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Show INSURGENTS REPORTED TO HAVE LOST HUNDRED MANAGUA. Feb. !- Details received tonight of a fight at Santo Tomaso show that the Insurgents lost 100 killed in the tlgHtlng thnt continued until dark. Santo Tomaso is fifteen miles north of Acoyapa and ten miles southeast of La Llbertad. Thero was an artillery duel from tho heights, in which one Maxim gun of tho revolutionists was disabled and much of their equipment and many of their boats of convoy were captured. The Insurgents hnd COO men in tho battle, bat-tle, nnd the government 1100. Minister General Raca tonight gave out a dispatch which ho had received from Gen. Vasqucz, announcing the defeat de-feat of tho insurgents at Santo Tomnso. The revolutionists were under tho command com-mand of Col. Biandon. The battle began at daylight on Thursday Thurs-day and lasted Jive hours, when the Insurgents In-surgents rotlrcd in disorder, abandoning their arms, ammunition nnd wounded. Col. Biandon was killed and tho Insurgents Insur-gents otherwise sustained heavy losses-The losses-The government troops took" many prls- 01Gen. Vnsqucz personally commanded his forces. This ovldently was a continuation of tho Las Gnrltas engagement, though the dates conflict. The two places are only three miles apart. On receipt of the news tonight, tho population of Managua celebrated tho victory by firing cannon and burning fireworks, |