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Early one morning a clerk in the commissary at Logtown?tiny lumber settle-ment 70 miles inland from Puerto Cabezas ?spied the attacking force coming out of the steamy jungle. He jerked off the telephone receiver, screamed "Help! Help!" to the operator at Wawa Junction on the narrow gauge railroad that runs to the coast. Then he fled. Yelling "Viva Sandino," the bandits fell savagely upon Logtown. Under a breadfruit tree they killed John Phelps, timber inspector for Standard Fruit's logging interests. They cut his body to bits. They threw Joseph Luther Pennington, another Standard Fruit Lumberman, into...
...Wawa Junction telephone operator who had heard over the wire the mortal outcries at Logtown, called Puerto Cabezas for help. Out along the narrow-gauge sped U. S. Marine Captain Harlen Pefley, William Sesler, an inspector for the Standard Co. and a handful of Nicaraguan National Guardsmen. Near Logtown they were ambushed, Capt. Pefley was shot dead, Sesler mortally wounded...
...knew it, the marauders were upon them. Overseers John Humphreys Bryan, Percy Davis. Hubert Ogelvie Wilson and William Bond Jr., all Standard employes, were butchered, their heads hacked off. Wounded. James Lloyd dived into a ditch, feigned dead until the bandits left. Cathey Wilson escaped by jumping into the Wawa River, hiding two days in the jungle...
Died. Mrs. Emily A. McNally, 67, wife of James McNally, Vice President of Rand, McNally and Co., map publishers, at Lake of Bays, Ont., Canada. She had locked her door after taking a sleeping powder and could not be wakened when the Wawa Hotel, where she was staying, caught fire...