, 1889-05-09

SAN ANTONIO, Nay News has
reached here OF desperate fighting al
Guano Juanita, Mexico, in which thirty
soldiers and policemen and two hundred
rioters were killed. Trouble arose from
the imprisonment OF five Jesuit priests,
who have been delivering seditious ser
mons. The populace endeavored to Sc
cure them, then the fight occurred. The
priests are still in Jail.
The following description of the mob
and riot at Lo Luz, near Guano Juanita,
Mexico, a few days ago over the incar-
ceration of five Jesuit priests, was given
by prominent men of Guano Juanita
who reached Texas yesterday. 1t was
nearly dark when the priests were i'm
prisoned, but by the time the street
lamps were lighted twelve thousand men
roared and surged against the walls Of
the jail They attacked its heavy doors
with pick-axes, stones, crowbars, heavy
beams of wood, and some of them, in
their Wild frenzy, dashed their bleeding
hands and heads against its massive
walls. Many of them were armed, and
in short while heavy fire was pouring
in. The mayor of Guano Juanita, who
waB inside the Jail, was one OF the first TO
fall. Policemen, who rushed up in
squads of two and three, we're remorse-
lessly. shot down, and in a short time
more than two hundred OF them were
lying dead on the pavement. A few
scattered soldiers in the town we're treated
in like manner by the mob, which was
by this time utterly unmanageable either
by the government or the priests who
had incited them. The mob now set fire
to the Jail doors, but just as the inmates
were about to surrender, two hundred
regular soldiers arrived on 4 double
quick, and formed across the street. The
mob answered the order to disperse with
yells and a discharge of firearms. The
command to fire at once was given, and
the bullets at fearfully short range
swept through the mass of men, women
and children like scythe moving them
down in rows. Still they came on, and
volley after volley crashed into them, only
to cause those behind to spurn the dead
bodies with their feet as they pressed
forward. The streets were covered with
blood and cutters ran with it. In the
meantime a number Of insurgents armed
with pistols and rifles climbed upon the
adjoining houses and the soldiers began
to drop one by enc; after half an hours
continuous fighting, charge with bayo-
nets was ordered. When the front rank
Of the mob felt the steel the entire mass
broke and disappeared through the al
leys and by-wsys. Altogether more
than $50 people have been slain, and by
far the greater part Of which were min
ers and other Mexican laborers. The
soldiers lost sixteen, killed and wounded.
Among the slain was Il lieutenant. The
fire in the Jail was quenched, and five
frightened, but determined priests taken
to Guano Jusnita for safe keeping; they
are now confined in CASTILLO Delgrantes,
an immense pile in which the great
Mexican revolution had its birth, and in
which the patriot Hidalgo was subse-
quently hanged. 1t is thought that had
the recent riot proved successful, had the
priests been rescued and local authority
broken, serious uprising might have
developed. As it is, an insipient resolu-
tion WAS nipped in the bud.
LATER CRY OF MEXICO, May q
Dispatches purporting to give an account
of fiotingt at Silos and Guano Juanita
are grossly exaggerated. The project Of
SAss was sssassinated, and his was the
only life lost. Order has been restored
and everything is quiet.