The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-07-20
Meeting of the American Generals
with the Spanish Officers. and the
Ride Into the City. .t'..'---.-
SOME PICTURESQUE SCENES
HUMILIATION OF TORAL AND HIS
MEN PLAINLY APPARENT.
Luncheon That Indicated the Poverty
of the Enemy'e COmmissary--Spanis
Ladies Who Averted Their Faces.
Copyright. 1898, by the Associated Press.y

A(OpyTEnt, 1880 Dy the Associated treSSJ
SANTIAGO DE CUBA, July is, via Kings
TOM Jamaica, July 10, 11:15 a. m.-The
events preceding the hosting of the Amer
lean flag over the governors palace here.
amid the booming of guns, the strains of
martial music anG the wild cheering of
twenty thousand men along seven miles
of .intrenchments; were full of interest.
Shortly after g. o'clock ON. Monday, morning
Lieutenant Crook, of General Skaters
staff. entered the city and all the arms in
the arsenal were turned over to him. The
work of removing the mines which OBJ
structed navigation at the entrance of the
harbor had been progressing. all night. At
about o'clock General Toral, the Spanish
commander. sent his sword to General
Shafter as evidence of his submission. and
at S:45 a. m. all the general officers and
their STATS assembled a General Skaters
headquarters. Each regiment was drawn
up along the crest of the heights.
General Shafter and his generals. with
mounted escorts of 100 picked men of the
Second Cavalry. then rode over our trenches
to the open ground at the foot of the hill
on the main road to Santiago, midway to
the then deserted Spanish works There
they were met by General Toral and his
staff, all in full uniform and mounted, and
a select detachment of Spanish troops.
What followed took place in full view of
our. troops. The scene picturesque
and dramatic. General Shafter, with his
generals and stats grouped Immediately in
the rear and with the troops of cavalrymen
with drawn sabers on the left, advanced
to meet the vanqushed foe.
After a few words of courteous greeting,
T General Skaters first act was to return
General Torals sword. The Spanish gen.
5 eral appeared to be touched by the com
plimentary words with which General Shat
ter accompanied this action and he thanked
the American commander feelingly. Then
followed short conversation, as to the
place selected for the Spanish forces to de-
post their arms, and Spanish infantry
detachment marched forward to a position
facing cavalry, where the Spaniards
halted. The latter were without their col
ors. Eight Spanish trumpeters then sa-
luted and were saluted in return by our
trumpeters, both giving fiourishes for lieu
tenant generals and major generals.
LIKE THE DEAD MARCH.
General Toral then personally ordered the
Spanish company. which. in miniature rep
resented the forces under his command, to
ground arms Next, by his direction, the
company wheeled and marched across our
line into the road and thence to the place
selected for camping them. The Spaniards
moved rapidly to the quick notes of the
Spanish march, played by the trumpeters,
but 1t impressed one like the Dead March
from Saul.
Although no attempt was made to humili-
ate them. the Spanish soldiers seemed to
feel their disgrace keenly. and scarcely
glanced at their conQuerors as they passed
nv. But this annarent depth of feeling
not displayed by the other regiments. With
out being sullen. the Spaniards appeared to
be utterly indifferent to the reverses suf-
fered by the Spanish arms, and some of
them. when not under the eyes of their
officers, seemed to rejoice at the prospect
of good food and an immediate return to
Spain
General Toral throughout the ceremony
was sorely detected. When General Shafter
introduced him by name to each member of
his staff the Spanish general appeared to be
sixty years of age and of frail constitution,
though stern resolution is shown by every
feature. The Lies are strongly marked and
his face is deep drawn as If in physical
pain General Toral replied with an air of
abstraction to the words addressed to him.
and when he accompanied General Shafter
at the head of the escort into the city TO
take formal possession of Santiago General
Toral spoke but few words. The appealing
back into the city did not move him. nor
did the groups of Spanish soldiers lining the
road and gazing curiously at the fair
skinned. stalwart-framed conQuerors. Only
once did the faint shadow of a smile Turk
about the corners of his mouth This was
when the cavalcade passed through a
baTbed wire ENHANCEMENT. No body of in
fantry could ever have got through this de-
Tense alive. and General Skaters remark
about its resisting power found the first
gratifying echo in the defeated generals
heart.
THRICE BARRICADED AND WIRED
Further along the desperate character If
the Spanish resistance, as planned. amazed
our officers. Although primitive. it was
well done. Each approach to the city was
thrice barricaded and wired. and the barri-
cades were high enough and sufficiently
strong to Withstand shrapnel. The slaugh-
ter among our troops would have been
frightful had IL ever become necessary TO
storm the city. Around the hospitals and