The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1873-08-07
A Young Girl Rescued from LO'
xada. after being Cruelty
Tortured
From the San Diego World, July IL.

v From the San Diego World, July IL.
}. The Pacific Mail Southern Goa
steamer California put into San Die
& yesterday, about II o'clock a. NJ, to Goa
o Little dreamed those who went down
r the wharf of the terrible story which WI
) told of mere child of II years, who W,
1 on board. named Lola AToa.
r On a stretcher in the Storage, lay
g girl who certainly was not II years {
| age. As the experience Is with Souther
females, she was far advanced to woman
hood, and the lines of her form indicate
a sensuous and beautiful physical deve
: opment 1t is well to dwell upon sue
: engaging characteristics as the poor cres
! ture retained, for the ruin which ha
been wrought upon her is almost to
fearful to detail, and the story of tn
atroeity is such as could hardly be paral
leled elsewhere on earth in this nine
!. tenth century. Lola must have been
beautiful girl, for her form retained grac
and symmetry that nature must certainl,
have carried to perfection in her face.
This child-woman was a charred ruin
A fire-brand had been held to her nose
burning it almost completely off. The
blistered flesh was still angry and in
famed, giving an indescribably loath
some and pitiable aspect to the pool
creature. Her cheeks were one mass Of
charred flesh, pulpy and erubescent with
the recent passage of a fre-brand. Her
eyebrows and lashes were burned off, and
her eyeballs were scared by the blasting
flames. Liberal as is the endowment OF
the Mexican woman with wavy masses OF
black hair, not capillary was left upon
LOla's head. One is obliged to recur to
some of the terrible pictures of Dante or
Spenser to get an idea of the fearful and
yet appealing deformity of this poor girl
| The AtttO da Fe was a merciless thing in
the old days, but that was carried to a
decent end, and left merely mass of
| calcined rubbish. Here the destruction
was as complete, but the victim was al
lowed to live to be an object of horror,
during lifetime, instead of thing OF
beauty and joy forever, as nature in
tended her to be.
The story of Lola and her mother is
incredible. They were taken on by the
California at Mazatlan, on the 4th July.
They had been living at the village OF
Copala, about fifty miles from Mazatlan
A word as to the mother may not be
amiss. She is quite remarkable for her
personal charms. She has noble fea-
lures, clear olive skin, and splendid
masses of blue-black hair
They lived on the outskirts of Copala.
On the 18th of June, Antonio Murillo,
one of the lieutenants or under chiefs of
the ruffian Lozada, with small force,
came into the neighborhood of Copala,
The Arroa house was detached. The
husband, wife and Lola were its sole in
mates. They seized upon the mother,
doubtless attracted by her personal
charms, and the child Lola The hus-
band, offering resistance, he was shot
down and the house fred.
Hurrying swiftly from the scene of
blood, mother and daughter were swept
with the brigands, who were on horse
back, toward the mountains. The trag-
edy was enacted about four o'clock in the
afternoon. The brigands had been riding
all day, and after going, as near as the
mother could guess, twenty miles from
Copala, they camped for the next They
were too tired to think of aught but sleep
that night; and dispatching a hastily
prepared meal and partaking literally OF
mescal, they lay down to sleep, binding
the mother to one of the brutes and the
child to another The mother watched
her chance, and when the ruffians were
in the deep sleep of fatigue, she sue
ceeded in slipping the Withes which |
bound her, and, making her escape, ar
rived the next day at Copala with bleed
ing feet.
She did not release Lola, because she |
was afraid of arousing the ruffians, and
did not think the child could make the
journey, even if they should both sue
coed in escaping. She. thought, besides,
that Lola's tender years would protect |
her from abuse.
The brigands, on awakening next morn
ing and finding the mother gone, vented
their fury in blows upon poor Lola
They pursued their journey to the noun
tains, and from thence sent in demand |
for ransom for Lola. They made it so
large that it was beyond the mothers |
ability to pay it. A government force
was sent in pursuit. One week from the |
day of capture, on the goth of June, the |
rutfians not receiving the ransom demand
ed, took fire-brand and scared the child |
as we have described. The object I'M
doubtedly was to put her to lingering |
death by the most fendish fortunes, pro- !
tracted from day to day. The govern
ment forces came upon Murillo and his |
band In the night time, routed them and !
rescued the MANNED and ruined Lola.
Mother and child left q country of |
such atrocities and horror, and are now |
on their way to San Francisco ON the |
California. One may well exclain, ''Can
such things be-"