Show AM U AS N ESCAPE SCAP I NEW NE ORLEANS Sept 17 liH H 0 Downing an American railroad engi engineer neer acer who left Honduras about three thres weeks ago before the last reported Insurrection I has arrived here bele after a series of thrilling experiences Downing says sa s he and another r Amer American ican captain F P E Miller lilIer were living lining near the thc government barracks at I Laguna The night that General Mar MarIn In started his end of or the tile recent rc sue DonIla lion ila resolution premature lv IY they wore charged by government goer ment troops and fired upon They The Tho succeeded in entering the house of a Mr r Van Blarcum They Were erf kept prisoners for or sixteen days das and the house surrounded by h troops A before the tile American A vice Ice consul pro procured procured cured bond for them At length In tIfer absence they thc were sere w re convicted by II a 3 court of 0 being revolutionists and but for the firm firmness firmness ness hess of Mr r Van Blarcum in refusing to 10 give them up p would probably have hae been executed Finally Final ascertaining a the sailing time of the steamer Hi Ili Hiram HIram ram rum and having secured passage they I atole toc an engine and rode to the port to the end elli of the town own where they got gol go aboard Miller going to British Honduras while Downing came camo to New Orleans on route to his Ills homo home at Salem Ore Mr r Downing saS safI In author authority authorIty ity It at a Puerto Cortor are all anti American and the house of Miller on which the tho American nag flag was wag raised I was looted by b the soldiers and the flag cut to shreds |