New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-08-15
b0N|LLA'S RISING ENDED
Officers of Honduran Revolt
Fleeing to Guatemala.
REBEL STEAMERS SUNK
British Cruiser Reported as
Playing Important Part IN
Checking Rebellion.
IRy Telegraph TO The Tribune.


Puerto Barrios Guatemala, Aug. ., via
Mobile. Aug. IA. - This mornings train
bound for Guatemala City carried Generals
Manuel Bonilla and Lee Christmas, leaders
in the abortive revolution in Honduras.
eighteen other officers and fffty-one sol
diers, who sought the asylum of the Gaute-
malan government as the nearest friendly
power when they found themselves in i'm
minent danger of capture by the govern
ment troops of Honduras
Bonilla and the remnants of his expedi-
ton landed on the coast near here yester-
day evening. and surrendered to the com
mandante. The remainder of the expedi-
ton has disappeared on such of the vessels
as could be kept afloat, while the supply
of arms and ammunition, it is believed,
has beef sent to Estrada for use in his
revolution in Nicaragua.
The failure is due to the premature up
rising in Puerto CorteZ. which informed
the government of Bonillas plot and en-
abled it to give him such warm recep-
ton on his arrival that the flagship of the
fiotilla, the Emma. the only one of the
vessels with auxiliary power. was hit be-
low the water line, and kept afioat only
b. heroic measures until she was abah-
doned yesterday.
BoniIas expedition was not prepared for
fight when it sailed into the harbor OF
Puerto Cortez, and the attack OF the Ia
tumbla the government gunboat, caught
it by surprise. The expedition retreated IN
az parent good order to Three Corners
near the mouth of the Montague River,
not far from this place, and there Bonita
learned of the British cruiser Scylla being
after him.
In the mean time General Christmas had
been working on the Island of Utilla for q
movement on Ceiba. Bonilla's part of the
fleet was in desperate straits, and, fear
| ing the British cruiser. he sent word to
| Christmas to join him at Three Corners,
| and a council of war was held yesterday
morning on the Emma, participated in by
| twenty generals and colonies, mostly Amer
leans
The almost unanimous result of the
| council of war was to abandon the enter
| prise, which seemed already doomed to
| failure, and to seek an asylum in Guate-
| mala.
| The flagship of the revolutionary fee
| was the American schooner Emma, thirty
| tons. with d gasolene auxiliary engine.
She was purchased at Gulfport. Miss, for
| $4,000 and was manned by the following
l. L
of France but naturalized at Scranton
holding masters license No. 30,131, from
the Mobile district; l.. Mann Elliott
engineer native of Edwards, Miss. hold
engineers license No. 1909 of the Mo
| bile district resident Of Biloxi; Hans
| Olsen and Olaf Hanson, crew, and ole
Oleson, cook, all residing in Gulfport.
The Emma cleared from Gulfport for Be
| IIIlx- two
guns with fifty thousand rounds of ammu
milton, one thousand .43-caibre Remington:
| with twenty-five thousand rounds of ammu
| milton and full supply of provisions.
Among the Americans ia the Bonilla ex
petition was Guy r. Moloney. of No. 3417
| Carondelet street, New Orleans. He was
chief gunner of the expedition. with tht
| rank of colonel and chief of artillery. HI
| served III the Philippines with the Sth Cav
airy and the ed Infantry regulars, ant
also fought in the Boer war. He was re
Rcently in the Estrada campaign in Nicar
| aqua. ---.-
Papers found in the home of Genera
Marin, who was killed in the first out
| break Of the Honduran revolution, a
Puerto CorteZ, disclosed the entire plan o
| the proposed uprising and enabled III
| Daviia government to check it. Alyar
| Quiroga, acting consul general here 70
Honduras, gave out this information 70
| day.
The papers give names of many Others
who were to take part in the revolution
| Places and dates for the uprising are ais
given. The information enabled the gov
ernment to auell the revolt before it go
we'll under Roadway, and prevented Bontll
from getting a hold on the Honduran coast