The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1880-01-11
WOMEN MOBBED by WOMEN.
A scandalous Incident in the Streets Of a
Peruvian City.
Iann Francisco Ohroniele.l

CA1r,Ao. Nov s.-Upon the news announc-
Ing the loss OF the Pisagua. an unfounded
rumor was circulated IN lima and Callao to
the fleet that the CHILEAN soldiery had
treated Peruvian women with gross brutality.
This ruinor spread like wildtire, and finally
tho streets were filed with abandoned Peru
Wan women, and with tho lower classes OF
both sexes. A large number OF native Chilian
women reside here aud In Lima. many OF
them being married to foreigners, while
others belong to the abandoned order. cry
was raised OF death to tho ChilenoH, and u
rush was made for the quarter whore the lat
ter class of CHILEAN women live. Upward OF
twenty or thirty OF them were rutblessly
selzsd by the infuriated mob of viragos,
stripped of their clothing, dragged through
tho streets by the hair, aud pelted with rocks
until they were In u frlghttul condition OF suf-
fering.
Two or three were jumped upon, kicked,
cut and otherwise mangled, and left llfelesB
In the street. without any covering over their
bodies. After turning over about sixty Chil Ian
women to the provost guard the mob made u
rush for the Hotel do lquique, where respect
able Chiian women live. There the same
scenes were enacted as before, II not worse,
as by this time tho yragoes were intlamed by
tiuuOr and were encouraged by large num-
Der Of the National Guard. who. were mingled
among the crowd, and were also under the In
liuence of intoxicants. What were the au-
thorities doing while this hellsh work was In
progress2 may be- asked. Nothing. AT last,
| when tho captain OF the post concluded That
these rlotous demonstrations were increasing
| In magnitude, and when he saw that the mob
was commencing to plumber, he ordered a
company of troops to clear the streets. This
force, under tho sub-prefect, made n charge
with fixed bayonets on the mob, which was
now congregated about the plazl on the Gale
de Construction. This charge Was elfectual
In scattering the mob of women. who as they
fed dropped their prey, which consisted of a
d,z N terror. stricken Gillian women, COM
pl.tely dsnuded These were taken by the
authorities and placed In the Quartet with q
strong guard over them to protect them from
further violence
In all about 100 CHILEAN women were In the
hands OF the mob. and had 1t not been for the
soldiery, even though they were tardy In
rendering assistance many would have met
with u cruel and barbarous death The male
portion of tho popuace did not take any &C
tive part In the disorders, but they ware abet-
tors OF the mob passively looking on and
not attempting to quell these acts. A mum
Der OF CHILEAN women took refuge on foreign
shipping, while others chung to their hus.
bands on the thresholds OF their own doors
being the wives OF foreigners and entitled tt
the same protection as their husbands from
their respective governments. Very little
has been said about this disgraceful affair by
the Peruvian journals, and when 1t has beer
noticed 1t has been smoothed over rs popular
warning to the authorities to remove the
Chilenos on the ground OF morality and public
safety.