the week Is
out Two troops Of the 9th will start tomorrow
in charge of the horses Of the regiment, and on
Wednesday the remaining troopers VIII 60
Thursday the horses of the 10th. in charge of a
detail of two troops. will go. and on Friday the
remainder of the men expect to follow.
Major Ebert to-day closed the detention hos
ptal and fifty men from the general hospital
were sent away on a hospital train for New
York and Brooklyn. Everything possible is now
being done to close the hospital OF the SICK
sent away to-day twelve had TO be carried 10
the train on stretchers. Eight nurses were sent
away to-day. and with them went Fathers Par-
celia and Flaherty, two Catholic Priests, VINO
have been in the camp volunteer workers.
Major Brown is being flooded with letters from
colonies captains surgeons and Red Cross
nurses and workers. assuring him That they VIII
support him in refuting the charges made by
the Rev. Mr.. Bryan. relative 10 the hospital
MANAGEMENT and the burial of the dead Among
the letters received to-day was one from CHAP
lain Wildwood of the % Massachusetts, Infantry.
and one from Howard Townsend Of the Red
Cross. Both letters authorized Major Brown TO
quote the writers as having personal knowledge
that all bodies were properly treated and buried.
Richard c. Parker. private, Troop r, lUth
Cavalry, died last night in the general hospital
from malarial fever. The funeral was held this
afternoon, the entire regiment attending. The
volleys were omitted. but taps were sounded.
Private Ambros Nero. Troop f. 9th Cavalry.
died last night from maarial fever. and Frank
Coleman entered as a civilian from the transport
Labrador, died to-day. Coleman died from pneu-
monia.