. The chicago Record's war stories : by staff correspondents in the field ; copiously illustrated. illiant hue. The verandas are railedwith curiously wrought iron and massive ironbars corroded with rust and heavy wooden 144 THE CHICAGO RECORDS WAR STORIES shutters protect the unglazed the rooms are. bare—the barer per-haps that the town was looted by the Cubansthe day after it was taken—but at no timecan it be imagined that there was comfortthere. A few beds, an earthen arroya orwater jar, a brick cookinc place with a re-ceptacle for burning charcoal and a fewheavy chairs uphols
. The chicago Record's war stories : by staff correspondents in the field ; copiously illustrated. illiant hue. The verandas are railedwith curiously wrought iron and massive ironbars corroded with rust and heavy wooden 144 THE CHICAGO RECORDS WAR STORIES shutters protect the unglazed the rooms are. bare—the barer per-haps that the town was looted by the Cubansthe day after it was taken—but at no timecan it be imagined that there was comfortthere. A few beds, an earthen arroya orwater jar, a brick cookinc place with a re-ceptacle for burning charcoal and a fewheavy chairs upholstered with bald rawhideand brass nails seem to be about all theyhave ever contained. It is pretty certainthat the insurgents carried off no these rooms are crowded with people—the women either dressing their hair orcooking what scanty provision they may havegathered from the field or brought with them;the men discussing the situation animatedly,smoking cigarettes or thrusting their fingersinto their ears to shut out the continualwailing of the children. Not all the children. CHURCH AT EL CANEY WHERE 15,000 REFUGEES FROM SANTIAGO WERE FED. THE CHICAGO RECORDS WAR STORIES 145 are crying. There are swarms of them nudeand unabashed playing in the streets outsideas gleefully as though the whole exodus hadbeen arranged for their especial benefit andamusement. The negroes for the most partseem as happy and care-free as the is the better class—the men who asproof of their station wear wilted linen col-lars and shirts and coats whose cut showsa cunning tailors hand—who are the mis-erable ones. Even these delicately nurtured women,tired, hungry and somewhat bedraggled asthey are, show occasional flashes of gayetyand flirt their fans at want and fatigue witha brave effort. At the top of the street isthe plaza, where, in front of the abandonedchurch of San Luis de Caney, a great spacewas fenced off with wires wound aboutbroken Mauser rifles stuck in the
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