Waterbury evening Democrat., 1892-01-06
WILD MOB'S FURY
A Sailor of the Baltimore Tells
 of the Massacre.
CHILEAN SOLDIERS LENT AID.
Riggin, the Boatswain's Mate, was BayOn-
 cited in the Back.

The Police Charged the Mob, but Took
 Care to Wound Only Americans--Tho
 Assault Seems to Have Been Premedit-
 ated---CNptain Schley Says that the
 Stories as Cabled Were True--The Balti-
 more to Go to Mare Island for Repairs.
 SAN FRANCIsCo, Jan. 6.-Capt. Schley, commander of the U. $. warship Balti more which is back from Chilli, states that the reports telegraphed to this coun- try regarding the attack on q number of his men in the harbor of Valparaiso were substantially correct, and that there was little if anything to add to them. He stated that one very significant feature of the assault on the Baltimore's men was that every one of them was stabbed ill the back and that soldiers, police and sailors took part in the affair. None of the Baltimore's men were armed.
 The Captain said that half dozen of his men, if they had been provided with weapons, could have stood off the three thousand Chilians, as they were a lot of towards. Further than this Capt. Schley refused to talk The future movements of the Baltimore are at present unknown. She is very foul and will probably go to Mare Island to be cleaned.
 One of the sailors told this story of the massacre at Valparaiso:
 There were a lot of us ashore that day, the 1Gth of October, enjoying leave, and not one of us was molested during the day, There were thirty four of the boys still on shore when it grew dark.
 Some of them were told that the Chilians were going to jump them and they had better get aboard the vessel. Those that were told this went to work to dig up the rest of the boys and get them of shore. Before half of them got wind of it, though, the TOW began. It started in one place where there were three or four hands, but it spread like wildtirr, and wherever sailor with the American uniform was seen he was pelted with stones and clubbed and bayoneted.
 The boys fought as best they could, but what could they do against such fear full odds? There were about thirty of us against fully three thousand. If it had not been for the American consul, l sup pose they would have been killed As soon as he heard of the row he asked the Intendente to arrest all of the Baltimore's S men who were on land
 He did this to save the men from the mob but the police were as bad as the mob They charged on the crowd with bayonets, but when anybody was hurt it was one of our boys, you can bet. They finally gathered all the boys up and took them to the lookup.
 'Riggin was stabbed to death with 8 bayonct through the back, and TurnbulI was cut in dozen places and had bull l let through his neck. The first we heard of the trouble was when Jerry Anderson WAS hauled up on deck with five stabs in his back. One of the bayonets pierced his right lung. That kind of thing don't | look much like row, does it?
 1t was just an expression of Chilian feeling toward Americans. When one of boys would be knocked down down the crowd would rush on him, kick him and stone him, but as soon as two or three of the other boys made rush to rescue him | the crowd went back like sheep" A petty officer in an interview said: l I've had been advised that the Chilians 1 had no use for Americans before going ashore that morning. Capt. Schley had received assurance from the authorities that we would not be molested. When we landed, however, several sailors be longing to British man-of-war in the harbor warned us to be very careful, for they had heard the Chilians making threats all morning against the Ameri- | cans
 "The mob was an angry one, and when ever they sighted one of us fellows they howlcd like ,madmen and immediately 1 gave chase, fourishing their knives and | buyonets. You see, the mob was com posed of men who had just returned from the war, and most of them were in uni form, so that we could not tell them iron, the police.