Akron daily Democrat. [volume] (Akron, Ohio) 1892-1902, 1899-08-02


ins was taken ashore today with cere-
monies befitting Colonel Hawkins rank.
The remains of the dead commander
will be sent to Pennsylvania for i'm
terment. Colonel Hawkins died ON
July Is, on board of the trans
port Senator enroute to this city with
his regiment from Manila. His death
occurred two days after the transport
sailed from Yokohama. Cancer of the
bowels was the cause of death. The re-
mains were enbalmed on board the ship
and brought here for shipment to Penn
syIvanis,. The ship bearing the regi-
ment has arrived, bringing the sad news.
Flag at Half-A1ast.
The Senator arrived with her flag at
halfmast on account of the death of
Colonel Hawkins.
The Senator sailed from Manila OH
July 1, with SO officers and 721 enlisted
men. The transport was at Nagasaki
on July 10, when Colonel Hawkins was
taken Ill with cancer of the bowels, from
which he had been sufferer during the
greater part OF his campaign in the
Philippines, and for which he had un-
dergone treatment in the military hos
pital al Manila. His illness continued
during the following day, July 16, when
the Senator was at Yokohama, 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 dis
ease breeding climate. He was re-
spected and loved by every man of his
command, and his death is deeply
mourned by the troops. His body was
placed in hermetically sealed casket,
and on the Sunday following his death
impressive funeral services were con.
Quoted by the chaplain of the regiment,
all of his men being in attendance.
The remains were placed in the stern
of the vessel and lay in state, attended
day and night by guard of honor dur
ing the remainder of the voyage.
After the death of Colonel Hawkins,
the command of the regiment was
vested i'll Lieutenant Colonel Barnett,
who, like 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
Colonel Barnett brought to San Fran
cisco, three are prlvates in,,the Sixth ar
tillery, U. S. A., and one is member
of the Nebraska regiment who was left
behind at Yokohama when his compan-
ions sailed for this port on the Han
cock. A dozen stowaways were also
concealed in the hold and We're soon
brought to light after the Senator left
Yokohama.
One Man a Victim of Appendicitis.
The Senator had good trip from
Japan. With the exception of the sad
illness and death of the regimental COM
mander there was no sickness aboard,
barring few cases OF seasickness and
half a dozen cases of dysentery. At
sight of land, all the invalids were able
to leave the hunks and line up on the
main deck except one poor fellow who
has developed symptoms of appendi-
citis and who will be operated upon in
the hospital here.
When the Tenth Pennsylvania left
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 hosi'ital ship Relief. which will
probably arrive here within the next
few days.
The quarantine officer boarded the Sen-
ator and after a careful inspection passed
crew and passengers. The transport
had dropped anchor off the Folsom
Street wharf and it was decided that
the regiment should not be landed until
today Under cover of darkness, how
ever, two privates slipped off in a tug,
dropping down by rope which had
been used to haul up two sacks of mail
matter sent out by the postmaster to
the regiment.
The privates who thus absented them
selves without leave announced their
intention of seeing the town last night
and of rejoining the ranks when the
regiment was lined up on the dock to-
AS tuC olliSlttl oh lC-
ceptiou to the regiment will not arrive
here from Philadelphia until this even
ing, the substitute committee appointed
informally 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
band. stacks of flowers and tons of dain-
ties for the soldiers. The premature ap-
pearance of the transport last evening,
however, did not permit the carrying
out of all these plans, but the commit
tee, comprising John Barclay of Green's
burg, Pa, who had come out in ad-
vance of the regular committee, of
which he is member, to meet his
badly wounded brother of the Tenth,
who is on the Relief; John M. Beall.
agent here of the Piedmont Air Line,
formerly of Philadelphia; Alex Coul-
ter. Greensburg, Pa; M. M. Ogden Of
Governor Cages staff, formerly Pitts
burg newspaper man; M. M. Lear of
Denver, formerly OF Greensburg, whose
brother, w. A. Lear, is captain in the
Tenth; Colonel Henry Hall of the
Pittsburg Times, member of Gov