The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1898-07-29
SOON Be BACK AGAIN
Disguised Soldiers Expect to
See More of Cuba.
CUBANS MAY BE TO LICK
If so There'Il Be Good viii in
the Licking.

Before Santiago de Cuba July .. Cor
respondence Of the Associated Pressl-The
American soldiers encamped on the hill
Oents have been waiting day after dAy.
for the result OF the conference between
Spain and tie C1ied States 10 De made
known. L was learned yesterday that
Santiago had capitUlated. THIS news was
sent along the lines right and left from
General wheeler's Headquarters by Colo
mel John Jacob Astor. and with 1t went in
Strucaon that our boys were to make no
demonstrations % joy. in order aha. ~.
feelings OF the Spaniards in the trenches
a few hundred yards away would nor be
hurt by che echoing OF victorious cheers.
There was. however. some cheering
among the crowded tents when our men
learned thar he object OF three wek.s
nshting. hunger and hardship. had been
/ attained
| During the afternoon men climbed 60
/ me trenches TO look again at the city they
/ had taken but were not allowed 20 enter.
and some were glad for peace and otnerA
+ called for more fighting.
me strain OF the watching and waiting
was removed and the soldiers busted them
serves getting as comfortably fixed in
me camp as the mud would perm1
AT sunset. yesterday. as the regiment
bands AL along the lines played national
airs. as is the camp custom. and as a tired
slider boy hummed The words OF the "SsaI
Spangled Banner 10 the bands time
ne chanted the victory ne had not been
permitted to cheer.
Tho
alone the fighting that scattered tAA
graves OF comrades side by side with che
tents OF the living have been spaerdtcly
sustained by our men. Now that tbs
heavy rains OF the first OF this week havs
ceased. conditions are better, but rain
clouds cover the sky every day. and any
hour may see knee deep rivers swe~nsnx
through camp and IT may be next 90 TN
possible to start TO Siboney 20 cook food.
Then food has been scarce: the roads froun
here TO Sfboney have been almost frnpas-
sable during the rains. and at ell times
they have been rough. and tsaz1ainx hss
been heavy. When men put up with ehres
pieces OF haFd tack and half a cup-of oof-
fee day the question OF nutrnnent IN
serious and when unseasoned solTars 70
u hours without sleep tt can be truly
said they endure hardshfps- Bur ahev
have borne II al with fine courage and
good nature that was never lonSabsent
With the courage and determination OF
our men. one notes the excellent physical
condition OF our mules and horses after
three weeks OF the heaviest kind OF In
cessant labor. All day long and far into
the night pack trains and provision VIZ
gons toll up 20 the front and the Red Cros.
ambulances bring back the slck and
wounded.
Poor Cuban women. footsore. starving
and weary. drag themselves along he
muddy roads from Caney in a search for
food and our men and smbuiances pick
them UP and succor them. At e Caney
the food Is insufficient Weaw women
and children get none and Starvation there
IS growing rapidly.
A Cuban woman from Il Cauey STAR
ggred into camp this morning. She vas
pale and plnched and the ragged silk dress
that half covered her body. spoke OF past
luxury and refinement more than di6
her features and her despair and utter s1-
hausuon. She did not ask for food bus
for work She washed clothes from The
hospital tent for half a day IN return for
food and sat down to shs welcome army
fare with hands bleeding from toe IN
accustomed labor. At dusk she turned
YEARLY back toward Fl CAney. six miles
away. tho richer By ore meal
The camps have up TO this day been
pitched where bad conditions existed and
heir locations have been seldom rood
from the point OF comfort and heAloh.
The country affords good sites and WEseH
me the evacuation condition are seersA
md. the cspl,ulation properly confirmed,
;hanges will be made
An unsettled feeling pervases ne nna
IND men gather together psrzoDaj be-
ongings and ar looking over old Satsls-
ields for Eslsucntocs of the three days
iEht and ten days weary szla1e
A farmers boy from Michigan WI -
,uro me horn handled pocket knife OF q
lead p.aHan, from ne AStgrias a. = SOU
'euir 20 the American lad OF the cGys
e fought 10 free Cuba
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I71lsizstie and generous back 81 5rehiraa
yer ne idea OF aghonK 20 hsip IA
trugguug Cubans gain TIE saus !lb.rt1
rom Spain that his forsfsSserE von for
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