Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-09-26
LEFT SHIP TO FIGHT
Patriotic Action of the Tennessee
Volunteers.
INSURGENTS DRIVEN FROM. FORTS
More Recruits Have Arrived at
Manila.
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A NEW SAILING SCHEDULE

Acting Adjutant General Ward today re-
cefved from Gen. Otis the following report
or the recent engagement near Cebu:
MANILA September %. 1899.
Adjutant General, Washington:
On September % and 23 Snyder attacked
strong insurgent positions about five miles
west of Cebu with 265 officers and men of
the Tennessee tgiment and SIT officers and
men of the 10Th, 9Th and sd Infantry and
9th Artillery, driving enemy from the works
and capturing seven forts, including
smooth-bore cannons mounted therein and
fourteen intrenched and fortified places.
Our loss was Private VIM H. Hanley. A,
9th Infantry killed, and four wounded.
The enemys loss is estimated at forty.
Insurgents retreated to new fortifications
in the far southwest. Snyder returned to
Cebu with the Tennessee troops, who had
disembarked from the transport Indiana to
take part in the action. Two companies of
the 10Th Infantry hold important positions
in the mountains. OTIS.
The PuebIH Arrives.
Acting Adjutant General Ward this morn
ing received a cable message from Gen.
Otis saying that the transport Puebla ar
rived at Manila yesterday with no casual
ties. The Puebla sailed from San Francisco
August - with five officers and $50 re-
CIuits, and made a remarkably quick trip
across the ocean.
Additional Casualties.
General Otis has reported the following
additional casualties among the troops in
the Philippines:
Drowned. Sd Infantry, at Bagbag river,
Balivag, in advance on enemy, August A.
G.. Max Jackson; G., Corporal Peter Larson.
Int
tcmber 30. d. William Hardy. Wounded
21st Infantry near Las Pnas, 18th, H,Alex-
snder Hochbcrg, foot, moderate; 37th In
fantry, near Angeles. 22d, B, Corporal Chas.
ii. Lawson, arm, severe.
Returning Volunteers.
Gen. Shafter reports to the War Depart
rnent the arrival of the transport Valencia
at San Francisco with six companies of the
1st Montana, eighteen officers and 216 en-
listed men. and the following military pas
sengers: Capt. Gale, 4th Cavalry; Lieut.
E.ltIngc 9Th Artillery, and Hawkins, Sd In
fantry; Major Hoyt, chief surgeon of vol
unteers; Acting Assistant Surgeons Lowell
and Hogan; Lieut.. Hayward, u. s. N; five
hospital corps men, three sick soldiers,
eghtyfour discharged soldiers.
Gen. Shafter also reports the arrival OF
Transport City of Para. with Capt. Perkins
and Lieut.. Gordon. Signal Corps: Major
Duncan, 1st Montana; Lieut. Leayell oath
Infantry: Lieut.. Reeves, nth Infantry;
Can't. Wheeler. 4th Cavalry. and nine other
cabin passengers; AZ enlisted men. including
81 Of 10Th Company, Volunteer Signal
Corps, and I sick miscellaneous organiza-
tons; 932 discharged men, total number Of
passengers, 99J.
Progress of EnIistments.
The total enlistments for the twelve vol
unteer regiments las called out aggregate
1o.554. of which number ia men were Sc
at jefferson barracks, Missouri has 1876
men, which is 60 in excess Of the legal
limit. Another regiment. the 39th, at Fort
Crook, Neb., is nearly up to the limit with
l,2S1 men. and three other regiments have
each recruited more than thousand men.
These are the 44th, at Fort Leavenworth,
Kan; the 45th. at Fort Smelling, Mimi, and
the 10th, at South Framingham, Mass. The
4Sth Infantry tcoloredD, at Fort Thomas.
has $50 recruits, and the 10th tcoored), at
Jefferson barracks has 90; recruits.
The officials are very much encouraged
ar the rapid progress of the recruiting, and
are confident that the entire twelve resi-
ments will be fully organized and equipped
In time to have them all in the Philippines
before the 1st OF January
Change in Sailing Schedule.
Recent occurrences have necessitated
change in the schedule for the transporta-
ton of troops from San Francisco to Ma
needed the steamer Anglo-Australian for
the South African service made it neces-
sary for the United States government to
engage another transport to take the place
of that vessel which had previously been
chartered for the transportation of troops
to the Philippines. The Anglo-Australian
is a British vessel and Is one Of the re-
serve troop ships of that government. In
her stead the quartermaster's department
has completed arrangements for the char
ter of the British steamship Duke of Fife,
now on her way to San Francisco.
The change of ships will result in slight
delay in the movement of reinforcements,
but will not interfere with the general
plans of the War Department. Another
thing that contributed to interfere with the
original plans was the accident to the
transport Morgan City off the coast of Ja-
pan and the sending of the transport Ohio
to her relief.
First Fleet of Transports.
Under the new schedule the transports
divided into two fleets, the first of
which will start within the naxt week or
so. This fleet has a carrying capacity of
367 officers and S.976 men, and will take
the six regiments remaining of the first
ten called out and 1000 recruits in addl-
ton. These regiments are the 2Sth, 10Th,
sd. 33d. 31st and 35th, in all. 1854 men,
The first of the fleet to sail is the Charles
Nelson. which is scheduled to start tonor-
row with 4S0 men and 20 officers Of the :,2d
Infantry. The Sheridan and Glenogle will
leave Thursday, the former. with LOO
men and 81 officers, and the latter
with 500 men and 25 officers. The
Sikh and the City of Rio are sche-
duled to leave Portland, Greg, next
Sunday. the former with $50 men and 20
officers. and the latter with SAG men and 40
officers. The same day the Olympia and
the Hancock Will leave San Francisco with
an aggregate force of so officers and 1900
men. On the following Thursday the Va
lencia, Zealandia, Victoria and Manauense
will start for the Philippines with a total
Of 90 officers and 2,10O men.
Second Fleet.
1t is expected that the second fleet of
transports will be prer ared to begin the
movement of the twelve volunteer regi-
ments last called out. numbered from 36th
to 49th inclusive, about the middle Of Oc-
tober. Thirteen transports have been al
ready engaged for this service, including
the Duke of Fife, and arrangements are
being made for securing many addi-
ticnal transports as may be needed The
transports of the second fleet already
scheduled will carry 450 officers and II S3t,
men The two fleets will take about q 600
n en-, and will leave only about 5000 men
to be provided for.