Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-07-22
WIN COMPLETE VICTORY
Ciudad Bolivar Surrendered to
Government Forces After
Desperate Battle
FOUGHT TO THE LAST DITCH
The Dead Revolutionists Lay in Heaps
at Their Posts of outy-Terrible
Scene of carnaae-BattIe Lastedfrom
Three O'clock Sunday Afternoon I'm
til Early Tuesday-Leniency Assured.

Caracas, Venezuela, July 22.-Ciudad
Bolivar has fallen. The revolutionary
forces were vanquished and the city
passed into the hands Of the govern
o'clock yesterday. The victory was
only achieved after desperate battle,
which ragged intermi.,jngly in the
streets from o'clock Sunday after
noon until early Tuesday.
Block after block was disputed, the
government troops entering the city
slowly. All the houses has been barri-
caded. but the revolutionists were
forced from roof after roof, the govern
ment forces entering tho houses as the
enemy abandoned them. The city APP
pears to have been struck by a cyclone.
AT o'clock Sunday evening the gov
eminent forces, which were advancing
from all directions. arrived near the
center of the city. For Two hours pre-
viously firing had diminished, but it
N. and Illuminated the sky.
AT O'Clock Monday morning, when
the inhabitants of the commercial and
foreign parts of the city. near the ala
media, saw the advance of the govern
ment troops, they all abandoned their
homes and sought refuge in other parts
'ot the city, crossing the streets amid a
hail of bullets and shells, the women
carrying their children, tie strong help
Ing the weak, and many men. in trying
to protect the women. falling struck by
bullets.
In the middle of the streets. what
with the firing, the yells of the wound
ed and the crying of the women and
children. terrible sight was witnessed,
bad enough to disgust anybody forever
with civil war.
The government troops, however,
acted with humanity, especially the
forces Of General Rivas. who. fighting
bravely, was the first to order the at
lacking force to be merciful
Dead Lie in Heaps.
Monday the government generals,
having effected a Junction Of their
forces, north and south. and having re-
decided to push the attack on the CEN
ter of the city. AT 10 o'clock the gov
eminent troops had captured the north
side of the alameda, the public park of
Ciudad Bolivar. which has been de-
tended by a double row of barricades.
Behind one of these were found more
than thirty dead soldiers lying on ton
OF each other. while wounded men were
seen on all sides.
At II o'clock the government COM
manders. seeing that only the artillery
could make a breach in the barricades
Of the alameda. ordered twelve guns to
open fire on them, and at the same time
the Venezuelan fleet. which had
changed its anchorage so as to bring
its guns to bear effectively on the city,
opened fire.
RevoIutionists Fight Hard.
BY p. m. the advance of the gov
eminent troops had reached the mar
ket place. The old custom house, the
water works and the Dalton block, the
property of the United States consul.
where all the leading German and
French firms reside. had been taken
The Jail was the center of terrible
resistance. All the defeated revolu-
tionists concentrated there. 1t is esti-
mated that more than 200 men We're
killed in that vicinity.
The revolutionists fought to the last
ditch but resistance was. hopeless. De-
tails of the surrender have not yet
reached here. but an effort will be made
by the foreign representatives here to
induce the government ID treat the sur
yiyorS with leniency.