St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-04-14
BALMACEDA LOSING.
Rebels Gaining Ground in the
Gillian Revolution.

L AN MA, II pTll fl lie ATlcd LdcOrd
said on Feb. %: "The steamer which
arrived yesterday was the Mount Tabor,
and it brought 100 refugees from
IQuique. the majority of whom at once
proceeded by train to Tacna." A cor
respondent writes from Iquique:
"What is occurring in this unfortunate
port is something unheard of, and it
leads one to believe that no civilized be-
ings now live here" Passengers state
that the vagabonds there are robbing,
plundering, numbering, violating wom-
Ell and committing all classes of atroci-
ties, while incendiarieS are also engaged
in their nefariOuS and villainouS opera
ton of destruction and piIlage. On
March 6 the Lima Diario said: 1.-THE
government of Chilli has determined
to establish an army 10000
strong, at Tarapaca, and in it the CORPS
will be massed which are now scattered,
aud which consist of 800 men at Antofo-
gasta, 5000 at Atacama and 8, 600 at Co.
quimbo. The determination to mass
this army was reached subsequent to
the fall of Iquique. The distress along
the south coast, due to the revolution. is
appalling, as will be observed from the
different reports" The following, which
is translated from the Opinion Mach
ional, of Lima, of March Is, well serves
as an example,: "The steamship Peru,
which arrived yesterday from the
south, brought 400 refugees of different
nationalities. They are women, children
and old men, and, as they have no place
TO lodge. they have been allowed to re-
main Oh the wharves OF the Muelle
DarSena company" A reporter who
visited the French steamer Peru on her
arrival at Callao furnishes the follow
ing news: 1.-The
ROmbardInent of IquiQue
by the revolutionary squadron OH Feb.
10 led to the destruction by fire of seven
of the principal blocks on the Alto de
NELLIE side, but the custom house es-
capped. A German bank, it is reported,
has refused to hand over the funds in
its possession to the government. The
Peruvian consul at IquiQue, Senior La
Tore, paid S12 each as passage from
lqulque for $50 men, women and chill
dren. The Peru landed, in all, 400 ref
ugeeS in Callao, the greater number of
whom escaped from IquiQue with only
the clothes they had on when the bonn
bardment commenced. Gen. Urrutia,
who commands IquiQue, has been sell
ing flour at % cents per pound. Col.
EstanislaO del Campo commands
all the government forces in
Tarapada. The revolutionary squad
ron, it is said. has already
$4,000 tons of coal at its disposal. The
Lima Concrete said on March 16: 1.-The
rebel forces which fought around Po-
zoalmonte and near 1quIque numbered
AGO men, while the government troops
reached barely 5000. The dead in the
different actions numbered 700 and in
Guide many high officials. The rebels
finally won and captured in all thirty
six cannon and Calling guns. 1t is.
however. worth remembering that al
though the cable offices are under the
control of the rebels, the news which is
received by cable is not in favor of the
revolution" All the Chinese in africa.
since Feb. %, have been under the pro-
lection of the British vice consul. The
Lima Concrete, on March 8, published
the following cable message from
lquique, which had been received by
the English minister: The
Triumph of the H ebeIs
on the 18th was decisive. and Balmace-
da'S troops were knocked to pieces.
After losing all their cannon. rifles and
ammunition, only few officers and
men escaped. The people, who are
without work, are suffering fearfully,
and hundreds of them have abandoned
the nitrate works, only carrying bottles
OF water. and, accompanied by their
families, have YEARLY trudged across
the desert down to Iquique, oil the coast.
The scene is of nature which hardly
finds an equal in the history Of war and
revolt, and is due to the nature of the
country and the class Of work there
carried on. Many have died on the way
to Iquique, and their bones will mark
for manya day the roads to the now
abandoned nitrate-producing factories.n
Senior Guillermo Malta, the CHILEAN
minister to the Argentine Republic, and