. The chicago Record's war stories : by staff correspondents in the field ; copiously illustrated. is crowded with these involuntarypilgrims. Paths which a few days ago werefilled with marching men, now resting onthei> arms, are to-day trodden by an armyof an altogether different sort. It is a pro-cession not without a parallel, for there have doubtless been many such flights in the his-tory of the world, yet this one is deeplyand pitifully interesting to the looker-on. The exodus from the besieged city beganat dawn yesterday morning. It had beenmade public by the authorities that personswh
. The chicago Record's war stories : by staff correspondents in the field ; copiously illustrated. is crowded with these involuntarypilgrims. Paths which a few days ago werefilled with marching men, now resting onthei> arms, are to-day trodden by an armyof an altogether different sort. It is a pro-cession not without a parallel, for there have doubtless been many such flights in the his-tory of the world, yet this one is deeplyand pitifully interesting to the looker-on. The exodus from the besieged city beganat dawn yesterday morning. It had beenmade public by the authorities that personswho so desired mightleave, as by agreementthey would be permitted to pass through theAmerican lines to any place beyond theymight choose. The Spaniards declared thatthey would fight to the last; that a bombard-ment of the city was almost certain and thattherefore women and children and aged menought to get out of harms way. The hintwas quickly taken. Families began to packup articles they could carry and place othersin the care of friends remaining behind. It THE CHICAGO RECORDS WAR STORIES 107. MAP SHOWING FORTIFICATIONS-SANTIAGO BAY. Coffee, dear to the palate of all Cubans andSpaniards, was high priced and hard to , bacon, sugar and other staples wererunning short. As a matter of fact, if thesiege of the city were to continue a weeklonger the inhabitants of the city would beon the verge of actual starvation. On theother hand came reports to them that in thetowns held by the foreign soldiers there wasan abundance of food, which was being dis-tributed without money and without price. did not take long, as the greater number ofthose taking part in the flight had but littleproperty of any description. Years of warand oppression had made them desperatelypoor. They were not, in most cases, sorry to was getting scarcer every day in thecity. Rice was the chief article of diet,varied by such fruit as was brought in fromthe surrounding country before the lines ofthe inv
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