Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-02-20
CHILL AND PERU.
p articulars of the Capture of the Fall of
Lima-A Chieftain Caught Slumbering.


p articulars of the Capture of the Fall of
Lima-A Chieftain Caught Slumbering.
NEW York, Feb. 1S.-The evening Post
publishes letter from Panama correspond
ent giving very interesting and entirely new
details concerning the capture of Lima and
Callao. The correspondent says it seems
universally conceded that at the termination
of the battle near Mirafores, five or six
miles from Lima, the Peruvians held the ad-
vantage and might, by one more determined
and prompt effort, have made themselves
masters of the situation. Encouraging and
congratulatory dispatches from the front and
bulletins announcing the Peruvian victory
were put in press, fireworks prepared and the
streets of Lima and Callao filled by
jubilant and excited crowds. At this
time occurred one OF those unantici-
pated events which in one moment change
the fortune of battle and the destiny of peo-
pie. P.erolo, who passed four days and nights
almost continuously in the saddle, overcome
by exhaustion was placed upon stretcher in
the field, where he was instantly plunged
INA PROFOUND SLEEP.
The troops, it is said, had been all day with
out food or water. At this critical moment,
while their chief was unconscious, the superior
officers disbanded their forces, and assuring
them that the Gillian hordes would soon
be swarming through Lima and Callao, adj
vised them to anticipate the Chilians and help
themselves to whatever they wanted.
Later ON the stragglers from the front
began to arrive at Lima and Callao, and their
doleful reports were circulated as if by magic.
Bulletins and fireworks were suppressed, and
instant preparation made for destroying the
for 81; no old
continued to pour into Lima and Callao, Tut
the day passed in profound quiet and gloom,
without an indication of what was to follow
except the forming of great many groups
of soldiers, negroes and Indians in the suburbs
of the cities, and the suspicious quietness with
which they seemed to be discussing the recent
events. At about ten at night the
WORK OF PILLAGE 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 imagined. The attack was
opened on the stores of the Chinese, and these
furnished huge quantities of fire crackers,
bombs and Chinese fire works, the popping and
buzzing of which added to the uproar. Toward
morning the scene was made more frightful
by the glare of burning ships, all of which
had been fired, and the frequent explosions of
gun which defended the port No sooner did
the rioters get taste of pillage, and excited
perhaps by liquor, than they syste-
matically began sacking all the stores and
houses on level with the street, without re-
gard to nationality. In Callao perhaps thirty
Chinese were killed. As most were killed
upon the outskirts of the town, it is propable
they were pursued and murdered simply for
the
PLEASURE 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 ap-
pear that the rioters were melted to and en-
couraged in these barbarities by superior
officers of the Peruvian army and navy, but
many of the attachments or squads of rioters
were led by Peruvian officers who participated
in the plumber. A number of foreign resi-
dents, many of them owners of stores which
had been pillaged, hastily organized themselves
as an urban guard and sailed forth upon the
mob. The news of this seemed to spread like
lightning through the city, and Simultaneous
ly and in one moment
RIOTERS DISAPPEARED
as if swallowed up by the earth. The guard
was soon adequately armed with the aban-
doned rifles and undertook systematic search
through the lanes inhabited by
the poorer classes of people, and
much stolen property was recovered.
The men Influenced by their losses and per-
haps' by other stimulants, of which there
was no lack, did not perform their self
imposed duties with negligence or undue gen.
tieness, and in the morning following many
corners were encountered with swarthy corpses.
In fact several of the guard fell victims to
their zeal. In Lima the rioters were much
more numerous and the area of operations
greater, and the resistance of the urban guards
was much more serious, and it is said that
m ore than 500 rioters were killed.