Hand County press. (Miller, Dakota [S.D.]) 1882-1893, 1882-09-20
HORRORS.
One Of the Biooiiest Recitals Ecer
Printed Comes ;Ss-oss ccra.
Sacking of Town and Merciless
Slaughter of the Innocents-

according Ia a Chilian correspondent Of
the Pananra St1r and Iieyu,d, native guerril-
las blrned and pllaged the city OF Tarma
and other places, committed frghtful atroci-
ties and, among others, murdered number
of foreigners The correspondent saws:
When the inhabitants of Tarma learned that
the Chilian forces were abont 10 leave.
large majority of the Peruvian families ap-
pealed TO be allowed to accompany them in
order to escape the depredations
of their lawless countrymenL Only
some foreign families believing the
guerrillas would respect them, decided To
remain Fully 800 women followed the
army just fivs hours after the troops left
immense hordes OF guerrillas l,ouresl in,
There were 600 armed with rifles and
equipped like regulars, who entered formed
in column, followed by at least 1900 guer
rillas armed with sticks, clubs, lances and
other similar weapons, who entered pell-
mel, shouting vociferously. On IL being
known that all well-to-do and decent fami
lies had left town the fury of the Indians
knew no bounds Residences were strfpped
and those of many foreign residents
shared the same fate. Many assassinations
followed Among the victims were eighteen
foreigners. In the midst of the drunken or
gle Tarma was reduced TO ruins With the
object OF burning the properties of foreigners
and Chilianized Tarmanians all the town was
burned The cities of Jauja and Huancayo
shared the fate of Tarma The pRmes OF
some foreigners assassinatcd are given An
Italian named Motto and two Germans
named Striz and Scholk are among the
slain Four Gillian soldiers and six fugitive
Peruvians were frozen TO death in the Cor
dillcras
At Conception the chilian garrison made
aal.1 nkfxaf k.....
When the ammunition of the Chilians was
exhausted the assalants secured paraffine
and fired the barracks, burning some OF the
wounded soldiers Capt Pinto and n few
survivors of the garrison made sally, cut
down the enemy, and cleared the front and
sides OF the barracks, while the men inside
extinguished the flames and removed the
wounded TO places OF safety. In another
sally Capt Pinto was shot dead The In
dlans again fired the building, and salles were
organized under Sub -Lieuts Montt, Cruz and
Peicz In one of the earliest OF these
the aforementioned officer was mortally
wounded subsequently Sub Lent Peicz feil
wounded In another sally. The Young Off
Ger was immediately pounced upon by
horde OF Indians, who 1mccd him 70 death
AT this hour five friars from the neighboring
convent Of 0copa have appeared on the
scene, and, crucifx In hand commenced TO
incite the Indians to renew the attack on the
building, At 10 o'clock 80 saSa,,ty-aay.a,,
Cll.iians composing the garrison, only four.
and two OF them wounded, remained To offer
resistance. The others were either dead
or dying. The building is now ablaze
In every direction. Four women. wives
OF the soldiers, were eyc-witncsses Of
the death of their husbands Ono OF them
accompanied by her son of 3 wears
and another by an infant who had come into
the wor'a at the commencement OF the at
tack-after removing the wounded from the
burning building-went out into the square
hoping their lives would be spared They
had Larely stepped outside the building
when they were set upon by crowd OF
yelling and drunken sayages and horribly
butchcred The b-year-oid boy bas his
throat cut from ear TO ear, and was
barbarously mutiated, and the body cf the
new born child was found pierced
with lance weands Sub-Lieut Cruz
and the surviving soldiers were
also surrounded, and they fell one after an
other but not until they had sold their lives
dearly. When the other Chilan troops ar
rived, few days afterward they found I'm
the square and the adjacent streets 2ai of
the enemy's dead. The wounded were double
that number. and were carried off to the
hills The Chiliafs dead were collected and
buried The city was burned and everybody
Implicated in the massacre who could be
found was summarily executed