Coulee City dispatch
https://www.loc.gov/resource/sn89079026/1938-12-22/ed-1/?sp=2
In contextEn contexto
Rafael Trujillo ruled for 31 years. US papers reported the 1930 hurricane that leveled Ciudad Trujillo, the 1937 Haitian massacre, sugar commerce, WWII U-boat sinkings, Tito Mella's Compañía Naviera Dominicana shipping fleet, and Trujillo's Washington lobbying.Rafael Trujillo gobernó durante 31 años. La prensa informó sobre el huracán de 1930, la masacre de 1937, el azúcar, hundimientos de submarinos en la Segunda Guerra Mundial y la flota de la Compañía Naviera Dominicana de Tito Mella.
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SummaryResumen
This Adventurers' Club story tells of Charley, who had worked six months for a sugar concern in La Romana and, while on vacation in Santo Domingo City, was ordered transferred to Barahona, where a new project was being started. With a steamship strike tying up all the boats and no railroad or motor road going his way, he booked passage on a sailing vessel for what was supposed to be an overnight trip with forty Haitian passengers, but a storm blew the craft off course, disabled its steering gear and left it becalmed without food; on the second night he woke to find two men creeping toward him with machetes in their mouths and fired twice, killing both.
Esta historia del Adventurers' Club cuenta de Charley, que había trabajado seis meses para una empresa azucarera en La Romana y, estando de vacaciones en la ciudad de Santo Domingo, recibió la orden de trasladarse a Barahona, donde se estaba iniciando un nuevo proyecto. Con una huelga naviera que tenía inmovilizados todos los barcos y sin ningún ferrocarril ni carretera que fuera en su dirección, reservó pasaje en un velero para lo que debía ser un viaje de una noche con cuarenta pasajeros haitianos, pero una tormenta desvió la embarcación de su rumbo, inutilizó su timón y la dejó encalmada y sin comida; en la segunda noche se despertó y encontró a dos hombres arrastrándose hacia él con machetes en la boca y disparó dos veces, matando a ambos.
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was hot and humid. Hunger gnawed at his innards, but he had
to make the best of it. The natives were getting more and more
restless. They eyed Charley’s clothes with covetous looks that be
came more and more insolent and apparent. And still there was
no sign of the wind that: would blow them into Barahona.
That night, worn out by two days and nights of wakefulness, Charley
fell asleep. Sometime in the dark hours he woke up suddenly, by sheer
instinct. In the dim light of :a tropic moon he saw two dark figures
creeping along the deck toward him—two natives—great, husky blacks
with machetes in their mouths!
“They didn’t know my eyes were open,”’ he says, ‘‘if they
had known it I wouldn’t be alive today. But their ignorance
gave me an opportunity to draw my guns.”
LCharley got those guns out just as the natives were taking their
machetes from their mouths. He whipped up one gun and fired twice.
In an instant, two men were dead on the deck and the whole ship was
in an uproar. Dark figures came swarming toward him. The captain
was a big, powerful fellow. Charley says he was built on the style of
Harry Wills in his prime. He picked Charley up with one hand, threw
him into his cabin head first, and then, with the aid of a revolver and
his powerful physique, held that furious mob at bay.
Captain Threatens to Sink the Ship.
The next morning the captain held an inquiry, announced that
Charley had shot in self-defense, and threatened to sink the ship
if any more attempts were made on his life. ‘‘Calm was restored
How to cite this articleCómo citar este artículo
Coulee City dispatch. (1938). Coulee City, Wash., 1938-12-22. US/DR Newspaper Timeline. Library of Congress, Chronicling America: https://www.loc.gov/resource/sn89079026/1938-12-22/ed-1/?sp=2
ReferencesReferencias
Library of Congress, Chronicling America: Coulee City dispatch, 1938-12-22.
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