Morning journal and courier., 1891-10-27
PREPARATION DEMANDED

For the Brutal Attack on American
 Sailors at valparaiso-No Regret as
 Yet Expressed by the Junta-The
 Governments Action Attracting the Attention of ofForeign Ministers.
 SANTIAGO DE CHILL, Oct. 26.-The United States to-day, through MT. Egan, formally demanded reparation from the government of Chili for the attack recent ly made in Valparaiso upon number of seamen of the United States steamer Bal timore. Acting upon the instructions from Washington MT. Egan presented the Chilian junta with detailed statement of the results of the investigations made by Captain Schley of the Baltimore and by Mir. Egan himself. These investigations had shown that Charles Riggan, one of the Baltimore's petty officers, was dragged by Chilians from @ street car, murdered by pistol shot, while Turnbull, another of the Baltimore crew, who died to-day from his injuries, received eighteen stab wounds in the back, two of them penetrating his lungs.
 After giving list of the Baltimore crew who were injured by the mob Mir. Egan's statement called attention to the fact that thirty five of the cruisers creNe were, on the day of the riots, arrested, unnecessary V1Ol6nCo DeluS uSeO Dy Cuo pOllco auu Iuat they were retained in custody without due cause. In conclusion MT. Egan said that the surgeons of the United States warship expressed the opinion that some of the | wounds inflicted upon the American sail | ors were bayonet wounds and that this l clearly showed that the police officers of Valparaiso, who are armed with bayonets, took part in the attack.
 | The Americans were without arms and | practically defenceless.
 Mir. Egan, in presenting this statement, | expressed in distinct terms the feeling of great indignation which the state depart ment at Washington feels at the whole affiar, and especially at the brutal conduct of the police of Valparaiso in joining with l the mob in the latter's attack upon the Baltimore's seamen and in using their bay onets against the unarmed Americans.
 Mr. Egan particularly called attention to the additional brutality of the police in using horses to drag the Americans tc prison.
 After making brief, but pointed sum mary of the facts to which he had been in
 structed to call attention, MT. Egan in
 formed the representatives of the junts that, in the name of the United States, ht
 demanded reparation for the insults anc injuries complained of.
 It is thought the junta will make thu
 reparation demanded, although it has a yet expressed no regret for the attacl \ made on the American sailors.
 The action taken by Minister Egan is at
 tracting the attention of the foreign min : isters and of the foreigners generally wh
 are residents in this republic. The sym pathy of the American colony is entirel,
 with Captain Schley and his blue-jackets
 and they are all glad to receive the new
 that another United States war vessel, tn
 Boston, has sailed for these waters.
 Chilians try to smooth over the assaul
 upon and imprisonment of the America
 sailors by declaring it as simple stree
 row.
 LONDON, Oct 21.-The Post says: Th diplomatic tension between Chili and tn | United States has reached point wheI it may easily end in rupture. While th Chilian insurgents, having undertake the government of the, countr, are bound to accept the responsibility fe the recent events, which if they had hal pened between two European state would have resulted in war witt in twenty-four honrs unless amp
 reparation was made, it may be hoped tn
 President Harrison is inclined to admit
 behalf of Chili, whose extenuating ci cumstanees which she cannot well plead (
 her own account What the WashingtG
 government failed to effect in the case
 the New Orleans 1ynchers the Chilian go W ernment may be powerless to perform 'u the case of the Valparaiso mob. It is !
 ways open to the strong to be merciful