The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-04-01
RAYS IMMUNEs ON THE WAY.
sEDGwICK SHOULD ARRIVE TO-
MORROW WITH THE COMMAND.

left Sagua de TanamO March 20-It
viii Have to Go Into a Camp of
detention at Fort Pulaski for Five
Days - SurgeOn-GeneraI Wyman
Modified the Quarantine Law in n
,teasure-Dixie Is Therefore Safe
and the Fourth Tennessee VIII
Not Have to BE DetaiRed-Third
kentucky May Have to Go Into
detention Camp When 1t Arrives
From NIatanzas.
The Third Immunes, Rays regiment are
IN their way to Savannah News has
,een cab.ed to the officials here that the
command left Sagua de Tanamo on the
transport Sedgewick March 20. 1t is fig
rred the vessel will arrive at quarantine
station tomorrow.
The Inmunfs will have to go into camp
for five days. Fort Pulaski win be the
Mace of their enforced stay down the river
until all danger of infection from yellow
fever or other germs may have passed.
| The regiment would have escaped the de-
tsntion had it arrived before to-day, but
the close quarantine restrictions of the
marine hospital Service become effective
April l. and all commands that arrive
from this on will have to be detained for
five days
Ii was thought until yesterday that YES
sells would have to reach the quarantine
station before midnight last night in or
der to avoid having the troops they bring
kept in camp for five days, but a tele-
gram was received from the surgeon gen.
eral of the service, DR.. Wyman, stating
tina; all the requirements will have been
met if the vessel reached American juris-
dcton before midnight. Col. Bellinger,
depot quartermaster, who had been very
anxious to get all the commands possible
in without having to establish detention
camps, was relieved by the news, for he
has been on the lookout for the transport
Dixie, which is coming with the Fourth
i Tennessee Regiment.
The tug McCauley was sent out day
before yesterday to intercept the Dixie
on her way to Savannah and instruct her
to make all steam for this port II is not
known whether the tug met the vessel or
whether she reached quarantine station
before midnight last night, as was the
hope in which the tug was sent. The mat
Ter was simplified by the word from the
surgeon general of the marine hospital
service, and there was no further neces-
sty for the vessel to get in before mid
night. Col. BelIinger CONSTITUTES the three
mile limit from the American coast to be
the meaning of the telegram from the sur
geon general, and the Dixie passed that
away down the Florida coast
The Tennessee regiment will not there
fore, have to go into camp of detention.
1t was thought a camp for the command
would have to be established if the trans
port did not make the station before mid
night. Being detained at Fort Pulaski for
five days would not be joke, if the testi-
mony of the regiments that have stopped
tlere can be taken, and the -Tennesseeans
may congratulate themselves upon either
The surgeon general having amended the
ruling or their vessel having arrived be-
fore midnight.
Nothing has been heard from the Third
kentucky Regiment. The command is at
MatanZas, but no transport is there 10
bring it to Savannah. 1t was thought the
regiment might be on the way, but word
was received yesterday of its being al Ma
tanzas, and Col Bellinger was instructed
10 send a transport there to bring 1t to
Savannah. 1t is not known yet which of
the three, the Logan, the Dixie or the
Thomas, win be sent for the Kentuckians.
All three win be here or at quarantine to-
day. The depot quartermaster has in
structions to hold all transports that ar
rive until he Is notified of what DISPOSE
ton he is to make of them.
When the Third Kentucky arrives it viii
have to go into detention camp for five
days. If it gets here while Rays Immunes
are sim at Fort Pulaski the regiment wiz
60 into camp in the old stronghold with
them Col Bellingsr says there is room in
the fort for 1900 men. The plan for the
accommodation of the two regiments, if
both arrive anywhere near the same time,
has not been fixed, but it is possible they
may both be in the fort at the same time.
The Kentucky regiment may not arrive
until day or SO before the ipnmunes leave
the fort, in which case the former regi-
ment would probably remain on the Sedge-
wick mill the fort had haan vacated