Salt Lake Tribune | 1908-07-14 | Page 14 | Fifteenth Starts Its Moving Today

Soldiers Will Send Equipment to Railroad Yards Preparatory Prepara-tory to Leaving. REGIMENT ON THE MARCH WILL EORM MILE COLUMN Battalions Will Be Assigned (o Trains at Officers' Co'n-J'erencc Co'n-J'erencc Today. At G:30 o'clock Tuesday morning tho exodus of the Fifteenth infantry will begin, and before noon Wednesday the regiment will have departed for Colorado Colo-rado Springs, from which placo it will start on ils 205-miln hike lo Fort D. A. Russell, Wyo. Early Tuesday morning a train of heavy, lumbering, white-covered wagons, each drawn by four sturdy mules, and loaded to capacity with quartermaster's and commissary slorcs, equipment and tentnge, will commonco tho Jong, slow trip to tho Denver & Rio Crnndo railroad yards. Tho wagon train will bo followed at an early hour Wednesdav morning by the regiment, which will include the band, eleven companies, com-panies, machino gun platoon, mounted orderly detachment and the hospital corps. Together with tho ambulances and pack animals, tho column when on the march will be almost a milo long. Immediately upon arrival at the railroad rail-road yards six hundred men will be put at work loading the troop trains. Tho task of placing the vast regimental equipment on the cars t is momentous, but it is expected that it will be completed com-pleted while, the day is .young. Five stock cars will bo filled with horses and mules, four box cars with tentagc and other camp equipment, and tho eighteen wagons and ambulances will be knocked down and placed on flat cars. Enormous ranges of a design which renders them especially suitable for military servico will bo installed in tho three baggage cars used as kitchens, and the larders filled with substantial food in order that the soldiers may eat en route. As soon .as the loading is completed tho trains" will bo made up in throe mixed sections and dispatched. Colonel Scott will confer with all tho staff and company officers Tuesday morning, when tho various divisions of the regiment will be assigned to their trains. It has been said hitherto that the battalions would depart, in their numerical nu-merical order, but it is probable that some changes will be made as a result of the conference. Tho three trains will be in command of Colonel Scott; Lieutenant-Colonel Williams and Manor Ar-rasmith. Ar-rasmith. liverything is in readiness for tho departure from Fori Douglas. Tho soldiers have been working strenuously for the past few daj-s, with the result that nothing remains to bo done but to move tho regiment and its equipment to tho railroad 3ards.