THE SACK OF HERMOSILLO— HORRIBLE AfROCITIES.

West Coast Times, Issue 277, 13 August 1866, Page 5

THE SACK OF HERMOSILLO— HORRIBLE AfROCITIES.

The Alta California translates as follows from the Guaymas correspondent of the Courrier de San Francisco :—: — "Guaymus, 12th .May, 1866.-— My last letter eominuuicated to you my fears that the bands of Pesquiera were again about 1 to ravage the north of this state, aud those fears were only too well founded. On the 3rd instant Hermosillo was attacked by Pesquiera, Martinez, and Cachora, who had collected 1400 or 1500 men, and promised them that they might sack the town if they would take it. The place was defended by 100 Mexican Impeiialists, under Jose Maria Alinada, and a company of thirty -nine foreigners, mostly Frenchmen. The defence was heroic, and 'after all the foreign company, save four or five had been killed, on the morning of the 4th inst. at ten o'clock, .the brigands entered the city and massacred everybody found in the streets and many of those who had retired to their homes — Mexicans and foreigners, men, women and children. They broke in all the large stores, and pillaged and destroyed the goods. Many of the banditti were under the influence of mescal when they entered the town, and when they plundered the stores they helped themselves ' to wines and liquors' and champagne mixed with the blood- which ran in the gutter, while the drunken shouts of the murderers and the cries of their victims filled the air. A witness of the carnage, who escaped, and has arrived here, gives details which the pen refuses to record. One of our unfortunate compatriots, M. Monie, who kept an hotel, was slain, in his yard, after seeing his son wounded by . ten balls, and then cut" down with, , hatchets. M. Gonzalez, a respectable old man, and head of a wealthy house, was also assassinated, and many others who had never borne arms suffered the same fate. After having plundered the stores, the brigands searched for money, broke open desks "arid drawers, and "took all the cash they conld find. Hermosillo being thirty-eight leagues' from Guaymas, and twenty-two from Ures, Pesquiera and his friends supposed themselves secure for several days ; but after they had held possession of the town four hours and a half, they were attacked by Colonel Tanori, who had started from Ures with 400 Indians to relieve the garrison of Hermogillo. The battle was short but bloody, and every bayonet under Tanori's command drank blood. General Lahberg, who accompanied Tanori, was magnificent, it is said, in his coolness and audacity ; at the head of- ten men he took a cannon with which Pesquiera might have done much execution It is said that 400 hundred of the Chinacos were slain in Hermosille. Lanberg and Tonori remain in posession of the city, which has been declared in a state of siege. AIL the men are under arms." > ■ Other letters say that the conduct of Pesquiera's men was barbarous in the extreme, and that they committed all ' the horrible excesses customary in the sack of towns in the middle ages.

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