The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1889-05-03
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SAN ASTosTo, Tex.. May News
has reached here of desperate fighting
at Guiana Jnata, Mexico, in which
thirty soldiers and policemen and 800
rioters were killed. The trouble arose
from the i'm prisonment OF Eve Jesuit
priests who have been delivering seli-
tious sermons The popnlace en-
deavored to rescaa them. Then n
fight occurred. The, priests are still in
jail.
CRY 0F MEXICO fvia Galyestonl.
May p. The dispatches sent cut from
Texas. purporting to give details Of
rIotlng AZ Sllao and Guiana juata. are
. gross exaggerafioii. The project at
Silao Was assassinatsd YESTERDAY. His
was the only life lost in the affair. The
authorities restored order and to-day
everything is quiet.
FALSE BUT GRAPHIC STORY.
ST. Louis, May Following is a
description of the mob and riot at Ia
Luz. near Guiana JnaIa. Mexico. few
days ago over the Incarceration OF five
Jesuit priests who were stirring the
ignorant people against the govern
ment, as given by prominent citizen
Of Guiana Juata who reached Texas
yesterday.
1t was nearly dark when the priests
were imprisoned. but by the time the.
street-lamps were lighted 1900 snen
roared and surged against the walls OF
the jail. They attacked lis heavy
doors with pick-axes, stones, crow
bars. 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 In.
The mayor of Guiana Juata. who
was inside, was one of the first TO fall.
The policemen, who rushed up in
squads OF two and three, were re-
morselessiy butchered, and in a short
time more than twenty OF them were
lying dead ON the pavement. A few
scattered soldiers In the town were
treated in like manner.
The mob, which by this time was
utterly unmanagahle, either by the
government or the priests who had
melted them, now set fire TO the Jail
doors, but Just as the inmates were
about TO surrender, 200 regular sol
diers arrived on the double quick, and
formed across the street. The mob
answered the order TO disperse with
yelis md discharge of firearms. The
command TO fire was at once given.
The bullets, at fearfully short range,
swept through the mass of men,
women and children like q scythc,
moving them down in rows. Still
they came on, and yoliey after voIley
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 the cutters ran with IL. In the
meantime number of insurgents,
armed with pistols and rifles, climbed
upon the adjoining houses and the
soldiers began to drop one by one.
After hall hours continuous fight
ing a charge with bayonet was or
dered. When the front rank OF the
mob felt the steel the entire mass
broke and disappeared through alleys
and byways
Altogether, more than go people
had been slain, by far the greater part
of whom were miners and other Mexi-
can laborers. The soldiers lost six
teen killed and woanded Among the
slain was lieutenant. The fire in the
jail was qnenchesi. and the IRE fright
ened but determined priests taken to
Guiana Juata for safe keeping. They
are now confined IN the GaSselia de
6rantas. the immense pile in which
the great Mexican revolution had its
birth and In which Patriot Hid=ssso
was subsequently hanged. LIZ is
thought had the recent riot proved
successful. had the priests been res
cned and the local authority broken.
serious uprising might have dsveI-
eped. As il is, the incipient revuiu
ton IS nipped in the bad.
NO BLooDsHEp AT ALg.-
CIry or MExfco. May 2.--Gov. Goa
zaIes uff uf ta.uauA Juato teiegraphs that
there has been nc bleodshed at all
there. The priests in prison At La
Luz viii be tried in the courts Ike
other offenders The utmost quiet
prevails. President Diax assured the
Associated Press correspondent that
quiet prevailed at Guiana Juato and oil