The notorious bandit and rebel "El Catorce" ("No. 14") attacked with 800 followers, last week, a garrison of 30 federal troops and 20 constabulary, at the seaport of Manzanillo. After 14 hours of siege and sniping, 82 of the followers of "No. 14" had been killed, as well as 29 of the Garrison.
Timely, therefore, was the arrival of Federal war boat Progresso and Brig.-Gen. Heliodoro Charis, who routed the Fourteeners, rescued the besieged.
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