The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-07-20
sANTIAGo,s SURRENDER.
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 Without being sulIen the Spaniards ap- peared to 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 secretly rejoice at the prospect of food and an immediate return to Spain.
 General Toral throughout the cere- mony was sorely dejected. When Gen eral Shafter introduced him by name to each member of his staff, the Spanish general appeared to be very broken man. He seems to be about sixty years of age and of frail constitution, though stern resolution is shown on every feat ure. The lines are strongly marked and his face is deep drawn, as if in physical pain. General Toral replied with an air of abstraction to the words address ed to him and when he accompanied General Shafter at the head of the es- cort into the city to take formal poses sion of Santiago, General Toral spoke but few words. The appealing faces of the starving refugees streaming back into the city did not move him, nor did the groups of Spanish soldiers lining lllt lOdd etlll StlAlllS Cll 1Ouoly el lllS fair skinned, stalwart framed conquer ors. Only once did the faint shadow of a smile turk about the corners of his mouth. This was when the cavalcade passed through barbed wire entangle- ment. No body of infantry could ever have got through this fence alive and General Shafter's remark about it's re- sisting power found the first gratifying echo in the defeated generals heart.
 Further along the desperate charac- ter of the Spanish resistance as plan- ned amazed our officers. Although primitive it was we'll done. Each ap- proach to the city was thrice barricad- ed and wired, and the barricades were high enough and sufficiently strong to withstand shrapnel. The slaughter among our troops would have been frightful had it ever become necessary to storm the city. Around the hospi- tals and public buildings and along the west side of the line there were addi tional works and emplacements for guns, though no guns were mounted in them. The streets of Santiago are crooked, with narrow lines of one-story houses, most of which are very dilapi- dated, but every veranda of every house was thronged by it's curious in habitants and disarmed soldiers. These were mostly of the lower classes. Sev- eral Spanish ladies in tumbledown car- riages averted their faces as we passed.
 The squa1or in the streets was fright full The bones of the dead horses and other animals were bleaching in the streets and buzzards as tame as spar rows, hopped aside to let us pass The windows of the hospitals, in which there are over 1,500 sick men, were crowded with invalids who dragged themselves there to witness our incom- ing. In one square, a relic of an old merry go round told of happier days, but on every side there were evidences of the pitiless siege and of starvation. The palace was reached soon after 10 o'clock. There General Toral introduc- ed General Shafter and the other Amer ican generals to the a1calde, Senor Fe- rore, and to the chief of police, Senor Guiltillerrez, as we'll as to the other municipal authorities.
 Luncheon was then served at the pal ace. The meal consisted mainly of rum, wine, coffee, rice and toasted cake This scant fare occasioned many apologies upon the part of the Spaniards, but it spoke eloquently of their heroic resist ance. The fruit supply of the city was absolutely exhausted and the 9pan- iards had nothing to live on except rice on which the soldiers in the trenches of Santiago have subsisted for the last twelve days. In addition the water supply of the city has been cut off for the last few days. After the refugees left Santiago and the surrender of the city was evident, a reign of terror ex- isted. The city business was stopped and the troops sacked and plundered everything at will At noon, after the American flag had been hoisted, Gen. eral Shafter turned the city over tc General McKfbben who, with the Nintt infantry will enforce order in conjunc- tion with the civil authorities. The Spanish soldiers are camped between the lines on the reverse slope of the hil on which are our entrenchments Many of them believed, as they have been told so, that the United States has purchased Cuba and that our govern ment will pay them their arrears oi pay and return them to Spain. They repudiate the idea that they have sur rendered.