Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1900-08-09
Q U let AT PA N A M A
CONSUL GENERAL GUDGER,S STORY
OF THE BATTLES
Fighting In the City for Three Days,
During Which the Slaughter
Was Great.

The Department of State is in recent of
a dispatch from the consul general of the
United States at Panama, dated July q
1900, reporting the end of the civil strife by
the surrender Of the revolutionary forces
Mr. Gudger states that quiet prevails in
the city and order is fast being restored
During the past several days excitement
has been very great and bloodshed incident
to battle has been terrible.
A battle occurred on the 21st Of July at
Corozal, three miles outside the city limits
OF Panama, and the government forces re-
treated to their intrenchments within the
confines of the city. On Sunday morning,
the I'D, about daybreak, the battle began
within the city limits, and all the guns and
cannonS fired were within those limits ex-
cepting two pieces of cannon operated nv
the revolutionists outside thereof From
that day until Wednesday the 9th there
was more or less fighting during both night
and day. There was cessation of HOSTILE
ties however. for the purpose of caring
for the wounded, and in this respect it is
SAID, the marine hospital corps of the Eng
nsh warship Leander landed and did good
work On the 18th the consuls of the
United States, England and France tender
ed their good offices to both parties in the
interest of peace, which We're accepted
ines. Lhese of1cers visited the camps of each of
the contending forces and arranged for an
armlstice of twenty-four hours and the
surrender in the meantime of the ra,.o1,,
,loliary FORCES on terms satisfactory to
both parties However within four or five
hours or the commencement of the armi-
stlce, the terms were broken and fighting
continued all Wednesday night The next
DAY the revolutionary forces surrendered
and quiet was restored
Slaughter Was Great
MT Hudger states that the slaughter dur
ing these days has been great He passed
over the battlefield on Wednesday and saw
the dead In heaps all along the roadside. and
many were reported in the bush, where he
could not see them. 1t has been estimated
tnat more than 30 per cent of the reyol1-
uonary forces were either killed or wound
ed. From what Mr.. Gudger saw he has no
ucupt mat this estimate is approx1ma tely
correct when you consider that this strug-
s.e was brother against brother, father
AGAINST son, you can have some idea of
what 1t was. No one, however, who has
not experience in this line can estimate
properly what those in Panama have gone
tnrough during those troublesome days
MT. dudger was glad to report that gem
erLi amnesty has been given to all the reyo-
iutlonlsts, and that order is being rapidly
restored: AFTER the fight at Corozal Cen
erais Losaoo and Guerrero deserted the city
ana TOOK refuge on the English ship This
1act gave rise to the idea that the reyolu-
uonlsts would Immediately enter the city
however, they rallied from it. One mat
ter however, is painful, and that is that
the dead, a few of whom were cared for by
their friends in the city and some taken
care of by the revolutionists, were mostly
cremated on the battlefield
Al the last moment and what turned the
tide was the arrival of 600 government
troops