The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-06-10
|h|NA NARSH|P
To MAKE
/ MEXICO QUAIL
idemnity of 100000 Pc
los Demanded for Slaugh-
I ter of the Celestials at
Torreon.
BIOLOGY FOR THE
INSULT REQUIRED
Addition the Peking Gov
6rnment Insists That the
Guilty Be Punished for
the Crime.
pOLOGY FOR THE
INSULT REQUIRED

HEXlCO CITY. June AN in
nifty of 100000 pesos will be de
|aded of Mexico by the Chinese gov
.ment for the slaughter Of Chinese
.iects in Torreon The demand will
backed up by a cruiser, which is
the way to Mexican west coast
IhFee Investigators returned today
IA Torreon and placed in the hands
hung Hal Sung. charge sfaires OF
Chinese legation. detailed report
The carnage. This shows 303 Chi
q were killed. many Of them in a
81 iDhuman manner. and that be
Is bank and clubhouse, eighty. nine
les of business were sacked.
ID addition TO the indemnify, an
@|ogy for insult to the Chinese flag
4 be demanded. also that aid be
|epded to destitute families Of the
Inns; that the guilty be punished
the constitution guarantees of pro
Ion 10 Chinese lives and property
made effective.
Cf the 100000 pesos indemnity
|os000 is for property damage, and
remainder for the loss OF lives,
.ommenring upon the matter Mr..
ing said that owing TO the savage
|nncr in which the Chinese were
led there has been no attempt by his
|ioD TO fix the amount Of the in
nifty by prescribed methods.
The report made by the investigators
X back to the ani-foreign excitement
ling on September 16, Mexico S
|fennial anniversary, when at pub
meeting in Torreon ''the killing OF
Spaniards first and then the CHI
|e' was advocated by IA speaker,
Federals and Rebels Blamed.
b tine detailed report the Torreon
ssacre is laid at the door of both
IS in the revolution II says the
|erals gave no notice that they were
ne TO evacuatc the city after being
'elessly beaten, and when ruflians
~ the soldiers had gone they begaI
2nti~Chlncse demonstration, killing
hen the rebels entered the city, and
carnage was given impetus. TIL,
|<<4ic dIt bIdllltd lp1 llOl giving UU
that they intended evacuating
the rebels for joining the massacre
|he report relates tale after tale OF
'oarous stories of how victims arm:
legs were tied 10 horses and theil
YES torn asunder; heads cut of
sayagely rolled about the street:
The Mexlcans grinned in glee.
'ies cut into small bits and scattered
az the streets, and of dead and hall
e Chinese dragged about the town
ne ends of ropes attached to horses
od dripping through the floor IN thu
pcse bank was terrible evidence OF
murder Of twenty. five men in the
md story.
bravery OF American Woman,
~ American woman saved the lift
one Chinese boy by throwing hel
about his neck as they were abou
fab him, and a Mexican girl pro
+ed nine Chinese in her home after
father had been shot dead before
eyes when he protested he was no
ooring any Orientals.
nc report SAYS that the slaughte
up until party Of business men
qso by. the Americap consul. de
paed OF the rebel leader that tn,
ssscTe scne be stopped. II, was stopped
zoe orientals left were put in .jai
sarety There the prison guard,
al tneir money and most of theil
ees, the report saws.
~ oblnese not killed, the repor
>nel says, were saved from starva
oniy by the Red Cross. the Ameri
q eonsui and foreign banks.