New-York tribune., 1909-07-31
PRIESTS AND NUNS SHOT.
Some Killed at 11Itar IN the Horrors
at Barcelona.

London July 31-'The Daily Telegraphs'
correspondent at Barcelona gives graphic de-
scripton of affairs up TO Wednesday evening.
After describing the great difficulties which he
experienced in reaching the city from Madrid,
owing to the cutting of the railways by the
strikers and the threats Of the insurgents he
comments the extraordinary suddenness of
the outbreak of the insurrection. which took the
public completely by surprise on Monday morn
ing.
BY o'clock in the afternoon barricades
being erected and there was firing in every di-
rection BY that time. too state OF siege had
been proclaimed. telegraph lines cut.
bridges blown up with dynamite, railways
stopped and Barcelona was isolated. Through
/ ont Tuesday the same scenes continued, but the
troops were inactive, everybody asking what
the captain general and the military were do
ing. only the police and civil guard trying
to stamp out the insurrection
Up to Wednesday morning the troops had not
fired a shot In the mean ;ime churches, con-
vents and colleges had been burned Dozens Of
priests and nuns were ruthlessly slaughtered.
some the altar while holding the cruclhx in
their hands. others -5he brave!y defending
their institutions against the revolutionists and
devouring flames, the popuIace preventing the
Red Cross workers from giving aid
Nuns who appeared at the windows were
Oh their screams. From the height of Montjuich
nothing was to be seen but fames-au Barcelona
seemed like bonfire
The number killed the correspondent says. eX-
ceeds one hundred and twenty, and the wounded
number more than three hundred Dead and
wounded continue to be found under the ruins.
To-day he continues, I witnessed one Of
the grimmest of spectacles. The revolutionists,
about ten thousand strong, were marching about
the streets with the charred bodies Of their vic
inns. They had placed arms, legs and heads on
long poles and were singing the 'Marseillaise'
and shouting They gave not only the police
civil guard and soldiers ampes of their car
mage. but actually passed under the very nose
of the captain general, who at the head OF
his troops, and dared to fire on the reyo.'
lutionists.
The truth is this movement is undoubtedly
revolutionary and has been organized and di-
rected by persons Of influence who have not
appeared up to the present and TO whose
identity discretion counseIs silence. II sprang
up at time when Barcelona was denuded of
troops and the captain general was not strong
enough to take decisive action"
Another dispatch from Madrid, dated Friday
says that more than four hundred persons were
killed in the struggle al Barcelona. The stua-
tion considered serious that regi-
ments detailed to start for Mela were ordered
to remain in Madrid
''One hundred ana nineteen Socialists and
Radicals" says the dispatch I'VE rearrested here
to-day, and It is not mproba BILE that d general
strike similar to that which preceded the out
breaks in Barcelona will he declared in Madrid
on Monday. The newspapers have had 10 news
of the war from Mea for three days. The
censorship here is still most severe"
= dispatch from San Sebastian says that the
troops have mastered the situation i'm BARGE
Iona. where the casualty list numbers more
than fifteen hundred. Seventy armed insur-
gents were captured there this morning and
were summsrily shot
Paris July 30-A dispatch 10 the 'Matin"
from Corona, by way of the frontier, gives
interview with a refugee who fed from Bar
celona Wednesday
There is terror and awful tragedy at Bar
celona," said the refugee ION Monday | saw
barricades thrown up by rioters. working like
mad / saw a charge by the gendarmes their
headlong rush on the barbed wire stretched be
fore the barricades. the fail Of their horses and
the death of the riders, almost all of whom we're
poignarded by the rovolutionists
From Monday Wednesday as many as
fifteen converts We're set fire, and the glare
of the flames lighted up the sea and terrorzed
the population. The civil guard and police were
Kissed and jeered everywhere, but food and
cigars were offered 10 the soldiers who repeat
edly refused TO fire
THE people acclaimed the soldiers with cries
Of Long Live the Army,' Down with the war
officers and @they were followed about the
streets by crowds Of who shook Their
alands and embraced the necks of their horses
crying out: You will not go to war.
General Brandies cheered To the echo,
while two thousand women waved their hand