The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1891-07-01
HORRORS On WAR.
Additional D57ails Of the Terrible
Atrocities Being
PERPETRATED IN CHILL.
Startling s.o-ias Of yha Dlspoti;m o.
President Balhsceaa,
MERc1LEss TORTURE OF

A Father and son, who Ara Taken From
Jail and i,rutall7 Fipggea a-Peopie Mys-
teriously DisappcW and their Headiess
Bodies Are Afterwari Found
New York, June 29.-The startling
stories of the cruelties ani despotism
practiced by President Balmaceda, in
stiVator and chief figure in the ohilian
war, as published recsntly, are com
pletely overshadowed by the facts
which are now made pubsis for the trst
time. The information IS o3:ained from
prominent Chilians who a'r.yad here on
the steamship City Of Para last week.
The most prominent of the arrivals was
Don Pedro Monnt, who is the accredited
representative of the revolutionist party
in Chilli, and who is brother OF Ad-
miral Monnt, acting president OF the
revolutionary party. Accompanying
him were Signor Santa Cruez, who com
manded the ironclad lIuascari; Signor
Varas, a prominent revolutionist, and
several English merchants who have re-
sided in various parts of Chill for sew
eral years From these gentlemen the
incidents here given were obtained.
Don Pedro Monnt when shown the
dispatches referring to the Balmaceda
cruelties. said that the actual truth far
exceeded the published accounts OF the
affair. The whole OF Chilli, he said, was
| suffering dire distress as a result OF the
war and all classes were losing their
property, whether in the city or in the
country. He had no doubt of the ultl.
mate success Of erevolutionists, as
the people of Chill were almost unani-
mously with the constitutional party.
From another gentleman who arrived
from Chill on the same steamer with
Don Pedro Monnt and party, Senor Jose
Gonzales, additional horrors OF the revo'
luton are learned. Senor Gonzales said
'Balmaceda is practicing cruelties un-
heard of in the history Of Chilli A friend
of mine who was prominent citizen o.
Concepcion-Senor Sorrano-and his
son were put in prison because they re
fused to obey the dictates of the tyrant
Being imprisoned failed to break Their
spirit, so Balmaceda had the father
taken ont into the yard of the Jail ant
mercilessly tortured. After being brut
ally fogged the tendons OF his arms ant
; legs were severed to render him help
less for life. This horrible cruelty wa
, purposely practiced within earshot o
the son, who was afterwards subjected
: to the same treatment before the gaz
of his father, now fast dying from los
. of blood and the result OF the terribl
ordeal. Neither OF them survived tn
; horrors Of the torture which was II
fiicted upon them.
Another OF Balmaceda's atrocitie
came 10 light by the merest acciden
Since the beginning Of the hostilities
D number Of well known citizens OF SaI
9 tiago have mysteriously disappeared
i In many places they have left their res
! dences to be gone an hour or two an
I have never returned or been heard from
i The ultimate fate Of two Of them wa
:, however, discovered by the accident r
4 ferred to before left Santiago. The
9 bodies were taken on Sunday to I'll
!. cemetery for burial The burial pc
II mits being irregular the cemetery al
!, thorities would not admit them. III
II bearers went back TO the town to g
= the proper changes made in the permit
"While they were ON this errand tn
men in charge of the cemetery suspec
ing that something was wrong, opent
: the coffins and discovered that all u
bodies we're headless. OF course tn
created great excitement and the ney
h. spread rapidly through the town. E
oi animation of the headless corps
d. showed from marks on the bodies tn
81 two Of them were prominent residen
n. of Santiago, while the third one W
never identified. II was afterwar
learned that these men had been q
= rested and executed by order OF Balm
4 ceda."
\, The same gentleman also stated th
u in all the fights that had taken place
the province OF Garapaca, Balmace,
had not taken q single prisoner. Il
orders to his officers were TO shoot |
prisoners as fast as taken, as they h
no time to bother with them nor 70,
n to give them.
III On the other hand, the constitution
IL party had taken great many prisone
Of war and they filed steam rar
port with wounded men and sent the
down the coast TO Caldera, a five da.
Journey. Balmaceda's officers at Gale
ra refused TO receive their own wound
N men who had been fighting for Balm
ceda's cause, This steamer load Of pc
wounded soldiers had to be taken
the way back to Iquique, another q
days journey. There they were tax
a ashore and cared for by the residents
the town. Many Of them died beca,
'na OF the long sea trip, where they W.
crowded together without proper ca
and attantinu