The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1886-09-21
A SOLDIERS REVOLT
NIPPED In THE BUD AT MADRID,
SPAIN.
The Trouble Inaugurated by In
fantry, Who Finally Flee to
the Country.


number OF the Spanish troops quar-.
trid in this city. The uprieing was
i'll planned and III managed, and prAc-
tically amounte d to little more than a
mutiny. The trouble was inaugurated
by a regiment of infantry quartered in
Gil Bias barrack.
The soldiers revolted, broke down
the partition wall that separated them
from the quarters occupied by the cav
airy and intermiDgled with the men OF
the two cavalry regiments, a number
OF whom joined in the revolution.
The officers Of all three regiments
did all in their power 10 dissuade the
men from revolving, but 5000 soldiers,
after beating number Of officers and
wounding three, deserted the barracks
and marched in two bodies through
tie town.
One body went to the Prado, the
principal park and prcme! ade Of
Madrid. Two thousand troops were
quartered in the Prado a. the time,
and the IeVolutionists expected to bt
j in ID by them.
The other body went hurrshirg
through the center OF Madrid calling
ON the people 10 Join in the rev To-
ton, crying "Long live the Republic"
aud making all kinds Of threats against
the monarchy.
At this time the theaters and other
placer OF anus ment were crowded.
The populace vera taken by surprise.
In NEST of the public places the peo'
10 n nl~aI atNk N a napIp III tho
entertainments were abruptly termi-
mated. The streets were soon filled
with people, nearly all OF whom were
terror stricken because OF exsggera ed
ideas OF what was Transporting.
The insurgents attempted among
their first exploits to 8 cure possession
OF the arsenal, docks and barracks
which they ait cke with open fire,
but all these places were well and sue
cessiully defended aod the rebels re-
pulsed. Finally, their reverses diawlng
them together, the insurgents attacked
and got possession of the southern
railway. By this time the authorities
had taken in the situation and had
fully prepared to mas or 1t. The loyal
troops we're marched to the railway,
and after q short fight they completely
dislodged the Ievolutionieis, who dis
persed in the country, Gen. Pavia
pursuing,
During the fighting in the city one
OF the officers Leading the insurgents
was shot and killed. The rebels shot
Gen. Velarde for refusing to join them.
They also MORALLY wounded Count
Mirasol and killed a colone. OF artillery.
Martial law was proclaimed through
out the city as soon as the condition
OF affairs was clearly perceived by the
government.
The emeute was complete sur
prise to Madrid. Qriet was coon re-
stored after the revolutionists were
driven from the southern railway. A
number OF the insurgents we're taken
prisoners. This morning there is no
appearance Of revolution, OF even Of
disorder.
When the insurgents fled from
town, forty OF them compelled the
station master to place at their dis
posal O special train with which they
made their fight 10 Alcala de Henares.
Government troops were coon in pur-
suit in another special train.
Noon Additional part 'culars Of last
nights revolt show that the insur-
gents also shouted "Long live the
Republic, the army ard Spain" A
large number Of civilians joined their
ranks.
When the authorities summoned
the military to put down the inslr.
rection, the rebels made stand for a
VIII 9 sgaiDst the loyal troops aud Ii
was in the first brush between the
opposing forces that Gen. Velarde
a. d the artillery colonel were killed.
When the revolutionists realized that
the other troops were making no
response to their appeal, they aband-
oned the fight in town and ecsmpered
for tha country, most OF them in the
direction OF Alcsla lie Henares, O
walled city in New Gas lie, and but
seventeen miles from Madrid.
Many OF the rtbsls gave up the
fight loug before the general Retreat Of
their comrades and made their escape
in the darkness. The authorities are
ma ing great many arrests for com
plicity in the revolution aud large
proportion OF the soners are officers
Ii ia learned today that the rev,lu
ton was led by Brig. Gen. Vilacampa
He 20 sped on the special ain which
left the city on the southern railway
Loyal ir ops are securing the suburbs
o Medrid in 3 arch Of fugitive Iebelp
kilograms f,om al the p ovinCes sho
that public rder remains undisturbed
The Ministers, who happened to b.
all absent from the city yesterday
have been summoned to return i'm
me diately.
1t has been learned that the IevoIu
ton sF, who ttsrt d for Alcale d,
Hsnares, becoming convinced that tn,
loyalis would stop and probably cap
tufe them, stopped their special tIaiI
en- route, tent l. back 10 Marid auC
fled across the country.
The streets of the CITY are alive wi |
crowds OF peope eagerly discuss nj
the occurrences Of latt night,
THEV GAM SpnnE9