The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1898-07-06
OUR TROOPS IN Good CONDITION.
Foreign ConSuls Urging the Span
iards to Surrender.
THEY WILL FIGHT TO THE LAST

Is the Opinion of Wal officials at Washing
ton-General Skaters Loss in Killed and
Wounded Is Now Known to Have Reached
Seventeen Hundred-Tugitives From San
tiago Landed by British and Austrian
Warships at Kingston, Jamaica-A Res
olution in Congress Which Recognizes
Commodore Schley as the Real Hero of
the Destruction of Cervera's Fleet.
Washington, July G.-Last night was
a comparatively quiet one at both the
war and navy departments. Several
dispatches were received by Adjutant
General Corbin from General Shafter,
but their contents were not given to
the public. No bulletins had been
posted at midnight either by the war
department or by the navy department.
A message received from General
Shafter indicates that the situation of
the people of Santiago is terrible. They
are not only panic stricken over the
fear Of bombardment. but they are
suffering from lack Of the actual
necessaries of life. In one of his cable
grams General Shafter says:
"The town (%Santiago) is in a ter
rible condition as to food. The peo-
pie are starving. Rice is practically
the only staple article of food they
have" Further along in the same dis
patch Shafter says that the growing
crops in the vicinity of the city have
already been utilized by the residents
of the city, and that the only growing
article of food left is a few mangoes.
Speaking of the troops under his
command, General Shafter says
"The men are in good spirits and
remarkably we'll"
In the course of another dispatch
General Shafter, referring to the CON
dition of those injured, saysl
"All the wounded are doing singu-
larly well, only II death having oc-
Cured since the battle"
A private %cablegram received from
General Sumner, formerly colonel OF
the Sixth cavalry, stationed at Fort
Meyer, Va, near this city, says:
"All Fort Meyers officers safe and
we'll"
The glad tidings received from both
General Shafter and General Sumner
concerning the condition Of the troops
and particularly the wounded, will be
received with joy in all parts of the
country.
General Skaters statement of the
situation In Santiago is borne out by
the condition of the men captured by
the American fleet from the vessels of
Ceryera's squadron, They had been
on half rations so long that many of
them were nearly famished, and if
they had not been taught that capture
by the Americans meant death they
would have welcomed it, because it
insured them good food and plenty of
it.
1t is learned a~uthoritatively that
tremendous pressure is being brought
to bear upon the Spanish commander
of Santiago by the foreign consuls
resident in the city to induce him, in
the interests of humanity, to sur
render to the inevitable. The consuls
have communicated with their home
governments, and it is believed here
that representations will be made by
them to Spain to induce her to permit
the city to surrender, thereby pre-
venting further loss of life and prop
erty. What the result of these nego-
tlations may be cannot be foretold.
The opinion expressed by war officials
is that the %Spaniards will fight to the
last, and capitulate only when they
are forced to do so, For that reason
any delay of offensive action against
the city is not regarded in army circles
with favor.