The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1872-03-12
The Duenos Ayers Massacre. .

frightful massacre Of Masons and foreign
ers at Tandil by the Guachos, under the
leadership of pretended niracc.work-
err:
A man named Soares, born in Bolivia
or Chile, 40 years of age, and OF pale
copper color, and with pleasing face,
had settled near Tandil village in the
Argentine Confederation. in hut with
two rooms, and given out that he was q
messenger Of God. Previously he had
resided in the province Of Entire Rios,
giving out that he could divine the future
foretelling deaths, and, it is said. taking
measures to give certainty to his prophe.
cies. Finally he was driven away by the
author ties, after tying him up and CIV
ing him Aogging. He then went to
Rosario, and thence to Azul, where he
practised his profession, asserting he
could cure the blind merely with his
touch. There he was arrested by the JUS
tice Of peace, on account of the disturb
ances he was promoting, but was released.
Still his reputation remained, and he re-
ceived a call to 60 to the estancia of Se-
nor Ramon Gomez. situated IA miles from
the village of Tandil to cure the steriity
of the wife.
Ramon Gomez was a cousin OF tho
Justice Of the Peace for Tandil, and was
himself an official. Seeing him lodged
with this official, the gauchos began to
yield implicit faith in his pretensions to
be the Saviour of mankind and the envy
of God. Soon his fame spread through
the country, and the half savage inhabi-
tants made it kind of pilgrimage to go
and visit Solaris, who received them in a
hut which his protector had assigned to
him. Sometimes upwards of FIVE hum
dred persons were there at once, having
come on horseback and in wagons in
search of the services Of the prophet.
In one room he lived, and in the other
were a number Of images, and in the lat
ter he received his visitants. Money he
refused for himself, but he always advised
them to make offerings to the saints and
the Blessed Virgin in his reception room.
The fame Of the Tata Dios. or Man
God, grew nightly. The people kneeled
before him and kissed his hands, worship.
ping him as though God himself listen
ming with reference to his occasional
preaching against foreigners, who,he said
were Masons and enemies Of the Holy
Catholic Church.
At last, on New Years eve, he called
his diciples together and declared as fol-
lows
The hour is come to kill the Masors
to finish with the autorites and to open
the prisons, to release friends who will
help US. As soon as you have fulfilled
your mission the rocking stone OF Tandi
will fall of itself, and beneath it you will
find great town. IF you do it God will
largely repay your pious zeal if not the
most terrible punishment will fall upon
you and your children"
HiG congregation heard and applauded,
and before daylight of January lst fifty
of the one hundred and fifty whom he had
called to him assembled behind his white
banner and set out on their deadly mis-
sion. At daybreak the beating OF drum
aroused the inhabitants Of Tandil, and
they were told that some bandits had
passed by, assassinating the people. They
then saw in the square the banner ofSol-
ares, surrounded by some fifty ganchos on
horseback, decked with belts and plumes,
who had already broken open the prison
and released the only prisoner in it,
In the square the gauchos met an ltal-
ian. whom they instantly killed. In the
outskirts of the village they met conveys
of carts driven by eleven vascons, eight Of
whom they sacrificed on the spot, and
wounded three They passed the store
of Vinus Lanuz and killed him and n
laborer then went to the store of Mr..
William Thompson, where they murdered
servant and an Englishman and his
wife, recently married, shouting all the
time, death to the Masons death to all
foreigners kill aud sack :"
AT $50 they reached the store of Jean
Chappard, a man greatly respected in his
neighborhood. There they murdered lS
persons-namely the owner and his wife
and four children, one Of these 2 years
old, another a child of four months, a girl
Of ii years, female and a male servant
and number Of workman employed up.
on the place. The details are to horri-
BILE to be given Suffice, that the child
OF two years was riddled with stabs, and
a chair leg was thrust through the body
ofa girl.
Meantime the alarm had spread. The
foreigners and natives in Tandil gathered
what weapons they could find, mounted
and rode after the murderers with the
fixed determination to pursue them to the
death, BY 4 p. M, they overlook them
at Chapar, where they were taking tea
and changing horses. The murders pre-.
pared to fight, but first sent forward one
Of their number to parley.
The commander Of the pursuers de.
clared to them that if they did not sur.
render no quarter weuld he given. Sol.
ares aud his followers then took fight
but were vigorously pursued. Sixteen
met their death then and there, and five
were captured, among tnem Soares. and
in some hours afterwards la more were
secured The rest escaped.
In the examination which followed
Solares declared he was innocent Of the
murders that had occurred, but the others
unanimously asserted that be command
them; that he had been seducing them
for some time before to Kill all foreigners
and that he had promised them immunity
against balls by their amounting them.
selves with ointment which he distributed
to them in boxes. The prisoners were
lodged in the prison, and were guarded
by the inhabitants Of Tandil, hut in the
nigh. shots were fred through holes made
in the prison, and Soares fell dead
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