The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1894-08-07
BAD BLOOD IN BLUEFIELDS.
Story of the Fight in Which the
Nicaraguans Were Routed.

NEW ORLEANS, La, July IS
The Gussie and Wilson, which ar
rived here today from Bluefelds.
Nicaragua. give an account Of the
fight there which resulted in the
defeat and retreat Of the Nicara-
guans, the restoration of Chief
Robert Clarence. of the Mosquito
Indians, and the reestablishment of
Mosquito independence.
The fighting occurred on July ,,
when a steam launch towing a sail
ing vessel went from Bluefelds TO
the bluff where the Nicaraguan
garrison is situated. The sailing
vessel anchored on one side and
the launch approached the bluff,
having apparently only two or
three persons aboard. As 1t came
near the bluff, however, CALLING
fire came from the launch, two of
the Nicaraguan soldiers being in
stantly killed and several wounded.
A party of Jamaican negroes,
beaded by an American, then de-
scended from the launch and at
tackled the surprised Nicaraguans,
while a second party from the sail
ing vessel, consisting of Negroes,
also headed by white Americans,
took the Nicaraguans on the flank,
completely routing them, and they
fed, leaving their guns behind and
several krupp cannon. Altogether
five or six Nicaraguans were killed
outright, but none of the attacking
party was injured.
CHIEF CLARENCE BEINsTATED.
The victorious Jamaicans then
returned in boats TO Bluefelds,
when Robert Clarence, the Chief of
the Mosquitoes, who was recently
deposed by Nicaragua, was restored
and installed as the head of the
Government. There was some lit
tie firing in Bluefelds upon the re-
turn of the victors, In which a
Nicaraguan woman was killed.
The residence of General Locaya,
the Nicaraguan commandment was
fired into.
General Caboza, who was in COM
mand in Locayo's absence, APP
pealed to Captain O'Neil, of the
United States man-ofwar Marble
head, for protection, but Captain
O'Neil declared that his vessel was
there for the protection OF Ameri-
cans and American property alone,
and he could not interfere in local
affairs. General Caboza and staff
then left for Rama, leaving the
rebels in full control. Captain
O'Neil at once recognized the new
Government, with Clarence at its
head, and landed sixty marines to
protect American interests.
1t is generally understood in
Bluefelds that the entire revolu-
ton was planned and executed by
the American colonists there, who
did not like Nicaragnan rule, and
that the Jamaican negroes were
armed by them to make the at
tack, the arms coming from New
Orleans.
AMERICANS LED THE ATTACK.
The leaders of the attacking
party are all known TO be Ameri-
cans, but their names were kept
secret to prevent international com
plications. Captain O'Neil had
warned the American colonists
against this action, and advised
them not TO mix in local politics.
The rebels captured a splendid
lot of guns, ammunition and can
non at the bluff, and the arms were
sufficient to provide every man on
the reservation with a gun. The
Nicaraguans declare they will re-
turn and recapture Bluefelds, but
as they will have to do so by boat.
and as the natives are well provid-
ed with cannon so as TO prevent
any landing, 1t is not thought like
" that they Will do so.
The Marblehead was the only
vessel at Bluefelds at the time OF
the coup d'etat, the British having
left. TWAS proposed to surrender
the captured arms TO Captain
O'Neil, but this has not yet been
done.