The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1898-08-26
SCENES e.
Z. .... ' SANTIAGO
Among the Embarking
+. Spanish Prisoners. -
TRENCHES FILLED WITH DEAD,
Aud Others are Barely Able to Move-The
Sights on the Docks Bring Fears to the
Eyes of the American Soldiers.

An Associated Press correspon-
dent, writing from Santiago Aug. 8,
gives tie following account of the
pitiful state Of affairs amohgthe EN-
barking Spanish prisoners at that
place: 80 ''..- 'a.' e. @.'...
+"To-day the first of our Spanish pris-
oners We're put on. board the transports
we have hired to take them home. Ten
thousand of these men have been in
camp for more than three weeks, just
outside the city limits. They were
much nearer to the palace than our own
men, they Were our prisoners, and we,
one andall, avoided the roads that led
near their camps because OF the. vile
odors that arose therefrom.
-"To'day as the Spaniards passed
through the city on the wayto the
docks we saw sights that brought tears.
to the eyes! of. men who are not, readily
moved to tears. Down on the docks in
a narrow strip of shade from ware
house some two hundred Spanish sol
diefs waited orders to move onto the
Tighter which Wonld convey them to
the much talked of Spanish hospital
ship ALICANTE. r,t. -. -., ..-y
"rhese men, were thin and of sickly
! pallor, hollow-cheeked, weak and thin.
1--WE are the well men who have
4 brought the sick into town on lighters"
they explained. ..' IIaE
"Down on the wharf being loaded on
i the steam lighter Bessie were long lines
Of stretchers, each with its pitiful bur
den. Faces that looked like death-head ;,
every line from the skull marked on the
yellow skin, protruding teeth over
! which lips would, not close. One man
grasped in claw that had crushed them,
three American hard tack. Others had
food hidden under their scant covering.
Their weight was as nothing, yet four
we'll men staggered under the burden
of one stretcher.
| "DUwn the city streets came other
professions of stretchers. Vanquished
and sick, weak, pitiful, moaning stag.
gering, they drifted into town all day
long. When the CITY surrendered the
prospective return to Spain brought iUv
to many hearts; the fulfillment of The
promise " as sad. t..-..f... ....
| "ren American ambulances have been
detailed to help carry in those unable t.
walk, aud we have erected tents on the
dock where the sick can wait till the
lighter is ready for them.
Not IA Camp, Buta Graveyard.
at was not a camp out there said
Spanish officer, sit was graveyard
/ Between two and three hundred wen
into the hospital daily. 1t was not d
, hospitsl-there was 10 medicine, Their,
We're no attendants Forty men were
dying every day and the trenches are
full of the dead. We have saved Vol
many aS20 for passage moheyto SPAN
: TheUampl has been nearer he'll thai
anything in the war. There are 900
out there yet; only a. Thousand came il
to day, but they won't last long by
sentery-Camp Dysentery we can it,
and it is worse than the plague, is car
frying them Off 5ar iu-.. 8 49,. ID.
n IA white-haired officer, with star
. and bands on has sleeves, but SO THU
| and weak and pale that he Looked NOR
: like a skeleton than a man, walkel
al down the wharf, supported by his Wit,
: who was as much in need of support a
he was HIMSELF over loose board the
: both ripped and fell. There are tN
! young children in.the party, who or
; ALMOST tinuously. Finally they al
: got on board, the women to spend tie
days ON a filthy, horrible troop shiI
There are many women going thus
n wives Of officers who cannot pay for
- passage. "h''' - Avs"
= "Ihese Spanish troop. ships, bid fair t
! riEal Qld,t!me slaves in the misery an
I,sutferings that will be confined With
5 their sides on the voyage back to SpaiI
"Out own soldiers were sick, but tn
/ condition Of the Spaliards is $50 man
times worse that our men seem stron
D and healthy compared to them Th
Spaniards We're n3tNin this couditio
when they moved to their death cam
"i just three weeks ago. s4s,E
' "Jnst how far we are Obliged to pro
wide care for a vanqgished foe is que
ton now being discussed in this towI
Every one admits and has admitte
that the Spaniard has been goo
2 enemy, good tighteTi and the Amer
canswho took off theirlhats to tSpanis
i officers Oh the 18th of July did. so WIT
II true homage to brave men. AS the pit
e full lines OF Spanish prisoners stagg,
n through the streets Of this city for tn
: next week or so, feebly steppiu
out Of the way Of pedestrians, iookin
i fearfully at rsttling carts and in sa
contrast to our strong men in BROW
|, the Americans who see them will a
/. inclined to again uncover thei
!, heads, prompted by the same feelin
i of homage to brave men,
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J acknowledgements bloc