Word: logtown
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...Puerto Cabezas ?spied the attacking force coming out of the steamy jungle. He jerked off the telephone receiver, screamed "Help! Help!" to the operator at Wawa Junction on the narrow gauge railroad that runs to the coast. Then he fled. Yelling "Viva Sandino," the bandits fell savagely upon Logtown. Under a breadfruit tree they killed John Phelps, timber inspector for Standard Fruit's logging interests. They cut his body to bits. They threw Joseph Luther Pennington, another Standard Fruit Lumberman, into a river, peppered him to death with shots. Back in the logging camp they woke up Ripley Davis...
...Wawa Junction telephone operator who had heard over the wire the mortal outcries at Logtown, called Puerto Cabezas for help. Out along the narrow-gauge sped U. S. Marine Captain Harlen Pefley, William Sesler, an inspector for the Standard Co. and a handful of Nicaraguan National Guardsmen. Near Logtown they were ambushed, Capt. Pefley was shot dead, Sesler mortally wounded...
...bandit alarm spread through the Standard Company's fruit plantations about Logtown. At Moss Farm, U. S. overseers and their assistants gathered to catch a company train down the narrow-gauge to safety. Before they knew it, the marauders were upon them. Overseers John Humphreys Bryan, Percy Davis. Hubert Ogelvie Wilson and William Bond Jr., all Standard employes, were butchered, their heads hacked off. Wounded. James Lloyd dived into a ditch, feigned dead until the bandits left. Cathey Wilson escaped by jumping into the Wawa River, hiding two days in the jungle...
...April 13), sprang again last week. Possibly the No. 1 bandit, General Augusto Sandino, who had voluntarily announced suspension of hostilities, was not to blame. But on Nicaragua's east coast bandits of some sort killed U. S. Marine Captain Harlem Pefley, Lieut. Darrah and Sergeant Taylor at Logtown, surrounded another Marine detachment from the U. S. cruiser Asheville (rumor said 25 Marines were killed), caused the U. S. cruiser Memphis to dash over from Guantanamo Bay with a rescue force...