Show I AWfUL PLGHT Of SPANIARDS h 0LSPANIARDS FT r I j Santiago Furnishes Another Chapter of Horrors t PRISONERS DYING AT A TERRIBLE RATE No MedIcine No Hospitals No Attention j At-tention Whatever Their Camp at Santiago H a GraveyardPitifu Scenes Witnessed Wit-nessed When the Gaunt Survivors Staggered to the Dock to Board the Transports For HmePeple Wonder Whether Americans Should Care For Their Prisoner Santiago Cba Aug 9Corrpond Clce of the Associated PrssSince the surrender of Santiago one thing has been uppermost in our minds namelY the health arid condition of the brave A mexican soldiers who fought and were mercl ttIctolous and this was very proper Ghe men certarly deserve whatever cul be doxe for them on this score J1 accordance wit the protests from commanding ofcer the orders from Washington as to the disposition of the army were changed and our trooDS are embarking daily for the north Today the first of ur 3panlsh r I oner5 werE put on board the trantJort we have hired to ale them home Ten I thousand 01 the men have been in camp for more than three weeks Just outside out-side Qf the city limits They were much rearer to the palace than our own men They were our prisoners and we1 one and all avoWe the roads that led near their camps because of the vie odors I that arose therefrom Today as the Spaniards tassd thr0uh the city 01 the way t the dces we saw sights that brought tea 10 the eyea of men who are not read iiy muv d to tears Down on the docks in a narrow strip of shade at a ware 11u some 200 Spaniards awaited 01 drs to move on to the lighter whIch ri ci1d convey them to the muchtalk edof Spanish hospital ship Alcante These men were thin and of a sickly pallor holowcheeke and weak Were We-re the well men wh have brought the sid inte the town on litters they ex nlained Down on the wharf beIng JqaOf pn thestam lighter Besie were 0ng lines of stretchers each with IlL I Hliul burden Faces that loolted like eaih ads v ry lre of the skull marked on the yellow skin Drotruding teeth over which los wouid noLclo One man grtnped in a caw that had crushed them three American hmd tak Others had food hidden under their s alt cocdnt Their weight was 4S nothing yet four well men stag burden of stretch ftred under the en one Down the city streets came other Jjceniions of stretcher Vanquished and sick welt pitful moaning staggering stag-gering they drifted into the town all day long Yhcn the city surrendered the prospective return to Spain brought joy to many hearts the fulfillment of the nromise was sad The American ambulances have been detailed to help carr in those unable to walk and we have erected tents on the dolts where the sick can wait un ti the lighter is ready for them A HELl FOR SPAXIARDS It was not a camp out there said a Spanish officer it was a graveyard Between two and three hundred went into the hospital daily I was not a medicines hospitalthere were no medlcinc there was no atendence Forty men were dying every day and the trenches are full of the dead Ye have saved cu many u 20 for passage money to Spain That camp has been more hell than anything in the war There are 9000 out there jet only a thousand came in today but they wont last long a Dysentery camp dysentery we call it and it is worse than the lague is carrying car-rying them off A whitehaired officer wih star and bands on his sleeves but so thin and weak and pale that he looked more like a skeleton than a man walked down the harf supported 1j hIs wife who WS as much in need uf support as he was himself Over < louse hoard they both trPe and fen There are two young children il the party who cry almost continuous Final they all I got on board the women to spend ten dys on a filthy horrible troop ship I there are may oumen going thus I Jyives of officers who cannot pay for a I Jasare he Spanish troop chips hid fair to rival old time slave shiv in the misery and suffering that will bE confined within their sides on the voyage back to Spain Our wn soldiers were sick but the conditions of the Spaniards are many tImes worse than our me who arc strong and heath compared with them The Spaniards were not in this condition when they marched to theIr death camp just three week ago How far we are expected to provide care for a ya1quished foe is a question now being llcaned in this ton Everyone i Every-one adnits and has admItted that the Spaniard has been a good enema I goct fighter and the Americans who took off their hats to the Spanish on the 17th of July did EO with true horn age to brave men As the pItiful lines of Spanish prisoners stagger through the streets of this city for the next I week or so feebly stcpolng out of the way of pedestrians looking carruly at rattling carts and in sad contrast II to our strong men in browIhe Americans Amer-icans who see them wi be Inclined again to uncover their heads prompted brave by the mm sam feeling of homage to I I |