Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-04-25
Latest Mail Advices Relative TO
the Chilian Revolution.
GREAT LOSS OF LIFE IN BATTLE
Over Thirteen Hundred Killed and Wou1de1
One Struggle.
Workmen Appealing for Provisions are Set
Upon by Armed Forces and Muir
dered, Together With Their
Wives and Children.

| PANAMA, April 24-Following are ths
| latest mail advices relative 10 the Gillian
! revolution:
| The Lima Concrete published the follow
| ING on March %: The headquarters and
| commissary offices Of the army have ben
removed from Valparaiso Ia Santiago. and
| ten. Juan NelaSque has been IppOlutrI
| STAFF commandergcnera On The 3rt uf
March the Imperial returned 10 Nalpari. D
| after one of her risky trips in NalVIrals..
| Secret meetings were being held by those
| favorable 10 the revolution Exchange ul
London stood at ltd. on Paris al Il. 20,
ana on Haunt burg at I'm, 30 pr.
| y correspondent writing in CO.llO on
| March "A said: Passengers who have az
rived by the ArequiPd. which EFF Na-P--
! raise March Il. state that the Gillian arr
! IS almost entirely in favor OF rvy1,G1 Qu, r.-
| though the government has n It's orders
| over 80, geo men.
| Senior Horacio Lyons was ARE 5ted VIII
! in bed by officers of the government
| Santiago business houses wound Lut c..-
| drafts drawn by the government and q.
| this reason all silver held by the govern
ment was sent by land to BueroS Ayros,
| whence it will be sent TO Eu.oP". Due 20
| this movement, all passenger traffic vs.
| closed for some days.
| THIRTEEN HUNDRED MEN KILLED.
Five thousand men Were engaged in TIE
| Poso Almonte affair. and rumurs state rLa-
/
| force and 800 of the revolutionary tur,a
were killed and wounded in that san
culinary struggle.
The German steamer LotoS landed il
Valparaiso seventy-three refugees from
IQuique. The bitter feeling felt ~ Va
paraiso against the government IS caused
by the fact that ladies and young giri
distribute bulletins averse 10 the govern
ment and in favor of revolution.
The following terrible narrative is from
the pen of L newspaper correspondent:
OFFICE OF RoMIKEz SALTPETRE WoKkS,
TARAPACA, FEB. -.
On the 4th Martin Larrain arrived here.
He is the same man who on the 4th instant
saved the workmen who We're on a strike IN
lquique. At $50 Il. III. on the morning Oi
the 3D. upwards of 5000 worl5men collected
at POso Almonte in order to proceed 10
Iquique and make formal representation
respecting the
SCARCITY OF PROVISIONS.
Shortly after they reached the works
Manager William johnson gave them ten
barrels of biscuits and 1000 tins OF pre-
serves, which We're distributed among tLs
strikers. They remained there that night
and on the following day sent some of their
leaders on toNegreires There more men wers
to be collected Suddenly, however, q train
appeared loaded with government troop
under Martin Larrain. Without halting or
parleying, these troops opened fire on
the defenseless workmen, women and
children. Shortly afterward the forces
marched forward and killed all tho
men. Meanwhile the men from tho
Negreires works, with commissioners from
Ramirez, returned 10 their houses, otherwise
they might also have fallen victims. Some
who escaped from the slaughter took refuge
in the nitrate fields, but were subsequently
FOLLOWED Up AND KILLED.
After these deeds had been committed,
some $50 men were arrested and of this
number $50 We're murdered.
Gable message received in Csllao March
81 reads: THE revolutionary squadron
has left Iquique for Valparaiso, after re-
ceiving on board the men-of-war and trans
ports the whole of the reyolu-
tionary shore forces. The object IS 10
attack Valparaiso. Twenty-Five men of-war
and transports compose the fleet
The schooner Cletia, which has arrived
from Iquique, Pisagua and MOlleudS,
brings the terrible details OF 4 combat a6
Poso Almonte between government forces
and rebels. 1t is stated that after the fight
the soldiers. in state of drunkenness yiO-
lated the bodies of the women who had
persisted during the combat.
The Cletia also reports that the who.s
regular army was routed and broken IL
pieces with the exception of cavalry, which,
7O00 strong, retired toward Bolivia, hoping
to ioin the forces which il was expected
were marching from Tarapacha.
PREPARING FOR NAVAL. OPERATIONS.
The Balmaceda iron clads, AluIIraute
Lynche, Almirante Condell, and SelcOmayO,
which were in Valparaiso with crews,
which are principally composed of foreign
ers, had declared they would remain
neutral, but preparations were under way
for naval operations.
An approximate calculation makes the
revolutionary forces in Tapahan number
300, without counting the men of Balma-
ceda's force who have joined the reyo.u-
lutionary cause
The Lima Chronicle publishes the follow
ing on March Is: at is known the squad
ron has left Iquique and gone south, and It
is supposed the vessels have gone to Val
paraiso in order to capture and to sink tho
Animate and Lynche prior TO their having
been completely fitted in Valparaiso.
Provisions were recently SO scarce in
Iquique that $40 were paid for a can Of pre-
served milk, and beef sold at $40 per
pound. These prices were caused by the
port being blockaded by the
REBEL GILLIAN SQUADRON.
The officers and crews of these vessels
state that they have signed round robin
binding themselves not to lay down arms
until they hang President Balmaceda
in the principal square in Santiago"
\ cable message from Lima dated April
IL reads: "a dispatch from Iquique the
S>h says that news has Just been received
there that africa and Tacna had been taken.
AL of Tacna's department is now in
the hands of the congressional party, who
also controls all the northern portion of
Chilli, and as far south as Capiapo there
was no fighting, the government forces hay
ing fed toward the frontier of Bolivia"