The record-union., 1899-08-02
The Transport Arrived Last Night
From the Philippines
Having on Board the Tenth Pennsylvania
Volunteer Regiment.
The Returning Soldiers in Mourn
ing Over the Death of Their
Commander, Colonel Alexander
Hawkins, Who Passed Away
While the Transport Was En-
Route Home From Manila.

While the Transport Was En-
Route Home From Manila.
SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 1.-The
| United States transport Senator arrived
tonight fl ON Manila with her flag at
! half-maSt on account of the death of
Colonel Alexander Hawkins, comman-
der Of the Tenth Pennsylvania Regi
ment, United States Volunteers.
| The Senator sailed from Manila July
| LIST with thirty EIGHT officers and III
| enlisted men. The transport was at
Nagasaki on July 18th, when Colonel
Hawkins was taken ill with cancer of
the bowels, from which he had been a
sufferer during the greater part of his
campaign in the Philippines, and for
which he had undergone treatment in
the military hospital at Manila. His
illness continued during the following
day July 18th, when the Senator was
at Yokohama, and two days later he
! passed away.
| Colonel Hawkins illness dated from
| the battle of Malolos, when he exposed
himself almost recklessly in the disease
breeding climate. He was respected
anu lONtu ny every HAL u Ills COlll-
mand, and his death is deeply mourned
by the troops. His body was placed in
a Theoretically sealed casket and on
the Sunday following his death impress
sive funeral services were conducted by
! the Chaplain of the regiment, all Of
the officers and men being in attend
! ance. The remains were placed in the
stern of the vessel, and lay in state, at
r. Id Oh Inv rI of
/ hont3. t., ing the remainder of the
! .oy. The casket will be taken
ashore IL morrow with military cere-
monies BETTING Colonel Hawkins rank,
after which the remains of the dead
commander will be sent to Pennsylva-
! mia for interment.
! e the death of Colonel Hawkins
! tn command of the regiment was vest
q m Lieutenant Colonel Barnett, who,
Ii he dead Colonel, is popular among
| the enlisted men. and made a good
record in the war.
Of the 159 officers and men whom
Colonel Barnett brought to San Fran
cisco three are privates in the Sixth Ar
| tillery, L. S. A, and one is a mem
| Der of the Nebraska Regiment, who
was left behind at Yokohama when his
| companions sailed for this port on the
| Hancock. A dozen stowaways were
also concealed in the hold, and were
only brought to light after the Sena-
tor left Yokohama.
The Senator had a good trip from
Japan. With the exception of the sad
! illness and death of the regimental
/ commander, there was no sickness on
| board, barring few cases of seasick-
ness and half a dozen cases of dysen-
terry. At sight of land all the invalids
were able to leave their hunks and line
up on the main deck, except one poor
chap who had developed symptoms of
appendicitis, and who will be operated
upon in the hospital here.
! When the Tenth Pennsylvania sailed
from San Francisco for the Philippines
! last year the muster comprised about
$50 men. Twenty-four were killed in
battle or died in the Manila hospital,
and the rest of the sick and wounded,
to the number of seven are on the hos
pital ship Relief, which will probably
arrive here within the next few days.
The quarantine officer boarded the
! Senator about 1 o'clock, and after "A
careful inspection passed crew and
passengers. The transport had drop
ped anchor off the Folsom street wharf,
and it was decided that the regiment
should not be landed until tomorrow.
! Under cover of darkness, however two
privates slipped off in a tug, dropping
down by a rope which had been used
to haul up two sacks of mail matter
sent out by the Postmaster to the reg
! iment The privates who thus alb
scented themselves without leave an
nounced their intention of seeing the
! .-l~%
ranks when the regiment is lined up on
| the dock tomorrow.
AS the official committee on recep-
ton to the regiment will not arrive
here from Philadelphia until to-mor-
row evening, the substitute committee
appointed informally undertook that
duty tug had been chartered for
tomorrow, with the expectation that
the Senator would not arrive tonight.
and arrangements made to go out to
meet the transport with band stacks
| of flowers and tons of dainties for the
soldiers The premature appearance
of the transport this evening" however
did not permit the carrying out of all
! these plans, but the committee, COM
prising John Barclay of Greensburg,
| Pa, who has come out in advance of
! the regular committee. of which he is
a member, to meet his badly wounded
brother of the Tenth, who is on the Re-
lief; John NJ. Beall, agent here of the
| Piedmont Air Line, formerly of Phil
adelphia; Alexander Coulter of
Greensburg. Pa; M. NJ. Ogden of Gov
ernor Cages staff, formerly a Pittsburg
newspaper man; M. NJ. Loar of Denver,
formerly of Greensburg, whose broth
err, w. A. Loar, is a Captain in the
Tenth; Colonel Henry Hall of the Pitts
/ burg Times a member of Governor
Stones staff, and Joseph A. Campbell
of the Philadelphia Times" hastily
| embarked and We're soon alongside the
Senator, extending a warm greeting to
their fellow Pennsylvanians, and well
/ coming the brave lads back to thes
native land Out of respect to the dead
regimental commander, there was little
| cheering or other noisy demonstrations
but the men quietly expressed their de-
| light at the first glimpse of the Golden
! Gate.
Like the Oregon and Nebraska regi-
ments the Pennsylvania troops prior
to sailing for Manila voted in favor