The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1882-09-22
HORRORS.
One of the BlOodiest Recitats Ever
Printed Comes from Peru.
sacking Of a Town and Merciless
Slaughter of the Innocents

According to a CHILEAN correspondent OF
the Panama Star and Herald, native guerriI-
las burned and pillaged the city of Tarma
and other places, committed frightful atroci-
ties and, among others, murdered a number
Of foreigners The correspondent says
When the inhabitants of Tarma learned that
the CHILEAN forces were about DO leave, a
large majority of the Peruvian families APP
pealed to be allowed to accompany them in
order to escape the depredations
of their lawless countrymen Only
some foreign families, believing the
guerrillas would respect them. decided to
remain Fully 500 women followed tho
army Just Ave hours after the troops left
immense hordes OF guerriilas poured In
There were 900 armed with rifles and
equipped like regulars, who entered, formed
In column, followed by at least !, 600 guer-
rilas armed with sticks, clubs lances and
other similar weapons, who entered pell-
nell, shouting vociferously. On IL being
known that ali well-to-do and decent fami-
lies had left town the fury OF the Indians
knew no bounds. Residences were stripped,
and those OF many foreign residents
shared the same fate. Many assassinat10hs
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 TarIna The names of
some 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
Peruvians were frozen TO death in the Cor
dilleras.
At Conception the Chilian garrison made
noble defense against hordes OF Indians
When the ammunition of the Chilians was
> exhausted, the assailants secured paraffine
and fired the barracks, burning some of the
wounded soldiers Capt. Pinto and 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
dams again fired the building, and sallies were
organized under Sub Iieuts Montt, Cruz and
PeicZ. In one of the earliest of these
the aforementioned officer was mortally
wounded Subsequently Sub-Iieut Peicz fell
wounded IN another sally. The young Off
Ger was Immediately pounced upon by
horde of Indians, who lanced him to death.
AT this hour five friars from the neighboring
convent OF Ocopa have appeared on the
scene, and, crucitix IN hand. commenced to
incite the Indians TO renew the attack on the
building. At 10 O'Clock, of seventy seven
and two of them wounded, remained TO offer
resistance. The others were either dead
or dying The building il now ablaze
in every direction. Four women, wives
of the soldiers, were eye-witnesses Of
the death of their husbands One OF them,
accompanied by her son of 5 years
and another by an infant who had come into
the world 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 barely stepped outside the building
when they were set upon by crowd Of
yelling and drunken savages and horribly
butchered The 5-year-old boy had his
throat cut from ear TO ear, and was
barbarously mutilated, and the body of the
new born child was found pierced
with lance wounds Sub-Leut 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 Gillian troops ar
rived, few days afterward, they found in
the square and the adjacent streets 2gl of
the enemy's dead The wounded were double
that number, and were carried off to the
hills The Gillian dead were collected and
buried The city was burned and everybody
implicated in the massacre who could be-
found was summarily executed