The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1891-07-13
MURDERED BY CHILIANS.
An American Citixen shot Down by q
Mob OF WOrkmsn.

MOD OF WOrkm6n.
SAN FnANcIsco, July 12.--The Examiners
special correspondent in Chill writes ns fol-
lows from Pisagua under date Of June III
Charles Unjar. the well-known civil en-
gineer, tho man who built tho branch of
the Southern Pacific railroad In California
from MenlO Park TO Niles, and who has
been connected with number OF engineer
ing undertakings in other states OF the
union. went TO Chill wealthy man. and
returned from there pauper. With n
partner named O'Farrell he wen. to Santi-
ago, and was successful in gottIng the con-
tract for the construction of a railroad
from Conception 10 a point in the interior.
some sixty miles east. MIR. Unjaf's story,
as he related it, is az follows:
"It was during the early part of Decen-
Der when rumors of n pending revolution
began to drift about the country, and we
experienced great difficulty In keeping
our workmen. AS the days slipped by
affairs assumed moro serious aspect
Well, the crisis came. and, just as had
snrmiaed, 1890 men were clamoring for the
immediate payment of their wages. We
yer. We told them that II they would wait
until the next day we would send to Con-
cepcion and try to raise the amount in sill
yer. They very. reluctantly retired,
grumbling and cursing. That snme dny the
revolution broke out, and the whole camp
was In the widest state OF excitement
O'Farreil said: i guess had better raise
the American flag over our house, 'All
right said. He stepped out to the door
and ran the flag up on the pole just in front
Of the doorway, and came into the house
again, and in joking way said: i would
down.
The words were scarcely out of his
mouth when we heard several shots in rapid
succession and terrible uproar among the
poems. l rushed to the door. Two men
lay dead on the ground, about 100 yards
was gathering to attack my partner and
me. l hurried back into tho house and
called to O'Farrell to arm himself and fly.
He seized his Winchester and together we
started up the road. Il have forgotten my
papers, said he. wait a moment He
within the mob was coming for US. OFar-
rell came out in a few minutes and said: I
have the papers now.' The words had
| scarcely passed his lips when he fell to the
ground, struck in the breast by musket
bullet. / STOPPED over him and started to
raise 11,i him to his feet. He said family;
Ny poor wife and childrenv &c
died in my arms, and ] had not even
time to secure his papers, for the assassins
were closing in on me, mad at the sight OF
blood and insane with desire for more. |
remembered that my horse was in corral
a few hundred yards up the road, and made
straight for this corral, reaching it out OF
breath. ! flung the gate open. cut the
halter rope and bounded onto his back.
"There was work-engine at the store
station, about eight miles down the track
and concluded to head for 1T. was graft
fed on arriving there to find one of oul
lv,,ay nf n
hand. but was Mortified to learn that the
German engineer had been murdered dur
ing the night. / dismounted, and witt
Wilson's aid bound up my wound. Wilson
knew how to run q locomotive and we
quickly got up steam and left. We reached
Co1.aepoien and found the city in fever o.
exciteinent over the news of the revolution
ary outbreak. In few days my leg was
we'll enough for me to be about again. The
peon mob had disbanded and the men had
nearly all joined the army.
"a large party of Europeans organized
and agreed to return with me to the camr
to secure O'Farrell's body. When We
reached the camp we found that the pro-
visions, materials, tools-in fact, every
thing that could not we'll be carried away
had been piled up in heaps and set on fire
The camp houses we're burned to the
ground. The flagstaff was broken and bits
of the American flag were scattered abou
the ground. O'Farrell's body lay where i
had fallen. All the cattle and horses hat
been driven off or killed and their carcasse
mutilated. A few hundred yards north o
where O'Farrells body lay was the dis
figured corpse of German workman. Thu
property destroyed represented value o
about $4,000, including $1S, ,00Oin currency
missing. We wero oblighed to bury OFar
rel and the German on the spot.
II shall try to save enough money to talk
mo out of the country. l am down on th
consul and shall place my case before the
authorities at home. have written to Mrs
O'Farrel, who now resides in Dublin. ant
advised her to put the facts before the au
thoriti es at Washington