The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-08-02
HER FLAG At HALF MAST
of the Senator With the
10th Pennsylvania.
THE COLONEL DIED AT SEA
He Was Brave Man and Popular With
the Regiment - The 10th Left With
$50 Officers and Men and Re-
turns With 75o

San Francisco, Aug. 1.-The United
States transport Senator arrived to-
night from Manila with her flag at half
mast, on account of the death of Col.
Alex Hawkins, commander of the 10th
Pennsylvania regiment, U. S. V.
The Senator sailed from Manila on
July 1 with 3S officers and 72l enlisted
men. The transport was at Nagasak
on July Is, when Colonel Hawkins was
taken i'll with cancer of the bowels,
from which he had been suffering dur
ing the greater part of his campaign in
the Philippines, and for which he had
undergone treatment in the military
hospital at Manila. His illness con-
tinued during the following day (June
16), when the Senator was at Yoko-
hama, and two days later he passed
away at sea.
Colonel Hawkins illness dated from
the battle of Malolos, when he exposed
himself almost recklessly in the dis
ordered climate. He was respected
and loved by every man of his COM
mand. and his death is deeply mourned
by the troops. His body was placed in
a Theoretically sealed Casket. and on
Sunday following his death impressive
funeral services We're conducted by the
chaplain of the regiment all of the
officers and men being in attendance.
The remains We're placed in the stern
of the vessel and lay in state, attend
ed day and night by guard of honor
during the remainder of the voyage.
The casket will be taken ashore to-mor-
row with military ceremonies betitting
Colonel Hawkins rank, after which
the remains of the dead commander
will be sent to Pennsylvania for inter-
ment.
After the death of Colonel Hawkins.
the command of the regiment was
vested in Lieutenant Colonel Barnett,
who, like the dead colonel, is popular
among the enlisted men, and made
good record in the war.
OF the 1853 officers and men which
Colonel Barnett brought to San Fran
cisco, three are privates in the 9Th ar
tillery, u. s. A, and one is member
of the Nebraska regiment, who was
left behind at Yokohama when his
company sailed for this port on the
Hancock
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 a few cases of sea sick
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 has developed symp-
toms of appendicitis and who will be
operated upon in the hospital here.
When the 10th Pennsylvania sailed
from San Francisco for the Philippines
last year, the muster comprised $50
men. Twenty-four were killed in bat
tie 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 o'clock, and after a
passengers. The transport then
dropped anchor off the Folsom street
wharf, and it was decided that the
regiment should not be landed until to-
morrow.
Out of respect to the dead regimental
commander, there was little cheering
or other noisy demonstrations, but the
men quietly expressed their delight at
the first glimpse of the Golden Gate
Like the oregon and Nebraska regi-
ments, the Pennsylvania troops, prior
to sailing from Manila, voted in favor
of being mustered out in San Fran
cisco.
The Pennsylvania troops will disem-
bark tomorrow and will march through
the principal streets of the city to the
model camp prepared for their recep-
ton at the Presidio where it will re-
main until mustered out.