Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1880-02-06
PIEROLA'S VICTORY.
Details Of the Terrible Fight Last De.
cember In Tie Streets OF Lima.
Special Telegram.

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Special Telegram.
SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 26.-The Ctroai
cle's special correspondent at Callao
Peru, sends the following details of the
accession of Pierola on Sunday, Dec
q; Everything appeared to be settled
into a state OF tranquility in Lima and
Callao. This was only the calm before
the storm. During the forenoon there
were more people abroad than are usual.
ly abroad on Sunday in Lima, and, il
anything, the public places were less
thronged than usual. Soon, however,
this was all changed. About 2 p. m,
the populace commenced to pour out
upon the streets. ard before many min
utts dense crowd was making its way
toward the Quartet, where battalions
No. 4 and of the National guard were
quartered. while in another direction a
large crowd was pushing its way toward
the government palace, where Gen. La
puta, surrounded by his ministers, were
cIoseted, engaged in important bust
ness.
The cause of this ferment was the is
suing of an order by Gen. Lacotera,
war minister, to the commanding Off.
Ger of No. 8 battalion to disarm battal-
ion No. 4. AS this regiment was per-
sonally recruited by Pierola, and who
at the present time was its colonel, it
was almost certain that if the order was
carried out it would provoke violence
and bloodshed, and would give the op-
position a suitable pretext to proclaim
dictatorship. The administration,
blind to the effect of the order, directed
ils immediate enforcement. Two brig
AIDES were formed on parade outside of
the Quartet, when the colonel Of No. s,
| from his post, commenced to read de-
cree disarming battalion No. 4, and in
cooperating it's officers and men with
batlalions Nos. g, 8, and 8.
Before the concluding paragraph of
the decree had been read, Don Nicholas
Pierola, in the full uniform Of Peru
Wan colonel, walked to the front Of his
regiment, and, after calmly scanning
The crowd, slowly drew paper from
his breast, and commenced to read it.
The paper was q proclamation to the
soldiers and citizens of Peru, in which
the calamities which had lately befal-
len the country were pointed out, and
which were said to he solely due to the
imbecilty of the Prado government,
which government had fostered corrup-
ton and Encouragement in public of
fees, and had brought disgrace to the
Peruvian arms, and the loss of impor-
tant territory through the plumbers and
incapacity of Gems. Buendia and Sau.
rez, personal favolites of Gen. Prado.
Before concluding the reading the col
onel of No. s gave orders for the forci-
BILE arrest Of Pierola.
The latter then turned to his battal-
ion and gave the command to load, at
which moment the governm ent troops
opened fire, which was quickly returned
Pierola bravely leading his men, amid a
shower of balls, and apparently inyul-
nerable. TIE melee became general,
the populace at once taking sides. The
government troops were reinforced, but
the insurgents seemed to be growing
in numbers. The latter soon carried
the Quartet, and riaed it of what arms
and ammunition were in store. They
| likewise seized u battery of field pieces
and two Gating guns. Fighting was
kept up at different points of the city
until about 6 p. M, at which time the
government forces had concentrated at
the legislative building and palace to
the number of three or four thousand
men, and were engaged in building bar
ricades. During the afternoon, upon a
close calculation, between five and six
hundred were killed and wounded,
among them being many women and
themselves from the crowd.