Dallas herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1849-1873, 1873-05-24
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sahio Cfus, ~ Oulpuicta. There seems
no reason IN doubt his surmsry execution
NJ eight on nine roer soldiers he captured
AZ Ilpoll for The mere crime Of defending
from the church tower until
by the burning NJ The edifce.
And now II Ia alleged that. having rot
OF IIsrga through tho treason Of
Its governor, he has put eighty nine brave
volunteers and soldiers 10 death In cold
blood.
The following interesting account Is
from the Barcelona independents; "Bsr'
On Ia a fortified town. the center and key
Of the upper mountainous part of-Cata-
lonis. II does not. however, possess good
conditions Of defence. Its fortifca ton
consists OF q parapetied old wall with an
ancient castle. and the barrnok OF San
Francisco. The town contained last
Thursday. one company Of Cazadores, two
squads Of recruits (gvinta,), n company of
he battalion ot hnnc-iiIcurs of Caialo-
mia, nuoihrr of 20 mohilissi volunteers, OF
some no TO 200 armed volunteers, In all
some ZOO mcn--a force apparently sutfi-
Client for It's defense. The Carlists, under
Saballs, who made the attack we're 1900
at least, though some nccoun Is state 4 900
At one a. IN. on Thursday, two men with
lamps, knocked at the gate
Of the town. and desired
admission. They said they were In quest
Of midwife. The guards opened, md in
stantly, by the light of the lamps, saw the
CLEAN of the In yoncis Of Saballs apr roach
ing party. They fired, and caused msny
casualties TO he assailai T.. The firing be-
cane general, and lasted all the rest OF the
night The Carlists in the meantime took
up advantageous positions, and awaited
daylight. When il dawned the attack be.
came serious The principal points were
defended by o few of the Catalan frances,
volunteers aud troops, apparently without
any fix d direction. After while the
Carlsts slackened the fire Of their muskets
and threw in vessels filled with petroleum,
as also balls of lighted oakum, anew mode
of warfare which has come to be in vogue
amongst the champions Of religion ana OF
the throne of Don Carlos. Entire houses
were quickly in flames, and pass was thus
opened TO the invaders. By inches the ground
was defended by the few brave mon who
FASTENED TO make the first resistance. In
the meantime the authorities concentrated
the principal forces in the barrack, the
castle, and in the parish church of San
Pedro. The flames and the sufluenting
smoke of the petroleum kept advancing,
followed by the Gnrlisis, who sacked the
houses that escaped the devouring .le-
moni. The heroic defenders OF the weak
parapets found themselves obliged to re-
Al. 4 MI ms In
riously. 'ihe church of San Pedro offered
for some time greater resistance, but at
last the petroleum set il on fire and do
stroyed it in it's principal part. The s'rug'
gle continued until the middle Of the after
noon, at which time tie enemy, will
his train Of petrolists, were in
front Of the barracks, in which The
garrison aud the volunteers were iR'
closed. These. were all decided to con-
tinuc resisting vigorously, in the hopes OF
succour arrivin~, when they were told O
capiiulation had been arranged by iheil
commandante, Morales. This was con
tirmed by the fact that no attack was
made on the barracks. The prompt capt.
Commandantc Morales gave rise to groa
suspicion. Although 10 reach the center o.
tic population the Carlists destroyed many
houses, they would never have got poses
sion, so it is said, if Morales had sent t.
the two volunteer chiefs, Safont and Ne.
gre, who were resisting vigorously, the
reinforcements they asked. He had at hii
deposition at least 100 soldiers who ha(
not entered into fire. A note was sen
him, begging him to send this force Il
the assistance of the yOlun ieers
The messenger found him auietl,
taking his breakfast Instead o
instantly dispatching the troops to wher'
they were wanted, he went in person Il
the spot, but rot until some time had pass
Fed, and when he saw the number OF h
enemy, he exclaimed, eve are lost, au'
nothing for it but TO give in Safen
Negre, and others protested, but to no eff
| feet. Morales entered the fort and ordere'
its surrender. II is even s. id lie gave
visa TO Carlos VII. Seeing their caus
thus bopelessly lost, Negre, Safoni, ans
the others denounced him as traitor, ant
then hid shemselves to prevent their beint
found by the Cs~iists. Shortly after tn
surrender, Morales was seen in the hous
| of one Antioch in the outskirts of the towl
fraterniziDg with Saballs' and his staff.
The Barcelona paper adds; After thu
surrender of the troops in the fort and bar
racks, there still remained four brave mer
who refused to lay down their arms
These were three soldiers and one voiun
teer of the frances, who had taken W
their position in the belfry Of the church
Disobeying the cornet sound Of "Ceas'
fire." they uttered defiance TO the death
and continued firing against the Cariists
who. in spite Of their numbers, had NJ
other reconrce than TO hespatter the churcl
with petroleum and set fire TO it Then
and then only did they surrender, and Thu
volunteer wns shot on the spot in the pres
ence Of his companions. AT nine ut nigh
the delivery of arms com meDced, ant
lasted till eleven; 1900 rifles, co., 900 cart
ridges. snd other muDi;ione of war fell t
the Carlisis. These occupied thirty carts
and with the prisoners, left under escor
in the direction of Point de Reventi. Att
quarter Of an hours distance foul
volunteers were shot, and shortly after
wards two more. All this occurred on
Thursday, but the castle still held out
Petroleum had TO be employed TO force III
brave defenders 10 lay down their nrms
They were assured their lives should b.
respected, and that they should be por'
fecily free. Instead of this, when they
gave in on Friday they were considered al
prisoners of war, and, closely guarded, led
out Of the town in the direction of Vallce-
brep
An escaped volunteer named Juan Cots
gives some further particulars. He says
he and few other volunteers and soldiers
and some women, managed to save-many
sacred objects from the burning churohe;
of San. Pedro aud San Francisco, and de-
posted them in the house called Pep de-
Hort. As sosn as this was effected. they
learnt that in certain spot four volun.
teers were buried who had been sammsril,
shot. They disinterrred them and found
that they had their arms tied behind iheil
back. Besides this they had been name.
lessly mutilated. In the pocket Of one Of
them they found $40, which they took out
to deliver to his unfortunate family. In
another place they found n veritnble beca
tomb, where lay the bodies Of fifty Mint
victims, who had been mutilated and then
shot.
Later accounts give eighty-aiue as the
number of the victims of the Carlists, who
fed on the approach Of column Of troops
-ander Colonel Cahrineity.