The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-03-26
SAN MARCOS SACKED.
Victorious Mediterranean Rebels Prac-
 tfce Cruelty on Helpless.

Vkca0EfOtas H0mdUFHneSAm Rebels Frae-.
 tfce Cruelty on Helpless.
 Puerto Cortez, Honduras, March 21. --(via New Orleans March 25. )-News of the sacking of San Marcos. Hondu- ras, under pitifuI circumstances, on account of a fresh revolt in the in- terior of Honduras and information of considerable financial loss to American interests because of the war have been received here.
 Tn sacking of San Marcos was re- lated by General Carcamo of the Hon- duran Army, who Nicaragua dispatches said had been killed by their soldiers at San Marcos on February 26. Gen eral Carcamo was concealed for sev- eral days after his defeat at San Mar cos and finally regained the Hondnran lines uninjured. He then gave piti- ful account of the outrages perpetrated on the women and defenseless citi- zens of the captured town. which, he said, was footed and sacked by the sol- diers of Nicaragua Details of his story have not reached here.
 The revolt reported here occurred at Camaygua, Honduras, where yesterday, March 20, 150 men stormed and cap- tured the plaza. A force of 500 men was sent from San Pedro Sula to sup press this revolt and orders were given for a body of Indian allies to join the 500 on the way to Camaygua-
 The principal losses to Americans have occurred in the banana industry. The reports of the Honduras Inter- Oceanic Railroad, which transports the greater part of Honduras banana out put from the interior to the seaboard say that the shipments of bananas has already fallen off to about one quarter It's usual volume.
 As an example of the desperate straits of this industry 1t is reported that little boys and girls have been sent into the fields to cut and gather bananas, while the women transport and load them on the railroad cars. The men have gone to the war Yes. terday in Puerto Cortez an owner of one of these banana plantations, a na- tive. announced his intention to aban- don his business for the present in or- der to go to the front.
 Good Work of Marietta.
 The American gunboat Marietta Is said to have done good work in the i'm terests of American shipping at Tru- Jillo, the first Honduranean port cap tured by Nicaraguans. Upon arrival here on March 19 the Marietta reported that the Nicaraguans made an attempt to molest small vesses at, TruJillo, which were the property of Americans, but that they desisted upon receiving a warning from Captain Fullam of the Marietta.
 Reports of the fighting telegraphed to Puerto Cortez do not paint the situa- tion as bad for the arms of Honduras and Salvador as do the Nicaraguan telegrams.
 column of Honduranean soldiers, under General Chomorro. has slipped past the Nicaraguan lines and is marching into the interior of Nicara- qua. raising a revolt against Zelaya- An oficial report reaches here that on March Il this column captured Toto Ralpa, Nicaragua, after thirteen hours lighting, and wounded or killed 100 Nicaraguans, besides capturing consid- erable ammunition.
 The battle of Los Portillos de Nam asque. which the Nicaraguans claim ended in disaster to the allied Hondu- ranean and Salvadoran armies, was re- ported by officials at the capitol of Honduras as probably the greatest bat tie in the history of Central America. On the second day of the battle. these dispatches announced that 10000 men were engaged, that the allies after forcing Nicaraguan outposts, had trained sixty cannon upon the enemy's main entrenchments which were on a hill. and that the mortality on both sides was heavy.
 Immediately after receipt of these dispatches telegraphic communication was interrupted. and the only news of inc final day of the battle has come from Nicaraguan sources, which claim that the allies were defeated with 1000 killed and wounded.
 Dispatches about the time of this battle said that Lee Christmas, the American, of Memphis, Tenn, (sinee