Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1898-08-06


GO TO SANTIAGO TO CARRY
s. SHAFTER'S ARMY HQME-ALL'I
WELL, MEN AND CoNvALEsCENTs
WILL, BE BROUGHT AWAY AS
RAPIDLY AS THE MILITARY ST.
IJATION WILL PERMIT - MEN
WILL, BE CAMPED AT FAVOR
ARLY LOCATED POINTS WHERP
THE SURROUNDINGS Are CON-
DUcIvE TO HEALTH.
Washington. d c., August 5.--The
war department has ordered the large
feet of transports at Ponce to proceed
to Santiago, there to join Win Tie
TRANSPORTS already at SantiJgo' III
bringing Gen. Skaters army PACK "
this country. There are ten largE trans
ports in the fleet at Ponce. kome OF
them like the Mobile, havlngAi capac-
ity of LEGO men. In all ing nave
capacity of 6,540 men. Ihli Win lie
capacity of the ships already at Santi-
ago will give a carrying sFehsth Vi
over 1900 men at trip. LII aooltloh
to the transports ANNOUNCED by the
war department yesterday as pelhg
ready at Santiago it now|appears that
the Orizaba, capacity 65Y men, Is also
available. The Yale will also be brought
into this service in the course OF week
Or ten days. At present she is to be
utilized in taking General Fred Grants
brigade to Porto Rico, after which she
will return by way of Santiago and
take on load of Skaters men.
The press dispatches from Santiago
saying the troops were greatly eiated
OIL the prospect of being en- their way
homeward to-day is accepted with sat
.isfacticn by the war officials here.
They say the embarkation has already
begun, and that the Louisiamd, Which
left day before .yesueroay with cavalry
on herd, is now
WE'LL ON HER WAY HOME.
With the arrival of Skaters army in
this country, every facility will be
given to the troops to recuperate. This
will apply not only to the sick, but to
the well, as it is appreciated that the
hardships through which the men have
gone must have taxed the vitality even
as such cases can be best
couh.i'' ronuut removal. The Jess
Serious cases of sickness, not involving
contagion, will be brought here if the
patients ere conva,escing to a point
where removal will be advantageous.
Surgeon General Sternberg has in view
several points for patients and conva-
1escents. The actual hospital station
will probably be located at Montauk
Point, where field hospital equipment
which Gen. Skaters forces will bring
along with them. But in addition to
this, Gen. Sternberg has in view two
line locations where the bracing noun
tain and lake air will help GONZALES
cents to recovery. These points are
Fort Ethan, Allen, VT, and the army
post at Plattsburg, New York. Gen.
Sternberg has no purpose of making
these points
HOSPITAL CAMPS
in the ordinary sense of the word,
where severe cases will be handled, but
only to make them available for the
convalescents already we'll on the way
to recovery, who need good air and sur
nj 81,
back to health. Each post will accom-
modate some 300 to 500 men. The Or
der designating them for this purpose
has not yet been made, but General
Sternberg doubtless will make the re-
commentator for their use.
The impression that there is a differ
ence of opinion between the medical
officers at Santiago and those at Wash
ington on the question of removing
the troops of Skaters army is said to
be without foundation, as it is pointed
out that Surgeon General Sternberg's
office has maintained from the first
that the army should be removed as
fast as the military situation would
permit 1t is said, however, that the
military situation, in the common Gus
tom of field operations, dominates the
medical situation, and that the latter
must shape itself to military require
ments. General Sternberg felt that it
would be disastrous for the troops to
remain at Santiago through the late
summer and early fall months, as these
are most likely to breed serious
CASES OF Yellow FEVER.
In the event that removal was not
,ossible because of the military situ-
.tion, then it was General Sternbergs
Jew that the camps be removed as
peedily as possible from points of in
lection and new camping ground back
II Santiago be established.
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