The state republican. (Jefferson City, Mo.) 1871-1896, 1892-01-28

sailors OF his ship These men left the ship
about l:sD p: m. No incIdentof violence occur.
soisioh Of eSsbfesk 5seur dit atoat out q'd p ay ~
Capt. schley states. that no was him
ss & the cts sSr' un en- 'a p 'h8 'rssts tSs
were upon .leaysi FRAT they Mere sdbef
and wore conducting themselves with nrpnri:.y,
them. ctner officers Of thS ship and d'S Capt. apt.
Jenkins Of the merchant ship Keweenwe cor.
ro5orate Capt sehiey q TO ths aeEerol sabtiet,y
sRs AS's (, s faSSssa winch ss or ss %oaades
men were taken, When inquired Of, stated that
they were sober when received, II the situation
poas HsS%se suses " w pi' ns bas that the @
ssss ASsa' asss,issts5n sssss tsa rd 5y the
Judge of crimes, though so protfacted
tory account Of Its origin tbsn is found in Tie
stateHsas t5es y h SessS .s ss.wss.t 9 liiEf! li;
else cause Of the riot. The minister of foreign
affairs, Malta, in his telegram to Mr.. Montt, un-
dor date Of December 81, ats, that tho quar-;
was continued ig the street, perscrs who vete
The Testimony Of Talbot an apprentice, who
which they We're involved was begun, Ty a
Chillan sailor splitting In the facs 81 Talbot.
which was tssehted DS knock down. 1t ap
unaccompanied by any others Of their ship
mates These two men were immediately be-
Pet by crowd q Gillian citizens and sailors,
car and entered , it for safety They were
SRSsn, was SO tbs seriously beaten that
There is nothing n stie' the report Ppasha Of the
Chilian investigation made to us that seriously
impeaehes this testimony. It appears from
Chiliah sources that almost instantly; With d
suddenness that strongly implies meditation
and preparation, q mob, stated by the police
Authorities at One time to number 900 and at
another 900, was engaged In the assault upon
our sailors, who are represented as resisting
with stones. clubs and bright arms" The
report Of the intendente Of October 10
states that the fight began at Q p. m. in three
streets which are named; that information was
received at the intendencia at 6:lS, and thpt the
police arrived on the scerc it 53O, d full half
hour After the assault began: At that time he
bays that mob of z, 900 men had collected, and
that for several squares there was the appear.
ance Of a real battle field"
The scene at this point is very graphically set
before us by the Chlian testimony. The Amer
lean sailors, who, after so long an examination,
have not been found guilty of breach of the
peace. as far as the ChiliaD authorities are able
to discover, unarnied and deHenseless are flee.
ing for their lives, pursued by overwhelming
numbers, and fighting only to aid their own es-
cape from death, or to succor some mate whose
life is IN greater peril. Eighteen of them are
brutally stabbed and beaten while one Chilian
seems, from the report, to have suffered some
injury; but how serious or with what character
Of weapon, or whether BY missile thrown hy
our men or by some of his follow rioters. Is un-
ascerta ined.
The pretense that our men were fighting with
CUBS Sda orght arms IS IN veT % 0t
the fact that our prisoners, when searched were
absolutely without arms. only seven penknives
being found % in the possession OF the h me men ar,
more than thirty stab wounds, every one OF
which was inflicted in the back. and almost
every confused wound was In the back or back
of the head, The evidence of tho ships officer
of the day is that even the iackknives of the
men were taken from them before leaving the
ship.
ceived by our mon, the following extract from
tho account given Of the affair by the La Patria
newspaper, Of Valparaiso, 9f October II, can
not be regarded as too friendly: "rhe Yankees
as soon as their pursuers gave chase, went by
way of the Gale. Del Arsenal toward the city
car station. In the presence of an ordinary
number Of citizens, among whom were som
sailors. the North Americans took seats in the
street car to escape from the stones which
the the Ghiiians threw at them 1t was was
Americans had saved themselves from popular
fury, but such was not the case Scarcely had
the car begun to move when crowd gathered
circumstances, and without any cessation of the
bowling and throwing OF stones ut the North
Americans, the conductor entered the car and,
bceluk tuo Tish VI blLuNllol 10 lle Nc!liCle
ordered, them to get out. Atthe instant the
sailors left the car, in the midst Of hail OF
stones, the said conductor received a stone blow
on the head. Que OF the Yankee sailors
"Soif ton Of the Plaza wheeiright, w but 'iI the
other was felled to the .grouni by stone.
where he lay, he staggered in an opposite direc::
ton from the station. In front OF the house of
Senior Mazzni he was again wounded, falling
then senseless and breathless"
No nr subtprffiUa a n blr
to cloud or clear vision of this brutal work. 1t
should be noticed, In this connection, that the
american ,;er,;nn sailors arrested for an lex ex,
following, the arrest, every one
discharged. no charge of any breach of the
peace or other criminal conduct having bsen
sustained against a single one of them: The
Judge OF crimes, Foster, In u note TO the in
tendente, under date, of October 2.-before the
dispatch from this government of tho following
day which aroused the authorities OF Ch!E TO q
better sense OF the gravity. of the atfair-says
Having presided temporarily over this court
in regard to the ssamen of the United States ts
which took place" etc. The noticeable point
here Is. that our sailor had been tried DO,
suited in their acquittal and return to their yes
sci. 1t is quite remarkable and quite character
istic of the management of this affair by ths
advised that Seaman Davidson, w. of Of the Balti
more. has been included in the Indictment, his
offenss being, 80 far as have been able to as
certain, that he attempted to defend shipmate
against an assailant who was striking at. hin
with lnife: The perfect vindication OF oui
men Is furnished by this report; one only is
and that for an act clearly iustifable
AS to the part taken by the police in the affair
the case made by Chilli Is also far from satisfac'
tory. The point where Riggin was killed is only
not more than twice that distance from the in
tendencia and yet, according to their official re-
port, full half hour elapsed after the assault
began before the police were upon the ground
1t has been stated that all but two OF
our men have said that the police die
their duty. The evidence taken at Mare Island
shows that II such statement was procured
from our men 1t was accomplished by requiring
them to sign q writing IA language they did
not understand and BY the representation thai
it was mere declaration that they had taker
no part in the disturbance. Lieut.. McCrea
who acted as interpreter, says in his evi-
dence that when our sailors were. ex
amined before the court the subject of the
conduct OF the police was 80 carefully avoided
that he reported the fact to Capt. Schley on hi;
return to the vessel. The evidence of the exist
ence OF animosity towards our sailors in the
minds of sailors OF the Gillian navy and of the
populace of Valparaiso are so abundant and
various as TO leave no doubt In the mind of any
one who will examine the paper submitted II
is manifested in threatening and insulting ges-
lures toward our mon as they passed the Chiian
man Of war in their boats and in the deri-
sive and abusive epithets with which they greet
ed every appearance of an American sailor on
the evening of the riot. Capt Schley reports
that boats from the Chilian war ships several
times went out OF their course to cross the bows
Of his boats. compelling them to back water. He
complained of the discourtesy. and it was cor
rooted. That this feeling was shared by men OF
higher rank In shown by an incident related by
Surgeon Stitt of the Baltimore. After the
battle of Placilla he with other medical
officers Of the war vessels In the har-
ber was giving voluntary assistance to
the wounded in the hospitals. The son of a
Chilian army officer OF high rank was under his
care, and when the father discovered it, he few
into q passion and said no would rather have his
son die than have Americans touch him, and at
onoe had him removed from the ward. This
feeling Is not well concealed in the dispatches
Of the foreign Office and had quite open ex-
preston In the disrespecttul Treatment of the
American legation. The Gillian boat