Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 29, Number 5, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 30 July 1898 — Page 7

SIGHTS AT SANTIAGO.

SOME UNREPORTED INCIDENTS OF THE GREAT FIGHT.

Deplorable Condition of the Spanish Refujjee«—The Wrecks of Ctrrera'i Fleet Are Charnel Houtei—Bounty to Be Paid to Oar Nml Officer* and Sailor*.

[Special Correspondence.!

SANTIAGO, July 11.—It has seldom if ever happened in the history of the world's wars that a large army has been landed on hostile soil with so few accidents of any kind as accompanied the debarkation of the American army at Baiqniri. This result doubtless was owing to the presence of the fleet that made it hazardous for the Spanish troops to oppose the landing, but the «»me reason cannot be adduced for the supineness of the enemy and the tactical mistake they made in permitting the further advance of oar troops through the hill country without a reconnois fiance until they were in the vicinity of Santiago. When the Spanish soldiers finally attacked the advance guards of our army, it was ac a point- near enough to Santiago to permit of their retreat within the line of its defenses in the event of their defeat. In view of subse

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quent events no one oan charge the Spaniards with being deficient in courage. Their fatal defect seems to be a lack of that judgment and decision whioh could make their courage effective.

Though it is some time since the battle was fought, fresh incidents illustrative of it nre continually ooming to light. During the civil war it was related that the life of a soldier was saved by carrying in his breast pccket a Testament presented to him by his mother. The bullet that would have pierced his heart found lodgment in the book, and thus saved his life. At the battle of Santiago a young man of about 21 years of age, belonging to one of the volunteer regiments, wore on his shirt front a picture of his mother, reduced photographically, on a largo button. While storming ono of the Spanish intrenchmonts with his troop a Mauser bullet struck the button squarely in front, but, instead of piercing it, glided off at a tangent. The young man's life was saved, but his mother's likeness was partially defaced. His filial devotion and regard, it is quite certain, had a reward nover anticipated by the young soldier.

After tho battlo, whilo strolling over the scone of tho conflict, I witnessed the interment of eight of tho dead of the bravo rough riders. Tho service was tho most impresftivo lever attended. On tho bottom of a deep trench palm leaves were spread, and on these the bodies of tho soldiers, including that of Hamilton Fish, were placed one after tho other.

When they were all consigned to their narrow beds, palm leaves were laid over their bodies, and whilo they were being oovered with earth the soldiers sang

Nearer, My God, to Thee. Nearly all the buried troopers were yomig, and the calm repose of their fucesindicated that •death must, have been almost instantaneous aud that they had not suffered much paia.

The Cuban contingent is rapidly increasing and is much more iu evidence thaivdnring the battle. As fast as the outposts are moved forward the Cubans come along aud hang their hammocks among the trees, cook, gossip, mg aud apparently enjoy life immensely. They have gathered up a large quantity of clothing, blankets aud other material discarded by the American troops ou the march from the place of landing. Marching under the tropical sun, through a hilly country, hundreds of the soldiers threw away their overcoats* blankets and knapsacks. Some of them threw away bottles of medicine and even silver money and continued the march in their shirts and trousers, carrying nothing but their weapons. The articles thus thrown away were picked up by the Cubans, aud though they could uot find any horses to sell or hire to American officers, found horses on which to pack this material and remove to a place of safety. Up to the present o«r dusky allies seem to be more eager to appropriate the property of our soldiers than to aid them in fighting to free Cuba that they claim to be so devotedly attached to.

The sanitary rules prescribed at Washington for the guidance of the troops in the Cuban campaign have not beeu observed, simply because it was impossible to do so. The soldiers drink the waters of the streams without boiling it and it seems to be as wholesome as it is palatable. A not he* of the rules was to avoid dampness and never sleep on the ground. The first of these prohibitions it would be difficult to be governed by in a climate where erne la sure to be drenched if exposed once every 24 hours and during the most of the time,

and the second is perforce disregarded because the troops have no other place to sleep upon except the bare ground. Everybody, officers and men, newspaper correspondents and camp followers, sleeps on the ground, and in the majority of cases without even a blanket to protect them from the damp. Some of the officers have not even shelter tents and sleep in the open air. Many of them are without their blouses and wear the insignia of their rank upon their shirts. The food of the soldiers is bacon and bard tack, and not even a plentiful supply of that. In the majority of cases the officers fare no better, but they all seem to relish the restricted, very plebeian war rations, make no 9jmplaints and are in excellent spirits.

Today I visited the camp of the 18,000 refugees from Santiago, now at El Caney. There are much privation and suffering among them notwithstanding the generous treatment they have received at the hands of General Shaf ter and the Red Cross association. The fact of it is that the food furnished to the starving refugees could ill be spared by the American army, reduced as it was before to short rations. 1 spoke to one of therfefugees, an intelligent Spaniard, and he expressed his gratitude to the Americans for the generous aid furnished to them in their extreme distress. He said that the condition 98f 'affairs in Santiago was and expected the city'would surrender before many days. More damage had been done in Santiago by stray shots from the American fleet than was generally supposed. Ohurches, public buildings aud dwelling houses had been wrecked and a number of lives lost. "**.•

Yellow fever, supposed to have been introduced by the refugees from Santiago, has appeared among our troops. There are so far but few cases, and those have been isolated, but the malady is so infectious that even one case would be sufficient to create apprehension. It is the general belief here that Santiago will be in our hands within a few days either by surrender or assault, with the probability in favor of surrender. In that event it is reported on trustworthy authority that General Garcia's Cuban troops, numbering about 4,000, will be quartered in the city, with probably an equal number of American troops under General Shafter, who will be the military governor. He, it is stated, is the only yellow fever immune among our generals.

Since the destruction of Cervera's fleet wreckage from his vessels has been littering the Cuban coast. The sunken ships are horrible charnel houses, veritable tombs, filled with the distorted, shattered remains of the officers and sailors. The fieina Mercedes, sunk by Commodore Schley's fleet at midnight on July 8, is at the entrance of the harbor of Santiago, and five miles from the harbor a torpedo boat destroyer is stuck fast in the rocks. A few miles farther removed, in an inlet, are the wrecks of the twin cruisers Infanta Maria Teresa and Almirante Oquendo, regarded as the best ships in the Spanish navy. Both vessels stand upright, stuck fast on the rocks, and all that is left of them is their outer bulla Farther up the coast the Vizojtya lies, a complete wreck and mass of ruins, and 42 miles from Santiago the Cristobal Colon reolines on her side, with her smokestaoks under water.

The most ghastly sight in connection with these wrecks is the charred, mutilated bodies of hundreds of bravo sailors who gave their lives a useless sacri flee for their country. Foul, loathsome buzzards are feasting on the mangled remains, whilo others are hovering over tho wrecks awaiting their turn to gorge themselves on the fragments of shattered humanity. On the beach flocks of vultures w»it with eager expectancy until the sea casts up its dead and usually they have not to wait long. This feast of death is so horribly realistic, so shocking in all its details, that the spectator, however inured to the in cidents of war, could scarcely fail to ardently pray that warfare would cease and a more humane method of settling differences between nations be intro duced.

The navy has an advantage over the army besides immunity from serious loss of life. It will secure immense sums for bounty money. It is estimated that something over $200,000 will be paid

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as "head money" to the officers and sailors who destroyed Cervera's fleet This is in accoixiacce with the law which provides that $ 100 shall be paid for every man on the ships of an enemy when these «h!ps are destroyed. There was a total of 8.08? men on the six Spanish vessels destroyed off Santiago. On the above reckoning the government will pay to officers and men of the Tic* torions fleet the sum of $208, ?00. Jackie will have a foil pocket the next time he

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Not to Be Balked.

A comparison made by an old carpenter 20 years ago may be applied in a much wider sense than he had in mind. He was speaking of two boys, brothers, who had been sent to him to learn the trade. They were bright boys, and their father, in telling the carpenter of his pleasure at their progress in their work, said he could not see but one had done just as well as the other. tJm-m!" said the carpenter. "I presume to say their work looks about of a piece, but I'll tell you the difference betwixt those two boys. You give Ed just the right tools, and he'll do a real good job, but Cy, if he hasn't got what he needs, he'll make his own tools and say nothing about it "If I was casted on a desert island and wanted a box opened, I should know there'd be no use asking Ed to do it without I could point him out a hammer. "But Cy!" added the old carpenter, with a snap of his fingers. "The lack of a hammer wouldn't stump that boy. He'd have something rigged up and that box Opened if there was any open to it. I expect Cy's going to march ahead of Ed all his life."

Twenty years have proved the truth of the words, for while the boy who "made his own tools" is rich his brother is still an ordinary workman.— Youth's Companion. ,,» .'V*

The Southern Cross.

After you have known the Southern Cross for awhile and get on speaking terms with it your respect for it grows. When we first met it, writes E. W. Harden to the Chicago Post, we were at sea and were keeping good hours. By 9 o'clock all of us would have turned in. When the Southern Cross first comes above the horizon, it lies over on its side, and it is not straight in the heavens until midnight. Of course none of us would sit up three hours to see the cross right itself in the heavens, and so we did not see it as it should be seen until one night in Colombo.

We had been out to dinner and did not go on board our ship until midnight. The moon had set, and we were rowed out from the landing wharf in one of those ethnological exhibit boats which the Ceylonese had at the World's fair, the outrigger kind. A big Peninsular and Oriental passenger ship was weighing its anchors as we passed, and as we got on the quarter deck of our ship the liner went by with hundreds of electric lights gleaming over the water. When it passed out of sight, we caught sight of the Southern Cross, high in the heavens, standing straight with our horizon, and it was as brilliant and as beautiful as we had been led to expect. V"

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