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Show TICUILfflilONSTEIl Th Wholcsals Slanghtor of the Offiosrt and Ssilors of a Torpedo Launch ( by Ealuiacedj AITEfi MOST TERRIBLE T0RTUEE. Much Indignation Even Among ths Proi ideut's Ardent Adherents All Pcou Negotiations Etded. New Yokic, June 30. A correspondent correspond-ent at Santiago writing under date of May 110 says: "In tliii city today the shootiug of the oll'ioota aud 'gailo'a of ' the torpedo launch (.iiwlda took,! p&oe. The men were marched. to tbei '.plaza, where they were shot down" by vi conir pany of sharpshooter This Im'.cJiefy not only caused indignation R'-jUgttie friends of the dead, but also among ' Balmaceda'a ardent defenders. The dead sailors aud oUieers were la chargo of tho steam torpedo launch .-Gualda .-Gualda in Talparaiso bay. One night ' the commander proponed to his crew to desert and go over to the congresiionat parly. All acquiesced eicept one. He notified the authorities at onco and tha men wero captured and takon to Valparaiso Val-paraiso and thrown into prison, One by one they were tortured and literally made go without food and water fot two and three days at a time. The cells'to which the men were assigned reeking with lilte and vermon. On the day on which they met their doom they were so weak that they had to bo assisted as-sisted to walk. Tortures to which the , prisoners were subjected by Balmaceda'a Balma-ceda'a agents almost pass belief." 1 The correspondent relates other horrible atrocities committed by the adherents of ' Ba'.iuaceda. In formation, ho says, has reached there that the insurgents have about 10,000 ! men in Iquiquo and that they are waiting wait-ing for the word to march to Copaitnbo and tho south. Baltnaceda feats this tnd extraordinary activity Isins there. Kverythiug possible is being done to re crive the onoiny. It is stated that all negotiations lor peace have ended. |