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Show f G1MANS SHELL f OUT WARSHIPS BOMBARD VENE2UEL. AN FORT AND TOWN OF SAN CARLOS. Natives Are Helpless, Twenty-five Fishermen Having Been Slain, Even Children Not Escaping. A dispatch from Maracalbo says tho bombardment of Fort Sau Carlos by tho German cruisers Vlneta, Panther nnd Falko wns continued Wednesday afternoon until C o'clock. It was ro. Burned Tnursday morning at daybreak. Tno first shoirn woro hurled at tho fort at 4 o'cIock at long rnngo. At 0 o'clock tho Panther, being of light draft, closod in and again hecamo actlvoly engaged. Tho fort replied. At 8 o'clock tho engagement was proceeding fiercely. fierce-ly. Although tho damngo Inflicted upon tho fort by tho sustained flro of tho Gorman crulsors Is very great, It Is not all that could bo expocieu from a con. tlnued flro from modern high-powor guns. Tho vlllago of San Carlos suffered suf-fered greatly. Tho nlm of tho Gorman gunners appears to havo boon lnaccur. ato, for moro than GO por cent of tnolr sheila oxplodod In tho vlllago boforo reaching tho fort, Somo of tho artillery on tho fort has bcon dostroyow by tho Gorman flro, but thoro aro still fivo guns that can bo fired. General Cello is a soldier of re markablo courago and daring. Ho has shown groat bravery, and la in no way intimidated. Ho will not abandon tho fort, but will resist as long as It is possiblo for him to" do so. Ho swears that on January 17th, tho occasion of tho first bombardment, tho Panthor fired upon ..lm first, without reason, and without provocation. A fishormnn from tho vlllago of San Carlos has arrived hero lu n canoo. with his family. Two of this man'n chlldron wcro killed by sheila from tho Gorman cruisers, ho reports that moro than twcnty-flvo Indian fishermen fisher-men havo bcon killed or wounded at San Carlos. Th5 fishermen there aro helpless. |