The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-03-23
LIMA STREWN WITH CoRPSES.
FIFTEEN HUNDRED KILLED IN THE
THREE DAYS BATTLE.

The Streets Swarming With Drunken
Bands of Depredators MOndny ,
Night-TwO Clubs and Many stores
Sacked and Bullets Flying in Ev-
cry Direction in Most Reckless
Fashion-The wife of the AmerI-
can Minister Has Narrow Escape
From Being Shot-Make Up OF the
New Governments.
New York, March PA special dis.
patch to the Herald from Lima. Peru,
says ''The provisional government formed
through the intervention ofthe diplomats
and papal nuncio has been organized
Senior Candamo has been made provisional
president, and also acts as minister OF
foreign affairs. The Caceres regime is
represented in the new government by
Louis Fleipe Villaran and Ricardo w
Espinoza For the revolving party BUS
tamente Y. salazar and DR. MaIpartida
have been selected. Under the terms OF
the agreement by which hostilities ceased
President Caceres surrendered the reins
OF government, and will retire to Ancon
Nicolas Pierola, the leader of the revo-
lutionists, and formerly president will
go to Chorillos. There was also imme-
diate reorganization OF the department Of
Lima. The new government has issued
an order releasing all political prisoners
The banks have loaned money and the
troops have been paid and the forces dis
banded.
The news from the north is that both
armies in that section are stiu under
arms. Col PAUL.. chief OF the revoIu-
tionary stan. directed the operations
around Lima. He entered the city with
Pierola, Tsaias and other chiefs. Col
PAUL was slightly wounded.
But few Of the revolutionary chiefs
were hurt In the battle, but more than 100
Cacerist leaders were wounded.
This change in the government is the
result OF the three days battle In Lima
The revolutionary forces led by Pie
rola, entered the city at dawn Sunday
morning. Their entrance was not sus-
pected by the guards In the city, as a
heavy mist concealed their movements
When the forces reached the principal
squares they seized the church of Towern
and other favorable positions. Immediate
ly desperate battle began, which lasted
all through the day and part of the night
II was intensely dark, as the gas supply
was cut Off, and the streets houses and
other buildings were without illumination
when the fighting ceased at night
drunken soldiers roamed through the
streets firing shots recklessly
The battle was renewed at 5 o'clock
Monday morning, and continued all
through the day. The night was one of
terror.
"Depredations by the government forces
marked the opening Of hostilties Tues
day The troops sacked the Union and
National clubs and many shops, and the
diplomats and papal nuncio, Mgr. Maechi
| intervened. An armistice was arranged
for twenty-four hours to give an oppor-
tunity to bury the dead and remove the
dead horses from the streets There was
danger Of pestilence from the dead bod
les in the streets. They were collected In
piles and burned in the Plaza des Ar
mas yesterday.
As a result of the three days fighting
more than fifteen hundred combatants
were killed and wounded on both sides
THE Red Cross ambulance service rem
dered great aid during the battle. Many
Of the old soldiers, ignorant OF the sig
nificance of the symbol on the ambu-
lance, fired upon them Many native and
foreign women assisted in caring for the
wounded in the hospitals.
During the fighting all of the for
eign legations were exposed to the fir
ing. The United States legation was in a
particularly dangerous situation. Mrs. Nc
Kenzie. wife Of the United States minis
ter, narrowly escaped being shot more
than fifty refugees sought asy1ums in this
legation"