The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-07-15
SANTIAGO De CUBA SURRENDERED TO SHAFTER
Ta Realized the Hopeess His Position Accepted the Offered
Him All Eastern Cuba Included in the Surrender Com
missoners Arranged Details

uniform. with heavy riding boots and
jingling spurs. The Cuban general wore
a large, weatherworn Panama hat and
at his side was a silver mounted ma
chete. General Garcia has a strong,
swarthy face, with a deep bullet scar
in his forehead. In a general way he
is not unlike a Cuban edition of Cen
eral Miles. General Wheeler, with
grizzled beard, small of stature, and in
a brown campaign uniform, faced the
three officers mentioned. while about
them sat the aides de camp of the four
generals.
Assistant Naval Constructor Hobson,
the hero of the Merrimac. who had come
to headquarters with messages from
Rear Admiral Sampson, was also pres
ent. The situation was discussed with
the aid of a profusion Of maps, and
at the conclusion of the conference
luncheon was served. 1t consisted Of
beans. hard tack and coffee. After this
General Miles, General Shafter and
General Garcia, with their STATS, rode
off to inspect the position on the right
flank They all agreed that General
Toral was securely wedged in and that
escape was impossible. but owing to de-
laws and the possible loss of life which
was certain to result from an attempt
to carry the town by assault, the dan
ger to our troops from fever and dis
ease, and, above all. the fact that the
Spanish fleet was destroyed. which has
been the real object of the campaign,
il seemed to be the general disposition
TO allow General Toral to evacuate San
tiago This would give us military
and naval base. permit the starving
refugees to return to their homes and
would allow the immediate embarkation
of the bulk of our army for the Porto
Rico campaign.
The rain now falls in sheets every day,
drenching the soldiers, washing out the
roads and swelling the streams into tor
rents. In fact, our base of supplies is
actually threatened by the mountain
streams. Two bridges have been car
ried away this afternoon after a down.
fall in which an inch and a half of rain
fell. The Aguadores river is impass-
able; the water. shoulder high, Is run
ming like a small Niagara. A mule am
bulance which attempted to cross the
river was carried 200 yards down the
stream.
Colonel Roosevelt is one of those who
believe the army is threatened with
great disaster unless General Toral and
his troops are allowed to depart The
situation has been comm Lnicated to
Washington and 1T is conidered prob
able that the condition composed in
| the American propositions for sur
render will be modified. Two of Cen
eral Randolph's batteries reached the
front to-day and were posted in the
| center of General Lawton's division OF
| the right, where they command the
| town beyond our lines and over the
| churches hospitals and other public
buildings flying the Red Cross flag to
| the eastern edge of the city.
The belief is common among our OFF,
| Ger that end is close at hand and that
| Santiago will be ours before next Mon
day without further fighting. Already
I q. Of he fnt hA
future, as outlined. are based on the
fall of the city. The plans of the gen.
| erals are not to allow our troops to en-
| ter the city except a garrison of i'm
| munes which will remain here, proof
| against the yellow fever. Until ready
| for embarkation of the transports at
| the city piers our men will be camped
on the heights surrounding Santiago,
| where the water is good. Instructions
! have been issued to the soldiers to boil
| their drinking water. but owing to the
poverty of their equipments, this is al
most impossible.
The rainy season has accelerated the
| spread of malarial and other fevers. In
| some of the regiments over a third of
the men are unfit for duty. General
| Chaffee, in addition to General Duff
| field. is suffering from fever.
General Miles was received with great
| enthusiasm all along the line and was
| greeted with cheers on all sides. The
| general expressed himself as exceed
| ingly gratified at the strength of our
| position and at the character OF the
| works thrown up. He complmented
many of the commanding officers per-
| sonally on the work accomplished. To
| a correspondent of the associated press
General Miles said he was proud to
| command an army which had carried
| the lines of hills on which our center
| rests. He added that there was no
| prouder page in our military annals
| than that written on July /. In con-
! clusion General Miles remarked that
he felt satisfied from General Toral5
manner and words that he was anx-
| ious TO surrender.