The Oskaloosa herald., 1916-07-20
TROOPS 10 MOVE
THIRD GOES FIRST
WILL ENTRAlN FOR SOUTH TO.
NIGHT OR TOMORROW.
ALL DEPENDS ON R.R. EQUIPMENT
Preparation For Departure Was Be
gun Immediately On Receipt OF g
orders-First Troop To Leave
viii Be First Battalion.

Des Moines, July 1e. iowa
troops ordered to Texas from
Camp Dodge, will not get away
before Thursday. The Great West
ern railroad which will move the
first troops have four troop trains
to arrive tomorrow noe The
Rock Island says they have no or
ders to furnish cars.
Des Moines, July 19.--Iowa troops
will start moving toward the Mexican
border with Brownsville, Texas, as
their destination, within the next
twelve to twenty-four hours.
Orders to entrain as rapidly as pos.
sible were received by Col. George
Morgan from General Barry late yes
terday, afternoon and by nightfall
plans for making up the first troop
train were well under way.
Details for the departure ow the
Iowa guards were left to Colonel
Morgan and Gen. H. A. Allen, COM
handing the brigade. According to
orders issued the Third infantry will
be the first to entrain.
Regimental Wagon Master B. J..
Morgan of Des Moines, Third lnfan-
try, was ordered to begin to load at
o'clock this morning and 1t is
thought that the first train may be on
its way before midnight
Worthlnston's Battalion Leads.
The first troop train to leave
Camp Dodge will take the First bat
TALON of the Third regiment. This
battalion is i'm command OF Maj. r..
G. Worthington of Des Moines.
Company b OF Des Moines is in
cluded in the First battalion The
other comapnies are Company A Of
Winterset. Company G Of Creston and
- ssGplpaI,y ID of Centerville.
The First Regiment, in command
OF Col. John Il. BARLEY of Upton, Will
be the second infantry unit to en-.
train, and the Secod regimC t, uder
Col. N. P. Hyatt of Webster City will
be the last.
Battalions of these regiments will
leave in tn esame order as those OF
the Third regiment
@.@. Artillery of Last.
The three batteries of artillery,
from Clinton, Davenport and MUS
catine, and the company of engineers
from Iowa City will probably follow
the infantry units.
The Second battalion of the Third
regiment will go out on the second
train, which will follow close on the
heels OF the first. 1t will be followed
by the Third battalion OF the Third
regiment.
Included in one or the other OF
these trains will be the Des MONIES
machine gun compa1y, which Is a
separate unit.
Brigade officers are expected to go
with the Third regiment, = which IS
under, Col E. r. Bennett OF Des
Moines.
Hospital corps and detachments
and the ambulance company Will &C
company their respective regiments.
Cavalry Is Rescued.
Iowa's four troops of cavalry were
saved at the eleventh hour when
Mai r. P. Howell, in command gg OF
the squadron announced that the sep.
arate infantry company from Grlneii
will arrive in camp this afternoon.
The forty-one men from drlnhell
will give Major Howell safe margin
of twenty-three men when his troop,
ers are mustered into the tederal
service this afternoon.
Last night the squadron needed
eighteen men to bring 1t to minimum
strength Troop A was up to mini
mum and Troop B had one man more
than necessary. Eleven men were
needed by Troop ID and seven men by
Troop G.
1--WE can now make quick work o.
the cavalry" Colonel Morgan SAID
1.-THE men now in camp have all Deen
yaccinated and it will not take lone
to give them their physical examia
ton after they have taken the federa
oath, which the other units TOOK
about three weeks ago"
But the Iowa cavalry squadron
will go to the border without horses
"Mounts for the men will be supplied
when we get to the Texas concentra
ton camp" Major Howell said. The
major was all smiles after being II
hot water for month from the mem
ory of the epidemic of stacking, at the
cavalry camp in North Liberty b4As
The $500 soldiers at Camp Dodge
received the news of their coming de
parture with smiling faces. They fel
in with new zeal and eagernes'
when the buglers announced the re
treat ceremonies at $3.50 last night.
Limited switching facilities on thu
interurban may cause additional della!
for the Iowa troops, but with the new
switch tracks in place it Is though
that trains can be taken to Des Moinei
much faster than they came out thre'
weeks age
Seventy-fiye cars will be required
to carry the First regiment, which
has approximately 1,20O enlistet
men and officers.
The first trains will go over thu
Great Westerns but all other western