Omaha daily bee., 1899-10-23
SENATOR SAFE HOME
Transport Bearing Iowa Troops Reaches
Port on Schedule Time.
STEAMER HAS A BRUSH WITH TYPHooH
Boat Is Tossed in Lively Manner but Nc
Serious Damage Is Done.
NO SICKNESS ON BOARD DURING VOYAGE
0skaloOsa Boy Dies at Japanese Port and
Two Others Meet Accident.
NO SICKNESS ON BOARD DURING VOYAGE
GREAT RELIEF IS FELT THROUGHOUT IOWA
Church Services Are Dismissed md
the Eager Congregations Throng
strccts-whistics Arc Opened
and Cannon Touched on.

SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 22.-The Fifty
first regiment of Iowa volunteers, number
ing 764 men and forty-sN officers, under
the command of Colonel ]. c. Loper ar
rived here today from Manila on the trans
port Senator. There was no sickness aboard.
The only death reported is that of Edward
Kissick Company +, of Oskaloosa, Ia, who
died at Nagasaki Of dysentery.
The only incident of the voyage was an
accident that happened to Edwin Statler
Company NJ and Homer a. Read, Company
A, three days out from Nagasaki They
were injured by the breaking of the after
sail which fell on them. statler's leg was
broken and Read sustained fracture of the
skull. Both men are doing WELL
The Senator was caught in the tail of the
typhoon encountered by the steamer Empress
of Japan 1t was tossed lively for several
hours, but suffered no severe damage So
serious did the situation seem to the ofti-
GERS of the steamer at one time that all the
passengers were ordered below and the
matches were battened down.
Prvates Russell and Morgan Of Company
d were left at Manila on account of illness.
They are expected to follow on the next
transport.
1t has been decided to disembark the
troops at 10 a. IN. tomorrow They Will
march Immediately to the Preside. where
they will remain until mustered out. This
will be about three weeks from their ar
rival.
Adjutant General Byers Of Iowa. repre-
senting Governor Shaw and 800 citizens Of
Iowa, met the Senator at the Golden Gate
in a number Of tugs. They received royal
reception from the volunteers. The regi-
ment will be taken off the transport tomor-
row.
Mastering officers on Board.
The Senator had two mastering officers OF
| the regular army on board, Captain Gesage
of the Sixth infantry and Lieutenant J. j.
! O'Connell of the Twenty first infantry. Pas
! sengere were: Mrs. T. G. Loper, wife OF the
| Iowa colonel; Mrs. II. T. Williams, wife
| of the resimental chaplain, and Mrs. j. Il.
| Edamburn Of Iowa.
The body of Private Edward Kissick, who
died al Nagasaki, was also on the transport.
! Private w. F. Shields of Company l brought
home 12-year-od Filipino boy. When the
| transport came to anchor in the upper har-
Dor the Iowa regiment was greeted by the
| men of the battleship Iowa with three rous-
| ing cheers.
The tug Governor Irwin lay alongside the
transport when off Meiggs' wharf and es-
corted it up the bay, the band playing ma
came out on deck and responded to the sere-
made. The Iowa boys got wagonloads OF
mail, one OF them having twenty-five letters
that had been held here for him. Wade and
Evan Evans were notified before passing
Meiggs' wharf that their father, in Red Oak,
Ia, had died last week, but that was the
only unpleasant bit of news that was sent
out on the government tug. About forty
sacks of mail matter were brought across
the ocean by the Senator.
When the Iowa regiment reaches camp at
the Preside tomorrow it will be entertained
by the Twentieth Kansas. The regiment
will occupy the camp vacated by the First
Montana.
Joy in Iowa.
DIES MONIES, Oct. 22.-(Special Tele-
| gram )-The news of the arrival in San
Francisco OF the Fifty-frst Iowa was re-
ceived hero at 230 and minute later the
big curfeT whistle, that can be heard all
over the city and for ten miles in the coun-
try, sounded the prearranged signal thai
sent out the glad news that the Iowa boys
were once more back in Gods country. The
chimes on st. Paul's, all the church bells
in the city and all the factory and locomo~
tive whistles joined in the noise. Arrange
ments are being perfected for n royal well
come home to the Des Moines companies
There are 222 Des Moines boys in the regi-
ment, the colonel is a Des Moines man. and
1t is what might be called Des Moines
regiment.
VILLISCA, Ia, Oct. 22.-(Specal Tele-
gram.)-About 4i5 p. m. the bells OF the
churches and school and two fire bells began
to ring and cannon were fired as news
came that the Senator bearing the Fifty
first Iowa volunteers was sighted off the
coast of San Francisco.
SHENANDOAH, Ia, Oct. 22.-(specia
Telegram News of the Senator's arriva
was received with intense excitement. Can
non, bells and whistles carried the news
Churches were dismissed and the streets