The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1912-03-25
FROM
ROY OENN|NG
ARDMoRE BOY WRITES OF EcUA-
DOR REVOLUTION. READS LIKE
A NOVEL.

We reproduce herewith letter re-
ceiyed by Mrs. Matte Denning, who
lives on c street, \. ~, this city,
from her son Roy, who is serving in
the L. S. navy upon the L. S. S. YORK
town as captains clerk The letter IS
very inted sting reading graphically
describing the situation as it existed
in Ecuador at the time it was writ1 II.
The Young man writing this letter is
well and favorably known to the peo-
PIE Of Ardmore. The letter follows:
, L. 5. 5. Yorktown, Guayaquil, Ecua-
dor, January "a, 1912.
My Darling Mamma:
Since writing you last, dear, things
have reacl( d an awful stage. We
have certainly been through with
about the hardest, most dangerous
trial of our lives.
We have seen fighting, both on
shore and with ships guns, as there
are two Ecuadoran gunboats in the
harbor. WI have seen men unmer-
citully shot down and murdered in the
streets and time and again have
heard the bullets whistle while ! was
ashore on duty. One whole night
when the fighting was the thiclleSt,
was ashore with two officers to pro-
, tect the American consulate and OBJ
serve conditions. And all this time
the yellow fever was raging and We
did not know what moment we would
get II.
! You see, on account of the position
! hold being the captains clerk. am
ashore more than anyone else on the
ship, for have all tn cables to look
after, captains visits to arrange, etc,
and in Guayaquil, have had to he
careful every minute, not only looking
ont for stray shot, but also to see
that a mosquito did not bite me until
I am nervous wreck and physically
worn out.
On the night of the 18th the cap
tain and | were sitting at the table
working. 1t was about II o'clock. All
at once the captain began to squlrm
and groan. I sent for tha doctor, but
he could do nothing. We put him TO
bed and the next morning he sent for
me and said: 'Denning, be sure and
get ont all the nports, and be sure
and report all that happens on the
24th.' told him it was only the 10th,
but he kept insisting that | should
report what happened on the oath.
Well, mamma, this is thDi oath, and
the captain died at 2:14 a. m. this
morning Now isn't that strange?
have cabled his wife in San Francis.
co. She gave birth to child about
two months ago. and the captain was
so anxious to get home to see it, His
body is being embamed and we will
take it home with us. We are receiv.
ing cables of announcement from all
over the United Sta-"s and Central
America.
J Later-'Well, mamma, two of our
men are dead and six more with vel,
low fever. The entire crew is in a
panic,
Guayaquil surrendered and the war
is over. Last night they mobl,d the
revolutionary general and when
went ashore this morning, | saw
where they had buried his body in the
Cathedral Plaza. I also saw wl re
the captured him at the cover ment
building. Part of his brains were still
laying on the floor. They beat him to
death with legs of tabl thev had
broken in the building. They cut his
heart out and his head off. and his
fingers and legs. and marched around
the town with different parts of his
body and then burned it in tn Plaza
We are going to leave IN an hour
for the open sea, and anchor out there
and wait until the MARYLAND" and