St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1894-07-19
THE BRITISH FLAG FLOATS
OYER A UNITED STATES c0ALIKG
STATION ISLAND.
THE CORN ISLAND FIGHT

In Which Many Nioaraguans Were
Killed - Rebellion Along the
Whole Atlantic Coast Against
Nicaraguan Ruie-Eight Thou
sand Indians Will Assist the
| Mosquitoes in Big Fight.
New ORLEANS. July ls.-The corre-
spondence of the Picayune sends by the
steamer Gussie lengthy report of the
occurrences there proceeding The fight
at Corn island. The trouble began on
the night of July 5. The month before
the merchants who had advanced money
on the scrip issued by the Mosquito
government requested Gen. Cabezos,
the Nicaraguan governor, to take the
scrip for duties. He refused point blank
to recognize the paper and the mer-
chants decided to pay only in the scrip.
This soon reduced the revenue of the
government and the finances fell way
down.
On the Sd of the month, the police
again made demand for their back pay
and were refused. Tnis determined
the natives and the adherents and when
the 5th of the month they were put off
again one of the police was about to
assault CabeZos when troops arrived.
A brief conflict followed in which four
OF the police were painfully injured.
| The fighting drew a large crowd,
among them several Americans
from the international club. just
| across, the street. One Of these,
Henry williamson. formerly of Calves
ton, Tex, by his good Offices succeeded
in stopping the fight. AS soon as the
| three leaders of the rioters had been
placed under arrest, Gen. Cabezos sent
word to Mr.. Williamson that he had re-
! celved all the assistance from him that
| he required.
| ID the evening meeting of the ma
tives was held and they decided to
| drive
THE SPANIARDs OUT,
take possession of the government and
| reinstate the old Mosquito chief. Mes
| sengers were sent to different places to
rally all natives and Indians, and by s
p. in. large crowd had collected. Con.
| sui Seal called an informal meeting of
the Americans and discussed the situa-
eiOhs oho ~ was dSOiOOu " Soll Ou thC
| commander of the U. S. s. Marblehead
| for marines to care for the interests
of foreigners. The English consul
Joined in this. Later in tile evening
| desultOry fighting began between ma
tives and the small force of soldiers in
the government building. Soon the
| lights were shot out and then the ma.
| ives gathered IN force and perfect hail
| of lead was poured into the building.
II he inmates of the building retired to
| the. stone basement and were conse-
lquently secure. The firing was kept up
by both sides all night IT. ceased
| Shortly after daylight, and during the
| day great crowds visited the govern
nent building, the upper stories of
| which were completely riddled with
| bullets. There were, however, in spite
OF the terrific tusiIade. but two men
| injured during the night. About 6
O'Clock in The morning Capt. O'Neill
landed Sixty-tve marines and left them
| AT THE BLUFF.
The captain went to the consul, and a
lengthy interview was had with Gen.
CaJeZOs. LII the afternoon meeting of
the Mosquito head men was called, and
| Clarence and his staff officers quickly
appeared, though he had not been heard
of before. Natives all looked to the
| Americans for assistance, and even
! asked that the Americans lead
them in the fight. The Amer
| leans. however, took no active
effort to keep the village as orderly as
possible. Finally Clarence decided to
I declare himself chief, and proclama-
ton was written out. A steam launch
was chartered and sent to RailAa to
prevent the steamer Hendi from
bringing reinforcements to Ca
bezes. A letter was sent to
Cabezos giving him two hours to turn
over all government property. He tenn
porized and asked until morning to de-
| cids. While this was being talked over
the foreigners were holding a mass
meeting, at which Capt. O'Neill told
them plainly the position he occupied.
saying that he could only take a hand
on request of the government of the
country. lie would offer protection
to all foreigners, but could not take
sides with either party to the dispute.
During the night the natives decided
that Cabezos had only asked time in
order to bring thirty-fve additional
men and four.inch Krupp gun. which
he had on bluff across from the town.
Accordingly, early in the night a force
descended on the bluff. and after
/ A SHARP SKiRMISH
In which two men were killed the Span
iards fed and the gun was captured.
| The next morning the Indians began
coming in large numbers from outside
points and 1t was clear that Clarence
was gaining over, as he then had some
$500 men. hen Cabezos heard of the
loss of his uff force he decided to
surrender al ne government property
and send I J troops out of the re-
serve. The ,squitos decided to for man
| amalgamate council and three Amer
leans and tv Euglishmen were asked
to join. TIE Americans were Simon
Lampoon, n New Orleans; Charles
Labner, Of Pearl Lagoon, and Ii. F.
| Springer, of New Orleans. The Eng
lishmen were William H. Brown and
Capt. Bro snerigg. The next day
Capt. ON Al sailed In the Mar
blehead, laving the marines on
shore in large of the first lieuten-
| ant. When the steamer Hazel Wright
| arrived II. Xt day it was learned
that the Sp nards had been contem-
plating an tack on Bluefields, and the
influence o their governor alone pre-.
vented it. he natives protited by this
valuable information and organized
several companies Of troops. A close
watch was placed on the lagoons by
which the Spaniards were expected. and
| WuCu tuCy COhSs IL tucy uO, tIl6 HSut
will be hot one. Sunday morning
a sl0op came from Corn Island
bringing reports of the fight
there. No definite details were OBJ
tanned beyond the information that the
Spaniards were routed with several
killed. Then the natives and Jamaicans
hOisted the English flag, and it still
/ floats over the island which was In.
tended for the United States coaling
station. The fighting in Bluefields, it
is 10 be seen, is not entirely local, but
more of rebellion of the whole
AtiaHtic coast against Nicaraguan rule.
The Indians throughout the entire re-
seive are completely aroused. The
Faunka Indians, numbering nearly