Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1864-02-11

NOT SAvED.-A letter Is published in the
Providence Journal from Mr., Pearce, an
American resident at Santiago, Chilli,
giving an account of the destruction of
the Catholic cathedral and its $500 VIC
Tins, and stating that many of them
might have been saved If 1t had not been
for the abssrd police systemiby which the
people are kept away from the vicinity
ola fire. Mr. Pearce made great efforts
to get to the church, and fought his way
through part of the police, but was
finally overpowered and driven back.
Several Americans did get through ut
the risk of death from the police, and
rendered important service in the res
cue OF the sufferers. Mr.. Pearce writes {:
"Mr. Demilow of the gas works re
ceived q bayonet wonnd at the fire while
in the act of rescuing a young lady that
he recognized, Miss Larren. He had
fought his way in company with one of
the workmen at the gas works to the
church, and battered down a side or pri-
vate door and saw Miss Larren; she at
the same time recognized him and called
on him to save her He could not enter
in consequence of sheet of flame be-
tween them. He reached his cane to
her which she grasped with both hands,
when he and his friend attempted to
drag her through the flames, but she was
so surrounded and hemmed in with the
dead and dying, that her strength
was not sufficient. They abandoned
this method and went in pursuit of some
other means to rescue her, and returned
again, and ON presenting themselves
with the means of saving her at the door,
! the police ordered them back, and not
needing the order, he (Demilow) was
I bayoneted. His friends wrested the gun
from the police, knocked him senseless
to the ground, and made second at
! tempt to save the poor girl.
! But the time lost in dispute with the
police was life lost to her. This is
| only one of the many similar scenes.
! Your brother Charles battered door
down on Gale Randera, or Plagg street,
entered and found in small antee-room
some thirty females, and all living, bun
like so many statues, perfectly uncon-
J
of them in his arms and carry them into
the street and saved them all. Mr..
Meigs and H. Keith fought their way
through the police and reached the
church at late hour, and when the
tower was falling all about them sue
ceedv.i in saving several. Mr. M. saw a
woman still alive under a crowd of 9th
ers then dead. She recognized him and
called him. saying, for Gods sake,
save mel He rushed through the fire
to her and pushed several Of the dead
from her, then attempting to lift her out
from among the dead, but they were so
firmly wedged in about her and on her,
he had to abandon that. He then pro-
cured lasso, fastened that about her
waist, and the united strength of eight
men could not extricate her from her
companions. and they had to leave her
amid cries for help which no Christian
heart could endure, neither can language
describe.
"This accident has given the Catholic
religion here the most severe blow that
the church has ever experienced. The
clergy are at a discount. The men ex-
press themselves openly and publicly
against the clergy having such complete
dominion over the females. The city
, authorities have had their hands full
the past week in keeping down mob
violence, as the masses are determined
that the church shall not again be re-
built The government has stepped in
and ordered the ruins taken down and
carried off, and will purchase the ground
and erect monument to the memory of
the dead. The place is to be enclosed
with substantial iron fence, and the
remainder of the ground laid out in a
flower garden"