The weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1891-1894, 1891-05-02
Portions of Chilli in the Hands of the
Revolutionary Party Peruvi-
ans Flying iIOmrwarI.
The Government Ironclads Take No
Part in the COnHict-Thp End
Not Yet.

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"OrFIcE OF RAMIERsE SALrplrER
|, WORKS, TNRArACo, Feb. -. On the ith
INST. Martin Larraine arrived here. He
] Is the same man who. on the ith inst
saved the workmcn who were on a strike
: in lquiquc. At G:3O "a. m. on the morn
ing of the 3d upward of 1900 workmcn
collected at Pozo Almontc in order to
proceed to lquiquc and make a formal
! representation respecting the scarcity of
provisions. Shortly after they had
reached the works Manager William
johnson gave them ten barrels of bis
cuts ana 1000 tins of preserves. Which
Wrr" distributed amOng the strikers.
lh'y renamed there that night and on
til' following day sent some of their lead
"rs ON To Ncgrcircs. where more men
were To be collected. Suddenly. how
oyer. a train appeared loaded with roy
eminent troops under Martin Larrainc.
Without haIting or parlcying these troops
opened fire ON the dcfcnsclcss workmcn.
women. and children. Shortly aftcrward
the forces marched forward and
Killed all the men. Meanwhile.
the men from Ncgrcirr's works, with
the commissioners from Ramicrsc re.
turned to their houses. otherwise they
might hav" fallen victims. Some who
escaped from tn" slaughter took refuge
in the nitrate fields. but were sllbsr-
qucntly followed up and killed. After
1hcs" deeds had been committed some
-" men w"r" arrested and Of this mum
ter eighteen were murdered.
III" Lima Diaro said ON March Ii.
"lh" Chilian government and Chiliap
rebel authorities have both shot several
persons. Among the number was Ami
/ tGlI Mlr:InUD. "a J,Inppnl,pt ,ti.., al '
was shot when the rebels retired from
Ovalle. 1t is stated that when the pov
eminent forces retired from poZu Al
monte they shot all the prisoners they
had and destroyed all the establishments
they passed. The number of men who
took part IN the fight at Pozo Almontc
on March l. is estimated at 1000 and
nearly three fOurths of this number were
under the orders Of government leaders.
Inc contest was a Sanguinary one and
more than 1000 were killed and wounded
Balamaceda's forces were routed with
the loss of all their artillery and the
greater number Of infantry. The cavalry
which took no part in the combat, Joined
with the few infantry soldiers. who fled
towards the west. and with the head of
Barbosa,s column, which arrived al
fanpa after the action. Immediately re
Urea toward Gamma.
me revolutionary army committed a
number of atrocities. which it's com
and officers could not prevent. |
al PoZo AlmOnte. the center of the nj ,
!ratc district and where there were about
LOO inhabitants, and of WHOM many !
including ONE When dis I
1,ersed' the troops were followed up and t
me victors commenced to plunge into \
thinking shops and provision stores. +,
"A cable message received in Callao on i
81. reads as follows: ..The revolu. |
.ionary squadron has left I~quiuue for v
valparaiso, after receiving on board of 9
men OF wal and transports the whole of :,
he revolutionary shore forces. The u
is to attack Valparaiso. Twenty e
W" men OF war and transports compose .
he fleet" I,
Inc schooner Cecilia. which has ar u
wed from lquique, Pisagua and Mol
brings terrible details of the com.
'at at Pozo Almonte between govern
nent forces and the rebels. II is stated ~
NAT after the fight soldiers in a state of -
drunkenness violated the bodies of :"
women who had persisted during the N
'ombat. Cecilia also reports that the NJ
Shole OF the regular army was routed al
l.ld broken in pieces with the exception II
thc cavalry, which is 700 strong, re- y.
ircd towards Bolivia. hoping to Join the VI
orceS'. which. 1t was expected, were IL
from Tarapaca to Bclmaceda's. ".
ne lronclads. Almirantc. Lynch. Candell. u
1lcomayo were in Valparaiso, with "i
rews' which are principally composed of
'relgners' who had declared they would
IMAM neutral. But preparations were
ndcr way for naval operation. APPROX s
nate calculations pluLxa thn ,,I -.
forces in Tarapaca number 5000, \
lthout counting the men of Balmaceda y.
.orks who have joined the revolution q
~ cause. I'll
a cable message from Lima, dated in
.pril II reads as follows: "A dispatch gl
'om lquique, dated the Sth instant. te
AVS: News is Just received there that fe
RIGA and Tacna had been taken. All n,
the Iacna department is now in
ne hands of the congressional party, -
no also controls all the northern Dor
of Chila as far south as Copiapo.
here was no fighting. the government M
having fled toward the frontier of
Bolivia. -.
A Lama correspondent says: "A mum q,
cr OF distressed Pcruvians has been !"
iven free transit from Iquiquc and 9th dl
r southern ports. Men acquainted with
~ SITUATION AZ lquiquc say: THE IN
'ene is a horrible one. The Peruvian SC
,%nsqiate is daily besieged by hundreds
reruvians seeking provisions for ca
lcmselvcs and their families and means re
returning to the NORTH The French
.eamship Willie de Havre arrived at
allao April 3 with 80 refugees from
Tacna, and other southern tn
b,
PANAMA April 2t A correspondent va
ritlng from MOchc on the 10th said: tn
orrents OF rain fell last night and as M
buses were NOT built to resist the rain, tm'
ley soon commenced 10 fall, while roofs tw
at walls fell in many of the streets. flea
he square became an immense lake. thu