The Washington times., 1912-08-24

HEADQUARTERS RED ARMY, Kill
BER, w. Va. via Harpers Ferry. w.
Va. Aug. 24-Tearing up railroad
tracks, burning and wrecking bridges,
and devastating property on every side,
the Red army this afternoon swooped
down on Keller. put the Baltimore and
Ohia railroad out of commission, burn
cd the town, and severely punished"
the struggling outposts of the Blue
army, sent out from Camp Ordway as
defenders.
In the mimic warfare which has
waged all morning, the Red army in
nearly every skirmish came out VIC
torious. and the number of it's theoret-
ical dead is comparatively small. The
Blue army suffered not only great de-
feat, but the remaining forces uniniured
were so scattered as to make 1t almost
impossible to reassemble them at the
close of the days engagement.
The problem given the District Ma
tional Guard to solve by Col. Joseph
Garrard and adjutant. Capt. Leroy FL
tinge, was the most complex which
the Washington citizen soldiery- has
confronted this year, A lot Of level
headedness and previous military ex-
perience was necessary in both armies
today, or else results would have been
different.
Division of Troops.
Commanded by Col. william E. Har-
vey, Of the Second Infanary. the Red
army left Camp Ordway at o'clock
this morning, taking the westward road
toward Keller In the war;" this part
Of the country is hostile to the Blues.
AS a result, when the Blue army left
Ordway an hour later, and tried to
nd frNy fnII a.
fused to divulge any information. Col.
Charles II. Ourand; commanding the
First Infantry. was in charge of the
Blue army. With Colonel Ourand was
the First Separate Battalion. under
Major James walker. Battery E. Third
Field Artillery. under capt. Fred T.
Austin, the Signal Corps company, un-
der Lieutenant Lands, and the ambu-
lance company, under Major Clarence
A. Weaver.
First Battery. Field Artillery. COM
manded by Capt. ]. Harry shannon,
and Troop B. Fifteenth United states
Cvalry( 1 wo plattoons, under Captain
Berkeley and Lieutenant Overton.
Pay Day Delayed.
There wasn't q riot in Camp Ordway
when the hundreds of militiamen who
had stood In the sun several hours yes
terday afternoon awaiting a chance to
get at the pay tent and receive their
wages for this encampment, were or
dered back to their company streets.
and told that they would have to wait
till Wednesday morning, but the offi-
GERS of the guard would not have been
disappointed had such thing broken
out.
Fifteen thousand dollars in good,
United States money lay in a sealed
bag on the table in Major Boyd Tay-
lor's tent awaiting distribution. Two
regulars with loaded revolvers stood
guard over this currency, and let no
militiaman get within hailing distance
of IL.
Several hundred militiamen marched
from camp in a hot sun, and in double
flo stood in a line which extended
from brigade headquarters to the foot
of the steep hill where the parade
ground begins. They stood there under
orders.
After the first hour of waiting. they
knew there was some hitch-probab bly,
some company sergeant had made a
in his payrolls. But they knew
soon that this wasn't the trouble, as
the paymaster's clerk that Captain Dali
lam, of the pay corps, brought to Har-
pers Ferry with him, was ready to be-
gin handing out $3.50 to each enlisted
man. and a proportionately larger sum
to the officers.
Then 1t became known that a protest