The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-08-02
SAD HOME
COMING.
Joy of the Pennsylvania VOlun-
teers Over Their Return
Is Changed to Sorrow by Death
Of Their Colonel.
DIED ON THE OCEAN
When Two Days Out From
Yokohama.
Body Will Be Taken Home For
Interment.
DIED ON THE OCEAN


the Tenth Pennsylvania regiment,
United States volunteers.
The Senator sailed from Manila on
July 1, with thirty eight officers and 721
enlisted men, The transport was at
Nagasaki July Is, when Colonel
Hawkins was taken i'll 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 i'll
ness continued during the following day,
July 16, when the Senator was at Yo-
kOhama 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 disease
breeding climate. He was respected
and loved by every man of his command
and his death is deeply mOurned by the
troops. His body was placed in a her
metically sealed caSket and on the Sun
day following his death, impressive fun
eral services were conducted by the
chaplain of the regiment, all of the Off
GERS and men being in attendance. The
remains were placed in the stern of the
vessel and lay in state, attended day
and night by a. guard of honor, during
the remainder of the voyage. The
casket will be taken ashore today with
ceremonies BETTING Colonel Hawkins
rank, after which the remains of the
dead commander will be sent to Penn
sylvania for interment.
After the death of Colonel Hawkins
the command of the regiment was
vested in Lieutenant Colonel Barnett,
who ike the dead commander, Is popu-
lar among the enlisted men, and made
a good record in the war.
OF the 759 officers and men whom Col
oneI Barnett brought to San Francisco,
three are privates in the Sixth artillery,
U. S. A, and one is a member of the
Nebraska regiment, who was left be-
hind at Yokohama, when his compan-
ions sailed for this port on the Han
cock. A dozen stOwaways were also
concealed in the hold and were soon
brought to light after the Senator left
Yokohama.
The Senator had a. good trip from ia
pan. With the exception of the illness
and death of the regimentaI comman-
der there was no sickness, barring a
few cases of sea sickness and half a
dozen cases Of dysentery- At sight of
land all the fnvalids were able to leave
their hunks and line up on the main
deck, except one poor chap who has de-
Veloped symptoms of appendicitis and
viii be operated upon In the hospital
here.
When the Tenth Pennsylvania sailed
from San Francisco for the Philippines
last year, the muster comprised $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 hospital ship Re
lief, which will probably arrive here
within the next few days.
The quarantine officer, boarded the
Senator about O'Clock and after a
careful inspection, passed crew and pas
sengers. The transport had dropped
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 pri-
Yates 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 regi-
ment- The prfvates who thus absented
themselves without leave announced
their intention of seeing the town and
of rejOining the ranks when the regi-
ment is lined up on the dock today.
As the official committee on reception
to the regiment will not arrive here
from Philadelphia. until this evening,
the substitute committee appointed in
formally undertook that duty. A tug
had been chartered for today with the
expectation that the senator would not
arrive last night and arrangements
made to go out to meet the transport
with a band, stacks of flowers and
tons of dainties for the soldiers. The
premature appearance Of the transport
last evening, however, did not permit
the carrying out OF all these plans, but
| the committee, comprising John Bar
clay, 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 Relief; John NJ Beal
agent here of the Piedmont Air line
formerly of PHILADELPHIA: Alexander
.
! of Governor Cages staff, formerly a
Pittsburg newspaper man; NJ. NJ. Lear
| of Denver, formerly of Greensburg,
/ whose brother, w. A. Lear is captain
| in the Tenth; Colonel Henry Hall. Of
| the PittSburg Times a member of Gov
! ernOr stones staff James Il Camp
! bell, of the Philadelphia Times, hastily
/ embarked and were soon alongside the
| Senator, extending q warm greeting to
/ their fellow Pennsylvanians and well
| coming them back to their native land
| Out of respect to the dead regimental
| 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 Francisco.
Lieutenant Colonel Barnett, who is
| now in command Of the regiment, in the
1 course of an interview last night said :
| THE boys are all glad, Of course. to
! get back home again, but their joy is
| tinged with sadness on account OF the
! death Of Colonel Hawkins.
/ The colonel was a most kindand con-
| siderate commander, who took a keen
| individual interest in his men, and it is
/ little wonder, therefore, that the bows
| feel that his loss is a personal bereave-
| ment.
Colonel Hawkins was a sick man at
| the beginning of the campaign which
| ended in the capture Of Malolos. The
| regimental surgeon had advised him
| to retire for rest ana medical attention,
| but the colonel peremptOrily refused
declaring that he would go wherever
| his men went. When the final vOlley
| was fired at Malolos, Colonel Hawkins
| was right in front of the firing line,
! urging his men onward and encourag-