Show I fe M m M CAPTAIN APT AIN kES IfS RALLYING MEN fN TO BATTLE HAnn AGUA Nicaragua May 2 29 9 CaptaIn Robert S St S. S t U. U S. S M M. C. C of ot Prescott Prescott Prescot raU n ng his mess men agaInst t S1 rebels Is described In tI a N at marine lie he I f details ot of the fight ht Lai Flor ne fear r the CUa Gua river f marine patrol was at atS aton at- at J S J on f May y 13 and 14 r was Wounded Bounded 1 in l such a manner as t to R D almost impossible i n n. Williamson o of WaS killed Instantly by re re Captain Hunter seized ste epson machine gun un from th the l Bt B 7 dead corpor Corporal l and va was wasI St I pom pon the rebels with it when t knocked down by a secondS second S 1611 Pierced pierce i his chest Hi ISis fn dS were a command to his t GO 30 BACK SACK d t go back Go Co ahead tt i mention is made in the 1 t r. r Lieutenant Earl S S. S Piper te ou ouis s who was was left in irs comIt com com- 54 It Captain Hunter died TB J eleven en enlisted men In the thet t fl patrol of 0 aris arines on one member of ot the tlc navy navy- hospital corps It Nicaraguan national thit Nen n. n left l fa Mij 9 Ii 0 Jn fter In in- inthe the central Jino- Jino of the Coco river p least z n May 13 the patrol d upon as It penetrated a 5 me it ine The column immedi- immedi 1 S loyed t to td- the right Rebel ke out along the entire he the column and caused ith the pack animals I Ig g animals sh along the narrow trail I wen II jense en e that the patrol could U the he insurgents ts STO TO REAR I the e rebel fire lire died down P Pa do doubled bled to the rear I l the of the und und to the rear of the pa- pa I 1 Piper seeing about pis l attempting to capture mule op the trail ahead ti th a group of men down downto downto to a a. position from which upon the rebels A of Insurgent fire an- an maneuver and brought tH on an n the run to the thet t the column lumn 1 was struck i finest hest hest while moving moin forward forwardS S for Lieutenant men en He gasped one word fell End fell dead into the arms oj in Mate Oliver L L. Miss ung ng ran forward to tb aid pr Dubois of Livonia N N. was w wounded Captain l was was was' struck In the neck I yelled jelled Into the ear of the Iman man Im all right take th the captain Captain Hunter was struck a group of or rebels U 7 fr ld ope opened ed fire from front the thea a 1 dwer quickly silenced by Clay Chiy O o. ParrIsh of Draper few minutes later the reb- reb idrew drew This entire action out fifty minutes and the ere not able to Pursue Tm s because they had to care tile i own wounded |