The morning call., 1893-11-17
IN BAD COMPANY.
British Sailors Blown Up
at Rio.
WERE TAKING TORPEDOES.
Or at Least Peixoto Claims That
They Were.
STORY OF THE EXPLOSION.
An Affair That May Lead Up to an
WERE TAKING TORPEDOEs.
STORY OF THE EXPLOSION.
An Affair That May Lead Up to an
international MuddIe of
Serious Sort.

NEW YORK, Nov. 16.-The Worlds Rio
de Janeiro correspondent cables: Lieu
tenant Beauchamp Now bray. second Of
fcer of the British flagship Cirrus; Lieu
tenant Upper, serving IN the Racer, and
Subaltern Starts and Seaman Lynch were
blown up in the great explosion of the in-
surgent powder magazines on Maltese
Point on Friday evening Five English
sailors were also badly hurt. The Brazil
ians claim that they were making torpe-
does for the use of the insurgent feet,
while the foreigners claim that they were
picnicking on the island.
Your correspondent has Just seen letter
from the captain of an insurgen frigate in
which he laments his bad fortune, and
assures his mother and his wife that he
has been woefuIly deceived by the msrep-
reservations of Mello and he declares that
he remains unwillingly with the rebel feet.
Several foreign fremen have been pressed
into the rebel service, and he says that he
knows that many sailors are held in the
feet against their will
1t is impossible to overestimate the value
of the explosions at Mocangue. Armacas.
BoqueiraO and Matteo Point to the Gov
eTnment forces.
All the forces maintain their firm atti-
tude. All northern States, Miamis, San
Paulo and Rio de Janeiro, are united in
favor of the existing Government. The
bar forts and land batteries are strong and
loyal. and the morale is excellent For
days they have stood the severe lombard
ment of the fleet and Fort Villegagpon
and of the batteries at Mocangue without
flinching when it was thought that they
WOuld P0 uUder almost Instantly
Dispatches were sent to Europe and the
United States stating that foreigners were
being killed and abusing the .Governm ent
forces. These were. absolutely false in
every particular. The Brazilian authori-
ties have been endeavOring by every
means to protect foreigners and foreign
interests. Credit cannot be given TO the
statements by Ruy Barbosas, the agent on
the Rio Plate of a group of Americans,
under foreign influences. He professed
great Indignation at ClevelaGd's act re-
calling Admiral Stanton, but the Monroe
Doctrine is popular here
Your correspondent has inst returned
from NIctheroy. The scenes there were
appalling. and the misery is great. Over
100 houses have been utterly destroyed
and over 2o00 people injured. The streets
are full of bodies and debris. Ali the
people able to do so have removed from
the town. but few thousand are hiding
In. the woods beyond the outer suburbs.
Mothers and young girls are begging
scraps. of food from the soldiers, and the
patriotic battalions are dividing their rs-
tions with the starving people.
To-day for three hours there was severe
BON bardment between Fort Viilegagnon
and the bar forts. Fort Villegagnon fired
at the people in- front of the Misericordia
Hospital. killing two and wounding
twenty
The Herald's correspondent in Rio
Grande> sends word that Robert Grant.
United States Consular Agent at Desterro,
has been made prisoner by the revolu-
tionfsts. He. was arrested during
skiFmish between the Government troops
and General Saraiva yesterday, and is
now cODfned ON board the revolutionary
steamer Iris. which is off Desterro. The
only crime of which he is accused so far as.
! can learn.is that be did not favor the
revolutionists: