Show A TERRIBLE TRAGEDY the crew of a piratical vessel S shot I 1 biot and hacked to death SAN FRANCISCO march 15 the steamship city of rio kio do de janerio arrived ri ved today to day from kohama aud and hong kong 5 A yokohama prints an ae count account of the exterminating of a band of L pirates in a cirinese village on the afif fifteenth of january last two piratical crafts ran into one of the imin numerous orous inlets in the dicinit vicinity y of tho city off fan tu for shelter from a blinding snow storm and having made all snug a long C side tile the beach some pirates landed it so happened that some soine were recognized by tho the inhabitants of the village who suffered from the depredations of tho the pirates no sooner had tho nien men cretu returned rue d to their junks than an alarm was silently given and the principal ale men of the village determined to wreck sum ary veagea vengeance uco on the unwelcome and frequent visitors accordingly three hundred well armed villagers surprised sed the pirates burst open oleu the hatches and doors of the cabins and poured a stream of bullets upon the fifty or sixty pirates who had huddled together lor for warmth warmuth on oil the lo 10 hovver ver dock deck ol of the junk hardly any resistance was made all tho the pirates but two being almost hacked backed into mince meat exasperated villagers these two pirates escorted by the whole community were lead to the grave by relatives of a young ka mun man who was murdered in a previous raid bythe pirates and af after ter being baing secured to a couple of stakes tha two nearest relatives of the dead man plunged knives into the breasts of tho the unlucky y pirates and ripping open the bodies cut out their hearts which wore were then p put t on a plato plate and placed on a table upon which already lighted candles and incense burned while all this was going 0 on n female relatives of the deconsey deceased decon 4 c sed dressed in mourning colors color of whito white gathered i W artt f ltv by tho the side of tho the grave crying and calling out to the spirit of the dead to the sacrifice that was being offered offerings were loft at tho the grave it at the end of the ghastly ini onies and the villa gais proceeded to ransack ranguel 31 the piratical junks after af ter having first thrown the bodies overboard into the sea the plunder the junks gold silver cash silks satins gatins and rice was equally divided among the farlies who ever suffered at the hands of pirates and as a final and last act to tho the tragedy the junks junke wore were towed into the stream and sot set on fire and and burned to the waters edge the hearts of the victims who wore sacrificed wore were afterwards cooked and eaten by th dead maus mans relatives or those who desired to do so salt lake laho herald |