Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-11-13
800 REFUGEES GET
TO LIMA IN FLIGHT
FROM STRIKE MOB
Two Americans and Other
Foreign Residents Killed
or Wounded.
IT, S. ENVOY DEMANDS
PROTECTION BE GIVEN
Head of One Dashed and Another
Is Beheaded After Being
Slain in Peru

BY the Associated P-ess.
LIMA, Peru, November 13.-Three
hundred foreign refugees from the An
dean mining fields, jamIned like cattle
into three-car railroad train, reached
here today from Malpaso, where two
Americans we're killed in labor riot
yesterday.
They came into city whose trans
portation facilities were paralyzed by a
general strike, bringing vivid story Of
armed clashes in which at least dozen
workmen were killed and more than a
score injured.
The engineer of their train told how
the rioters, having wounded John w.
Chapman of Chicago, mine employe,
Dashed in his head with rocks; of how,
having killed z. L. Tripary, an Ameri-
can storekeeper, they beheaded his body.
The first refugee train, in charge OF
a haggard engineer, had started out
from Malpaso with less than 200, but
had picked up the rest en- route.
Fleeing Refugees Fight Police.
At some points a police guard had
4 hard time controlling the crowds
which tried to board the train in a
frenzy to flee from danger. At the
Casapalca station it seemed that the
whole town was at the railroad tracks
trying to climb aboard and mounted
policemen had to drive them away.
The engineer told story of the NAL
paso disorder, which agreed with frag-
mentary accounts previously received
here.
The day before yesterday, he said,
1900 workmen, including the crew OF
the Malpaso hydroelectric station
threw down their tools. This is the
station which furnished power to nearly
all the smelling plants owned by the
Cerro de Pasco Corporation. Their
strike was called after they had learned
that worlmen at La Oraya, an impor-
tant Andean mining center, had stop
ped work.
Immediately the local police posted
an armed guard at the bridge on the
Oroya road and prevented worlkmen
from crossing the bridge to join forces
with those at La Oroya.
The result was battle In which guns
were brought into play. Twelve work
men were killed and about % were
wounded.
Chapman, a mine employee, and Tri-
parry. q storekeeper, were struck by stray
bullets.
II don't know how long this went on, =
the engineer said, but it was a serious
battle while 1t lasted"
The rioters, driven back upon the
town, surged toward stores and COM
pany Offices bent on attacking all for
eigners they met on the way.
Another American named Kelley was
badly beaten, and received a bullet
wound in the face, he said. Another
man named Merger, also believed to
be an American, was wounded three
times in the legs and chest. He and
Kelley were brought to Lima in the
lean doctor, Crane.
Martial Law Enforced.
Martial law was established by the
government in the Departments Of
Junin and Lima today in an effort To
put down the disorders.
A force of 200 infantry was sent tc
the Cerro de Pasco copper mining
region.
The government decree establishing
martial law stated that all workmeT
desiring protection would be assured ful
guarantees Of safety while remaining al
their posts. The decree outlaws tbs
General Federation Of Workmen, and
states that all those, including for.
eieners, who incite the workmen tx
strike VIII be arrested and expelled from
the country.
Fred M. bearing, United States Am.
bassador. called on Ernesto Montague
Peruvian foreign minister, and is under
stood to have discussed the situation
with him, making formal request fol
protection Of Americans in the mining
zone. Semi-ofhcial statements sale
Y AZ he,
Cerro had promised Mr.. bearing thai
American lives and property would re-
ceive the best protection possible. TIL.
Ambassadors conference lasted two
hours.