The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1898-07-22

though no attempt was made to humil-
late them, the Spanish soldiers seemed
to feel their disgrace keenly and scarce
ly glanced at their conquerors as they
passed by.
DONs INDIFFERENT TO REVERSE
Rather Glad In Some Gases - Assault
Would Have Been Terrible.
But this apparent depth Of feeling was
not displayed by the other regiments.
Without being sulen the spaniards APP
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 scanned to rejoice
at the prospect of g. cd food and an i'm
mediate return to Spain. General Toral
throughout the ceremony was sorely
detected. When General Shafter intro
duced him by name to each member of
his staff the Span sh general appeared
to he very broken man. He seems to
be about 60 years Of age, and OF frail
constitution. General Toral replied with
an air of abstraction to the words ad-
dressed to him, and when he accom-
panied General Shafter, at the head of
the escort, into the city to take formal
possession of Santiago he spoke but few
words.
Only once did the faint shadow of a
smile Turk about the corners of his
mouth. This was when the caValcada
passed through barbed wire entangle-
ment. No body of infantry could ever
have got through this defence alive,
and General Skaters remark about its
resisting power found the first crafty
ing echo in the defeated generals heart
Farther along the desperate character
of the Spanish resistance, as planned,
amazed our officers. Although primitive
1t was we'll done. Each approach to the
city was thrice barricaded and wired,
and the barbados were high enough
and sufficiently strong to withstand
snapneL The slaughter among our
troops would have been frightful had it
ever become necessary to storm the
city. The squalor in the streets was
frightful. The bones of dead horses and
other animals were bleaching in the
streets and buzzards as tame as spar
rows hoped aside to let us pass.
The palace was reached on after 10
o'clock. There General Toral introduced
General Shafter and the other Ameri-
can generals to the alcalde, Senior Forer,
and to the chief of police, Senior Gull
tillerreZ, as well as to the other mu-
nicipal authorities. Luncheon was then
served at the palace The meal con-
sisted mainly of rum, wine, coffee. rice
and toasted cake. This scant fare oc-
casioned many apologies upon the part
of the Spaniards, but it spoke eloquent
ly of their heroic resist ance e. The )s n
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 had been cut
off for the last few days At noon, att
er the American flag had been raised.
General Shafter turned the city over to
General McKibbn, who, with the Ninth
infantry. will enforce order In conjunc-
ton with the civil authorities.
Territory ToraI Has Given Up.
The territory surrendered to us by
General Toral makes about 5000 square
miles. The Spanish garrison of San
tiago is estimated at 10000 men. The
line begins at Ascerraderos, about fiji.
teen mics west OF Santiago harb r. and
then runs due north about twenty-five
miles to Palmo Soriana had the line
continued due north 1t would have
passed west of Helguin. thus TAX NJ the
Spanish garrison at that point. Evil
IDENTIFY General Toral wished to avoid
the inclusion of Holguin, so the line
turns abruptly to the northeast of
Palmo and runs to the coast town of
Boca del Sagua. The extreme length
of this surrendered tract is about ITO
miles and the extreme width alb ut fifty
miles. taper;ng to a less width.
More Prizes for the Navy.
Six or seven steamers in the harbor
fall az prisoners to the army and navy
The Spanish gunboat Alvarez already
had been taken possession of by prize
crew from the New York. Soon after
noon Commodore Schley, with Captain
Cook, of the Brooklyn; Lieutenant J. II.
Sears, the flag lieutenant; Lieutenant
B. w. Wells. the flag secretary, and
three invited correspondents of the AS
ISOLATED Press, went into the harbor on
steam launch which moved slowly in
order to make close observations of the
Spanish forts and batteries. The Moro
fort STANDS on the bluff, terrace fash
Ion. From the waters edge to the cliff
there are numerous caves, formed by
the action of the waves, and round the
base and in the superstructure are not
a few caves made by the navy's pro-