Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1872-03-08
The South American Horror.

Buenos Ayres Jan. 1S) Correspondence of the
New York Herald.
The horrid massacre at Tandil is in
every ones mouth. A man, named
Solares, born in Bolivia or Chill, forty
years of age, of pale copper color and
with a pleasing face, had settled near
Tandil, village in the Argentine Confed-
Grafton, in hut with two rooms, and
had given out that he was messenger
of God. Previously, he had resided in
the province of Entire Rios, giving out
that he could divine the future-foretell-
ing deaths and, it is said, taking measures
to give certainty to his prophecies.
Finally he was driven away by the au-
thorities, after tying him up and giving
him fiogging.
He then went to Rosario, and thence
to Azul, where he practiced his profes-
sion, asserting that he could cure the
blind merely with his touch. There,
however, he was arrested by the Justice
of the Peace on account of the disturb
ances he was promoting, but was released.
Still his reputation remained to him, and
he soon received a call to go to the estan-
cia of Senior Ramon Gomez, situated
fourteen miles from the village of
Tandil.
Ramon Gomez was a cousin of the
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 Savior of mankind and the enN oy
of God. Soon his fame spread through
the country, and the half savage inhabit.
ants made it kind of pilgrimage to go
to visit SOlares, who received them in the
hut which his protector had assigned to
him. Sometimes upwards of five hun
dred persons were there at once, having
come on horseback and in wagons in
search of the good services OF the
prophet.
In one room he lived, in the other was
a number of images, and in the latter he
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
ing with reverence to his occasional
preachings against foreigners, whom, he
said, were Masons, and enemies of the
Holy Catholic Church.
AT last, on New Years Eve, he called
his disciples together and declared as
follows;
"rhe hour is come to kill the Masons, to
finish with the authorities, and to open the
prisons to release friends who will help us.
And MS soon as you have fulfilled your mis-
sion the rocking stone of Tandil will fall OF
itself, and beneath you will find a great
town. If you do it God will largely repay
your pious zeal; If not the most terrible pun
iShmant w
dren."
His congregation heard and applauded,
and before daylight of January /, so Of
the 150 whom he had called to him as
sembled behind his white banner and set
out on their deadly mission. AT daybreak
the beating of drum aroused the inhab
itants of Tandil, and they were told that
some bandits had passed by, assassinating
the people. They then saw in the square
the banner of Soltares, surrounded by
some fifty gauchos 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 Ital
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 Vinuz Lanuz, and killed him and @
laborer; then went to the store of Mr.
William Thompson, where they mur
dered a servant and an Englishman and
his wife, recently married, shouting al
the time, death to the Masons deatl
to all foreigners kin and sack !"
AT half-past eight they reached the store
of Jean Chappard, a man greatly respected
in his neighborhood There they mur
dered eighteen persons, namely The
owner and his wife and four children
one of these two years old, another Q
child of four months a girl of fourteen
years, female and male servant, and
number OF workmen employed upon
the place. The details are too horrible
Ia ha aiuan, eufiioa that the child of two