The state capital., 1892-01-30

does not enable hiEl to give any more sstisfac.
tory account Of ,ts origia than is found IN , the
sfrtea tast Vas i fssiBls III IS iera tHe pT s,
else cause Of the riDt, The iliilister 9f fereida
affairs, Malta, in his telegram to Mr Montt UNI
Per date Of Pscembsr 81, states that tie quar-
vas ttdntnued ID tile stleet, PERSONS Tlo wets
passing joining in it,
The testimony of Talbot, an apprentice. who
was with Riggin, says that the outbreak in
which they were involved was begun by
Chilian sailor splitting in the face OF Talbot,
pears that Riggin and Talbot were at the time
anaccompauied by any others of tn eir ship
mates. These two men were imnlediateiy, be-
set by crowd Of Chltln etiz ,ps and ssilors,
through Which thes broke their way to street
eaTsdsda s'd5EiE : dsiiTsn = from Eis ssf. .5a $da
Iy deal. There e is nothing in the report of the
Ghiiian inveftigati9n naae to rs a that seriously
Chiliaa sources that almost instantly with a
sudderiness that strongly implies meditation
and RFsRaratt19 It 1 Ann moi & stated ] y ss tfs ts RasS@s s.
another T6f, Was engaged In the assaiflt 51pdi
our sailors, who are represented as resisting
with stones, clubs and bright arms" Ths
report of the intendente OF October 80
states that the fight began at q p. m. III three
streets which aro nam3d that Information was
received at the intendencia at 6l5, and that the
police arrived on the scene at 6;a0, full half
hour after tho assault hsgan. At that time he
says that d mob of s,CGD men had collected, and
that for several SQUARES tadrs Eas the appear
anee Of d "feal battle field" ..,.:.;.:,, =.
Tho sfarS 1t rus paitt is vat+ EfaRhiGdlls set
beftre lis by the Chilian testiniBny. Tie Amer;
lean sailors; who; after So long am examinations
have not been found guilty Of breach of the
peace, $s far aS the Fhilian authorities are aBle
70 DISCOVER; Anarnted ar1 defeE jelEss' afe feS-
itig fot theif lives, pursued by overwhelming
numbers. and fighting only to aid their own es-
cape from death, or to succor some mute whose
life is in greater peril. Eighteen of them are
brutslly stabbed and beaten, while one Chlian
seems, from the report, to have suff cred some
injury; but how serious or with what ea4raceer
of weapon. or whether by missile thF5Wf By
our men OF Ivy seme of his fellow rioters; Is un-
H5ceI,s irsa - 49,,
Tie preteflse thai o1lt ifler We're. dahtira With
stories; clubs. and bright arms" is in view of
these facts; Incredible: 1t is further refuted by
the fact that 5tif prisarets; when searched. were
absolutely wthott arms, 3l1l: SEER rerAI'5v es
being found in thc pessesSion of the men al
rested, while there were received by our men
1ncrc than thirty stab wounds, every one OF
which was inflicted III the. back, and almost
exerF Gontpsea wot'nd w2s n t1e bafk or q, BACK
of the day is that even the jackknives ol thC
men were taken from them before leaving the
ship
AS to the brutal nature of tn. treatment re-
caiyed by our men, the following extract from
the account given of the affair by tho La Patria
newspaper, of Valparaiso, of October II, can
dS sffo1 is their p.trsners gave chase, Went by
way Df the Etllo Isl ARSENAL toy ard tlia city
car station. In the presence OF ali Ordinary
numb of citizens among whom were soma
sailors, the North Americans took seats IN tde
street car to escape from the stones which
the Chlians threw at them. 1t was
believed for an instant that the North
Americans had saved themselves from popular
fury. but such was not the case. Scarcely had
the car begun to move when q crowd gathered
around and stopped Its progress Under these
f25|ct RI
bowling and throwing of stones at the North
Americans the conductor entered the car, and,
seeing the risk OF the situation to the vehicle,
ordered th I'm to get out. AT the instant the
sailors left the car, in the midst of a hail of
stones, the said conductor received a stone blow
on the head. One of the Yankee sailors
ton of tho Plaza Wheelright, bat tn
other Was fslled to the sroun1 by stone
Managing To raj Sc him self from t1J gtOu1d
where ne lay, he sta2g 'r4d In an opposite tiirec
ton from the station. In front OF the house of
Senior Mazzini lie was again wounded, falling
then senseless and breathlosS."
No amount Of evasion or subterfuge is dble
to cloud or clear vision Of this brutal work. 1t
should be noticed i'll this connection, that the
American sailors arrested for ex-
animation were, during. the four days
discharged, no charge of any breach of the
peace or other criminal conduct having been
sustained against single one of them. The
Judge of crimes, Foster, in note to the in
dispatch from this government OF the following
day, which aroused the authorities OF Chlll to d
better sense OF the gravity of the affair-says !:
Having presided temporarily over this court
in regard to the seamen OF the United States
cruiser Baltimore, who have beon tried
f9"pt to of the a9p9rat6s Gondnet ndi
here Is that our sailor had been tried be-
fore the 2?1 of October aud that the trial re-
suited in tG air acquttal and return to their YES
sci. 1t is qnlte remarkable and Quite character
istiC of thes management OF this affair by the
Chian poTse authorities. that we should now be
advised thae Seaman Davidson, of the Balti-
more, has bfen included in the Indictment, his
OtfcnSe being, so far as l hayo been able to as
certain. that lie attempted to d, fend sEipfnata
against an asslilant who was striking at him
with knife. The perfect vindcation of our
men is furnished by this report; one only is
found to have been guilty of criminal fault,
and that for al act clearly justifiable,
AS to the part taken by tne poilce in the affair,
the case made by Chill is isO far from satiSfac-
tory. The point VIII ere RGgiu was killed is only
three minutes walk from the police station and
not more than twice that distance from the in
tendenca, 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 did
their duty. The evidence taken ut Mare Island
shows that if such statement was procur d
from our men it was accomplished by requiring
them to Sign a writing il a language they did
not understand and by the repres antation that
it mere declaration that they had taken
no part in the disturbance. Lieut.. McCrea,
who acted as Interpreter says in his evil
dence that when our sailors were OK
am,ned before the court the subject of the
conduct of the police was so carefully avoilel
that he reported the fact to Capt Schley on his
return to the vessel The evidence Of the exist
enCa of animoSity towards sailors in the
minds Of sailors of the Chilian 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. 1t
is manifested i'll threatening and insulting ges-
lures toward our men as they passed the Chllian
man of war in their boats and in the deri-
sive and abusive epthets with which they greet
ed every appearances 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
compain.d of the discourtaSy, and it was cor
rected. That this feeling was shared by men of
Surgeon Stitt Of the Baltimore. After the
battle OF Piacilla he, with other medical
officers of the war vessels i'll the har-
ber, was giving voluntary assistance to
the wounded i'll the hospitals. The son OF a
Chllian army officer of high rank was under his
care, and when the father discovered it, he flew
into passion and said he would rather nave his
son die than have Americans touch him, and at
once had him removed from the ward Thls
feeling is not well concealed in the dispatches
of the foreign Office, and had quite open ex-
preston in the disrespectful treatment of the
American legation The Chilian boat
men in the bay refused. even for large
offers or money, TO return our sailors,
who crowded the mole, to their ship, when they
were endeavoring to escape from the city on the
night of the assault. The boats of the Baltl-
more were threatened, and even quite recently
the gig of Commander Evans of the Yorktown
stoned while waiting for him at the mole,
The evidence of our sailors clearly shows that
the attack was expected by the Cnill2n people,
that threats had been made against our men, and
in one case, somewhat early in th3 afternoon.
the keeper of one house, into winch some OF
our men had gone closed his establishment in
anticipation of the attack which he advised
them would be made upon them when darkness
came on. In a report of Capt. Schley to the
navy department he says: In the only inter
view that had with Judge Foster, who Is IN
ye5tigating the case relative to the disturb
ances before he was aware of the entire gravity
of the matter, he informed Inc that the assault
upon my men was the outcome OF hatred FOR
our people among the lower classes, because
they thought we had sympathized with the
Chilian government on account OF the 1tata
matter" Several Of our men sought Sc
curity from the mob by such complete or partial
changes in their dress as would conceal the