Evening journal., 1901-11-26
REVOLUTIONINTS
IN RETREAT
Over One Hundred and Fifty
Killed and Wounded
Battle Resumed at San PablO-ThreO
Hundred Of EOWa'S Marines
Landed


ing at 10 O'Clock the schooner Clapet
and a railroad barge returned to Pan
anna, bringing $50 men from Chorrera,
being the remainder OF General Al
bans expedition. Great crowds gath
cred at the wharf to. witness the land
! ing OF the soldiers. They were re-
ceiYed with bands of music, but the
music sounded mournful, and the airs
sounded more like a funeral march
than the joyful strains of welcome to
victorious army. General Alban
looked his usual and calm self and
acted more like a man on whose hands
time hangs heavily for want of some
thing to do than one coping with
grave responsibilities under trying
circumstances.
On Sunday afternoon at $3.50, at the
head of ZOO men, General Alban left
Panama by train for Empire Station,
where the Liberals were reported to
be in fairly strong numbers. His pur-
pose was to surprise and rout them.
The train bearing these troops was
held up just before it arrived at Guile
bra Station, owing to the Liberals
opening fire on Adams advance guard.
Alban disembarked his men from the
train which returned to Panama. The
fighting at Culebra lasted from 43O
until 8 p. m.
The government troops advanced.
and the fighting was stubborn all
along the railroad line until Empire
Station, mile and half distant, was
Al
slowly. Adams men following them
until the latter eventually reached
Matachin Station. Here General Al
ban met and conferred with Captain
Perry, of the Iowa, who was returning
from Colon on an armored train. 1t is
understood that Captain Perry will not
allow the railroad to transport troops.
consequently General Allan and his
men were forced to push ahead on
foot It is said here that they thus
reached San Pablo, where the Liberals
are in force. and that fighting took
. place there. The Liberals are under
the command Of General Lugo.
Between the stations of Culebra and
Empire over $50 killed and wounded
men could be seen along the track.
The sight was gruesome. There is
! no proper Red Cross organization, and
the wounded lack care.
Three hundred of the Iowa's ma
rines were landed at 4.3O o'clock on
, Sunday afternoon at Panama to pro
tect the property of the railroad and
to insure the continuance of transit
across the lsthmus.
The breastworks on the railroad
bridge that leads into Panama, as we'll
as those erected inside the city, have
been demolished by the government.
Will Not Bombard Colon.
Washington. Nov. 26.-It is pretty
we'll understood here that there is to
b be no bombardment of Colon by either
: side. While Commander McCrea was
u given wide discretionary power, and
, nothing was said to him about stop
- ping the bombardment directly, never
e theless the state department estab
. lished q precedent in these matters
last year, when it instructed Mr.. Gud
90 ger to warn some insurgents at Pan
F. anna that they would not be allowed
i- to lombard that port. If the govern
/
# sist in their purpose it is said that the
ri commanders of the various warships
at Colon would require that ample
, time be allowed for the Withdrawal
. from the town of all foreigners.
r. The situation on the lsthmus is still
l. unsettled, but free transit by way o
the railroad has been re-established
These advices came in a dispatch re
.- ceived by Secretary Long from Cap
n tain Perry of the Iowa. who had made
IS a trip across the Isthmus from Pan
I anna to Colon. from which place h'
(. sent a telegram, an extract of whicl
IS the secretary made public, as follows
IS Captain Perry reports that free tran
u sit across the Isthmus is restored an,
ne that he returned to Panama yester
ST day afternoon. The captain will leav
nd guard on each passenger train 70
u the present
The purpose of the guard presuma
n bly, is TO prevent interruption to tn
oI free passage of trains by insurgent
D. congregated along the line of tn
/. road.
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