Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-11-16
FIRST GARRISON
OFF FOR CANAL
Fifth Infantry Arrives from
Plattsburg, N. Y, and En-
barks at Weehawken.
REGIMENT MUSICIAN
is KILLED ON THE TRIP
Strikes Baggage Truck Leaning
Out Window to Bid Fiancee
Good-by.

NEEHAwKEN, Nov. Ii. - The
United States transport Buford, hay
ing on board the Fifth Infantry, gong
10 the Panama canal zone rs the first
members of the permanent force to
man and form the supports of tae
canals great Notifications, left Wee
hawken for Colon late yesterday
afternoon. There We're 300 officers and
men on the Buford. in addition to the
families Of the married officers.
Tire regiment arrived from Plat's-
burg IN. " barracks late saturday
nisht in three trains of fourteen cars
each The trip of the second section,
which carried the Second Battalion
Of the regiment, was saddened by the
accidental death of Musician Saba
Donnelly, of Company G, SON Of re-
tired sergeant of the regular army.
The boy had written to his sweetheart
ia Mechanicsville about thirty miles
north of Albany. that if the train
stopped there he would get off and
say good-by to her, but that if it did
not he would drop a note as II went
by the station, The girl WAS AZ the
station when section two Went tndn-
dering by and Donnelly leaned out of
his window and waved his hand in
which he held the letter.
A station truck piled high with eN-
press packages stood Just beyond tire
girl. She saw Donnelly's danger and
tried to warn him, but he did not
understand He dropped the letter
and a fraction of a second later his
head struck the top box on the truck.
His comrades drew him back into
the car and the regimental surgeon
attended him, but he died an hour
later The body will he shipped back
to his father in Plattsburg.
The Buford arrived here from Vera
Cruz last Tuesday. and was moored
north of the WeehawlIen passenger
station where the soldiers arrived
and embarked. BY midnight the en-
tire regiment was aboard and then
began the loading Of the commits
Eary, the wagon trains and animals,
and the household goods and bag
gage of the officers and men.
Colonel Charles G. Morton. the conf !
mander, recalled that the Fifth was !
General Miles's old regiment. and !
that under General Miles it had seen |
some of the hardest service of any |
regiment in the army. As constituted I
today. he said there was not a finer |
body of men in the army. For more |
than ten years Plattsburg barracks |
was the home post of the regiment, /
although ii was away for two years |
during the second occupation of Cuba
by the forces under Major-G General |
II. Barry One of the soldiers
had a copy of farewell resolutions OF /
praise adopted by the City Council Of
Plattsburg few days ago.
The Twenty ninth Infantry is soon
to leave New York to join the per-
manent garrison in the Canal zone. I
One battalion is now the garrison
command on Governors Island The !
other two battalions are at Fort Por-
ter and Fort Niagara, in northern |
New York.
In addition to a full brigade of |
infantry, there will be sent to the |
isthmus several batteries of field |
artillery and four troops of cavalry.
These troops, who will number about
1000, are in addition to the large force
of coast artillery men now manning
the Panama Notifications under COM
mand of Colonel Adelbert Cronkhlte.