The age-herald., 1898-08-02
GEN. SKATER
Sends Commissioners Report of Surren-
 der to State Department. a

Washington, Aug. 1.-The secretary of war has received the following letter from General Shafter transmitting the commits sioners' report of the surrender of the Spanish army at Santiago:
 Camp, Before Santiago de Cuba, July 2S, 1898:
 take the liberty Of sending to you this afternoon a copy of the agreement of the commissioners on my part and the com missioners on the part of Spain for the surrender of Eastern Cuba. The schedule just received shows there to be a little over 22000 men and officers-about 6,0t0 more men than I have anticipated, ard I am plad to say that they got all theze men with very little loss of life. compared to what it would have been if we had fought them again. Santiago is simply a network of Qualifications at every street corner.
 had no proper conception of it's strength until I went into it, although I knew these old stone towns were naturally very strong. Everything is going admira- bly, so far as to transferring is concerned; and the Spanish troops are behaving well. as they are perfectly delighted at the thoughts of getting home.
 I send to you personally telegram or Gefr-ral Linares to his government, which one of the consuls gave me. It shows the straits to which they were put and the feelings that animated them. He stated
  so that it was impossible for him to get away; and I could wait and he could not
 send out tomorrow morning to receive something over 2,000 men up in the ln- terior short distance-about thirty miles and in two or three days will send to cuantanamo to receive the 1000 that have surrendered there They should be snip .u1ndS ol loeIIp Heq omsueluenD uoIJ pod There are also 800 men each from Baracoa and Sagua de Lantmo on the north coast I will send an officer armed with opaiiish officer to take their arms and military sup plies. .,
 We have gotten a great deal more than I had any idea of getting in the way or munitions of war. In everything put ioou they were well supplied. Have got lew beautiful modern, high power guns-apout a dozen. ., ,. 1x,,o sickness and it is for that reason that have wired you so earnestly apout se''iiis these prisoners away so that we eaii e m in the mountains with my comIna,lo fifteen or twenty miles at the eno oI 'he railway at San Luis, which is said to pc very healthy. It is. at any rate, about 1 5o0 feet above the sea and has conihu- nication by rail with Santiago.
 So far there is no fever in santiago; suppose it is because there IS no one theIe except immunes. Three eases o,,'y toi1s far this year and the English consul leiis there was very little last year
 Of those here who served throughout the civil war. all declare that they did not have anything that would compare With IL for bardshins Only one set of clothes officers have. rained on till today, carrying three days rations like the men, on their nerson and suffering every pr1vatlon tfla' any man can: added to all these prlVatloii7' in addition, all the horrors of disease Tn an unknown land, and very limited accommo- dations should they be wounoeo. LIZ
 1~.vf army was simply grand I can recall no instance where greater surrender mas been made than this. The hnal suIreiloei as. of General Toral and his generals to my self and my generals was highly dramalic, as well as the hoisting of the flag over the city of Santiago one of the oldest ci,ies' on this continent.
 want to thank you and thep resident for the words of cheer that nave come eo us and to say that none Of us nave eve. doubted that every effort possible 10 make our lives as secure and our situation as comfortable as possible would be done.