The sun., 1897-04-27
HoNDURAs,s REToLUTIoN.
Made by Fourteen Men who Put TO flight coo
Soldiers and Got the Custom House.

Made by Fourteen Men who Put TO flight coo
Soldiers and Got the Custom House.
NEW ORLEANS April 26.-Tho steamer Break
water arrived here to-day, bringing the latest
news of the Honduras revolution. There were
several Americans aboard who deemed 1t pru-
dent in consequence OF tho revolution and their
unwillingness to take sides, to leave tho coun-
try. They complain that DIR. Miller. the Ameri-
can Consul at Puerto Cortez and San Pedro, Is
not vigorous or energetic enough. and that he
allowed the Commandsnt at Puerto Cortez to
carry things with high hand over the Ameri
can railroad conductors and employees there
and to threaten and bulldoze them In his pres
ence.
Tho revolutionary movement, tho American
passengers on the Breakwatcr say. is directed
by ex-President De Soto. who Is said to be in
Belize, ready to land in Honduras when the op-
portunity Is promising. The attack on Puerto
Cortez was sudden and vigorous, and took tho
Government completely by surprise. The at
tacking party was composed mainly of Ameri-
cans and Englishmen, led by an Englishman
named Drummond. The party was well armed
with Winchester rifles and had two Gatling guns,
to which much Of their success was due, the
Gatling gun carrying terror to the native
soldiers
Drummond is the man who got in trouble at
ping rifles in bales of hay to Guatemala. He
was understood then to be organizing revolu-
ton in that country, but the rifles were discov-
cred at New Orleans and their shipment stopped.
He then took a hand in the Cuban revolution,
and finally took up Do Sotos revolutionary
movement in Nicaragua.
The expedition was arranged in Belize. and
when 1t descended on Puerto CorteZ caught tho
Government completely unprepared. There
were only fourteen men in the revolution at the
beginning. but they were determined men,
nearly all foreigners. and when they appeared
before tho Cabildo and opened fire on the Gov
ernment forces, 600 strong. the soldiers took to
The revolutionists found the people Of Puerto
Cortez very friendly. especially the foreigners,
who declare that President Bonilla, while pre-
10 hostile to them. Enriched by the Custom
House receipts, Drpmmond and his army CAP
tured all the neighboring villages, attacked the
town OF San Pedro. where me 1SgeTnment Lt
captured two entire trains and locomotives. In
the operations against the neighboring towns
the Calling guns were carried from point TO
Encouraged by success and finding large
proportion of the population dissatisfied with
the Bonilla regime, Drummond and his little
march last week to Tegucigalpa, the capital of
the republic He expected to gain recruits on
his march and to appear before Teguctgalpa
with a considerable army and decide the fate OF
the republic by a battle there.
The way to the capital is over 200 miles long.
and leads over mountains. The r0voutionists.
unless they meet with serious difhcqIties. ought
feeling on the Atlantic coast OF Honduras 10
that the revolution will be successful. as It has
the backing Of the strong foreign element In the
population anda considerable proportion OF the