The San Francisco call., 1899-07-08
Volunteers Are Now
Expected Daily.
WATCHING FOR TRANSPORTS
SIRENS TO SHREK WHEN THE
SHIPS ARE SIGHTED.
Mayor Phelan and State Officials Will
Go Out on the Governor Mark
ham to Greet the Web
foot Warriors.

The transports Ohio and Newport
bringing the Second Oregon Volunteers,
which left Manila early last month, are
expected to arrive in this port not later
than Monday night, possibly sooner, and
preparations are now under way TO give
the returning Webfoot soldiers a rousing
welcome. The instant the transports are
sighted by the special lookout stationed
at Point Reyes. the big siren at the Eu-
reka Planning Mills will be turned loose
to carry the news to the citizens of San
Francisco and the surrounding country.
AS the transports cannot reach the inner
harbor for two or three hours the various
reception committees will thus be given
ample time in which to get to the tugs
and launches that have been engaged for
the occasion.
Mayor Phelan, as the representative of
the city, will steam down the bay on the
Harbor Commissioners tug Governor
Markham, and he will be accompanted by
Adjutant General Seamans, Major Cen
eral Dickinson and such other members
of the Governors staff as may be In the
city, brass band and committee of the
Byington, Henry Lunstedt, Judge f. Il.
Dunno, Henry S. Martin, Wilnam D.
Shea, James 2. Dockery, Mark A. Devine,
Frank H. Mills and George Dryden.
The Governor of Oregon may not reach
San Francisco until after the arrival of
the transports According. to present
plans the troops will be debarked and
narcneQ up Market street TO the lily
Hall and back to the water front imme-
diately upon their arrival in order to give
an enthusiastic public an opportunity to
express their appreciation of the soldiers
at close range. When the signal an
nouncing the sighting of the transports
is given the scores of mills and factories
along the water front will take up the
tune and their whistles VIII shrek the
welcome tidings broadcast over the land.
The Harbor Commissioners will give the
ladies of the Red Cross the use Of the
waiting rooms and corridors in the Ferry
building when the soldiers arrive and the
ladies are busy preparing fruit, flowers
and various delicacies for the expected
heroes.
According to the official reports received
from Manila flfty-nine members OF the
Second Oregon Volunteers have been
killed in battle or died of disease since
the regiment left Portland, on May Is,
1898. The following is list OF the dead
together with the cause of death:
Elias Hutchinson. NJ. peritonitis; Rufus K.
Holcombe. c. typhoid Edgar J. Johnson, D.
Wheeler, D. smallpox; William Fields, L, ty
phoid; Herb B. Applegate, b, typhoid Asa
McCune, a, pneumonia; Richard E Perry, A.
typhoid; George W st9rmer. B. typhoid; Eliot
Iaral fever: Charles H Ruhl H. meningitis;
Charles Meade c, measles; Harry Arpin. E,
qeno a. asthma as m e J. Reid. NJ. maarial fever
Charles L; Horn, c. dysenteTy; Ernest g: Sc
non, F, smallpox; clyde Perkins. K smallpox;
Charles F. Kent, c, measles: Otis Drew. c,
typhoid; Pearl o. DOty, {, smallpox; Orinond
Fletcher. c, rheumatism; Fred J. Norton. F,
dysentery; Frank NJ Hibbs. A. dysentery; Har-
ry B. Hibbard X typhoid; Lewis 4. Miller.
K p0iu Morse, L, accident Wistar Hawthorne c.
heart failure Michael P. Crowley, D, -;
F. w Hampton H, battle; H. Q. O,Flaherty,
L. fever: James c.. Page, D, battle; H. P.
Adams b, battle; William d Cook, ID, battle;
Charles Herbert. L, battle; Guy MiIlaTd. l..
battle; L. V Strawderman, L, battle; Hayes
B. Taylor L. battle: c. w Hubbard. X, fever;
Bert j. Clark. A. battle: Henry Payne, NJ. bat
tie: Robert Hoffman NJ battle; Joe L. Berry,
NJ. battle; George Eichhamer; q oatte; John
II S=.--ings. H, fever; jay E. Taylor. e. per
itonftis: Bert r. Chandler, c. erysipelas;
E r McIlvaine, II, battle: Lyman Kelsey
D tonsilitis: Charles L. Bell, NJ, pneumonia;
A. dysentery: James Harrington, G. battle; ".
H Roberts. 3, pneumonia.
The War Department has practically
completed arrang gements for mustertnS out
the volunteers now on their way from
Manila to the United States. as we'll as
those who have not yet started. The great
majority of the returning soldiers will be
regiments whose members are aHlcted
with contagious diseases will be sent to
the camp at Angel Island.
Lieutenant Colonel Wagner, Fourth
Cavalry, L. s A, has been retired from
active service after over forty-three years
of the best known officers on the coast.
and his record is an enviable one. lie IS
succeeded by Major Edward Hayes of the
Seventh Cavalry.
Captain c. j. Crane, Twenty-fo9rtth
United States Infantry, who served in
Regiment, has arrived in San Francisco
Inder orders to rejoin his regiment. He
viii probably go to Manila with the re-
naming companies of the Twenty-fourth.