Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1881-02-19
Especial to the SENTINEL

New YORK, Feb. 18.-The Evening Post
publishes a letter from its Panama cores
pendent giving very graphic and entirely
new details concerning the capture of Lima
seems to be universally conceded that at
the termination Of the battle near Mira
flores, five or six miles from Lima, the Pc
ruvians held the advantage. and might by
one more determined and prompt effort
nave made themselves masters Of the stu
alton. Encouraging and congratulatory
dispatches from the front, bulletins an
nouncing a Peruvian victory were put in
the press, fireworks prepared, and the
streets of Lima and Callao were filled by
jubilant and excited crowds. At this time
occurred one of those unanticipated events
which sometimes in one N change
the fortune of q battle and destroy a peo-
pie. Pierola, who had passed four days
and nights almost continuously in the sad
die, overcome by exhaustion, was placed
on a stretcher in the field, where he was
Immediately plunged into a profound
sleep. The troops, it is said, had been all
day without food or water. At this criti-
cal moment. while their chief was uncon-
scious, the superior officers disbanded their
forces, and assuring them that the CHILEAN
hordes would soon be swarming through
Lima and Callao, robbing, pillaging and
devastating, advised them to anticipate the
Chilians and help themselves to whatever
they wanted.
Later on stragglers from the front began
10 49,. 10 faa anI Go1AA Ar1 +los.
doleful reports were circulated as if by
magic. The bulletins and fireworks were
suppressed, and instant preparations were
made for destroying the forts and ship
ping. All OF the morning of the 10th
armed soldiers continued to pour into Lima
and Callao, but they passed in profound
quiet and gloom, and without any indica-
ton Of what was to follow except the form
ing in many groups Of soldiers, negroes
and Indians in the suburbs of the city, and
the suspicious quietness with which they
seemed to be discussing recent events. At
about 10 o'clock at night the work Of pill
lage began. Doors were smashed in, and
soon the streets swarmed with men, women
and children laden with huge bundles Of
every class Of objects that could be i'm
agined. The attack was opened on the
stores of the Chinese, and these furnished
1lukt qudnbttlcb VI uIG-CIdchcISy DouDb anu
cheap fireworks, the popping and banging
OF which added to the uproar and confu-
sion. Toward morning the scene was rem
dered more frightful by the glare of the
burning ships, all of which had been fred,
and the frequent explosions Of dynamite,
which had been placed under every gun
which defended the fort. No sooner did
the rioters get a taste Of the pillage, ex-
cited perhaps by liquor, thar they sys-
tematically began sacking all the stores
and houses on q level with the street, with
out regard to nationality.
In Callao perhaps thirty Chinese were
killed. As most Of them were killed in
the outskirts of the town and upon the
open pampas, it is probable that they were
pursued and wounded simply for the pleas
ure of killing. In Lima the mob was
greater and the riot began at an earlier
hour. Some hundreds Of Chinese were
sacrificed. Not only does it appear that
the rioters were melted to and encouraged
in their horrible barbarities by the supe-
rior officers Of the Peruvian army and
navy, but many ~detachments of rioters
were lead by Peruvian officers, who parti-
cipated in the plumber.
At noon on the 18th the riot suddenly
ceased. A number Of foreign residents, |
many Of them owners of the stores which
had been pillaged, hastily organized them |
selves as an Urban guard, and sailed forth
upon the mob. The news of this seemed
to spread like lightning through the city,
and simultaneously and in one moment
the rioters disappeared as if swallowed by
the earth. The guard was soon adequately
armed with abandoned rifles, and under |
took a systematic search through the lanes
inhabited by the poorer classes of people,
and much OF the stolen property was re-
covered. The men, influenced by their
losses, and perhaps by other stimulants, of
which there was no lack, did not perform
their ~self-imposed duties with negligence
or undue gentleness, and in the morning
following many Of the corners were encum-
bered with swarthy corpses. In fact
several members OF the guard fell VIC
tins to their zeal, as in Lima the
rioters were much more numerous, and
their area Of operations greater. Resist |
ance to the Urban guards was much more
serious, and it is said that more than 500
rioters were killed.
LONDON, Feb. 18.-As soon as the New
Rules announced by the Speaker were
thoroughly comprehended, a large section
Of Liberals and Conservatives came to the
conclusion that so arbitrary superstition |
Of privileges could not be permitted, and
strong efforts must be made to prevent
such 9 course.
DUBLIN, Feb. 49, William Shaw, the
Member Of Parliament for Cork County,
has issued q manifesto. It Is addressed to
the Right Rev. John Mccarthy. the Catho-
lie Bishop OF Cleoyne. It reviews the
pursued by the party since he.
Shaw, held the leadership, and condemns
the programme adopted by that party,
he declares has been marked out for
Il across the Atlantic. Mr.. Shaw con-
/: / can understand and respect
D revolutionist, bat l despise and condemn
a mongrel that talks buster by hints at
physical force and sinking away at the
frst hint of danger, leaving the poor peo-
pie he has fooled helpless in the hands Of
IN enraged class and Government.
LONDON, Feb. 18.-The Beers have been
by a large body Of men under
The Boer army, now surround
mo- Naw GaatIa ia a. tad ~ q mn man |