>>510127983"At Saltillo there were a number of women who had lived with the Americans, and were models of their class. When our troops
evacuated the town these unfortunates were compelled to remain behind, some of them ladies of unusual beauty. After General
Lombardini’s Mexican division re-occupied the place, the authorities got up a grand celebration to commemorate the treaty of peace.
At midnight the Grand Plaza was all ablaze with fireworks, and full of drunken soldiers, pollos and ladrones, when a fat
Dominican Monk, one Padre Olitze, got up on the fountain in the centre of the square, and in the most fiery language denounced
these poor “Yankedos” to the mob. With yells of fiends, they searched out the miserable creatures, dragged them from their
beds in their night clothes to the plaza, where for hours they were subjected to nameless horrors; an unheard of atrocity was perpe-
trated on them by the agency of the less brutal Burros, and then in their dying agonies they had their ears cut off and the finishing
stroke (a merciful one) given by cutting their throats. Twenty three women were tortured to death at this time, and no notice
was taken of it by General Lombardini, or any one else among the Mexican authorities."
de facto indeed