Passaic City record., 1892-01-30
FOUGHT OVER AGAIN.
The Memorable Battle Between
Our Sailors and the Chileans.
The Main Incidents Of the Brutal
Attack Rehearsed.

battle in the streets of Valparaiso between
the sailors OF the United States wa-ship Bal
timore and the Chilean mob
It will be remembered that on the after
noon of October 10Th Captain Schiey, taking
into consideration that his men had been
cooped up aboard ship for over five months
without liberty, gave shore leave TO III
seamen and petty officers, with special in
struct1ons to keep sober.
On the morning of October 17tn the Herald
exclusively gave to the world the startling
news that our sailors had been set upon by a
boodthirsty mob in the streets of Valpar-
also, beaten. stabbed and viciously maltreated
until two of them had been done to death
and number of Others more or less des-
perately wounded.
As was told at that time in the Herald our
men were absolutely without other means of
defence than those furnished them by ma
ture, and were helpless in the hands OF over
powering numbers.
Only one Chilean was hurt in the affray
and his injuries were not fatal.
Two distinct investigation OF the affray
were undertaken almost immediately: one
aboard the Baltimore by Board of Inquiry
instituted by Captain Schley, and the other
in the Chilean courts by Judge of Grimes
Foster
The testimony adduced before these two
tribunals. while differing widely in many
respects, added to rather than substracted
from the dramatic interest in the affray
which came SO near embroiling the United
States and Chile in a bloody and costly war.
The men landed from the Baltimore which
lay of the passenger mole, at the foot of the
Plaza de la Int sndencia, about two O'clock in
the afternoon. They were supplied with
liberty money! which they had chan yed at
the money changers office, short distance
up the plaza, at Gale de Cochrane.
From here the men separated and in small
parties rambled through the town sight see
ing and amusing themselves, as sailors ashore
do.
Many of the biuejacxsts made for that
portion of the city known among English
speaking seafaring men as the '.maintop,"
which, roughly speaking, is inclosed between
Gale del Ciave. the hills, Plaza San Fran.
cisco and Avenida de Errazuriz
The Intendencia at the Gales de San
Augustin and de Serrano, is only about
three hundred yards from the centre of this
district, where the hardest fighting took
place, and the fact which was brought out
in both investigations, that it was fully
half an hour before the arrival of the police
and soldiers, is one of the grounds for the
belief expressed on the part Of the United
States authorities that due diligence was
not used in protecting our men.
While many warnings had been given to
the Baltimore's sailors, as Captain Schley's
investigation shows, that trouble was in
store for them, twas not until nearly six
o'clock that the fight really began.
Boatswain's Mate Riggin and Apprentice
Talbot were near the True Blue saloon at
Gales Santo Domingo and Matriz, when,
according to Talbots story Chilean sailor
spatin his face and was promptly knocked
down.
Then the mob attacked the two Ameri-
cans. They fed down the Plaza de Wheel
1Uy-inIaf and npC CafIn