The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-07-20
IMPOSING CEREMONIES
HORSES PRANCED, TRUMPETs
BLARED. SWORDS FLASHED.
Generals Of the Two Armies Net In
Full View of the American
Lines-Toral's Sword Returned
By Shafter-Spanish Soldiers De-
ceived-No Food But Rice.

the strains of martial music and tn
wild cheering OF 10000 men along seve
miles of entertainments, were full c
interest.
Shortly after o'clock on Sunda
Lieutenant Crook, of General Shafter
STAFF, entered the city and all the arm
in the arsenal were turned over TO hin
The work of removing the mines whic
obstructed navigation at the entranc
of the harbor had been progressing al
night. About 4 o'clock General Toral
the Spanish commander, sent his swcr'
to General Shafter, as evidence of hi
submission, and at S:45 a. m. all thu
general officers and their STATS as
Sembled at General Skaters head
quarters. Each regiment was draw
UP along the crescent of the heights.
General Shafter and his generals
with a mounted escort of a hundred
picked men of the Second cavalry, theI
rode over our trenches to the oper
ground at the foot of the hill in The
main road to Santiago, midway TO the
then deserted Spanish works. There
they We're met by General Toral and
his staff, all in full uniform and
mounted, and a select detachment OF
Spanish troops. What followed took
place in full view of our troops.
The scene was picturesque and
dramatic. General Shafter, with his
generals and STATS grouped immedi-
ately in the rear and with the troop
of cavalry with drawn sabres on the
left, advanced to meet the Vanquished
foe.
After few words of courteous greet
ing, General Skaters first act was to
Spanish general appeared to be touch
ed by the complimentary words with
which General Shafter accompanied
this action and he thanked the Ameri-
can commander feelingly.
Then followed a short conversation
as to the place selected for the Spanish
forces to deposit their arms and a
Spanish infantry detachment marched
forward to a position facing our
cavalry, where the Spaniards were
halted. The latter were without their
colors.
SALUTES WITH FLOURISHES.
Eight Spanish trumpeters then
salUted and were saluted in return by
our trumpeters, both giving flourishes
for lieutenant generals and major gen
erals.
General Toral then personally ordered
the Spanish company, which, in minia-
ture represented the forces under his
command, 70 ground arms.
Next, by his direction, the company
wheeled and marched across our line
into the road, and thence to the place
selected for camping them. The Span
iards moved rapidly to the quick notes
of the Spanish march played by the
trumpeters, but il impressed one like
the Dead March from Saul"
Though no attempt was made to
humiliate them, the Spanish forces
seemed TO feel their disgrace keenly
and scarcely glanced at their con-
querorS as they passed by.
But this apparent depth of feeling
1fGrole Nv
Without being sullen the Spaniards
appeared 10 be utterly Indifferent to
the reverses suffered by the Spanish
arms, and some of them when not
under the eyes of their officers seemed
TO rejoice ar the prospect of good food
and an immediate return to Spain.
TORAL DETECTED.
General Toral, through the ceremony,
was sorely detected. When General
Shafter introduced him by name to
each member of his staff, the Spanish /
general appeared to be very broken /
man. He seemed to be about go years /
of age and Of frail constitution, though /
stern resolution is shown by every fea- /
ture. The lines are strongly marked, /
and his face is deeply drawn. as if in /
physical pain. General ToraI replied /
with an air of abstraction TO the words /
addressed to him. and when he accom-
the escort, into the city 70 take formal
possession of Santiago, General Toral
spoke but few words The appealing
faces of the starving refugees streaking
back into the city did not touch him.
nor did the groups of Spanish soldiers
lining the road and gazing curiously at
the falr-skinned, stalWart-framed con-
qUerors. Only once did the faint shad-
ow of smile Turk about the corners
of his mouth. This was when the cav
alcade passed through a barbed-wire
enlargement. No body OF infantry
could have ever got through this de-
tense alive, and General Shaftel.'s re-
marks about its resisting powers found !
the first gratifying echo in the defeat
ed generals heart.
STRONG DEFENSES.
Further along. the desperate charac- ,
ter of the Spanish resistance. as plann- ,
ed, amazed our officers. Although prim- !
tive. it was well done. Each approach !
TO the city was thrice barricaded and {
wired, and the barbados were high !
enough and sufficiently strong to with :
stand shrapnel.
The slaughter among our troops
would have been frightful had it ever
become necessary to storm the city.
Around the hospitals and public
buildings and along the west side of t
the line there were additional works /
and emplacements for guns. though no '
guns were mounted in them. The c
streets of Santiago are crooked. narrow i
ines of one-story houses, most of which +
are very dilapidated, but every veran-
Ia of every house was thronged by its
curious inhabitants and disarmed SOL
Tiers These were mostly of the lower
lass. Few expressions of any kind l.
we're heard along the line. There were
iome shouts for free Cuba, but as
'ule these were only mutterings. The .
)etter class OF Spaniards remained in
ioors or satisfied their curiosity from
behind drawn blinds.
Several Spanish ladies in tumble
own carriages averted their faces as
We passed. The squalor in the streets
vas frightful. The bones of dead horses -
nd other animals were bleaching in
he streets, and buzzards as tame as
parrows hoped aside-to let us. pass.
The windows of the hospitals. in
rhich there were over 1900 sick men. II
ere crowded with inValids. who al
jagged themselves there to witness
ur incoming. In one square a relic
f an old merry go-round told of hap B
Ter days. but on every side there We're o
yidences of the pitiless siege and of
.arvation.
SCANTY BILL OF FARE.
O'Clock. There General Toral intro OF
nced General Shafter and the other
merican generals to the alcalde. Senior
erer. and TO the chief of police, Senior tr
ciitillerrez. as well as TO the other al
unicipal authorities. Luncheon was 4,
len served at the palace. The menu \
insisted of rum. wine. coffee rice and