Show POOH POOR PERU A horrible tale of rapine and destruction st by NV U it to the herald PANA w sept A chilian correspondent pond n i writes rites the star sar and gierald that when hen tho the inhabitants of farma learned that tho the chilian forces were to ae leave a large majority of the peruvian fai families lles asked to be allowed to accompany them in order to escape the depredations of the lawless conn thymen only some foreign families I believing the guerillas guerrillas gu erillas would respect them derided decided to remain and hilly women f followed the tile army just five hours after tho the troops left immense herds of guerillas guerrillas gu erillas poured aured in there were GOO armed witha with rifles and e equipped q U ped liko like the regulars who entered te re V formed in a column followed by about guerillas guerrillas gu erillas armed with sticks clubs and lances and similar weapons who entered pell ing vociferously on it being known that all well to do and decent families had left the town the fury of the indians indiana knew no bounds residences were vere stripped and those of many foreign residents shared the samo fate many assassinations followed among tho the victims were eighteen foreigners fore ignera in the midst of the drunken orgie farma was reduced to ruins with the object of barnin g the property pre perty of foreigners and chiliano Chi lians tammaria Tar maria and al of the town were burned the of janja and Ilu 1111 acho shared the fate of if farma tile names name some of the foreigners assassinated arc are given an italian named mattos Nl attos and two germans named string and chalk were amon the slain four soldiers and ana six fugitive peruvians vi ans were frozen to death in the wilderness at concepcion the chilian garrison made a noble def ensti to agai against f ri st the indians when the ammunition muril tion of the chiliano Chi lians was exhausted the assailants secured p afaf fina fine and fired the barracks burn burnine int borne wounded soldiers captain pinto and a few survivor survivors of the garrison made a sally and rut cut down the tile enemy end nd cleared d I lie frant fren frentani and tand eidee sides j of the barracks while tho the men inside extinguished the flamel aud removed the wounded to a place of safety arety in another sally captain pinto waa was shot dead the indians again fired the building and sallies were organized by sub lionts boutt cruz and in one of the earliest of these the first mentioned officer was mortally wounded in another sally a young officer was immediately pounced on bv the horde of Indi nija aris who lanced him film to death at this hour five friars from the neighborhood I d of the convent of ocopa locopa appeared on I the scene and rad with their crucifixes cruci fixes in hand commenced to incite the indians to renew tho the attack on tho the build ing at ten of the seventy seven chiliano Chi lians composing the garri fion son only four and two of them i i wounded remained to oner offer resistance tho the others were either dead or dying the buildings were no now ablaze in every direction F four tir women wi wieoa ves of soldiers were eye f witnesses to tho the death of their hua hus I bands one otic of them accompanied by her son years old and another i by an infant after the remo removal al of the tile wounded from the burning building the they went I I out into lie square hoping their lives would bo be spared they rhey had barely stepped outside the building when they were bet set on by byar a crowd of drunken ravages and horribly butchered A five year old boy had his at cut from car to ear and bar i arous r ey ly mutilated and the body of a new born bernhild i hild was found pierced with six lance wounds sub lieu tenant cruz and the sarv ving soldiers I j were also surrounded and they fell one afler after another but not until they had sold their lives dearly when the other chilian troops ir arrived rived it few days afterwards they found in the equale ua xe and adjacent streets bodies the tile dead and wounded were carried off into the tile hills the chilian dead were collected and buried the city was burned and everybody implicated in ili the massacre who could be found was summarily executed |