Mr. Egan to Mr. Gresham
Santiago, April 19, 1893.
Mr. Egan reports that within an hour after the receipt, at 4 o’clock p.m. on April 18, of Mr. Gresham’s telegram he communicated its substance to the Chilean Government and requested that the refugees be protected when they should leave the legation, as he was instructed to do; that one of the refugees, Fuentes, who attempted to leave the legation, together with some visitors, at about 8 o’clock in the evening, during Mr. Egan’s absence, was arrested at once on the street and lodged in jail by the police, and that the other, Blanlot-Holley, who is supposed to have left at about the same time, made his escape good through a force of 300 detectives and police, at least, who were then surrounding the block in which the legation is situated.