The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1909-12-30

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Bluefeld, Nicaragua. Dec. 27.-The
details of the battle of Rama are now
known. The victory of the insurgents
was as complete as had been claimed
by them.
After w days of fighting, the iercest
that Central America has seen, General
Estrada IN Tuesday wiped out the
enemy. OF Zelaya's army of 5000 men.
but 500 escaped. The killed and wound
ed on both sides as before reported,
numbered 600 and 1900 of the govern
ment troops surrendered after a des-
perate resistance. Three Hotchkiss and
four Maxim guns. 1000 rifles and q
million rounds of ammunition were in
cluded in the booty.
General Estrada processes to believe
his march to Managua will be unop-
posed.
Country Wild With Joy.
Bluefields and the neighboring coun-
try are delirious with joy. The victory
is said to have been won on the very
day scheduled for the Inauguration Of
DR.. Madriz as president of Nicaragua
in succession to Zelaya.
General Luis Mena is again here. His
troops arrived on the scene of battle
when victory was in the balance and
turned the tide in favor Of the insur-
gents.
At the request of United States Con-
eul Moffat. Commander Shipley of the
United States cruiser Des Moines sent
his hospital squad ashore. establishing
an Independent hospital where 40 of the
wounded are receiving care. The Amer
lean medical men have been able to
give their services to all who We're In
need of them.
Americans in Battle.
Six Americans participated in the
battle operating rapid fire guns. They
escaped injury with the exception of one
named Bashford, who received three
bullets in a leg.
The prisoners include General Gonzales
General Castrillo, and General Vasuuez,
who was returning to am from Mana
qua when hostilities began, did not reach
the scene during the fighting. He was a
few miles distant when the government
troops were routed and 1T is possible that
some 500 men escaped with him.
Women in Trenches.
After zelaya's trenches had been shelled
they were taken by assault. In the
trenches were several women who pre-
ferred risking their lives in the conflict
to starvation in camp. These women
were armed with rifles and fought cour-
ageously. One Of them was wounded and
later brought to the hospital here. A
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found to be boys under 16 years Of age.
They accepted defeat as though it We're
very welcome.
General Vasquez, the vanquished of the
government troops today, shares the
quarters OF General Estrada and is eating
the latter's rations with great relish and
smoking insurgent tobacco as though he
enjoyed it.
Not Comic Opera.
The second days fighting began at 9
o'clock In the morning. The first days
conflict had driven the enemy back to
the main fortitications at the village of
Recreo where for three weeks they had
been stringing wires and digging trenches.
The country in that vicinity had been
partially cleared of underbrush, but it
remains more like a jungle than other
wise. The position of the government
troops behind their embankments and
barbed wire proved Unexpectedly strong.
However, the PROFESSIONALS, who believed
they faced the oppressive rule Of Madriz,
or, as the only alternative in the event of
defeat, the humiliation of intervention by
the United States, bore themselves with
8 show of val,r that should ever relieve
them from the charge of being comic
opera soldiers. The hundred dead and the