The Trinity journal., 1856-05-24

the depot, and found many persons there
trying to keep the door closed; the room
was filled with smoke. Whilst ther aiding,
he saw one man killed before him, and three
more killed or wounded on the floor; there
was no firing from the room. Leaving this
scene of slaughter, he next managed to get
plank over the beams of the freight door
and looking out to the Cienega, through a
large open door, he distinctly saw the police
outside close to the house, firing deliberate
ly into it, Col Garrado, with his sword
drawn, cheering and urging on his men,
Proceeding to one of the rooms on the up
per story, he found two passengers trying to
hold the door; he helped them, but in mo-
melrt they were both shot-one died instant
ly, and the other in few hours Passing
to another place where he could see into the
freight room, he saw the natives enter. The
passengers cried out "mercy," and quarter"
but the people still continued plundering,
rifing the persons of the passengers, and
cutting open carpet sacks and trunks
About this time the firing ceased, but the
pluudering continued.
When Mr.. Nelson and Captain McLane
reached the station, after leaving the Gov
ernor, they found the police outside in a very
excited state, and wanting to fire into the
upper story of the depot, declaring that they
had been fired upon. Promising Col. Gar
RADIO to stop the firing, they got from him a
lantern, and proceeding up stairs found the
room filed, chiefly with women and children,
the few men that were there declaring that
they had never fired
In examining the offices afterwards, a
horrd sight presented itself; many dead and
wounded, horribly mutilated, lay all about;
the floor was covered with blood, all the fur
niture, books, papers, &c, of the Company
were destroyed, and an attempt made to
break open large iron safe, a hole being
actually made on the door, in the outside
plate. All the propeety of the Company
was destroyed except that in the room of
Mr.. Johnson, and the telegraph Office. Some
of the cars were injured, rail or two taken
up, and the telegraph wires cut, and an at
tempt was made to fire the depot, but provi
dentially it did not succeed.
CA party was then sent out along the
beach on the north side, to bring in the
stragglers who had taken to the bushes
One party were met, who said they had been
robbed by men calling themselves policemen.
Fifteen lives were known to have been lost,
all passengers per steamer Illinois, except
two. Five lie still at the station house bad
ly wounded, two at the American Hotel
some slightly wounded went on board the
steamer John L Stephens, and one or two
returned next day to Aspinwall. In the
whole matter the conduct of the people and
the police was most bameable, and the
whole difficulty might have been settled
without loss of life, if the police and author
tiles had done their duty.
The KILLED AND WoUNDED.-The Star
has the following as the dead and wounded
Robert Marks, from Pennsylvania, aged
aoout 49, watchman of the r. r. Co., shot
through the stomach.
Octave Dubois, Frenthman, long resident
in Panama.
- Stokes, a passengar per steamer
Cortes, and one of Gen Walkers recruits
Since then, Alexander Sweet, of Maine,
died on the 18th of April. He had received
three bullet wounds in the right hip, besides
several severe punctured wounds in the face
and breast.
Among the wounded we can only record
the names Of Nathan Preble, a descendant
of the officer of that name, so well known in
American naval history, now lying in the
r. r. Co.'s hospital, mortally wounded from
four large musket balls in his right arm,
right shoulder and spine.
Patrick j. O'Neil, resident of New
York for 25 years and a citizen of n. Y.
city, who has received more than thirty dis
tinct wounds, some from bullets and some
from knives, his scalp and skull cut through
so that his brain is visible, his hands cut to
pieces, bullet wound in the arm, another
in the chest.
Tom, fireman on board the Taboga, a
bullet wound in the armpit, the bullet lodg-
ing in the scapula, near the spine, having
passed through the upper lobe of the left
lung, besides others, under DR.. Barker's care.
At the American Hotel, lie Mr.. W. A.
Fenner, gunshot wound in the chest, and
Rev. John Sellman, cut about the head and