Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1891-11-06
her Citizens are Bitter in their De-
nunciatiOns Against America
and Her Representatives.
A Detailed Account Of the Recent
Attack on Sailors of the
U. 5. Steamer.
They are Attacked by q Mob, Las
sooed and Dragged Through
the Streets.
The Chilean Investigation Secret.

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account of the recent attack has been
sent out from here. to a New York pa
per:
Captain Schley's men had been on
board the Baltimore several months
without liberty. When he arrived al
Valparaiso he received the usual visit of
courtesy and an assurance of assistance.
Other foreign ships were daily giving
their men liberty, Therefore Captain
Schley sent 10 men ashore.
OF these, only four returned drunk
four overstayed their liberty, thirty-six
were imprisoned, seventeen were wound
ed, n was killed outright and one sub
sequently died. Men received from five
to twenty-five wounds, mostly knife and
bayonet cuts in the back, which would
characterize the assault as ~unprovoked,
brutal and dastardly. No mitigating cir
cumstances have yet con to the CORES
pondent's knowledge. 1t is probable
that if there were any they would be
published.
Captain Schley ordered a court on
board the Baltimore to take testimony.
The result is said to be remarkable for
c%learness and correctness. The sailors
in the street were insulted by Chilians
splitting in their faces. A crowd zeal by
var waiting to attack them should they
resent the insult.
The Baltimore's men Wisely took
refuge in a tram car. The crowd stopped
the car and hauled the men out, beat
ing them with sticks and stones and
knitting them.
One man fell with twenty-five stabs,
and while a companion was assisting
him to a chemists, a policeman shot him
through the neck. He died instantly. A
second shot fired passed between the
flesh and the shirt Of the other man.
An officer with a white cap, presuma-
bly, a gentleman, drew his sword and
slashed both the living and the dead.
The attack then became general. Sail
ors quietly eating in small restaurants
about town were brutally beaten and
stabbed. Mounted policemen arrived,
but instead of %succoring the sailors, they
began sabering them.
One man was tied with nippers about
the wrists to a horse, which was started
at full gallop, dragging the man through
the streets. Afterward a horse was
hitched to another man, who was hauled
to the station with a lasso about his
neck. There we're plenty of witnesses on
shore to the shooting, but they we're
afraid to testify. One wrote an anony-
NOUS letter to Captain Schley and after
ward visited the ship, but he says he
would lose his life if it were known. The
men we're obliged to sign a paper declar-
ing that they we're satisfied with the po-
Ices conduct. The paper is in Spanish
and the men were ignorant of it's con-
tents. The Baltimore's men were COM
pletely unarmed. Those arrested were
searched at the station. Only six ordi-
Auly pOChCU huASCo "ClO lOuuu'
The Gillian investigation was secret.
The mems cause was unrepresented. AL
though Captain Schley urged that an
officer be present, his request was denied
on the claim that such proceedings are
always secret.
CHILlANS
SANTIAGO DE CHILL, Nov. 2.-The Chi
liam authorities have arrested Demetrius
Leiva, Carlos Gomez and Jose Shumada,
three of the Chilians who were impli-
Gated in the assault on the Baltimore's
sailors. It is said other arrests will fol-
low.
H BREACH WIDENING.
WASHINGTON, Nov. THE Gillian
difficulty continues to be the chief topic
of conversation-equaling in interest the
elections tomorrow. It is thought by
member of the cabinet, who has been in
a position to know the inside facts, that
the report of Commodore Schley's report
IN the outrage will further increase the
breach.
POLITICS IN IT.
New YORK, Nov. "A London cable
says: A dispatch from Valparaiso to
= firm in the Gillian trade, in reply to {
dispatch of inquiry, says that the secret
of the %junta's refusal to give satisfaction
to the American government is that the
members of the junta and their associ
ates in command are divided on thu
question of the presidency, and eacl
faction is afraid to make enemies b,
seeming to yield to the American de
mands, and that after the election Of
president there will probably be a chang
for the better in the situation. Thil
cheerful view is not generally accepted
however, by those having Chilian inter
ests, although it is believed that rivalr,
for the presidency il causing consider
able bitterness among the chiefs of thu
revolution.
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