The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1880-05-20

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ing between US. Being unarmed ] was
helpless TO assist Connolly, even il
assistance would have availed against
such a tiendish lot of rufians. Some.
how, though I'm sure | can't tell you
how, Connolly managed, wounded
though he was, TO reach the shelter Of
our house. / saw this, and thinking
that there might be time vet to prevent
further %bloodshed, 1 turned and began
walking as fast as l thought was polite
toward the court house TO seek the aid
Of the government troops stationed
there. No sooner did some Of the
crowd Of poems observe this than they
turned and followed me, shouting and
hooting and doing everything in their
power TO scare me into attempting to
run. Had | done so | wouldn't be here
TO tell the story, for they would have
lassoed ne and there would have been
an end of IL. Somehow | reached the
front of the court house and was FORUM
ate enough TO meet the chief judge, who
was named Don Trinidado. He at once
sent the only available force at his dis
posal, eight soldiers, under the com
mand Of a lieutenant, to the scene of the
riot with orders to quell it. Hardly
were the soldiers out of sight than that
portion of the mob which had hung
around the square, when they saw me-
speaking to the judge while the soldiers
stood by, approached and told the judge
that he must hand me over to them.
They would not listen to reason.
and in order to a v my life the
Judge had to slip me into the
all, into which he shortly after was
compelled to follow me. / was in good
company, as not only was the judge
there but also the ~intendente, or mayor
oF the place. The crowd meanwhile
had taken possession of the square, and
after awhile, finding chat no attention
was paid to their demands that | should
be delivered up to them, began break
ing down the Jail doors with sledge
b mmers and battering rams. Soon
they were Joined by the other portion
of the crowd who had remained in front
ofour house. These latter were demoniac
with passion, and though we at the
time knew it not, were maddened with
drink and blood-the blood Of my poor
comrades. BY this time it was dark
and we were expecting every moment
that the ancient doors of the prison,
though strong, would be forced in, when
relief came in an unexpected manner.
A few doors from the city prison was
the Office of the Trojes Mining com-
pany. This was strongly fortified
place, and on the first news of the dis
turbance preparations had been made
by Those in charge to protect it, the
force of white men being augmented by
several silver conductors, who at once
fastened TO the scene of riot. These
men are MeXicans, but of a higher
grade aud very trustworthy. Just as
we were in despair, the force in the
Trojes company's Office made "a diver
sion in favor, and, taking advan-
tage Of it, we all managed to make our
way there. Once inside the doors there
was no fear of our assailants being able
10 storm the fortress, and we were safe.
Next morning a force of seventy Of
these silver conductors, all macnifi-
Gently mounted and armed to the teeth,
arrived from Trojes being dispatched
to our relief by the marager of the com
pany's smelling works there.
AS we rode out and along the road to
Trojes / heard from the lips of one who
had been an eyewitness how my three
comrades persisted. The little house
we lived in was built of adobe and bad
no windows, only a door. This, on
CoDnelly's escape from his assailants
when Mondragun attacked him, they
had ~barricaded, and defending it
through holes which they cut in the
panels, their pursuers, after two or
three had been wounded in the attempt
10 force the door. found it to- hot and
gave up. For a time they were baked,
then some of them, more fendish than
the rest, set the roof on fire.
Smoked out poor Connolly rushed
out On the veranda, and Selling a dis
charged rife from a soldiers hand de-
Tended himself nobly, all TO no purpose.
The circling moose of a lasso dropped
around his neck and he was pulled TO
the ground and literally trampled and
stabbed to death. Poor Arnold trying
to come to his friends assistance was
struck down with a blow of a sword and
afterward stabbed all over, till hardly
any of the flesh on his face and breast
was visible. Yeoumans lay dead, shot
through the right eye and terribly bat
tered with stones, besides which--but
the rest / cannot describe. The Same
gentleman, a brother-in-law by marriage
of the superintendent of the mines, Mr..
Tregoning, also told us that the soldiers
who were sent to rescue my friends
Joined in with the mob.
On our way to the Trojes Mondrsgun
was arrested, as was also the boy who
threw the lasso round poor Connelly's
neck. Their trial was going ON when
we left Trojes some days later. Our
poor comrades were buried at Trojes
just before we lett, in the vault belong
ing to the company there. 1t is under.
stood that q claim will be made against
the Mexican government by the rela.
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