People's Pilot, Volume 3, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 January 1894 — TERRIBLE SLAUGHTER. [ARTICLE]

TERRIBLE SLAUGHTER.

Hundreds Slain in Battle in Brazil— Hr I*. oners Beheaded. Montevideo, Uruguay, via Galveston, Tex., Jan. 17. —Information has been received from the Rio Grande do Sul frontier that the insurgents have abandoned the seige of Bage, owing to the near approach of a strong government force which has been sent to the garrison’s relief. It is said Gen. Tavares before leaving Bage beheaded all the loyal prisoners he had made. After the rebels had executed their prisoners and were retreating from Bage they were intercepted by the government relief column and a hot fight followed. Tavares’ forces were quickly put to flight, but they left 400 dead on the field. The loyalist loss was only four officers and thirty-six men killed and ninety wounded. The rebels are reported to be fleeing toward Santa Anna. Bage has been greatly damaged by the siege. January 4 the insurgents in launches attacked Engenho island, driving the government forces into the center of the island, killing forty men and officers and carrying fifty-three prisoners aboard the ships of their fleet Gen. Ferrari, in charge of Peixoto’s forces on the island, fled toward Nietheroy in a steam launch, abandoning the dead and wounded.