Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1882-09-20
A CARNIVAL OF BLOOD.
Horrible Atrocities Perpetrated in the
Chilian Country.

Chilian Country.
Panama, September IA Chilian cor
respondent writes the Star and Herald:
When the inhabitants of Tarma learned
that the Chilian forces we're about to
leave large majority Of the Peruvian
families appealed to be allowed to &C.
company III order to escape the depre-
dations of their lawless -countrymen.
Only some foreign families, believing the
guefrillas would respect them, decided
to remain. Fully five hundred women
followed tho army. just five hours
after the troops LETT immense hordes of
guerillas poured in. There were six
hundred armed with rifles and equipped
like regulars, formed in column, follow.
ed by at least three hundred guerillas
armed with sticks, clubs, lances, and 9TH
er similar weapons, who entered pell
nell shouting vociferously. On it being
known that the decent and well-to.do
citizens had left the town the fury of the
indians knew no bounds. Residences
were stripped, and those of many foseign
residents shared the same fate. Many
assassinations followed. Among the
victims were eighteen foreigners. In
the midst of the drunken orgie Tarma
was reduced to ruins. With the object
OF burning the properties of foreigners
aud Chillanized Tarmunians all the town
was burned. The cities of Jauja and
Huancayo shared the fate of Tarma.
The names of some of the foreigners as
sasslnated are given. An Italian named
Motto and two Germans named Strinz
and Scholk are among the slam. Four
ans were frozen to death in the Cordil-
leras.
At Conception the Chilian garrison
made a noble defense against kordes of
Indians. When the ammunition of the
Chilians was exhausted, the assailants
secured paraf1ine and fred the barracks,
burning some of the wounded soldiers.
Capt. Pinto and q few survivors of the
garrison made sally, cut down the en-
emy, cleared the front and sides of the
barracks, while the men inside extin-
guished the flames, and removed the
wounded toplaces of safety. In another
sally Capt. Pinto was shot dead. The
Indians again fired the building and sal
lies were organized under Sub-Lieuts.
Montt, Cruz and Peicz. In one of the
earliest of these the first mentioned Off
Ger vas mortally wounded. Subsequent
ly Sub-Lieut. Peicz fell wounded in an
other sally. The young officer was i'm
mediately pounced upon by horde of
Indians, who lanced him to death. At
this hour five friars from the neighbor.
ing convent of Ocopa appeared on the
scene and, crucifix in hand, commenced
to incite the Indians to renew the at
tack on the buildings At ten o'clock of
seventy-seven Chillans 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 d.
| rection. Four women, wives of the SOL
diers, were eye-witnesses of the deaths
OF their husbands. One of them, accom-
panied by son of five years, and an
other by an infant who had come into
the world ut the commencement of the
attack-after removing the wounded
from the burning buildinR-went out
into the aquare hoping their lives would
be spared. They had barely stepped
outside OF the building when they were
set upon by crowd of yelling and half
drunken savages, and horribly butchered.
The tive-y year-old boy had his throat cut
from ear to ear and was barbarously
mutilated, and the newborn child was
found pierced with lance wounds. Sub
Lieut.. Cruz and the surviving soldiers
were also surrounded and they fell one
alter another, but not until they had sold
their lives dearly. When the other Chill
ian troops arrived, a few days afterward
they found in the square and adjacent
streets 291 of the enemy's dead. The
/ wounded were double that number, and
were carried to the hills. The Chiliar
dead were collected and buried. The city
Was burned and everybody implicated
in the massacre who could be found wa.
Isummarily executed.