The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1900-02-22
LATE WAR
AS SEEN FIN
WHEELING.
IL 500 Men Were Enlisted Here
for service Against the Span
iSh in Cuba.
TWO FULL COMPANIES WENT
TO the Front, and Nearly Half Of the
MoundSville Company We're
whssliag Boys

cent that the historian is stlil ct work,
and hardly a single incident OF the
spring and summer Of 'ss fails to come
10 ones mind. First came that awful
tragedy in Havana harbor, when the
Maine and over $50 of her brave men
were destroyed by the most infamous
act Of treachery Spanish history rec
ords. Then came days OF excitement.
anxiety and suspense, the country
burning with eagerness to avenge the
Maine. Everywhere It was "Remem-
bier the Maine"
Before war wos actually declared the
President called for troops, and West
yirgInIn's patriotic governor was fore
most in offering the services Of her
sons. The First and Second regiments
Of the National Guard were combined
and moblllzed at Camp Lee, near
Charleston. Here there was no military
company, but Moundsville had one,
and before It's departure for Camp Lee
IT had received scores of recruits, and
of these wheeling furnished the greater
number. Who that Witnessed the de-
parture Of Company N for Camp Lee
will ever forget 1t? Moundsville was
filled with people, for this was bringing
the war straight home as stern real
ity for the first time, The boys as
senbled at their armory with sisters,
sweethearts and mothers, there to say
the last farewell. Finally, with the
boys In blue and those of the gray in
the lead, mlngllng as they had never
mingled in thIrty-three long years, the
line Of march was taken up to the rail-
road station. Now they pass a porch
filled with spectators, and a Wheeling
youngster, barely out OF his teens.
cries a last farewell to frlend-then
up comes lieutenant and hectors the
young soldier. Just because he is yet
man and not so much the machine he
is soon drilled into. But 1t is dis
cIplIne, and without it there is no
strength, no organization, no system
The "Thrss lens"
The next event in the war drama
here was the ringing of the 1ntelligen-
GERS war alarm" on the capitol clock
bell through an arrangement that had
been entered into with Chief Klieves,
OF the FIRE department. 1t was on April
q, 1898, that the little gunboat Nash
vile and the other vessels, large and
small, Of Simpsons feet, proceeded
nom Key. West on,tNe elghty-milh sail
TO blockade the lIarbor OF Havana. A
few miles out the Nashville sighted a
large steamer flying the Spanish coll
ors; she was the Buenayentura, and
was soon brought to with shot across
the bow, and in few minutes the
scarlet and yellow was replaced at the
mast-head by the red, white and blue.
and the first act Of war had occurred.
Late in the afternoon the, prize was
brought into Key Vest harbor, and
in a short time the wires had carried
the news to every city and hamlet in
this broad land. Here the message OF
war was served by the Associated Press
and its delivery to the Intelllgencer
followed at once. Immediately Chief
Klieves was called up and instructed
to sound the ten blow" For days the
people had been expecting the war
alarm. and when 1t changed forth its
message OF deepest meaning the town
was in an uproar. Men and women
rushed from stores Offices factories
and warehouses; ana i'stenea US tne
mesSaSe was lepea'su -, :" ~. t"e 49, nv :
CROWDED p0rtlonS VI ."S u''S u'ssI .
were gwen. anu EVER t %''e.s we y, a."
tnuslsSm' Inen CAM, , s"e I rus" ~, ~ ~, s"e
newspaper Dulle.ln Opalus ~. Ile pA'
t'culArs' wnlcn WERE ~" pS 49, a..
AZ was On 9unua : r Hts"s' -4@y a.. ,.,a
"Hse''HE He.,'N " ' -, 80 ~, ~.
Tory IN MaI''n pay nc. Ia 49,
ruNlOrS tns' .no," ~ .' ~ s' =, ~
uncOn,lFlneu' ul'u .us ' sISpI.lSs ,s.,,
lo'""iHs HOu's ~ 1850 o. ~, II go, go
'ne news "uS eo'.' .l ,Aet ~, :" w 80 ~
ms NeeuleSs " s.A'e ., s"s 49,
WilueSt enthusiasm . s.oS ,.' AZ s
Guy ana 'n ., pu'eIt' 'OH'u' We" ~
mecca g,, lOr . =. use. ,,,,,,r,. ..r,. n
me events ti1t 4ol'o"eu ee'"e 80, :"
pu'cN sueeeesIvN, w.. t 1oIt',su ~,
'ory-the nAval ',Uto.y u o%n',asO VOC 30
QUICKLY lolOWeu w t''e oap''u,u''O" -
tne CITY, ana tncn e"lne tns enu'
france ac'Ihs l0r s'Ain' e''ueu '"' "''t'
Departure OF the "4mmunes'"
For several reasons. chiefly because