The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-03-04
ESTRADA ARMY
CRUSHED TO EARTH
Revolutionary Movement in Nic-
aragua Virtually Ended in
Overwhelming Defeat.
NOTHING REMAINS SAVE
HOPE OF INTERVENTION
General Estrada May Proclaim
New Republic and Appeal TO
United States.

2 BLUEFIELDS, Nicaragua March g.
General Estrada, head OF the provincial
government and leader of the insurgents
declared today that he intends TO with
draw his forces into the bush and op-
pose the advance of Madriz 10 the bitter
end. But il is necessary 10 read be-
tween the lines of this statement.
The provisional government wishes 20
force American intervention If possible.
because II cannot consistently ask for
II ~ the face of its many refusals to
consider the peace proposals made by
Madriz at the time when it seemed that
victory TO the PROFESSIONALS was almost
assured. General Estrada did not even
answer the proposal advanced hy the
consular body al Managua. believing
that 1t merely indicated that Madriz was
on his last legs
Ut is pointed out that an appeal from
General Estrada TO tho United States
government now would defeat It's own
end, as that government, having held
aloof in the more prosperous times Of
the PROFESSIONALS hardly could be ex-
pected TO Jump into the breach to save
cause already all but lost.
BLUEF1ELDS. Nicaragua. March ?.
The lnsurrectionarv movement head
ed by General Estrada against the Me.
araguan government has been practi.
eally crushed The insurgeDt campaign
IN inc west has petered out and nothing
is left TO the PROFESSIONALS but 10 re-
sort TO guerrilla warfare. encouraged bv
The desperate hope that the United
states may vet intervene in wish to
put an eud TO the disturbed situation
III the republic
For the first time today the CORE
spondenis and the moro prominent per
sonages. of this city we're told the true
situation, which. however. had been sus-
pSected for week. The public gen9r.
ally is still In the dark and pinning 1ts
faith to the false reports circulated OF
llnsurgent success. These reports have
been gwen currency rot ouly in this
CITY, but have been sent broadcast.
with the deliberate purpose of infu-
enclog opinion In the United States
aud elsewhere.
1T is now admitted shat General Cha.
ioorro' campaign was Il failure He
had hoped that tho interior would wei.
come aud reinforce the insurueut arms.
ms was possible up to the time Pres
ldent Lel3ya resigned. His resignation
ma the election Of President NIadriz
appears 10 have satisfied the people Of
The anterior and the west generally.
May Appeal to Uncle Sam
There is still talk of a now republic
comprising the eastern half of Nicara
qua. General Estrada NAV proclaim
such republic and appeal to the
United States to protect it from inva-
SION by the Madriz government. Addi
uonal supplies of ammunition are ex-
pccied here and these will be used TO
further guerrilla warfare The de-
Structive blow fell at Tisma on Feb
rusry %, when General Cbamorro was
defeated. IN killed. wounded and cap
tr"d the insurgcnt general lost 500
men.
hamorro himself barely escaped and
with 100 or 200 men 1cd to San Vim.
cente, where General Mena was in.
trencbed
Godfrey Fowler, the American who
was in charge of the insurgent artillery
under Chamorro, was wounded in the
log and left at 4 plantation near Tisma.
General Chamerro is said to have
reached San Vicente Sunday and TO
have wired his report yesterday. He
estimates the enemy loss at 1000 men
and explains his defeat by the exhaus.
ton of his cartridge supply.
Situation Revealed.
Dis1uietinC rumors had been in circu-
la,ion here for a week, but not until to-
day, when General Estrada let the higher
ofncial Is OF The provisional government
into The secret WAS the sttua tlon known
When this dIspatch was written onIy, the
more prominent people Of Blue6elds were
in possession of the facts but il rnay he
assumed that the population generally
WIN receive the news without demonstra-
In Official circles there was for a tIne
profound gloom. but later in the day tho
officials appeared 10 no recovering their
With the remnant OF Chamorro's force
there are now at San Vicente 800 pro-
Visional soldiers. Recruits at Panama
started for the front today and an eff
fort ls 10 he made 10 get 500 recruits
from the Nicaracuaus Of the city Tho
present indications are for style OF
bush warfare, presumably with the idea
n compelling the United States to Inter
The sentiment In favor of intervention
las heen growing since Mepa's defeat at
santa Clara nearly n month ago, Infor-
no ton as to Genera EstraGs's willing
oess 10 allow the United States 10 step
n and supervise the elections was con-
eyed 20 the state department some tine
'go but elected no expression from Pres
dent Tart or Secretary Knox.
Anxious for Peace
BMehclds VIII now extend open arms tn
almost any proposition leading to the
ton OF hostiliicS,
The experience OF the last two months
,as demonstrated that tho revolutionary
entiiucui in The interior did not survive
he retirement of Zelaya from the presi-
oucy. and General Chamorro, who began
ne m1rCl on Ndn1gHh. luH taplt8i
oUrd himself In tho cncmY's country and
lmost alone. lie found IT necessary 10
dopt a policy of guerrilla warfare and by
-reat activity i'm cutting telegraph wires
nd making night marches he Succeeded
II dcceiNiug tho government md the
ountIy generally as 10 his vhercob bouts.
Following these plans. Chamorro was
eportcd simultaneously at Managua. az
;ocao. at Comiapa and At other places.
There is reason to believe that the re-
orts of tho capture OF Granada and OF
, l,1k
.aro nron,ulratcd by President Madriz
,r the sole purpose of drawing Chamor-
0 into that vicinity
Chnmorro's defeat leaves only GencrAI
Tnna's comparatively small force inter
osed between the enemys army Of loco
nd the cast coast.