Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1890-09-19
GEN~BARRuNDlA.s =
Murdered in a Most cowara,y n,.
Bullet Fired Into His Hs. "anne'
Was Dead ecu Ate

Murdered In a Most Cow.,.,
Was Dead. afte}
NEW YORK, Sept. 13.-The p,o..
steamship Colon. which reached !. a''hc
brought some of the passep-.rs n,'et o-l
board the steamship Acan,,lo. sio wei
of the killing of Gen. Barrundja ~ IN The
witness OF the tragedy told the :, one
Associated Press. 1t apnears '.prS Y
Barrundia came on board at Ao ."al
NJ, understood to be on his war 'pulcd
vadT. He was attended bv ,,., W SAM
body guard. When the shin a :',a'
chanperico. the Guatemalan a a1Nej
there demanded that Barrunai. ','o1
rendered. Capt. Pitts percn,, We
fused to do SO. They withheld ~. y
ance papers for twenty-fonr ha "e c,
finally allowed him to proceed "'s \
the vessel arrived at San 1 H.
boatloads of soldiers were sen, or
the shore to see that no one wi,bnu
credentials should leave the yesso, p 1
pistol shot Of her were two Init,
gunboats. Capt. Pitts had telcn,s
their commanding officer from C,,.
requesting assistance, but the disn.,ap
not been delivered. He now Md ''e'
sonal appeal for help. The resnos
that they could donothiny withon, se
from the port captain. The next daJ
ship was again invaded by the conn.,
tee with q special force of men and "s
boat load of soldiers. The Gn,ta.
commentaries produced an "order ~
rest" signed by American Minister MI
and made q formal demand for tho da,
of BarrundM. Then no d.
all the cabin passengers to be ~,
below. When this order was
executed the entire force proceeded 10
rundia's room, Capt. Pitts with n
When the room was reached CAM
after deprecating the necessity Of s01
dering his passenger, read the order y
arrest. Barrundia had quietly met
at the door, but at once divin;,
was over reached into the room for 10 J
ers, and. making the remark, ..verv a
fred. The ball just missed Cant.
who, together with the Guatemalon
mander, ran to his room and locloiI
door and hid under the bed, leayipl
man-hunting to special officers. Baru|
was short-sighted man, and being
nervous was unable to do any dal
though he chased the men out of the $,
firing wildly. AT last they dropped
riddled with shot, on the hurricane /
The brave commentaries hcreI
came from his hiding place, vl
up to the dead man and frcl
bullet into his skull. The
body was rolled up in piece of canyaJ
conveyed on shore in one of the boats
other boat, conveying the gallant pcrp|
tors Of the deed, with their revolversod
displayed, made detour around by|
| United States warships. AS they left|
| Acapulco some smilingly waved their
and one placed his thumb to his ncsd
| extended his fingers in we'll known h
ner. Still the incident was not over
the gentleman who told the foregoing.
| Guatemalans had to wipe their feet a /
more on the suffering ship, and she waj
allowed to proceed until the baggage
longing to Barrundia was searched, pred
ably for evidence in eliminating cd
This was permitted by the American
boats, not 100 yards away. Indeed, al
time of the tragedy an officer from d
them was on board the Acapulco.
Americans on board were full of indignl
and shame at the whole affair. Capt
it was generally held, was partly accu
for his action, seeing he had applied in|
to the war ships for assistance and wa
fronted with an order from the Anne
minister. The passengers condemn ii
ton of the men-of-war, for, they main
In any event they might have taken c
of Barrundia until some definite expra|
of the will of the United States had
from Washington. They also condcml
action of Minister Miner, who, they tho1
had no right to sign mans death wal
! (for they submit that at the time he
he knew that it amounted to that
matter what the character of the "
/ was.