Arizona weekly citizen., 1882-09-24
FrishtfuI State of Affairs in Peru.

A Chilean correspondent writes to the | Star and Herald, under date of Septem- | Der 7th, that the Chilean forces were to { leave, large majority of the Peruvian [ families resolved to accompany them, ID order to escape the depredati0ns of ! their lawless countrymen; only some foreign families, believing the guerIllas would respect them, decided to remain. Fully JOO women followed the army.
 Just tive hours after the troops left im-
 mense .hordes of guerillas poured III.
 There were 6OO men armed with rifles and
 equipped like regulars, who entered,
 formed into a column, followed by about
 3JO guerIllas armed with sticks, clubs
 and lances and similar weapons, who
 entered peL-meL, shouting vOciferous-
 ly. On 1t being Known that all vell-tO-
 do and decent families had left town,
 the fury Oi the Indians knew no bounds
 Residences were stripped, and those of
 many fOre-gn residents shared the same
 fate. A number of assassinations fol-
 lowed. Among the victims were about
 eighteen abOrigInes. In the midst of
 the drunken orgies, Tarma was reduced
 to runs, with the object of burning the
 properties of foreigners and Chileans
 The cities of JanJa and Huancaro
 shared the fate of TarmH The names of some Of the foreigners assassinated are given. An Italian named MOttOs and two Germans named String and | Schalk were n-->-,--s-as sl-s slain FOur s.,I3fers and six fugitive PeruEians were | frozen to death in the Cordilleres. At 1 CopcepciOn the Chilean garrison made ! a noble defense against the hOrdes of l Indians. When the ammunition of the | Chileans was exhausted, their assailants | secured paraffine and fired the barracks, burning some wounded soldiers. Cap l tam Pinto and q few survivors of the garrison made a sally, cut down the en- emy and cleared the front and sides of the barracks, while the men inside ex- the flames and removed the wounded to a place of safety. In another rally Captain Pinto was shot lead. The Indians again fired the build Ing, and sallies were organized by sub Lieutenants MOutt, Crux and PeicZ. In one of the earliest of these the first officer was mortaily wound sd. Subsequently sub-Lleutenaut Peicz fell wounded. In another sally 3 young officer was immediately bounced on by a horde of Indians, who
 anced him to death. At this hour five .riars from the neighbOring convent ot )cOpa appeared on the scene, and com nenced to incite the Indians to renew
 Inc attack on the building. At 10 o'clock lf seventy-tive Chlleans composing the garrison only four. and two of them wounded, remained to offer resistance. The others were either dead or dying. The buildings are now ablaze in every NT F.Fl sel ! Hers, were eye-witnesses of the death of
 heir husbands. One of them was ac- by her son, five years old, md another by an infant who had come ntO the world at the commencement of he attack. After the removal of the wounded from the burning building hey went out in the square, hoping heir lives would be.spared. They had barely stepped outside the building yhen they were set upon by a crowd of cling, drunken sayages, and horribly ,utchered. Tha five-year-Old boy had is throat cut from ear to ear, and was lOrri bly, mutilated, and the body of the newborn child was found pierced by six ance wounds. Sub-Ldeutenant Cruz md the surviving soldiers were sur Ounded, and they fell, one after anOth-
 IT, but not till they had sold their lives ( .early. When other Chilean troops ar- , ived, few days afterward, they found [ n the square and adjacent streets 29l lead. The enamy'S dead and wounded were doubtless of that number, and ! sere carried off into the hills. The l }hilean dead were collected and buried. | The city was burned, and everybody implicated in the massacre who could ,e found was summarIly executed.