The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1889-05-08
BLOODSHED IN MEXICO.
An INCIPIENT REVOLUTION NiPPED IN
THE BUD.
A Terrible Riot Incited by Jesuit Priests
Stirring Up the Ignorant People
Against the Governnent-Streets Sticky
and Cutters Running With Blood Over
$50 Persons Slain.

ST. LOUIS, May 2.-The following de-
scription of a mob and riot which oc-
Cured at La Luz, near GuanaJuato,
Mexico, few days ago, over the incar-
ceraticn of five Jesuit priests who were
stirring up the ignorant people against
the government is given by prominent
citizen of Guanaiuato, who reached this
place Yesterday. 1t was nearly dark
when the priests were imprisoned, but
by the time the street tights were
lirhted. $4,000 men roared and surged
against the walls of the jail. They
attacked its heavy doors with pick-axes,
stones, crow-bars and heavy beams OF
wood. and some of them, in their wild
frenzy, dashed their bleeding hands and
heads against the massive walls. Many
of them were armed, and in short
while heavy fire was pouring into win
dows. The Mayor of Granajuato, who
was inside, was one of the first to fall.
The policemen, who rushed IN squads OF
twos and threeS were remorselesSly
butchered. and in a short time more
than twenty of them were lying dead on
the pavement. The few scattered sol
diers who were in town were treated in
a like manner.
The mob, which by this time was ut
terlv rnmanageable either by the gov
ernment or the priests who had melted
it, now set fire to the jail doors, but just
as the inmates were about to surrender
two hundred regular soldiers arrived on
the double e-quick and formed across the
street. The mob answered the order to
disperse with yell and discharge Of
firearms.
The command to fire was at once
given. Bullets at a fearfully short range
swept through a mass of men, women
and children like scythe, moving them
down in rows.
Still they came on, and volley after
vollev crashed into them, only to cause
those behind to spurn the dead bodies
with their feet as they pressed forward.
The streets were sticky with blood and
shallow cutters ran with 1t
In the meantime number of lnsur.
gents, armed with pistols and rifles, had
climbed upon adjoining houses, and the
soldiers began to drop one by one.
After half hours continuous fight
ing charge with bayonets was ordered.
When the front rank of the mob felt the
steel the entire concourse broke and dis
appeared through alleys and byways:
Altogether more than 25O persons nad
been slain, by far the greater
part of whom were miners and other
Mexican laborers. The soldiers lost
sixteen killed and wounded. Among
| the slain was a lieutenant.
The fire in the jail was quenched, ard
the five badly frightened but determined
priests were taken to GuanaJuato tor
safe keeping. They are now confined
in the Castillo DeGrandeas, an immense
pile in which the great Mexican revold-
| ton had its birthday, and in which the
patriot Hidalgo was subsequently hanged.
1t is thought that had the recent riot
proved successful, had the priests been
rescued and the local authority broken,
serious uprising might have developed.
AS it is the incipient revolution Is
nipped in the bud.
THE ABOVE STORY DENIED.
CITY OF MEXICO (Via GalyestoD), May
2.-Dispatches sent out from Texas, pur-
porting TO give details Of rioting at Silao
| and Guanaiuato are gross exaggera-
tions. The prefect of Sllao was assassl-
mated yesterday, and his was the only
life lost in the entire affair. The au-
thorities have restored order, aud to-day
everything is quiet.