San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-04-21
AMERICANS ACCUSED OF BEING
CONCERNED IN THE RE-
BELI0US UPRISING.
Federal Fort StOrmei And Captured
While The Inhabitants OF
The Town Fleet
Was Not UnSuS-
Eettei.

New York, April 21.-A dispatch to
the Herald from Tegucigalpa, Hondur-
as, says that the news has just reach
ed the capital that Mr.. Jackson, an
American, has sailed for New Orleans
from Puerto Cortez to purchase arms
and fit filibustering expedition.
The minister of the Great Republic
of Central America, Senior Rodriguez,
at Washington has been instructed by
cable by the diet to prevent the sailing
of the expedition. The government
seems displeased at the American min
lister, who is alleged to have assured
the president of Jackson-s neutrality.
The rebels have been repulsed from
several small towns in the south, but
have taken without resistance the
Puerto Cortez railway and all towns
and villages on the route.
No attempt has been made to raise
a forced loan.
The Herald's correspondent in San
Salvador, also says that advices to
hand are to the effect that many
American citizens are implicated in
the revolt in Honduras.
In an interview a member of the
Central American diet said that if
these Americans We're captured and
the merited punishment should be
melted out they would soon be claiming
the intervention Of the United States
through diplomatic channels, which,
under the circumstances, should not be
granted
The insurgent attack on Puerto Cor
tez, Honduras, on April 10, which be-
gan the revolution now in progress in
that republic was witnessed by the
officers and crew of the American
steamer Foxhall, which arrived at
this port last night.
Chief officer Krojsgard and Second
officer Ferdinand Bandish gave the
details of the attack as they saw it,
the chief officer saying:
We had cast off our lines from the
pier at Puerto COrtez at 9 o'clock on
the morning of Tuesday last and were
steaming slowly out of the bay when
it was noticed that something unusual
was taking place on shore.
"A large body of men marching at
double-quick time appeared from a
point of woods at the head of a lagoon
beyond the town.
Their approach was evidently dis
covered by the townspeOple at about |
the same time, for a great cOmmotion |
began at once.
Between the point of the woods and |
the town was a blockhouse, garrisoned |
l,Nr n oil fnpra Of Wit civ
pieces, under command of a German |
officer. The insurgents directed their |
attack upon the blockhouse in their |
charge.
They had nearly reached the block |
house before a shot was fired. Then |
there was a scattering vOlley. A mo-
ment later the insurgents had posses
sion of the place and were seen drag
ging common with them toward the
town. They halted on a piece of rising
ground and placed the guns in posi-
ton.
THE FOXhall kept on it's way down
the harbor, and had left the bay before
the attack on the town itself had be-
gun.
There was a British schooner in the
narbor which cast off its lines when
he firing was heard on shore. Before
It had left its pier, forty men from
he custom house were seen running
iOwn to the steamer.
1T was evident from their actions
hat they were asking the captain of
he schooner to take them on board |
lie refused and got under. way as rap
dly as possible.
The schooner was seen coming out /
f the harbor shortly after the Foxhall
lad rounded the headlines
Officer Bandish said that the insur-
ection was expected for several
months. DR.. Aurilio Soto, we'll known
n this city, who was president of Hon -
uras from 1876 to 1884, is said to be
t the head of the revolt.