Word: cefalu
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With horror in their eyes 30 U. S. refugees from Puerto Cabezas on the east coast of Nicaragua arrived at New Orleans last week aboard the Standard Fruit & Steamship Co.'s S. S. Cefalu. They brought with them the bodies of two of nine U. S. citizens killed by bandit fol- lowers of Rebel Augusto Sandino. The composite story they told of last fortnight's slaughter was as follows...
...Cabezas, with its 300 U. S. residents, was panic-stricken at the news of the Logtown raid. Next came news that Sandino's bandits had fired Gracias a Dios, 60 mi. north along the Mosquito Coast. Puerto Cabezas knew it would be next. Women and children crowded aboard the Cefalu. In the harbor civilians armed themselves for the town's defense. The night was wild with rumor. Welcome indeed were the lights of the U. S. gunboat Asheville steaming in with a detachment of Marines. These were gingerly put ashore, thereby relieving a slim force of native Guardsmen who went...
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