The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1894-06-02
HUNDREDS KILLED
Why Ezeta Did Not Reach
Santa Ana.
HIS TRAIN WAS DERAILED.
Two Hundred of His Men Meet
With Death and Disaster.
FIRST NEWS OF THEIR FATE.
The President Manages the Wires
and Would Not Telegraph the
True Story.
HIS TRAIN WAS DERAILED.
FIRST NEWS OF THEIR FATE.

There is one story of fatality told of the
Central American revolution at present in
progress that is more horrible in its details
than the accounts of battles published at
the instigation of unreliable Ezeta.
People from Panama apologize for not
having any report of the occurrence by
saying that they decline to discuss San
Salvador affairs until such time as the
press censorship established by Ezeta
shall be lifted. They say that they can
not believe anything that comes 10 the
isthmus from the land OF civil strife.
Particulars have reached this city from
q reputable source, showing that the 200
persons reported 10 have been killed in
one of the preliminary battles about Santa
Ana were not slaughtered by the bullet
nor shot nor shell, but were victims of one
of the most horrible railroad accidents that
has ever been placed on record. Ezeta
himself nearly lost his life. One of his
leaders was killed. and nearly 200 of his
citizens and soldiers were manned and
manged beyond recognition.
On the 2Sth of April the insurgents IN
DER command of Generals Rafael Cutter
reg and Jose Preza bled for an
attack on the city Of Santa Ana. Antonio
Eze;a commanded the Government troops
quartered at the place, and had made
preparations to defend his brothers
rights.
On April 90 the city was attacked, Cap
tain Francisco Rudato leading the ad-
vance. On that same day Antonio dis
patched several couriers to San Salvador
City with a request for re-enforcements.
The forces under Preza and Gutierrez
defeated Antonio's defenders and drove
them out of the Quartet, or barracks. An
tonic was obliged to make his escape,
which he did by retreating to an inland
town near Santa Ana. 1t was during this
retreat that he was shot and painfully but
not seriously wounded.
il. On May Carlos Ezeta gathered the
flower of his army about him to the num-
Der of about 1900. secured a special train
and started in the direction of Santa Ana
at full speed. There were fourteen cars in
the train and a special coach at the end for
the accommodation of the President. The
cars we're badly crowded and Uttered with
war paraDhernalia and baggage.
Preza hearing of the approach of the
train filled with troops dispatched several
companies Of cavalry TO head it off by
placing distractions on the rails.
At a point several leagues from Santa
Ana the road runs down q steep grade for
several Thousand yards. The cavalrymen
selected the spot as the place best adapted
for the deralment of a train. They COM
menced work at dusk, removing the spikes
from the rails for a distance of about one
hundred yards; then they fell back to
camp.
The train with the re-enforcements for
the beleaguered city came laundering along
at high rate of speed. 1t plunged over
the grade and increased its momentum.
The loose rails we're struck. the engine
leapt into space and fell with crash over