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Show itiAnncTA'B fatii. S'.IIM nf 1 t.l.rr tt I III. Cnmndn loan I In lite (Irintl (lit.ro. It wm reported early In 8rptmbr. lit that Srnor I'nriqiie Ibarrtti and h's men had mytterlausly dlnspDeared while exploring the Pllromajro Itlve-r In north Argentina, one of the longest of the Mcnnd-claea streams of South America There was little doubt that they lue been nirusarred by the Indian In-dian who for 1T0 year past liavo defeated the attempts made by n can slderable number of explorers to explore ex-plore this stream A little liter tho bare fact was published Ihst there was no longer any doubt of the msa saere of the part) but no detslls ol the tragedy hail been obtained Th'n a report reached Iluenns Ayres thai Ibarretn nnd n part of Ills expfdltlm were probably still nllve This report led to the sending of nn expedition undef the command of Senor UrlaiM lo rescue the explorers If they ciuld bt found The relief expedition has ro ccntly returned to Ilitrnos A) res with evidence thnt leases no doubt that the entire part) was killed by the hostile Indians of the northern part of Argentina Ar-gentina In the drplhs of tho Chaeo forests, near n plaee called lUteros de l'atlno Urlirte found the cimp ol Ibarretn Strewn alt around wero the camp utensils and equipment most ol It rendered useless by the weapins ol the Indians who had destroyed practically prac-tically everything which they could not utilize llen the volumlniui notes which Ibarretn had made up n tho work ho was doing from day to da were torn to pieces and scattered to the winds A conalderible number of theso fragments were recovered and they supplied undoubted prcof of hav Ing been written by the Ill-fated explorer ex-plorer Many photographic nrgatltes he hnd made were nlso found Not a trace, howccr, of nny of the party could be dlscomcd It Is believed tho I enllro puty was surprised and over-I over-I whelmed by n superior force of Indiana In-diana and that nfter the whites wero kilted their bodies wero dragged nnay and concealed In order. If possible, to destroy nny direct ctldence of their hating met a violent death It Is nat ural (hat these Indians should en deaor to conceal evidences of their crlmo that might bring It home te them, for on ono or to occasions they have been mnde to suffer severely let murdering whlto men New York Sun. |