The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-01-26

and entered for safety. They wer5
pursued, driven from the car. and kggin was
90 seriously beaten that be fell In the street aD
parently dead. There is nothing In the report
OF the Chilean investigation made 70 US that
seriously impeaches this testimony. II appears
from Chilean sources that almost Instantly
with a suddenness that strongly implies medl
tation and preparation. mob, stated by the
police authorities at one time 70 number 400
and at another 1000 persons. was engaged in
the assault upon our sailors who are
represented as resisting with stones, clubs
e. hrizht arms" The report OF the intend
snte Of Oct. so states that the light began at {
.. m. 10 three streets which are named. that
Information was received at the intendencia al
6:i5 O'Clock. and that the police arrived on the
scene at $50 a full half hour after the assault
began. At that time be says that q mob Of zoos
men had collected, and that for several squares
there was the appearance Of real battle
field"
GRAPHIC DESCRIPTION
The scene at this point is very graphically
set before us by the Chilean testimony. The
American sailors, who, after so long an eK-
animation have not been found guilty or any
breach OF the peace, so far as the Chilean au-
thorities are able TO discover unarmed and de-
fenseless are fleeing for their lives.
pursued By overwhelming numbers and
fighting only to aid their own escape
from death or 10 succor some mate
whose life is in greater peril. Eighteen OF them
are brutally stabbed and beaten. while one
Chilean seems, from the report, to have suf-
what character OF weapon. or whether by a
missile thrown by our men or by some OF his
fellow rioters, is unascertained. The pretense
that our men were fighting with stones clubs
and bright arms" is IN view OF these facts, IN
credible It is further refuted by
the fact that our prisoners, when
searched, were absolutely without arms. only
seven pen knives being found in the possession
Of the men arrested, while there were received
by our men more than thirty stab wounds,
every one Of VII Oh was inflicted il the back,
- \ fka
back or back of the head The evidence Of the
ships officer Of the day is that even the jack
knives Of the men we're taken from them before
leaving the ship.
CHILEAN PAPERS ACCOUNT.
As TO the brutal nature OF the treatment re-
ceived by our men, the following extract from
the account given of the affair by La PItrid =,
newspaper of Valparaiso Of Oct :, cannot
be regarded as too friendly: The yankees. as
soon as their pursuers gave chase, went by the
way of Gale Del arsenal toward the city car
station. In the presence Of an ordinary num-
Der Of citizens among whom were sowe sailors,
the North Americans took seats in street car
TO escape from stones which the Chlleans threw
at them. 1t vas believed for an instant that the
North Americans had saved themselves from
the popular fury, but such was not the case.
Scarcely had the began to move.
when the crowd gathered around and
stopped its progress. Under these cir
cumstances and without any cessa-
tion of the bowling and throwing Of stones al
the car and seeing the risk Of the situation Of
the vehicle, ordered them to get out. At the
instant the sailors left the car, in the midst of
a hail of stones, the said conductor received
sailors managed TO escape in the direction of
Plaza WheelriRht, but the other was felled to
the ground by stone. Managing to raise
himself up from the ground where he lay he
staggered in an opposite direction from the sta
ton. In front OF the house OF Senior Malzini he
was again wounded, falling then senseless and
breathlesS
AcqUITTAL OF OUR SAILORS.
Eoamount OF evasion or subterfuge Is able
to cloud our clear vision of this brutal work. It
should be noticed in this connection that the
American sailors arrested, after an examina-
ton, were during fouC days following the arrest,
every one discharged no charge of any breach
of the peace or other criminal conduct having
been sustained against a single one OF them,
Judge OF Crlmes Foster IN note
Oct the 0tsndeq sSs G 56ato date tro
this government of the following day, which
aroused the authorities of Chile to better
sense of gravity of the affair, says: Having
presided temporarily over this court in regard
TO the seamen Of the United States cruiser Bal
timore, who have been tried on accout of the
deplorable conduct which took place. etc. The
noticeable point here is that our sailors had been
tried before Oct. % and that the trial
resulted in their acquittal and return to
their vessel 1t is quite remarkable and quite
characteristic of the management of
THIS auolf Dy the Chllean police authorities
that We should now be advised that Seaman
Davidson Of the Baltimore has been included in
the indictment, his offense being, so far as |
have been able to ascertain, that he attempted
70 defend snipmate against an assaila ant who
was striking at him with a knife. Perfect vim
dication of our men is furnished by this report :
one only is found te have been guilty of a Grim
inal fault, and that for an act clearly justiha-
BILE.
PART OF CHILE's POLICE.
Ag 70 the mart takan y tha rolica In he efair
the case made by Chile is also far from salts
factory. the point where Rgzin was killed is
only three miautes' walk from the police station
and not more than twice that distance from the
intendencia; and yet, according to their official
report, full half an hour elapsed after the as
6ault before the police were upon the ground
II has been stated that all but two of our men
have said that the police did their duty. The
evidence taken at Mare Island shows that
II such statement was procured from our
men it was accomplished by requiring them to
sign writing In language that they did noC un-
derstaud and by representation that it was
mere declaration that they had taken no part
in the disturbance. Lieut. McCrea, who acted
as interpreter, says in his evidence that when
our sailors were examined before the court the
subject OF the conduct of the police was so
carefully avoided that he reported the fact to
Capt. Schley on his return to the vessel.
HOSTILITY OF THE cHILEANs.
Evidence of the existence Of animostty tow
ard our sailors In the minds of the sailors of
paraiso are 80 abundant and various as to lea We
no doubt in the mind of any one who
Will examine the papers submitted. 1t
manifested itself in threatening and
insulting gestures toward our men as they
passed the Chilean man-of-war IN their boats,
and ip the derisive and abusive epithets with
which they greeted every appearance of an
American sailor on the evening of the riot
capt. Schey reports that boats from the
Chilean warships several times went out of their
course to cross the bows OF his boats comp-n
ing them to back water He complained of the
discourtesy and it was corrected. That this feel
ing was shared by men of higher rank is shown
by an incident related by Surgeon Stitt OF
the Baltimore. After the battle OF Placlle
he, with other medical officers of the war YES.
sells in the harbor, was giving voluntary assist
anoe to the wounded in the hospitals. A son of
a Chilean army officer OF high rank was under
his care and when the father discovered it he
flew into passion and said he would rather
have his son die than have the Americans touch
him, and at once had him removed from the
ward.
THE FEELING WIDESPREAD.
This feeling is not we'll conceal led in the dis
patches of the foreign Office and had quite oper
expression in the disrespectful treatment of the
American legation. The Chilean boatmen il
She bay refused, even for large offers Of money
to return our sailors. who crowded the mole U(
their ship when they were eudeavoring to es
cape from the city on the night of the assault
The market boats of the Baltimore were threat
ened, and even quite recently the gig OF Com
mander Evans OF the Yorktown was STONED
while waiting for him at the mole. The evi enct
of our sailors clearly shows that the attack was
expected by the Chilean people, that threat.
had been made against our men. aud that in
one case. somewhat early Ia the afternoon tn.
keeper Of one house. into which some of oul
men had gone, closed his establishment in an
ticipatlon OF the attack which he advised then