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Show ftHEEbGAHS A1D IHSUKGEfJTS Perform Brave Deeds and Are of Ma terlal Assistance In Defeating NIc-araguan NIc-araguan Government Troops. Bluoflolds. Americans took an active ac-tive part in tho battle between tho insurgents in-surgents nnd the Mudriz forces nt St. Vlncento nnd nt least one wns badly aurt. They were under Captain Victor Vic-tor Gordon, with General Menn, tho :ontingcnt being known as tho 'American scouts." Tho wounded man Is William Wllk-ins, Wllk-ins, who joined tho provisionals from Ponnma. A steel bullet struck tho :artr!dgo slip swung across his bIiouI-Jcr, bIiouI-Jcr, near the heart, and deflected, penetrating the arm and leg. Another scout, G. T. llushby, wns bruised when a stono from behind which ho wns firing was shattered by i cannon ball. Bushby wnB thrown twenty feet, but ho wont back to tho tight In n dispatch that ho has sent hither, Captain Gordon says that tho battle began on tho 15th. Tho insurgents insur-gents reached Chinao on tho 18th, when, after ten hours of desperate attacks at-tacks nnd counter-attacks, tho enemy, under Genpral Vasqucz, retired to a secondary position, from where, next morning, they opened a desultory artillery ar-tillery fire thnt ceased at 10 o'clock. General Mcna is loud In his pralso of the bravery of tho Americans. |