The only fatality was a Chinaman killed in the City of Panama by a shell from the Colombian gunboat Bogota.

Its commander was warned not to fire again.

On the 6th of November, Secretary Hay instructed our consul to recognize the new republic, and on the 13th of November, President Roosevelt received Bunau-Varilla as its representative at Washington.
This prompt recognition of a new state, without waiting to allow the parent Government time to assert itself, was contrary to American practice.

The United States had regarded as a most unfriendly act Great Britain's mere recognition of the belligerency of the Southern Confederacy.

The right of the United States to preserve the neutrality of the isthmus, as provided by the Treaty of 1846, certainly did not involve the right to intervene between the Government and revolutionists.