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Show WOMAN FOUND A1NGTHE SLi MODERN MOLLY PITCHER MEETS DEATH FIGHTING AMERICAN MARINES IN NICARAGUA. Was Trying to Load One-Pound Shell Into Rebel Field Piece When Bullet Bul-let Fired by American Struck Her Down. New York. When American marines, ma-rines, on October" 4, charged up and captured Coyatepe hill, near Masaya, Nicaragua, after having raked the insurgent in-surgent position with their batteries of rapid-fire guns, they found among the dead rebels' a Nicaraguan woman a modern Mollie Pitcher. Clutched tightly tight-ly in her hands was a one-pounder shell which she was trying to load into a rebel field piece when a bullet from the American force struck her. This story and other details of the battle were related Monday by Lieutenant Lieu-tenant George W. Martin of the first provisional regiment, United States marine corps, who came from Colon . on the steamer Cristobal to have wounds he received in the battle treated at the navy yard hospital. The rebel losses in the fight, Lieutenant Martin said, were more than 200. |