The Irish standard., 1907-03-30
kICARACUANS take
HONDURAS Capital
CAPTURED AND
OCCUPIED By PRESIDENT
ZELAYA'e FORCES.
BoniIla Reoreanizes His Shattered
Army and Prepares for Prolonged
Resistance-some Details Of the
Storming Of ChoIuteca.

Washington, March 26.-Senor Co.
rea, the Nicaraguan minister, Monday
night received a dispatch from Presi-
dent Zelaya, of Nicaragua, announcing
the capture and occupation Of Tegu-
cigalpa, the capital of Honduras.
President Bonilla of Hoduras has
reorganized his army and intends to
make prolonged resistance to the
Nicaraguan forces. This news reached
the state department late Monday
from Phillip r. Brown, secretary to
the American legation to Honduras
and Guatemala, who is now at Tegu-
cigalpa.
Negotiations for peace in Central
America are being carried on with
great earnestness in Washington. Mr..
Creel, the Mexican ambassador. and
Mr. Corea, the Nicaraguan minister,
both called at the state department
Monday to discuss the Central Ameri-
can war with Mr. Root, and although
Mexico and the United States have
not as yet found a way to restore
harmony among the warning repub-
lies, 1t is believed that an arbitration
will be effected in short time.
Details Of choIuteca Fight.
Managua, Nicaragua, March ga
few details of the capture Of the Hon
duran-salvadorean position at Cholu-
teca by the Nicaraguan forces have
been received. The Nicaraguans took
quantities of field equipment. The
Hondurans and Salvadoreans had 200
men killed and about an equal num-
Der wounded.
Some of the Nicaraguan wounded
who we're captured by the enemy be-
fore President Bonilla fed are report
ed to have been hanged and their
bodies barbarously mutilated.
President Zelaya has issued orders
to the Nicaraguan forces that all
wounded prisoners are to be treated
with proper care.
sacking Of San Marcos.
Puerto Cortez, Honduras, March 21,
via New Orleans, March 26.-News Of
the sacking of San Marcos, Honduras,
under pitiful circumstances, an ac-
count of a fresh revolt in the interior
of Honduras and information of con-
siderable financial loss to American
interests because of the war have
been received here.
The sacking Of San Marcos was re-
lated by Gen. Carcamo of the Hondur-
an army. who Nicaraguan dispatches
said had been killed at San Marcos
on February 26. Gen. Carcamo was
concealed for several days after his
defeat at San Marcos and finally
gained the Honduran lines uninjured.
He then gave an account of the out
RACES perpetrated on the women and
defenseless children of the captured
town, which he said was looted and
sacked by the soldiers of Nicaragua
Details of the story have not reached
here.
Revolt at camaysua.
The revolt reported here occurred
at Camaygua, Honduras, where March
20 $50 armed men captured the
plaza. A force OF 900 men was sent
from San Pedro to suppress this re-
volt and orders were given fot a body
of Indian allies to Join them on the
way to Camaygua.
The principal losses to Americana
have occurred in the banana industry.
The reports of the Honduras Inter
Oceanic railroad, which transports
the greater part of Honduras banana
output from the interior to the sea-
board, say that the shipment of ba-
nanas has already fallen off to about
one.quarter it's usual volume.