The San Francisco call., 1899-11-02
DISCHARGED AND
SICK MEN HOME
ON THE PUEBLA
One Hundred Sent to
the Hospital.

| fastest round trip on record. Sne ielL
! here about two months ago, and during
| the run to the Philippines and back she
! was stopped only once at sea, and then
only for four minutes to key up some of
! the bolts. During the voyage the Puebla
rode out two typhoons and had heavy
| head sea to contend with all the way
from Nagasaki to San Francisco. Cap
tain Thomas brought his ship into port
| In splendid shape and stranger looking
! her over would never think she was
! troop ship.
| The Puebla brought from Manila eight
| cabin passengers, 105 invalids, 10 OF the
hospital corps and 10 discharged soldiers.
! The cabin passengers were Major Z. Is.
! Hinton, Second Lieutenant w. S. Brown,
| acting quartermaster; Major H. j. Ray
mond surgeon; First Lieutenant +. =.
! Weaver acting assistant surgeon; M. Jo-
sephson, commssary clerk; Henry Page
and Miss Mona Bowman and Mrs K. Be
| dell, nurses.
There were seven deaths on the trans
port during the voyage from Manila Fri
! vate E. A. Mckinney, Company E, Nine
teenth Infantry, died on October 6; Prl-
] yate NJ. B. Gavin, Company H, Thirteenth
| Infantry, died October 13; Private w. ii.
| Reynolds, Company 1, Thirteenth lnfan-
! try, died October 15; Private Ivan Kan
| dolph, Company D, Seventeenth infantry,
died October II; Corporal Randolph Won,
! Company E. Seventeenth Infantry died
! October 19; Corporal Lewis ErlenWein,
| Company F, Twelfth Infantry, died Oc-
! tober q; and Private John Butler, COM
pany B. Twenty-first Infantry, died Oc-
| tober 28.
During the run from San Francisco to
| Manila there was one death on the snip
that cast a gloom over the entire crew.
On September IS William Lyons, the chlef
| cook. died of consumption. The deceased
was known from one end of the coast to
the other, having served for years as
chef on the steamers Umatilla, queen,
! Orizaba and others. About three years
ago he was attacked with smallpox and
| the Umatilla, on which ship ne was at
that time, was quarantined.
| Lyons was taken sick with pneumonia
soon after the Puebla left port. Every
thing possible was done for him but WITH,
out avail. He was buried at sea with al
| possible honorS. Captain Thomas stopped
| the ship and set the flags at half mast
! Chaplain Freeland read the burial service
| and a soldier choir sang a number or ap-
propriate hymns. The bodies OF the men
who died on the homeward trip were en-
balmed and will be forwarded TO th9lr
relatives as soon as discharged from the
| transport. ,..
tn the Presidio hospital. The quarter
masters steamer Mcdowell went along
side the transport in the stream and took
The following Tennessee boys came as q;
far as Nagasaki on the Puebla; n ..
Coulter, E. w. Rollon, Clay D. staeker' 2eiteT
J. G. Kendrick, ]. H. Tate, M. MARTINI
dale, j. n Warton, M. J; Pierce and r:
c. Crutch1eld. From Yokohama they
took passage for Hongkong and from
there are going to Europe. After seeing
the Paris Exposition they VII! make
tour OF the world before returning home e
The remains of Captain Maurice e.
Krayenbuhl, Third Artillery and Captain
Bogardus Eldridge, Fourteenth infantry
also came UP on the Puebla. captain
| Kravenbuhl was killed in train wrecked
nv the insurgents near San Fernando, ana
Captain Eldridge was killed in a sklr-
mish near Malabon.
For the first time since the troops COM
menced to return from Manila there is no
State volunteer regiment quartered at the
Presidio The Washington and Iowa reg
imentS were mustered out yesterday anu
It took nearly 100000 to pay off the two
regiments. but it was all got through
with in good time, and by early evening
| there was not a soul in either camp. The
Iowa men started East at once. Their
trains were scheduled to leave at 2 o'clock
and there was no delay in getting them
The Washington men will not go home
together. The plan of sending some by
land and some by sea has not been
changed, and so the men will not arrive
at the same time nor will they all go as
far as Seattle. Most of those going by
leaving yesterday the men gathered
around Colonel Wholley's tent to say
good-by to him. Colonel Wholley will be
| examined for promotion to a captaincy In
the regular service and will then go East
to join the Forty-first Regiment. in which
he holds a commission as major. He will
| return to the Philippines by way of Suez
The Iowa regiment left several men in
the general hospital, they being too sick
to leave their wards. They were dis
/ charged with the other men of the regi-
hiI thew will he cared for in the
| hospital until they are in condition to
leave it. The men left behind are Ser
WOOD Woods Of &C Company m ga A. Elmer Narver OF Of
Company D. William A. Mclean and Ira
Baird Of Company E, Riley p. Stephens
Goff and Edward Woods Of Company l..
The Forty fourth Regiment has taken
possession of the camp formerly occupied
by the Minnesota men. 1t is the first OF
the outgoing regiments to be ,quartered
in the camp of the returning volunteers.
There was an inspection of the Thirty
eighth Regiment yesterday by Lieutenant
| Colonel Marion P Maus, inspector gem
eral of volunteers. Every officer and man
was present with one exception-Flrst
Lieutenant Kelly, who had set yesterday
for his wedding day. He was granted
permission from headquarters to take a
| day off in order that he might meet his
bride-elect at the ferry when she arrived
from the East, and then hunt UP a suita-
BILE clergyman and have the knot tied.
It will be the turn of the Forty-fourth
| to-day.
First Lieutenant George Curry of the
| Eleventh Cavalry has reported for duty
as quartermaster Of the stock ship Cone
maugh and First Lieutenant Keen of the
same regiment has reported for similar
| duty with the Leelanaw.
! Captain George A. Detchmendy of the
| Twenty-second Infantry has been as
signed to the Pathan as quartermaster
and commissary.
Leave Of absence for. one month has
been granted to Major William B.
Wheeler of the Eighteenth Infantry who
has been at the general hospital.
Acting Assistant Surgeon James B. Pas
coe has been ordered to proceed to Seat
tie to report on board the transport Port
Stephens for duty during her trip to Ma
Mia.
Miss Lillian G. Lane. nurse, now on
duty at the general hospital. has been
ordered to her home in Salem. Mass, her
| contract having been annulled.
Major James Allen of the Signal Corps
has been ordered to proceed to Manila on
the transport Hancock.
Miss Della Weeks. a contract nurse. has
been ordered to proceed to her home In