Show CHilEAN CHILAN fORCES FARCES SHOOT DOWN 2500 ST iS MEN MAN SAN March FR CI O l Ma lMa Machine Ma- Ma chine d by the the- guns operated government forces of Chile in a 1 ai great conflict With strikers at the tho nitrate to beds and arid jn n the city cit of Iquique laid 2500 00 men low I most of these bc being n killed ac according to I advices received yesterday b by tb the Ner- Ner r I we ian steamer Christian Bors arriving lag ing direct from hUe Chile Business at Iquique which had lead never before been seriously di disturbed l by anything any thin thing but bitt earthquakes was was paralyzed when the great reat arm army of workers went wenton wenta on a strike One fracas after another oC occurred until soldiers an and strikers met mot in the streets of Iquique an and on the outskirts and openly defied each other Bein Being or ordered red to drive the army of m u awa away and disperse them the soldiers sol soli fliers Biers opened fire lire while they massed and andi i I literally mo mowed down the men They I I had hurl little opportunity to fi fight ht back I even en thoo though h they had bad been been armed th the e assault upon them was so sudden This took place on January 1 1 and an d was followed by two or three days ay o of f oppressive e gloom loom in the community while the of the Wiled killed were e taking place A week later a as thon thought though h by common n a agreement the strikers went back t to o work worl without the tho expected advance anco in i n wa wages l. e-l. It was reported that the mine min no o owners owner will voluntarily ly increase th the e pay of many of their employees I |