The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1880-02-12
FerOcity OF a Female Mob,

A correspondent of the San Francisco
Chronicle, writing from Callao, Peru,
says: Upon the news announcing the
loss Of the Pisagua, an unfounded ru-
NOR was circulated in Lima and Callao
to the effect that the Chilian soldiery
had treated Peruvian women with gross
brutality. This rumor spread like Wild
fire, and finally the streets were filled
with abandoned Peruvian women. and
with the lower classes Of both sexes
A large number OF native Chilian women
reside here and in Lima, many of them
being married to foreigners, while others
belong to the abandoned order. A cry
was raised of Death to the ChilenosI'
and a rush was made for the quarter
where the latter class of Chilian women
live. Upward of twenty or thirty of
them were ruthlessly seized by the in
furiated mob of viragos, stripped of
their clothing, dragged through the
streets by the hair, and pelted with
rocks until they we're in q frightful con-
dition Of suffering.
Two or three were jumped upon,
kicked, cut and otherwise mangled, and
left ~lifeless in the street without any
covering over their bodies. After turn
ing over about sixty CHILEAN women to
the provost guard, the mob made a rush
for the Hotel de Iquique, where re-
spectacle Ohilian women live. There
the same scenes were enacted as before,
if not worse, as by this time the viragos
were inflamed by liquor and were en-
couraged by a large number Of the ma
tional guard, who were mingled among
the crowd, and were also under the i'll
fuence of intoxicants. What were the
authorities doing while this hellish work
was in progress may be asked. Nothing,
At last, when the captain Of the post
concluded that these riotous domonstra-
tions were increasing in magnitude. and
when he saw that the mob was com
mencing to plumber, he ordered a com.
pany of troops to clear the Streets
This force, under the sub-prefect, made
a charge with fixed bayonets on the
mob, which was now congregated about
the plaza on the Gale de Constitution.
This charge WAS effectual in scattering
the mob of women, who, as they fed,
dropped their prey, which consisted of
q dozen terror stricken Chilian women
completely denuded. These were Caken
by the authorities and placed in the
Quartet, with a strong guard over them
TO protect them from further violence.
In all, about one hundred Ohilian
women we're in the hands Of the mob,
and had it not been for the soldiery,
even though they we're tardy in render
ing assistance, many would have met
with o cruel and barbsrous death. The
male portion of the populace did not
take any active part in the disorders,
but they were abettors of the mob, pas
siveIy looking Oh, and not attempting
to quell these acts. A number Of the
Chilian women took refuge On foreign
shipping, while others chung to their
husbands on the thresholds of their own
doors, being the wives Of foreigners
and entitled to the same protection as
their husbands from their respective
governments. Very little has been said
about this disgraceful affair by the Pc
ruvian journals, and when it has been
noticed it has been smootbed over as a
popular warning to the authorities to
remove the Ohilenos on the ground Of
morality and public safety.