Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-04-24
PORT IN NICARAGUA
REPORTED TAKEN
BY SAND|VO'S MEN
UnConfirmed Radio Message
Tells of Cabo GraciaS
a DioS' Fall.
U. S. WEATHER STATION
DECLARED DESTROYED
Outlaws Believed to Be in Neigh
borhood Since Attack West
of Puerto Cabezas.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
NEW ORLEANS, La, April pam
unconf1rmed radio report was received
here today that the SANDING bandits
had taken the town of Cabo Gracias
. Dios, Nicaragua, and had destroyed
the United States Weather Observatory
there.
Official confirmation of the report was
lacking because the Tropical Radio has
not been in direct touch with Cabo Ora
cias Dios since the bandits, on pre-
vious raid, dismantled the radio station
there.
Outlaws have been reported in the
neighborhcod of the town since their
first attack west of Puerto CabeZas,
some go miles south Of the cape.
Great Excitement in Ports.
Ten refugees from Nicaragua and
i've from Honduras reached New Or
leans today aboard the steamship Con-
teSsa with accounts Of great excitement
prevailing in ports of their embark
ment because of banditry and revolu-
tionary outbreaks.
w. q. Kost, business man Of New
Orleans, said the populace at Tela and
Laceiba, Honduras, had been apprehen-
sive for three weeks before the revolu-
ton started on the Northern Coast,
and when first reports Of fighting were
heard they removed their valuables and
ned to safety.
During Saturday and Sunday, which
brought reports the revolutionistS were
coming toward the neutral zone, prop
erty Of the Standard Fruit Steam
ship Co. at Laceiba, was overrun with
families and household effects. he said.
The reyolutionists failed to appear. and
when the boat left Laceiba Tuesday
night the inhabitants were beginning
to get over their fright
Mrs. Margaret Jones of Fayetteville,
Tenn, said she was forced to leave by
her son, who feared for her safety in
the revolutionary zone. Many other
women and children also left Laceiba.
she said, although no fighting had &C.
CURED there before she quit.
Others aboard from Laceiba were
Mrs. A. Newell and her baby Of New
Orleans, Mrs. NJ Yescas de Tribe OF
Honduras and Mrs. Marion Mouton and
baby Of New Orleans.
Bodies Found by Searehers.
The Nicaraguan refugee lists included
the last three American women left in
Puerto Cabezas and Mrs. Francisco
Bedner of Panama, the nurse who cared
for the wounded after the Logtown
battle.
They said searching parties had
found the bodies CT the Americans slain
in the Logtown massacre by Sandino's
bandits and they were buried on the
spot, as required by Nicaraguan law.
They said all of the bodies had been
hacked by machettes except two and
they were decapitated. They brought
further details Of the Staying OF PEDRO
Blandon, leader of the Logtown bandits,
and quoted A. Murphy, an 1rSnman
who went into the bandit territory, as
saying ne and Pedro Perrone. success
sor to Blandon, had found Blanoons
body and burned it.
A. r. Beardsley, a Canadian who
killed Blandon, was said TO have been
warned by the bandits that they would
get" him. but he remained IN Puerto
Cabezas as wharf superintendent. AS
the ship left. the refugees said, reports
were received at the port that 200 ban
dts were at Sachlin and another band
Of ~ close by.
Washington Woman Aboard.
Some of the women aboard the Con-
tessa contended they were forced by
their husbands and employers TO leave
the troubled areas against their own
wills. Mrs Edna Benson of Washing
ton, D. c., wife Of a Marine, said she
dared anybody" to refer TO her as a
refugee" She said she was not afraid
of ANY bandits" Others on the ship
from Puerto Cabezas were: Mrs. Mabel
NJ Taylor of Omaha, Nebr.; Mrs. Mar
tina Baxter and three children of Bax-
teryille, Miss; Mrs. Imogene L. Hurl-
Ston and baby of Jamaica and BlaiSe
A. Bomboce of New Orleans.
The ship brought definite news Of
the safety of Charles w. Phelps of Fort
Worth. Tex, who had been reported
wounded by bandits.
Mrs. Taylor said he had been kicked
by a mule, but was well enough to be
at the wharf to see the boat leave.
FEW AMERICANS AT PORT.