Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-11-14
HATRED FOR AMERICA
At the Bottom of More Than One Out
break on the Part of Chileans.
SIGNIFICANT LETTERS RECEIVED.
The Attack on the Baltimore's Men Not the
First Of the Kind.
A CHANGE OF COURSE FOR THE PETREL
rrpoN A STAFF CORRESPONDENT,

WASHINGTON, Nov. 13'-The Chilean
mail, which arrived in Washington to-day,
brought letters from large number of Of
in up to few days before the brawl in Val
paraiso, in which two American seamen
lost their lives. Each of these letters
speaks of the bad feeling of the Chileans
toward the United States, and especially
toward the sailors of the Baltimore and the
San Francisco.
Up to the time that these letters were
written there had already been several
fights between the Valparaiso mob and
sailors ashore from the vessels. According
to one letter received by a man here from
his brother, a more than ordinarily intelligent
seaman, party of men from the San Fran
cisco got into row on shore one night just
before that vessel sailed, and had to fight
their way back to the wharf. In the fight,
according to this story, several of the men
belonging to the San Francisco, were badly
used up, but two of the Chilesns wers
killed.
Where Captain schley Made q Mistake.
AS this story is not substantiated by any
official reports, it is probably an exaggera-
tion, SO far as the killing of the Chileans is
concerned. 1t shows, however, that the
fight in which the men from the Baltimore
were killed was not by any means the first
encounter between American seamen and the
Valparaiso mob, and keeping this in mind,
together with the bad feeling against Ameri-
cans generally, it is surprising that Captain
Schley, of the Baltimore, should have let
any of his men 60 ashore at that port.
Since the formal organization of the new
Government Of Chile, and the accrediting
of Senior Montt as Minister to the United
States. it has been evident in Washington
that the relations between the two countries
have been less strained, and though Senor
Montt has not vet been formally presented
to the President, there is reason to believe
that he has already taken occasion to assure
Mr.. Blaine that his country will take rea-
sonable view of the situation, will make
thorough and impartial investigation of the
killing of the American seamen, and will
punish the guilty persons and do whatever
else is proper.
Indications of q Better Feeling.
Among the indications of better feeling
between the two Governments is the re-
in the navy yards. The
Atlanta, Newark, Concord and Bennington
were all to have gone to sea this week, but
now none of them will get off until next
week. and while they will go to the West
Indies and the South Atlantic, and thus be
much nearer Chile than at present, there
will be no extraordinary haste in sending
them.
1t is significant that the Petrol, which
arrived to-day at San Lucia. in the West
Indies, on her way to China via the South
Atlantic and the South Pacific, touching at
was ordered by cable to change
her course and go by way of the Mediter-
ranean and the Suez canal.
If any other ship than those now attached
to the Pacific is ordered to Valparaiso in the
near future it will probably be the Philadel-
phia, Admiral Gherardi's flagship, now at
ST. Thomas. The Admiral is anxious to go
to Chile. He went so far, in fact, as to ask
Is his right as senior officer of the navy
float, to be sent to Chile and put in charge
If operations. if there was any danger of
lostilities, and, though there is no such
langer yet, Admiral Brown is SO specially
lisliked by the Chileans that Secretary
Tracy may conclude it is good policy to
send an entirely new man to take charge.