Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-09-17
BLOODY BUTCHERY.
Horrible Brutalities Inflicted Upon De
fenseless Women and Children by
the Savage PeruTians.
A Gillian Garrison Massaered and the
Bodies Of the Dying and Dead
Burned-TowBs Laid Waste.
I

PANAMA, September IA Gillian
| correspondent writes the Star and Herald !:
When the inhabitants OF Tarma learned the
Gillian forces were about to leave, large
majority of Peruvian families appealed to
be allowed to accompany Them, in order to
escape the depredations of their lawless coun-
| trymeu. Only some foreign families, believ-
ing the guerrillas would respect them, de-
| cided to remain. Fully 500 women followed
| the army. just five hours after the troops
left immense hordes of guerrillas poured
into Tarma. They were headed by 600
men armed with rifles and equipped like
regulars, formed in column, followed BY at
least 5000 guerrillas armed with clubs, lances
and ether similar weapons, who
ENTERED PELL-MELL, YELLING LOUDLY.
On il becoming known that all the we'll
known and decent families had abandoned
the town, the fury of The Indians knew no
bounds and the residences of the fugitives
| we're stripped. Those of many foreign resi-
dents shared the same fate and many as
sassinations followed Among the victims
were eight foreigners. In the midst of q
drunken orgie the town was reduced to
ruins, with the object OF burning the property
of foreigners and Chiliauized Tarmsnians.
All the town was burned. The cities of
Jauga and Huancsyo shared the fate of
Tarma. The names of
SOME OF THE FOREIGNERS AssAssINATED
are given. An Italian named Motto and two
Germans named Strinz and Scholk are among
the slain. Four Gillian soldiers and six
fugitive Peruviaus were frozen to death in
the Cordilleras. At Conception the Gillian
garrison m ade a noble defense againsa the
hordes of Indians. When the ammunfiIon
of the Chilians was exhausted the assaflanis
secured parafine and fired the barracks,
burning some wounded soldiers. Captain
Pinto and a few survivors of the garrison
made a rally, cut down the enemy and
cleared the front and sides OF the barracks,
while the men inside extinguished the
fames- and removed the wounded TO place
OF safety. In another rally
CAPTAIN PINTO WAS SHOT DEAD.
The Indians again fred the buildings, and
sallies were organized under Sub-Lieuten-
ants Mont, Cruz and Peril In one of the
earliest OF these the first mentioned officer
was mortally wounded. Subsequently Sub
Lieutenant PerIz fell, wounded in another
sally. The young officer was Immediately
bounced upon by the horde of Indians, who
lanced him to death. At this hour five friars
from the neIghboring convent of Ocopa APP
peared on the scene, and, crucifx in hand,
commenced TO incite the Indians TO renew
the attack on the building. At 10 O'Clock,
of seventy-seven Christians composing the
garrison only four,
AND TWO OF THEM WOUNDED,
remained to offer resistance. The others were
either dead or dying. The building was
now ablaze in every direction. Four women
the wives of soldiers, who were eye witnesses
to their husbands murder-one of them sc-
companied by her son five years old, and
another by an infant who had come into the
world at the commencement of the attack
after removing the wounded from the build
ings went out into the square hoping their
lives would be spared. They had barely
stepped outside the building when they were
set upon by crowd of yelling and drunken
savages and
HORRIBLY BUTCHERED.
The 6Ye-year-old boy had his throat cut from
ear to ear, and was barbsrously mutilated, and
the body of the newborn child was found
pierced with lance wounds. Sub-Lieutenant
Cruz and the surviving soldiers were also
surrounded, and they fell one after another,
but not until they had sold their lives dearly.
When other Gillian troops arrived a few
days later, they found in the square and adj
jacent streets twenty-nine of the enemy's
dead. The wounded were double that num-
Der, and were carried off to the hills. The
Gillian dead we're collected and buried. The
city was burned, and everybody implicated
in the massacre who could be found was
summarily executed.