Show SHAFTERS HAT RORT Condition of Troops Improved By Prospect of Leaving Washington Aug HA dispatch received re-ceived by Adjutant General Corbin today to-day from General Shafter indicates that the health conditions among the troops at Santiago are improving The men whose spirits have been raised at the prospects of returning to the United States are getting better Shaf ters dispatch which was bulletined > at the war department tonight is as follows fol-lows lowsEverything Everything is going very well here Men that under ordinary circumstances would be sick are trying to pull themselves them-selves together s a to be ready to go I Large number of typhoid fever cases i I think I shall have things in shape In I three or four days so that I can leave i but I cannot do so until arrangemt its I for those left are made General Shafters report of the health conditions for his corps follows I Total number of sick 2514 total I number of fever cases 1915 total num I ber fever cases returned to duty 257 I Deaths August 12Private William H Sanders troop B First United States volunteer cavalry remittent malarial I ma-larial fever acute dysentery Private Reuben Ingle company A Twentieth Infantry malarial toxaemia Private Olof Husby company A Thirtyfourth Michigan malarial fever Corporal i Henry J Jennings company K Ninth i i Massachusetts typhoid fever August 13 Private John E Fallen I company H First Illinois yellow fever I Private John Mallory company G I Thirtyfourth Michigan yellow fever Private Irvine Lautzenheiser Eighth j Ohio pernicious malarial fever Pri vate Edward Myott company L Thir tyfourth Michigan typhoid fever First Sergeant E L Sherrott company C Seventyfirst New York typhoid fever Spanish Ships Overcrowded Washington Aug 14rIt is quite evident evi-dent from a dispatch received by General Gen-eral Corbin tonight from General Shatter Shat-ter that the Spanish Transatlantic company com-pany in transporting the Spanish prisoners I pris-oners from Santiago to Spain is economizing econo-mizing space in its ships The dispatch from Shafter whiqh was dated at San I tiago this evening reads Luzon sails this afternoon for Spain r with 2056 soldiers four priests 76 women I 2237 wo-men 34 children and 137 officers total |