Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1895-10-16
HORRIBLE TORTURE.
Beaten With Clubs and Cut With
Machettes.
TWO AMERICANS FATE IN SALVADOR
A Correspondent Gives Full Particulars
of the Case-Antonio EZeta Scored
Central American Trade.

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yador. as received by mail i'll San Fran
cisco from Frank E. Stone, who has been
furnishing the New York World with
news of Central America. Stone for
warded letter to the World, a copy of
which is appended.
Commencing with the suppression of
a revolt in the city of San Salvador,
Mr.. Stone says:
Five or six of the principal offenders
were taken out at 8 o'clock in the
morning and shot, without trial of any
kind or the semblance of it, not even
an attempt at court-martial, while of
the others some were hung up by the
thumbs and dashed ON the bare back
until they confessed, while some of
the ones who refuse to confess were
hung up by the big toe and their heads
put through the hole of the filthy
water closet seat. Truly most refined
and accomplished mode of punishment;
the very essence of barbaIity.
The respectable gentlemen who form
the Presidents Cabinet are cunning
enough not to infict this last form of
punishment on foreigners-only on
natives. I know this statement will
draw forth vigorous protest from the
officials of Salvador. but if it does
want to call their attention to the
claims of Joseph German. an Amerl-
can citizen, and a machinist of Darien,
Ca, and William Reilly Of Dallas,
Tex, also an American, both of whom
were working at the new port called
Ell Triunfo on the coast of Salvador.
After their days work was over and
they had retired to bed they were
awakened at about 10 clock by the
Commandante of the port, military
official, who in these countries is
monarch of all he surveys" with ten
or dozen soldiers, armed with clubs
and machettes, who beat and cut the
two men mort horribly. The two
men protested vigorously against this
treatment, declaring they had done
nothing whatever to deserve any pun
ishment.
The only satisfaction their protests
brought was to be carried out of their
room and be tied to post and about
fifty lashes apiece administered on
their bare backs, then stoned into in
sensibility. and left thus tied in driz-
zIing rain until morning, when the
Commandante released them and
offered German some breakfast, which
he was afraid to eat, for fear it was
poisoned. They were then driven
from town and struggled along the
road towards San Salvador. When
they reached the small town of San
Juanita they could 60 no further. and
a native doctor named Appalo dressed
their wounds and fed them and advised
them to proceed to San Salvador and
lay their case before the American
Consul, Mr.. Frederick Munchmeyer,
which they did and let it be said that
official promptly summoned the wit
nesses and took their affidavits and
laid the matter before the President
and made claim for So, damages
in each case.
President Gutierrez sent for the
Commandante of Ell Triunfo and put
him in Jail, from which he was released
in short time and removed from his
office. If MIR. Castellanos wants the
name of this brutal Commadante it is
Rafael Vilalaze, and an examination
of the papers on file in his office will
furnish him with further particulars
Both of the men worked for Messrs
Burrill & Thompson, who had con-
tract at Ell Triunfo. / saw both men
when they arrived in San Salvador
and their condition was pitiable in the
extreme. They were cut and bruised
until they were actually raw; in fact,
so bad as to sicken E. g. Kearley, the
druggist. who kindly provided them
with medicines and dressed their
Now as to Mr.. Antonio Eseta,
former Vice. President. and brother of
the former President. Carlos Ezeta,
who l see by the papers is strutting
about San Francisco threatening dire
things that he will do against the pres
emit Government of this little republic,
if he has level head he will keep out
Of Salvador, for the present admins
tration, with all its faults, is ten times
better and more humane than the |
article furnished by him and his pre-
cious brother when they ruled with an
iron hand as President and Vice.Presi-
dent. Either of the Ezetas would not
more than put his foot on this soil
when they would be torn limb from
limb, and more especially Antonio.
There is considerable yellow fever
about San Salvador and we have buried
several foreigners up to the time left
there. August s. 1t is entirely the
fault of the authorities that there
should be any fever at all. If they
would promptly clean the streets, and
around the markets, and
compel the inhabitants to keep their
plumbing clean within their houses,
thing none of them do, but on the
keep it exceedingly dirty.
here would be no sickness.
Very nearly all the trade here goes
10 Europe. England, France and Ger
many particularly; little of it goes