Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1854-10-19

rio resolved to play atrick, singular for
Its savage ingenuity. Collecting bull
lock carts in the neighborhood Of the
scene of the brief but bloody engage
ments, he loaded them with the bodies
of the Carlists, covering them with
straw, and placing on the top of each
pile one of the slain Christinos. Then
desiring his men to assume as forlorn
and lamentable countenances as pos
sible, and himself reclining on car as
if severely hurt, he entered Tolosa. 1t
was the dusk of the evening, and the
people of the town, rejoiced at the sight
of so many vehicles filled with dead
and wounded, whom they supposed to
be all Chapelgorris, ran from house to
house, congratulating each other on the
agreeable event, and looked with COM
placency from their windows at the
funeral procession. Placing a guard
over the carts to prevent too close in
spection, Elorrio retired to his billet
But in the dead of the night be got up
and removed his own slain, then stripped
the bodies of the Carlists and laid them
out in the market-place. The head Of
the Chaplain he sent to his widow, who
was resident in the town, in requittal
of similar attention shown by the de-
ceased to the Sonora Elorrio, on the oc-
casion of her husbands death. At
daylight he sent round a crier to give
notice that any person having relations
with the Carlists might seek them
among the corpses in the Square, and
give them Christian burial. The in
habitants thronged to the place, and
their feelings may be imagined when
they beheld their own friends in those
dead, over whose fall they had rejoiced.
Besides this, by attending to the sum-
mons, they declared their political ten
denotes, and General Jsuregui imposed
heavy fine on all who visited the
bodies; basing the punishment upon
the rather sweeping ground that those
who knew their relations and friends to
be neutral or in the Queens ranks,
would remain quietly at home.
Although the primary object of his
taking arms was thus accomplished,
Elorrio showed no disposition to lay
them down again. Like the young
panther, taste of blood had given him
relish for it, and be continued biting
cartridges till the very end of the war.
Innumerable wild and adventurous feats
are recorded of him. The first by
which he distinguished himself, SUBJ
sequently to the death of the Chaplain,
was the conveyance of dispatch from
Toloso to Pampeluna, across a noun
famous country over run by Carlists
soldiers, and by armed peasants equally
disafected and dangerous. He de-
livered his letters and was returning
with a reply, when he was surprised by
party of Carlist custom house officers.
The foremost man who first seized him,
was his own uncle, who Immediately
recognized him, and called to his COM
panions to hasten up and help to secure
the young Christine, in return for which
unkinsmanlike conduct he was immedi
ately knitted by his nephew. Elorrio
escaped with the greatest difficulty, for
the alarm was given all over the coun-
try, but, favored by the darkness Of
the night and ruggedness of the
ground, he managed to reach Tolosa.
If, in this instance, he showed small af-
fection or forbearance to his uncle, he
subsequently exhibited great self-devo
ton, and ran extraordinary risk, in be-
half of sister. The Carlists, enraged
at the success of his stratagems, and at
the damage he did them, seized her as
hostage, and kept her close prisoner,
requiring for her release a heavy ran
som, and that her brother should give
himself up to them. Elorrio had too
much regard for his neck to accept this
last condition but resolved at the same
time that his sister should be no loser
by his obedience to the instinct of self
preservation. Selecting a tempestuous
night in the spring of the year 1888,
he left the lines of Hermann, passed un-
perceived through the hostile outposts,
and, at the head of resolute little band
of twelve men, struck boldly into the
enemy's territory. At dawn the party
halted, remained concealed the whole of
that day, and when night returned de-
scended from their mountain lurking
places, to Villabona, small town be-
tween Andonin and Tolosa. Leaving
nine of his men outside the place, and
followed by three others, Elorrio boldly
entered the street, and made direct for
the house of the Alcade, who had been
mainly instrumental in capturing his
sister. Here he found party of Car
list officers at supper, and reported him
self to them as corporal in Carlist
regiment then stationed near Gyarzun,
adding that he was taking confidential
dispatch from his colonel to General
Ituriza, then at Aspectia, which docu-
ment and a forged passport he produced
for their inspection. After some con-
versation in which Elorrio played his
part admirable, he requested billet for
himself and men. The Alcade, to
avoid the trouble of writing an order,
stepped out to aIlot him lodging for
the night. Scarcely had he passed his
!. own threshold when knife was at his
throat, with threat of instant death if
he broke silence. The terrified official
held his roana .,I -. so,k ont of