The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-07-20
HOW SKATER ENTERED.
A Graphic Story of the Ceremonies At
tending the Cspituiation.
right 1898 by Associated Press.

tending the Capitu1ation.
Copyright 1898 by Associated Press.
Santiago de Cuba, July is, via Kings
ton, July 10, 11:15 a. m.-The events pre-
ceding the hosting of the American flag
over the governors palace here, amid
the booming of guns, the strains of
martial music and the wild cheering of
1000 men along seven miles of entrench-
ments, were full of interest.
Shortly after 6 o'clock on Monday
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
obstructed navigation at the entrance
of the harbor had been progressing all
night. About Z 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 gem
eral officers and their staffs assembled
at General Skaters headquarters Each
regiment was drawn up along the cres-
cent of the heights.
General Shafter and his generals, with
mounted escort of 100 picked men of
the End cavalry, then rode over our
trenches to the open ground at the foot
of the hill in the main road to Santiago,
midway TO the then deserted Spanish
works. There they were met by Gen.
eral Toral and his staff, all in full uni
ment of Spanish troops. What followed
took place in full view of our troops.
The scene was picturesque and dra-
matte. General Shafter, with his gen.
erals and his staffs grouped Immediate
ly in the rear and with the troop of cav
airy with drawn sabers on the left, ad-
vanced to meet the vanqushed foe
After a few words of courteous greet
ing, General Skaters first act was TO
return to General Toral his sword. The
Spanish general appeared to be touched
by the complimentary words with which
General Shafter accompanied this ac-
tion and he thanked the American
commander feelingly.
Then followed a short conversation
as to the place selected for the Span
ish forces to deposit their arms, and
Spanish infantry detachment march
ed forward to a position facing our
cavalry, where the Span1ards were halt
ed. The latter were without their
colors.
General Toral personally ordered the
Spanish company, which in miniature
represented the forces under his COM
mand, 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 Span
ish march played by the trumpeters
but it impressed one like the Dead
March from saul" Though no at
tempt was made to humiliate them,
the Spanish forces seemed to feel
their disgrace keenly. and scarcely
glanced at their conquerors as they
passed by.
But this apparent depth of feeling
was not displayed by other regiments.
Being sullen, the Spaniards appeared
to be utterly Indifferent to the re-
verses sustained 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
mediate return TO Spain. General
Toral throughout the ceremony was
sorely detected. When General Shaf-
ter introduced him by name to each
member of his staff, the Spanish gener-
al appeared to be a very broken man.
General Toral replied with an air of
abstraction to the words addressed 10
him, and when he accompanied Gem
eral Shafter, at the head of the escort.
into the city 10 take formal possession
of Santiago, General Toral spoke bur
few words.
Few expressions of any kind were
heard along the line. There were some
shouts for free Cuba, but as a rule
these were only mutterings. The bet
ter class of Spaniards remained indoors
or satisfied their curiosity from behind
drawn blinds. The squalor in the
streets was frightful. The bones of
dead horses and other animals were
bleaching in the streets. and buzzards
as tame as sparrows hoped aside to
let us pass.
The windows of the hospitals, in
which there were more than 500 SILK
men, were crowded with invalids. who
dragged themselves there to witness
our incoming. On every hand there
was evidence Of pitiless starvation.
Lncheon was then served a. the pal
ace. The menu consisted of rum, wine.
coffee, rice and toasted cake. This
scanty fare occasioned many apologies
on the part of the Spaniards, but ii
spoke eloquently of their heroic resist
ance.
At noon, after the American flag had
been raised. General Shafter turned the
city over to General McKibben. who.
with the 9th infantry. will enforce order
in conjunction with the civil authori-
ties.
The Spanish soldiers are encanpeG
between the lines on the reverse stone
of the hill, on which are our entrench-
ments. Many of them believed as they
had been told so. that the United States
government had purchased the island
OF Cuba and that our government
would pay them their arrears OF pay
and return them to Spain. They repu-
diate the idea that they have surren-
dered.
Oregon Congratulates Clark.