The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-03-01
SANDING BAND
TRAPS PATROL,
FOILS PURSUIT
Rebel General Makes His
Escape Into Wilderness
After Ambush.
FIVE AMERICANS SLAIN
Eight Wounded in Surprise
Attack; Machine Guns
Rake MarCherS.

BIZ United Press
MANAGUA, Nicaragua, March l.
The densely wooded regions of the
Nueva Segova country today pro-
tected General Augustine SANDING,
rebel leader, whose most recent am
bushing attack resulted in the
deaths of five United States marines
and injury to eight others.
The marine casualties occurred
Monday, when a patrol, under com
mand of Lieut.. Edward F. O'Day,
marched into rebel machine gun
nest.
This brought the total of marine
deaths, since United States occupa-
ton started, to twenty-one.
The Dead
The death list, announced today,
included:
PRIVATE JOHN C. PUMP, Coun-
Gil Bluffs, Ia.
PRIVATE ALBERT SCHLAUCH,
Jamestown, N. D.
PRIVATE GEORGE E. ROBBINS.
San Antonio, Tex.
CORPORAL CICERO D. AUSTIN,
Crockett, Tex.
PRIVATE CURTIS j. MOTT,
Trenton, Wash.
The Wounded
PRIVATE LEM c. DAVIS, shot in
the shoulder. Condition said to be
serious.
SERGEANT WILBOURN o.
CHRISTIAN, Northport, Ala.
SERGEANT CHARLES HISH-
MAN. Longmire. Wash.
PRIVATE LEWIS E. BALLARD,
Troy, N. j.
RIVATE RAYMOND B.
CARTER, Pason, Utah.
PRIVATE PETER G. CRUM,
Omaha, Neb.
PRIVATE LINTON C. MAY
NARD, Ranger, Tex.
PRIVATE CLARENCE E.
PHELPS, Portland, Colo.
Pump, Schlauch and Robbins were
killed instantly. The other two men
died Tuesday of wounds.
The spot selected for the ambush
ing attack was ideal for the SANDING
strategy 1t was near a rancho,
known as Daaili, midway between
Ocotal and Jinoterga. Dense bush
surrounded the location.
Raked With Machine Guns
Lieutenant ODay's column. in
Guiding thirty-six men and eighty
five animals, just had completed &C
companying d pack train to Con-
dega. They were without the heavy
pack load on the return journey.
Near the rancho the surprise at
tack started. Resorting to their
favorite strategy, Sandino's men di-
rected deadly fire of machine guns
which had been set in ambush. The
fire raked the ranks of the marines
and momentarlly threw them off
guard.
So sudden was Sandino's attack, it
was reported here, that wonder was
expressed that the casualties were
not greater.
Before the marines could recover
from the surprise of the attack, the
SANDING forces had dismounted their
guns and had retreated back into
the heavily wooded country. Besides
the marines killed and wounded.
several pack animals we're killed.
Heaviest Loss Since Dec. 30
1t was the greatest loss received
by the marine forces since Dec. so,
when five marines we're KILLED and
more than twenty we're wounded at
Quilali This force was killed when
the SANDING soldiers staged a sur
prise attack. At that time the San
dino raiders were repulsed with
heavy casualties.
Information here was uncertain
whether any SandinistaS were killed
in the Monday attack.
For weeks the marine patrols have
been accompanying pack trains into
the Nuevo Segova district to lay in
supplies to tide over the rainy pc
Rod, when many of the roads
through the region are inaccessible
Ammunition Is Low
Native sources today reported
that General SANDING was running
low on ammunition and that he
would not engage in any open war
fare with the Marines, preferring
to use his remaining ammunition in
brief surprise attacks.
The ambushing attack Monday set
at rest reports that General SANDING
was abandoning the Nueva Segova
district. Two rebels we're captured
recently and said that SANDING had
planned to abandon his frontier
Their statements were discounted,
in the belief that they had been
placed for capture, to give mis-
leading statements to Marine
officers.