The evening times., 1898-05-18

Falls Church. Va. whence they will
camp.
The officers are: Col. g. NJ. Welch,
Lieut.. Col W. H Chaplin, Majors c. E.
p. Babcock, E. A. Smith and John D.
Howland: Adjutant Walter F. Nurzey:
Battalion Adjutants. J. W. Scribner.
Frank M. Chaplin and Ambrose 8. Bixby:
Surgeon A. H. Briggs. Assistant Surgeons
Harry Meade and Ernest L. Ruffner.
Chaplain Harvey s. Fisher and Quarter
master G. Reed Wilson.
The Sixty-fifth is to go to Washington.
! and will probably get away tomorrow
afternoon.
1t is likely that ahead Of 1t will go the
Second Provisional Regiment. Col Hardin
said tonight his orders were to strike
camp at 5o'ciock tomorrow morning.
when trains would be ready to take the
regiment. 1t will go to Chickamauga.
Twelve companies from up the State
comprising the Third regiment, were mus
tered in. all reporting in good shape. Their
marching orders are expected hourly.
The Third Regiment IS made up of the
Eighth Separate Company. of Rochester,
Capt. Henderson: Thirty-seventh Of Ge-
neva. Capt. J. G. Stacey: Forty-irst, O.
Syracuse. Capt. ]. G. Butter: Forty
eighth. Of Oswego. Capt. A. NJ. Hall:
l.
w. Mclean: Twenty-ninth, of Medina
Capt. S. A. Ross: Twenty-ffth. of Tona-
wanda. Capt. H. W. Fales: First, Of
Rochester. Capt. L. B. Smith: Fourth. of
Olean. CAPT. E. H. Franchot; Forty-sev-
enth. Of Hornellsvilie. Capt. F. G. Bab-
cock: Thirtieth. OF Elmira, Capt. John T.
Sadler; Second, of Auburn. Capt. c. ].
Barber.
Col. Hoffman commands the regiments
with the following staff-Lieut. Coz E. P
Kirby: Mai jors William Wilson and NJ B.
Butler: Adjutant A. W. Meyer; Quarter
master ]. G. LaRose; Chaplain Rev Dr.
Brainard.
II will be seen that by the end of the
week the only regiments left in camp wili
be the First Provisional. the Sixty-ninth.
the Forty-seventh and the Twenty-sec-
ond. less than half the army that G-
camped there just two weeks ago They
may be augmented. as already stated, by
two regiments from Peekskill
Explosion of Ammunition.
Harrisburg. Pa. May 1s.-A carload of
ammunition belonging TO the Ninth Regi-
ment Pennsylvania Volunteers which
left Mt. Gretna yesterday for Chicka-
mauga. caught fire at Conewago. on the
Pennsylvania Railroad. and for time
threatened TO destroy the entire train of
cars. Ii was quickly sidetracked, and an
attempt To Ter1OVe some OF lne contents
was made: but. after two cases of cart
ridges had been taken out. the men were
compelled 10 retire by the general expios-
ion OF the remaining eighteen cases. or
IS 900 rounds of ammunition. With the
ammunition were destroyed the private
effects of the officers of the regiment and
some camp equirage. The car was burned
to the trucks.
The burned car caught fire from a spark
from passing locomotive and was de-
stroyed. with all its contents. except a
half dozen horses. The officers lose all
their baggage. cots. money. commissions
and the muster-rolls of the entire regi-
ment- The aggregate loss Is about 5000.
the individual loss of each officer being
not less than 800.
None of the officers have anything left,
except what they carry on their person.
They take their loss good-naturedly. and
were in excellent spirits when they reach
ed Harrisburg at o'clock in the evening
with the regiment There were several
boxes of ammunition in the car; which de-
TERED the soldiers from making an eff
fort to extinguish the fire. Some of the
ammunition exploded but nobody was
injured