The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1911-01-13
LEADER OF RECENT
REVOLUTION MEETS
WITH SUDDEN DEATH
FORTY-FOUR OF HIS COMPAN.
IONS IN ARMS DIE WITH
HIM.
Two REVOLTs IN SHORT time
Brazil Scene OF Nearly Halt . hun
dred Suspicious Deaths.-0overn-
ment Papers Account Lacks De-
tail.

Candido. leader OF the recent revolt
in the Brazilian navy, and forty-four
other mutineers have met sudden
Deaths" according to the Jornal de
Commercio, government organ, to-
day.
The paper states that Candid0 died
from gangrene while prisoner.
Twenty-six of his associates died
from sunstroke while engaged in
making repairs on the fortress on
Cobras Island, and eighteen others
were suffocated in their cells in the
prison on Villegainon Island.
The account, while 1t gives the one
essential fact-that the men are
dead-is rather lacking in detail 1t
is a fact that Candido was wounded,
and he may have died from gangrene.
But it Is pointed out that there are
ways of Fastening even deaths from
gangrene.
The ewenty-six deaths from sun.
stroke also amaze many in Rio jan
eiro. Many of the mutineers were ne.
groes who have been used to working
all their lives under the fierce sun
of the tropics, and it is surprising
that simple change Of work under
a Winters sun should prove fatal to
SO many in 80 short a time.
No cause for the suffocation Of the
other eight Is given.It 10 not stated
whether they were suffocated by
smoke from a fire which may hove
started in the prison or whether they
were suffocated by ropes. In any
event, gangrene, sunstroke and suffo'
cation are effectual means Of remov.
ing undesirable prisoners.
Recently there have been two re.
volts in Brazil-one in the navy and
the other of the naval battalion In
the Barracks on Cobras island, a
short distance from Rio Janiero.
On the night of Nov. %, the crews
of the battleships Minase Graes and
Sac Paulo, the coast defense ships
Marshal Deodora and the scout ship
Bahia ran up the red gag Of revolt
The mutiny started ON board the
Minase Graes, the captain and two
officers of which were killed and an
other officer fatally wounded. The
disaffection spread Immediately tc
the other vessels named, whose OH
GERS were put ashore.
Jean Candide, plain sailor OF the
first class, took command Of the mutt
nous squadron.
The mutineers sent an ultimatum tc
the Government demanding the aboli
tion of corporal punishment oboard
shis, an increase in ay and diminu
ton of excessive labor made neces
sary by inadequate crews. Non
comliance, the ultimatum said, would
mean a bombardment Of Rio. The
bombardment began the night of Nov
ember %, and throughout the three
following days Rio Janeiro was al
the mercy of the outlaw crews.
Congress was hastily summoned ir
special session and granted the dem
ands of the mutineers and in addi
ton amnesty. On November 26 the
trouble came to an end. The war
ships were returned to the Govern
ment. The mutineers came ashore
and were arrested, but soon after
wards were released Later, however
they were rearrestd.
On tn night of December 8 the
naval battalion on Cobras Island
mutinied and was supported by the
scout ship Rio Grained de Sui. Thil
time the Government acted energeti
cally, and the shore batteries an6
warships opened heavy fire on the
island.