Evening star., 1898-07-25
GLAD TO SURRENDER
Spanish Troops Delighted to Return
Home.
ON FHE VERGE OF STARVATION
General Shafter VIII Send Them
Rations.
PROGRESS OF THE FEVER

PROG RESS OF THE FEVER
The adjutant general received the follow
ing dispatch from Gen. Shafter at Santiago
last night:
SANTIAGO. via Haiti, July "a.
Adjutant General Of the Army, Washing
ton:
Lieut.. Miley has returned from San Luis
and Palma Soriano, where he went four
days ago to receive surrender of Spanish
troops. The number surrendered was
larger than Gen. Toral reported-3.oo5 Span
ish troops and $50 volunteer guerrilas
Volunteers gave up their arms and gave
parole, and have gone 10 work. Three
thousand stands of arms were turned in,
loaded on OK carts and started to the rail-
roads. Spanish troops accompanied Miley
to San Luis, and all apparently greatly de-
lighted at prospects of returning home.
They were on the verge of starvation, and
l have to send them rations tomorrow.
If the numbers keep up as they have there
viii be about 24,000 TO ship away-nearly
1000 here, 1900 from San LUIS, 6,000 from
Guantanamo and over 1000 at Sagua and
Baracoa. SHAFTER.
Major General Commanding.
The War Department last night received
the following from Gen, Shafter dated
Santiago, Saturday:
Colonel of engineers Spanish army has
Just arrived from Guantanamo. He heard
from French consul there that Santiago
mad surrendered, and that they had been
included. Not crediting it, he was sent
mere to verify the fact. They will be very
glad to accept terms of surrender; very
short of rations, and | shall have to begin
IeedlnS them at once. He tells me there
are G,Oo0 men at that place. Am now feed
ing o,ooo well prisoners here and 900 sick
IN IN hospital; Expect 1000 men in tomorrow
from San Luis and Palmas. VIII send an
oHicer tomorrow or next day with one of
Gen Iorals to receive surrender at Guam
tanamo and then go to Sagua and Baracoa
ber of prisoners will be fully up to the es
innate, 1900 or 1900"
Progress of the Fever.
A dispatch received by Adjutant General
Corbin last night says that 396 new cases of
fever of all classes were reported in Ger.
Shafter's camp before Santiago Saturday,
AS the same dispatch reports only four
ceaths-and none of them from yellow
fever-from among the hundreds of cases
OF fever known to exist in the camp the
war authorities are more than ever in
chned to the belief that the cases of yellow
lever are of a mild type
Previous dispatches from Gen Sha fter
and the medical officers of his corps have
lidicated the existence in the camp of. a
very large number of cases of malarial and
Gehgue fever, the latter being peculiar to
the Cuban climate.
Some clear cases of yellow fever ara 70
ported, but the officials say they are few
as compared with those of other fevers.
zen Skaters dispatch was as follows:
Number OF new cases of fever of all
classes Tor yesterday approximately BOG
Deaths not previously reported-Private
Daniel A. Stone, Company d. Ist Illinois
Inlantry, typhoid fever, July 20; Sergt J.
blair' reglmentai quartermaster, 18th In
1antry, died July 22 of dengue fever and
asthenia; and on July % of malariaI fever,
frlVates William Peacock and CARAT
Learueshock, both of Company E, I'd In
fantry."
Gen. Shafter reported as follows Satur-
day:
Following men died at yellow fever hos
pltal at Slboney today: Jack Dongau civil
ian; Bert Louis, bandsman, 9TH Infantry:
drlVate Frederick a Percival. Company +,
sd Michigan. On the 21st-Sergt. j. Brit
ton, Troop G, 1st Cavalry; VIM. J. Howe.
teamster; Patrick Sullivan, Company Z,
1th Infantry
No deaths at front have been reported
as yet. Complete report will be sent in
morning. The situation is not aIarn9inp
though there are many sick with fever
about 130o (eXact number will be given In
morning. only small part of those sick
ere Gown with yellow fever, about 10 per
cent l5o In all. Slight changes of all the
troops have been made to get them on
iresh ground, and the artillery and cavalry
nave been moved about three miles"
Condition of the Troops.
General Shafter reported by cable yester-
day that the condition of the troops at San
tiago was rapidly improving. and he hoped,
IN the course of day or two, to have them
all located in comfortable camps where
they may rest and recuperate and the sick
may recover. He is feeding IL 900 of the
Spanish prisoners of war, and, although
he has not yet been able to furnish them
with tents, yet this deficiency is being made
good, and. after all, their present condition
is no worse in that respect than was their
condition before the surrender. The gem
eral made no mention of the alleged letter
from Garcia to himself, nor did ne sneak
of any friction between them whence the
department has come to doubt the anthem
ITCHY of published stories on these SUBJ
jects.
In his report to the War Department
relatlNe TO condltlons at Santiago, General
Shafter has thrown some light upon the
difficulties in which certain of the news
paper correspondents there have involved
themselves 1t appears that animated by
an ambition to take a prominent part in
the important events following eacn other
in rapid succession at Santiago after the
initiation of the negotiations for the sur
render of the city, few of the correspond
ents were guilty of grave brea ches of mill
tary law, necessitating prompt corrective
action by General Shafter.
scovel Expelled.
Thus, for instance, one correspondent
(Sylvester ScoveD. in his efforts to take
part in the flag raising over the city hall,
resisted the military officers in the execu-
ton of their duty and even attempted q
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