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Feilding Star, Volume XIII, Issue 48, 20 October 1891, Page 3

_ An article in the United Service Magazine has an extract from the diary of an eyewitness of tho civil war in Chili. The writer is a lady named Constance Eagle* "'stone, Miss or Mrs being doubtful. She tells of a disaster of which we have not before heard, though it occurred in February. Iquique and Pisagua were con* nepted by railway, and the rival forces held cither end of the line, By chance each party selected the same day for making' an attack. The line curyed through hilly ground. Balmaceda's officer saw the other train coming. He removed hls-tncA and some of his stores, and wlien the other tram was near enough, he put steam full on to his own engine, lumped off, and witnessed with satisfac tion the- success.. of his horrible device. When the disaster was complete, and the air 'filled with the groans anß shrieks of the survivors, the President's officer threw his cavalry on the mangled, bleeding men who tried to escape, and on a few unhurt who wore endtavounng to rescue from the wreck the dead or dying The cay« ijalry^id:>heiti^w6rk:;; well, and the Presi-fipo:iaA^:ia-'^aajj':iinemica[ the fewer. §Su^pli is .civil war : in the nineteenth cen:turj>xi;v;- ; >..-"-"": : ' ''