Article from NY Times dated Wed., Oct. 23, 1899 TRANSPORT SENATOR ARRIVES Brings the Iowa Volunteers Safely Into San Francisco SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 22 - The Fifty-first Regiment of Iowa Volunteers, numbering 764 men and 46 officers, under the command of Col. J. C. Loper, arrived here today from Manila on the transport Senator. There was no sickness aboard. Eward Kissick, Company F, of Oskaloosa, Iowa, died at Nagasaki of dysentery. Three days out from Nagasaki, Edwin Statler, Company M, and Homer A. Read, Company A, were injured by the breaking of the small after sail which fell on them. Statler's leg was broken and Read sustained a fracture of the skull. Both men are doing well. ..... -David Statler