The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-05-01
Frightful Condition of Affairs at
Santiago dc Cuba.
MURDER AND RAPINE
THREATENED. so SOON AS bonn
BARDMENT BEGINS.
Under Penalty of Death the Spanish
General Proclaimed That Every
Man Between 5 and so Must En-
roll-Prices of Provisions Beyond
Reach of the Poor.

Santiago de Cuba, April q (via
steamer Remus, filed at Port Antonio,
Jamaica, April 29.)-(Copyrighted. 1898,
by the Associated Press.)-Don Arsen-
so Linares Pombo, commandant gen.
eral of this division of Cuba, proclaimed
four days ago that every man between
Is and so years of age must enroll that
night with the volunteers for military
service, under penalty of arrest and
military trial and death.
Senior Chucho Manduley, magistrate
of the high court of Santiago, and
known as an intense Spanish sympa-
thizer, one of the most prominent men
in the city, left for the camp of the
Cuban General Chevalos. He was &C
companied by several men, and his go
ing produced a vivid impression. The
exodus from the city has continued by
night, the Spaniards making no oppo-
sition, except that a few men have
been arrested as examples.
Five thousand persons have left for
the country since the panic, four-fifths
being women and children.
MURDER AND RAPINE.
The Spanish soldiery now assume a
bullying attitude, and threaten to kill
every Cuban man and to outrage every
Cuban woman left in the city when
the DlOChdQ6 DcSluS. w Il0H the -AUlCI-
lean fleet appears, as 1T is daily eX-
pected TO do, all the non-combatants
will be expelled.
Though the governor Of the city, En-
rique Capreles, has seized for the gov
eminent all the large store of food in
private hands, many shops still do
business with small stocks, the prices
doubling day by day. Monday meat
was 40 cents a pound, Tuesday 20 cents
and today it is 81 a pound. Other prices
in gold today are: Rice, "a cents
pound; beans, q; -four, IS, and lard, 3d.
Chickens are $3.50 apiece.
LIES TO THE PEOPLE.
The governor announced today, to
quiet public alarm, that a ship loaded
Z with provisions was expected, but
where from and what her name is no
body knows. The story is not believed.
The Spanish soldiers, especially the
sick. are abominably fed Fourteen
hundred sick in the military hospital
here get nothing except bean soup three
times a day, with an ounce OF meat
to a plate. One thousand soldiers in
San Luis hospital have had only salt
fish this week. and conditions are now
so bad that the Spaniards would al
most rejoice TO surrender after one
good fight.
PREPARATIONS FOR DEFENSE.
The preparations for defense go for
ward. A new battery has been erected
at the west harbor entrance with four
rapid-fire guns, and this correspondent
hears 10 or y more rapid-fire, small
caiiber guns viii be mounted on MORO
and the east side battery. The MORO
fort has at least so ancient brass can
non, marked 1854 There are reports
about torpedOes in the channel and
harbor, but they are confusing. Prep
arations have certainly been made to
lay tOrpedoes, but whether it has been
actually done is not known. Strong
floating mines are ready TO be placed
The Spaniards assemble nightly in the
chief streets, yelling Long live Spain
and Death TO the Yankeesi"
The military authorities seem to
have title control of the soldier.r and
the disorderiy elements. Spanish sill
yer is at A. per cent premium. The
bank notes issued by the government
bank at Havana are practically worth
less and sometimes pass for to cents
on the dollar.
ANTI-BRITISH FEELING.
Kingston, Jamaica, April 3O.-Mr
Evans, the colonial secretary, refused
today to allow an American vessel to
ship 20 loads for New York, defining it
as contraband of war.
The cable TO Santiago de Cuba. is
working a hours q, day. Spanish cipher
messages are sent and received. The
Cubans who have just arrived here by
the steamer Remus assert that a strong
anti-British feeling prevails in San
tiago de Cuba The street crowds a
: few nights ago cried, Death to the En-
glish," in front of the British consul
late, and they threw stones at the con-
sui. who has charge of the American
relief work. He has been threatened
with personal violence. The authorities
have placed a guard over the consul
ate