THE TORREON ATROCITIES.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXI, Issue 28, 18 September 1911, Page 3

THE TORREON ATROCITIES.

CTHNESH OFFICIA.L RETORT. Frightful atrocities wore detailed in the report ol special investigators from the Chinese Legation at Mexico City on the massacre of Chinese at Torrcan, during the Mexican revolt. 'i lie i-port, after setting forth the prejudice against iorciguers, as displayed on previous occasions, thus detailed 1 lie sacking of Torreon and the attendant atrocities: — “There were several Chinese worlc- ! ion outside the city of Torre >fi cnlfivating vegetable gardens. On May 121 li the rebels began sacking the ! onscs of those market gardeners, rohI iug them and killing some of them. They made a special point of stealing their horses and mules. As tiic rebels had cut off all communic-r. on >\ith the city it was impossible for these gardeners to send any news of. what was going on to their countrymen in the city. “On May 14th the rebels began the attack on the city, and the fighting went on ail day, when the federal troops found that their ammunition was exhausted. To excuse the slaughter of the Chinese the i dols alleged licit the reserve ammunition was mil by the federals in the hands rf the Chinese and that the latter, in cider to defend the ammunition, fired on the reliefs. “This story is absolutely false. At an early hour on the following morning the federal forces evacuated Torroon and marched to Saltillo. As soon as this was discovered the mob rushed about the town shouting ‘Death to the Chinese,’ and exciting the disorderly classes-to pillage. " lie robe] forces at once entered the town

without any opposition. Many of the rebels joined the mob in sacking the Chinese stores. They commenced n ith the restaurant kept by Park Jan Jong, whore they broke open the door and killed everyone present. “From this place they went to the dry goods store of Hoo Nam, where they drove everybody in the house to an upper floor and there killed thorn idler entirely looting th store. !’m y then proceeded to the store of Mar Young, a merchant in the leather business, and stole everything it contained. The proprietor tried to hide in the collar, hut lie was found and dragged into the street, where lie was slabbed and shot to death, as well as ids nephew. *

“It was at ITiis time that, three Chinese were tied to horses and dragged along the streets to the plaza., where two of them were killed and the third, who was a hoy, was saved by an American wo hi aa, who put her arms around him and defied the mob. The mob then proceeded to the stores of King Chaw and Pekin, wl ich they llootcd, hut the proprietors and the' employees escaped. “The next place was the Shanghai branch store, which they also broke open, taking all the goods and killing all the people. After this they proceeded to Yeo Hop’s general store, which .they, looted and- from which they dragged thirteen Chinese out into the streets and killed them with hatchets and knives. The Shanghai Company and the Wall Vick Bank occupird the same building. The premises of both were broken into, all the goods of the store wore stolen as well as the money in the hank. The employees of the two establishments lived on the upper floors and the whole of them, numbering twenty-five were killed by the mob. Two of them were cut to pieces, one of them the treasurer of tiie hank. Another man’s head was cut off, and thrown out of a window into the street.

“The Reform Club building was attacked and all the furniture, pictures, etc., were destroyed or stolen, as well as the money in the safe. In this building fifteen or sixteen men were killed, among them being the secretary] of the club. “The foregoing list only covers tne principal Chinese places of business in the centra of the city, hut besides these there were an immense number of stores scattered throughout the city, and the whole of these were sacked and the owners killed. The same thing was done to the numerous Chinese ’provision and vegetable farmers in and around the market. All the ma’Tet gardeners who wore working in the fields near the city suffered the loss of their properties and lives. “There were many cases in which Chinese were simply hold up, made to deliver the money they had on their parsons, and then shot. “It is to he observed that every Chinese house was carefully' closed and the windows hoarded up in many cases most of them displayed their flags, hut in every case the flag wan? pulled down and torn to pieces. “This terrible state ofj affairs continued until a committee of the principal men of business, headed by the American Consul, waited on the commander of the rebel troops and d?mamdod that such outrages should he stopped. More than two hundred Chinese who had escaped the general slaughter were then taken to the city gaol and kept there for two night*, hut even there they did not got any real protection, as the members cT tne prison guard searched them one by one and tonic away all the money they had and articles of clothing v, Inch they fancied,. »o that on leaving ch. prison they were moneyless and almost naked. “in ail this slaughter there was a most extraordinary display of bar bilious and savage cruelty. Some c.-i ilie Chinese were, shut first and stabbed afterwards. In other cases they -acne first stabbed and then shut. (liners were cut up into small pieces: < liters, beheaded: others •"■it to horses by their feet and the* ... rugged along the streets, while oth ; a I their arum nr legs tied to t • :. ; rt hones ami '•.ere in this msiie.i turn asunder. 'Athens wen 1 stood up naked in the market gardens outside liio city and tli?re each one of them was assigned to

a marksman, who made a iarg.it c i Ins victim. “A Mexican lawyer tried to hide g ive Chinese, hut ilie mol; gut '-m.l «.f the fact and dcmia’l'd ihat the three men shrould lit dclgeied to them, under threat oi -.-cuing fit t< the In;use. The hnv.vr then d.uv • the three victims out T sue flams u and they were immediately chut. “The slaughter went on until the rebel officers ordered it to stop at the instance of the American Consul and prominent citizens. The total killed numbered 111!.'!; the houses sacked were one haulc, one reform club, forty' grocery stores, seven dry goods stores, four laundries, live restaurants, ton greengrocers, twenty-three provision stores in the market of the Chinese colony living in Torreon. About throe hundred survived the massacre. These, however, were robbed of all their property and loft entirely destituc, and were only saved from starvation by the action of the Red Cross Society, the American Consul and the representatives of the foreign hanks. The survivors were eared for by the generosity of these people until communication was re-established and the Chinese in other parts of Mexico and the United States came to their relief.”

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