Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-10-05
Six Also Wounded When Amer
ican Force Takes Coyotepe
From the Rebels.
GEN, ZELEDON ROUTED
IN 37-MINUTE FIGHT
Insurgent Leader, Wounded and
Captured, Dies Later.
DETAILS NOT ALL RECEIVED
Time Limit of the Ultimatum Deliv-
cred by Admiral Switzerland Ex-
pired at Eight O'Clock Yes
terday Morning.


terday Morning.
Four American marines were
killed and six were wounded yes
terday when the American forces
took the town Of Coyotepe from
the Nicaraguan rebels, according
to cablegram received early to-
day by Minister Castrillo from
Chamorro, minister of foreign af-
fairs of Nicaragua.
Text of Cablegram.
The cablegram to Minister Castrillo,
dated Managua. October 4, was as fol-
lows:
Masaya taken today by assault We
had 100 dead and 200 wounded. Ameri-
cans early took CoyOtepe, with four
dead and six wounded. Correa stimuli
taneously took Barranca. Zeledon fed
with followers and was captured eight
leagues from Masaya wounded and died
later. Today I visited the American
for marines death. Granada munich
pality requested marines bodies for
burial at that city. I beg you express
Department of State my deep sympathy.
Minister of Affairs Chamorro"
Zeledon. spoken of in the cablegram
is rebel general. Honduran. in the
employ of Mena. the fallen dictator, re-
Gently captured and taken to Panama
for exile.
Fight Was Brief.
This governments first advices Of the
fight came today from American Minis
ter Weitzel at Managua in a dispatch
which said the American forces had
driven Zeledon and his rebels from the
Barranca hills in thirty seven minutes,
but said nothing OF Correa's participa-
tion in the battle, mentioned in Cha
morros cablegram to Minister Castrillo.
Mr.. Weitzefs dispatch said 1t was
marines had been killed and wounded,
but gave nothing definite.
Yesterdays dispatches told of an i'm
pending battle at Jinotepe. The Nicara--
guam minister's dispatch today said the
marines were killed and wounded at
CoyOtepe, and 1t was first thought they
were the same place.
Minister Castrillo. however. says Coyo-
tepe is the name of one of the Barranca
hills, some distance from Jinotepe. Both
are Indian names.
From the wording of Minister Weitzers
dispatch. officials here think that blue
jackets from some of the warships un-
der Rear Admiral Switzerland also
were in the fight.
Probably Gen. Zeledon was not killed
by American marines, though from the
few details added to the account of his
death by Minister Weitzel later In the
day 1T would appear that some doubt
may always surround that question.
Try to Get to Costa Rica.
After the rebels were driven out of the
rife pits and stockades which they had
erected on the Coyotepe hill by the Amer
lean naval force yesterday forenoon, they
fed in southeasterly direction for the
purpose OF escaping into the neighboring
republic of Costa Rica, a distance of
about thirty miles.
[eledon was accompanied by his per-
sonal staff and few rebel officers, the
TO their fate by these mounted men.
When within five miles of safety the lit
tie band of fugitives was overtaken by a
scouting party Of federal cavalry, which
Immediately engaged them and in short
time either killed or captured all the
rebel force.
Gen. Zeledon was found to be des-
perately wounded, though whether he
attack on Coyotepe hill or while re-
sisting the federal cavalry does not
appear. At any rate he died soon after
his capture.
The only disturbing factor in the Mica
raguan revolution yet remaining is the
revolutionary force under Gen. Irias
Nothing has been heard of its where
about for several days, and it is hoped it
was finally dispersed after the crushing
defeat it received at the hands of the gov
ernment forces under Gen. Vercaez.
Status of the Case.
Though the lives of American marines
have been lost and others have been
wounded in what appears to have been
one OF the most sansuinary battles fought
in Central America in many years yet
technically the United States is not en-
gagged in war. AS defined by the State
Department. the status OF the relations
is one of friendship.
What Rear Admiral Switzerland has
done in attacking the Nicaraguan rebels
is declared to have been purely in pur-
suance of a duty imposed upon the
navy many times in the stormy history
of Central America-that of forcibly
protecting American lives and property,
as well as the citizens of European
nations.
The admiral has strictly refrained
from intervening in any way between
the warning factions in Nicaragua and
has confined himself entirely to OPEN
ing up railway communication and MAIN
tanning il free from interruption, that
the large foreign element scattered
through the Nicaraguan towns might be
able to receive food.
For nearly a week after the American
naval forces managed to open the way
from Managua to Granada, where the
condition of foreigners was pitiful, Gen.
Zeledon,s rebel forces. intrenched on
two hills at Barranca, actually COM
manded the line Of communication by
rail and interfered with the free noye-
toa he
fortunate sufferers of famine from max
ing their escape to places Of safety
zeledon Refused to Yield.
Admiral Switzerland had several inter-
views with the rebel chieftain after the
surrender and deportation OF Gen. Mena.
the principal figure in the revolution, but
he found that Zeledon was not only de-
termined to refuse any offer Of amnesty
held out by President Diaz, but was de-
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