The weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1878-1881, 1880-02-03
WOMEN MOBBED BY WOMEN.
A ~alOus Incident in the Streets Of 81:
Peruvian City.

Upon the news announcing the loss of the
Pisagua, an unfounded rulnor was circulated
in Lima and CallaO to the effect that the
CHILEAN Soldiery had treated Peruvian wolnen
with gross brutality. This rumor spread like
wildire, and finally the streets We're filled
with abandoned Peruvian women, and with
the lower classes of both sexes. \ large
number of native Gillian women reside here
in Lima. many of them being married to
foreigners. while others belonged to the
abandoned order. \. cry was raised of death
to the ChllenoS," and a rush was made for the
quarter where the latter class of Gillian
women live. Upward oftwenty or thirty Of
them were ruthlessly seized by the infatuated
mob Of viragos, stripped of their clothing,
dragged through the streets by the hair, and
pelted with rocks until they We're in a fright
tul condition of suffering.
Two or three were jumped upon, kicked,
cut and otherwise mangled, and left litelcss
in the streets without any covering over their
bodies. After turning over about sixty
CHILEAN women to the provost guard, The mob.
made a rush for the Hotel de lquique. where
respectable Chillian women live. There the
same scenes were eNaC'eu as before, If not
worse, ntlamedb by liquor and were encouraged
by a large number Of the National Guard.
who were mingled among the crowd. and
We're also under the influence Of intoXicantS.
" hat were the authorities doing Willie this
helllsh work was i'll progress may be asked.
Nothing. At last. when the Captain of the
post concluded that these rlOtous denoIlstla-
tons We're Increasing i'll magnitude, and when
lie saw that the mob WAS commencing to
plunder. he ordered a company Of troops to
clear the streets. This force, under the Sub
Pretect. made a charge with fixed bayonets on
the mob, which was now cOncrrgated about
The plaza an the Gale de Constitution This
charge was ~efiectual in scattering the mob Of
wOnen who. as they fled, dropped their prey.
which consis ed Of Il dozen terror stricken
Gillian women, completely denude,i. These
were taken by the authorities aud placed in
the Cuartlc, with a strong guard Ovcl them to
protect them from further violence.
In all about 100 CHILEAN women were in the
hands Of the mob, and had it not been for the
soldiery. even though they were lardy in
rendering assistance. many would have met
with a cruel and barbarous death. The male
portion of the populance did not take any
active part in the disorders. but they were
abettors of the mob, passivcly looking on,
and not attempting TO qucIl these acts. A
number Of the CHILEAN women took refuge on
foreign shipping, while others chung to their
husbands on the thresholds Of their own
doors. being the wife Of foreigners and
entitled to the same protection is their hus-
bands from their respective governments.
Very little has been said about this disgrace
full affair by the Peruvian Journals, and when
it has been noticed, it has been Smoolhed
over as a popular warning to the authorities
to remove the Chilenos on the ground Of
morality and public satety.-Sdn francisco
Chronicle.