The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1856-04-30

urs q The hoxss. sad drove eat svsy psrses, vugng
Asd svs.yeody:
tesces cohing and other property; and svsy psessa In
The house that could, fed leaving I'll bshinA-ssms 70
g.: ne. u: e:
and nearly ell 70 b mot again. and again exposed - hs
Ore and knives Of these merciless brutea.
who're 1t was supposed stand could Be made agAlnst
thsa. Ths hops WA however, vain. In the soafddon,
The railroad oosrs I'd BEEN unable to organize q sec
tays force and resistance could not 10 made. |
The boi6ipe crowded with passengers guarding |
sss g.
resisted and they broke In and made tho place real
claus liter house.
tscSsd several ofwhou were killed on the spot and
many others badly wounded.
here was shocking scene presented not only q nur.
scattered ever the ground The foor wAs covered With
Of the passengers about smsared With the
blood Of thcse who were the innocent victims Of there
Wheu the depot was entered the crowd dispersed In al
tirtcocs; bat large portion Of than dsd towards tbs
wharf and the small steamer lying s the outer end Upon
the women and children considerable portion q the
bsessee OF the Illinois passengers he'd been removedhom
upon asater which 10y on the outside of the fsboss
Ths par. of the baggage was hid rom the natives and
ysus o@ the
pot they followed In the direction whence the greatest
number fed, towards the wharf On arriving ct the
ltssr.r Their progress was arrested BY some means not
exactly observation-disclosures said BY public order OF the
many women and children, from whom the daspsradoss
could not expect to take any booty Whatever was the
cause they did NOT 6!e upon hs steamer though they
wharf woundiog me CT two, and they continued sasu
Tse p.ssenssrs Of thu Cortes wsrs many of them,
within the walls Of the town. stopping st ne VARIOUS
hotss and, Therefore, not more perhaps tnsa nsn o.
the frst alarm ths gates Of tho town closed and
about O'Clock al the business houses were shut and
urdse tie cirsumstancss. Consternatior prevailed
throughout The bells Of the city rang, and every indi-
cation given OF danger and terror among sas IN
It would be vain to attempt detail Of outrages com.
United upon the passengers Some wers robbed o. ~
tribute OF few dollars, under promise OF protection
by the police One Cortss passenger wss robbed OF
81 200 Ia gold dust and another Of 143 ounces-S2t00
The money wss in some sases hid In trunks and Sacks
often carried in belts around the owrers and In the
later case the clothes we're srppsa from the person In
ing the victim helpless Of d bleeding.
At the Ocean House and Pacific al the baggage was
proportion because many of the inmates of those houses
we're returning Cahforntans. There was among these
e~s;y tfsnA sts grape shax, &c csrisd as presents
Il estimated that the baggage taken and destroyed
worth $50 Geo. besides thu money lost which was at
Ihs oss Of life coaM OF BE- ascertaned With certainty
Eighteen lying dssd the next morning in and about
the dspot, and many Others were missing and badly
vounasd-perAaps ten MORALLY. At Least thirty must
have been killed scd twenty wounded Among the latter
V.sv few Of The killed were known to the Costes pas
serees. desperate fellow by the name OF Stokes, and
other Of the Ccrtes passengers, sere known 70 BE-
reported that about forty natives were Killed including
several Of the police. The riot lasted till morning
only wess killed, though several others were badly
wounded having her hand shattered to pieces and
another was shot through the shoulder; -,p.,
The mischief was principally dons BY the villanous
Of those killed ssd vouneed received shots from thar
muskets. But few others Of the natives had firearms,
though they inflicted mcst shocking and brutal wounds
with heir ssOres or cutssses which nearly az OF them
ORDINARILY carry. The rsscss who carried muskets by
susority cred into the houses and crowds Of innocent
people, who we're striving to escape the slightest
excuse or except hatred Of Americans and
Ths Panama Railroad Company suffered severely. AL
the papers Of The oee not only deetoy but the
lance from hs DEPOT in order to secure the cars that
might nn In rom AsPinva and also to prevent train
from IT, ming out,
wAtchmen of the coDpapY
Ths express matte. q weIh Fargo, coming BY the
Irnos not carried to Panema with the Pssssn
gss bat started train at evening The robbers at
Panama of this, and waited f)r its arrival
expecting it to run eff the track torn up BY them and
thus easy prey Just before Its arrival at Pa
nara one Of the passenger conduetors (WIliams was
taken By tbs ra.i9es, while watching the arrival Of tho
go and meet the train ana hrg in which he agreed to
90. Thsy swors they would kill every the train
sSs ~ssed bsnslsrsaisf signal to sop and iunr
ing TO tbs engine begged of the engineer to back Il
instantly done. while the negroes approached hin
thereby saved The Brought BY the Corss
NOT lsnded before the riot, and was eaved.
s es Sss sos .sss0
cer was partially restored The Cortes passengers we're
hurried off early to Aspnwa whence they embarked on
Ma ,1x1;. u~~s fnA a<A III
delrhiA-
AS they left Panama some Of the natives were quietly
eyerhaurs their baggage IN and around the dspos and
ther outbreak SD uld ensue.
The disappointment, privauons ard other wrorg
Issua CempsDy v,r :or chapter ofsome interest but
is not Immediately connected with the Panama riot
which viii long be remembered by those who we're on
tves az friends we've murdered there the eventual
18th o. April, 1866. !. CORES PASSENGER
[Frcn the Aspinval Courier, AprI17l
Another of these terrible fights between the natives
and fol eigners, which have occurred on the kthmm
several times since the emigration to California COM
enesd transpred At Panama on the night Of Tuesday,
TAs result vas most horrible massacre of innocent
psseeoser great destruction of passengers baggage,
and devastation Of property OF both the railroad COM
psny sod Individual residents, near the Panama Railroad
STATEN.
between tex,ca:ed passenger and native respect
ing PAY ment foe piece Of watermelon.
The story Is th.s the native being much exAspers.ed
By he ccLoGc OF tbs passenger drew knife seeing
which the passeL 6re3 ~ the native and severely
wounded him.
This brought forward another native who stabbed the
passenger and then the combatans increased consider
ably on both sides for some tme-a number were shot,
and more badly cut with machetes.
Through the exer'icns OF Mr.. j. W. johnson, the Pa
nans Rarcad Superintendent at the Panama station,
the hsht was then stayed for short time
But anon, It broke cut with renewed violence and an
apparent orgsniIaton and evident method which told
tesfuiiy FOX tbs natives.
About this tine, il began to be evident that spite
seeinst the railroad company, and puneer, ths
shiei motives OF the atrocities and depredaons which
bad been and were to be committed.
The first sffrAy Occurred between 9 and P. NJ, and
but href intervals OF tolerable quiet occurred between
that hour ard midnight The most terrible assault was
made between and 10 O'Clock.
The Pansr1a Railroad counting room (including .hs
desks OF the Pacific Mall Steamship Company) Was en-.
irey ransacked and everything Of value carried off,
sone twenty foreigners we're KILLED. and between thirty
and forty becly wounded.