Show f HOME Fil SANTIAGO Shafters Warworn Veterans Are Glad to Return pnT VT5QCT5T Q APPTVR V ov AVL T A NO SERIOUS SICKNESS AMONG THE TROOPS i I Given a Bath and Clean Clothes and i Sent to Camp Last of Shafters I Army Will Leave Santiago This Week All But 5000 Have Already ready Sailed New York Aug HFour transports the St Louis Vigilancia Mattewau and Miami having on board troops who were ordered home from Santiago have arrived off Camp Wikoff Moatauk Point Long Island The troops aboard the transports are the First volunteer cavalry First regular cavalry batt ry H Fourth artillery and the Six hj Ninth Tenth and Thirteenth Infantry All the transports excepting the SCt Louis sailed from Santiago on Aug 8 The St Louis which left some days I later brought up 722 soldiers There I was little sickness aboard the former < American liner and but one death Private Oliver Longwood of company Ii D Ninth regiment who died from yel lew fever Twentyfour sick none1 of a serious nature are aboard the St Louis The Vigilancia has 609 men of the Sixth and Thirteenth regular infantry I and the condition of the boys is excpl lent Twentyone sick are under treatment treat-ment but there Is no fever General I Ames is on board the Miami which I came up slowly and anchored in the quarantine grounds late today She I was not boarded Colonel Theodore Roosevelt and his rough riders are on the Miami The Mattewan has not been Inspected The work of disinfecting the St Louis was begun this afternoon The sick onboard on-board were attended by the hospital ccrps and the soldiers were given baths and provided with clean clothing They will be allowed to land tomorrow morning when they will be marched to the detention camp The work of disinfecting the other ships and landing themen will be carried car-ried on as rapidly as possible The soldiers who arrived by the Gate I City Saturday night wer anded today to-day They were a worn 1 rt ing lot of men bt ap > ared to be in high sirir Its They were marched to the detention deten-tion camp where they at once went I into cuarters I NEARLY ALL EMBARKED Washington Aug 14By Wednesday or Thursday of this week it is expected expect-ed by war department officials that all of General 9lhaf ters command will alI left Santiago for the United States In a dispatch thewax department tonight to-night General Shafier says that he early departure of the troops now depends de-pends entirely upon the transports which are daily expected to arrive All I but about 5000 men of General Shaf ters corps have already sailed for this I country I General Shafters report to the war department concerning the departure of the troops follows All of cavalry division Kents division di-vision Lawtons division except Seventh Sev-enth and First infantry and sick ad suspects of thcs commands have already 1 j t ready sailed leaving Bates division j I Eighth Ohio infantry battery of light j I artillery one battery of heavy artI lery four troops of Second cavalry and J two companies of engineers to go 1 ships expected with immunes get here I as they ought to today or tomorrow I will get the most of the command away I within the next two or three days All I I depends 03 the transports and as they I have not arrived cannot closely approximate ap-proximate time Rio Grande Seneca and Comanche I with Ninth and Tenth cavalry Fourth and Twentyfifth infantry all loaded and will go out this afternoon unless I hurricanes of which reports have been j I I had as blowing south of Jamaica prevent I I pre-vent The Breakwater City of Macon j 1 I I and Arcadia will go tomorrow Vith two light batteries and Twelfth and I I Seventeenth infantry One of the hardest I hard-est rainstorms we have had is raging I I this afternoon Am gettirig the sick I I that have to be left in very comfortable I I comfort-able condition Two thousand Spanish I troops to be loaded tomorrow and only j other ship that Is in as soon a it can be coaled probably two days Hope to I 1 I get troops off so as to be able to start I latter part of the week for the United I States Will ship 400 convalescents on Monday i lIonday I |