The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1898-07-20
STREAM on REFUGEES.
STEPHEN CRANE DESCRIBES THEIR
FLIGHT FROM SANTIAGO.

snanf.h Deserters Said to BE Among Those
Within Our Lines at El Caney - Many
Are Women Who Meet Insurgens KIN.
dred-Amazed at Our Kind Treatment.
Writing from 81 Caney, Cuba, under
the date of July 5, Stephen Crane de.
scribas in the New York World how
the refugees paared into our lines from
Santiago as follows:
During today's lull in the hostilitiea
steady stream Of refugees has poured
into our lines from the beleaguered city
of Santiago. Women, by far. have been
in the majority. Men, strong and able
bodied, have been few indeed. Spain
has urgent need of such, wherefore
Santiago has given mp few more than
wrecked and helpless creatures, too far
upon the road to death to aid i'll staying
our advance. Yet, as the truce advanc.
ed, it changed the number and the char.
acter Of these refugees. More men flock.
ed in young men and strong men. Ger.
2inly among them We're deserters.
There was the air of the true Spaniard
about them. They had cast aside theiI
distinguishing uniforms to be sure, but
they could not so easily disguise the
ways and bearing of the soldier. I'm.
dOubredly they were3renegades. But,
then what matter? They were permit.
tel within the lines, the one place
where they would filld safety from the
impending avalanche Of death soon to
roll down upon Santiago from the hill.
side.
One saw in this great, gaunt assem-
blage the true horror Of war. The sick,
the lame, the halt and the blind were
there. Women and men, tottering upon
the verge of death, plodded doggedly on.
ward. Beyond were our lines and safe
ty But so long had this same horror Of
war been before them that no longer
could they feel its hOrridness. Their ali
was stolid and Indifferent. 1t was a for.
Iorn hope at the best. If this was safety,
well and good If death, what differ.
ence how it came.
IN sharp contrast to this one saw now
and again women radiant with JOY.
These were the kindred of the insur.
gents. Some had been separated from
'noSe stout hearts in the field for many
weary weeks---yes, months and even
years. AT the crest of that weary slope
Iney knew whom they should find.
lolnng upward and onward they press
co. and finally, with glad cries, in the
great gathering of troops they came
upon the ones they sought. This indeed
was another side of war.
AGAIN, in the throng toiling on to
S%ItIy were men and women carried in
CLalrs and litters, some even in cot beds.
UuI ambulances went forth to meet
'nelI' Linen when these stolid, hopeless,
unlln FASHIONED ones found the dreaded
IInellly receiving and aiding them with
~lnUness they showed for the first time
sInle trace of feeling. What! Should
tn0Se mad, despised Americanos spend
Sllie aiding the weak and agedl This
was wonder indeed. But though the
H aalier1cans' hands were turned to doing
SSou'Ieness 1t was otherwise with those
spanish miserables, Spain's ignoble
hue tbtue' the guerillas. They lurked along
So 5oausldes, eager and ready for blood.
~ rneu plunder and unnamable wicked.
n oa, 10 drive them back the American
90 aoairy patrolled the road of the refu.
0'IS, "hereupon the guerrillas withdrew.
srx Al the church in Caney the American
ms aseons We're laboring among the enc.
o.. surely wounded. Here 90 Spanish
mon. unoer treatment. Their amaze.
t tson' was profound. In the center Of
M mo church lies one of the Spanish com.
Ta aaiuers sorely wounded. There never
H. q more astonished man than he.
im no One Others he believed his position
ora plegnable How any mortal could
matt mat me zone of fire and survive was a
il % ,r beyond his ken. By the saints,
ssr m"s miracle Three thousand Mau.
waro ne knew to his own knowledge.
gnara Eal1ed down the one slope he
ed lieu Yet had the Americans plung.
all Trough hasgh the rain Of death and driven
his azure arno them. Almost as great was
self s ans at our treatment Of him