The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-03-21
The Tenth Cavalry Quickly Subdued
Rioters at Laredo.
SEVERAL MEXICANS DEAD
LEARNED REGULARS WERE
THERE FOR BUSINESS.
Mexican Residents Resisted the
Health Officers In Their Efforts to
Remove Smallpox Patients-Ef-
fective Touchdown Arguments
From the Butt Ends Of Carbines.

Laredo, Tex, March 2O.-The crisis in
the disturbance here over the carrying
out Of the state health officers regula-
tons in suppressing the smallpox cpl
demic seems to be passed. When the
work Of removing the patients was re-
sumed this morning the scenes of yes
terday were repeated, and Captain
Rogers of the state rangers and four
assistants attempted to disDerse the
crowd, but were fired upon and Captain
Rogers received bullet in the left
shoulder. The rangers returned the
fire, killing Agapito Herrera, an expo
llcemam who was leading the rioters,
and another Mexican, and wounding d
woman, a sister of Herrera, who had
fired at the officers from the window of
house near by. Several other Mexi-
cans were wounded, but the number
cannot vet be aScertained, as they es-
capped in the crowd. Dozens of people
report seeing wounded men, but how
many saw the same ones is not known.
The shooting was followed by a number
Of scattered shots in different parts of
that quarter of the city, populated
largely by MeXicanS, and they were
construed as prearranged signals by the
rioters FOR achievements.
DR.. Blunt, according TO arrangements
made, had notified Captain Ayers, i'm
command at Fort Mcintosh, that the
United States troops were needed, and
at Has a. m. q detachment of the
Tenth cavalry, mounted and fully arm
ed with 100 rounds of ammunition each,
arrived at the market place. City Mar
shall Joseph Bartholomew was sworn in
as an officer, and under his direction the
crowds were quickly dispersed. The
leader of the first crowd encountered
NV no Il tn foil in
stead of obeying orders to clear out,
and he was promptly knocked down
with the butt of a carbine, and so badly
hurt that he died within a short time
after being carried away. His follow
ers took the hint, and rapidly fled. A
Calling gun and an ambulance corps
accompanied the cavalrymen, and af-
fairs took on a. decidedly martial an
pearance. All the places of business
we're closed, and the placing Of the
Calling gun in a position to rake
street would quickly clear that thor
oughfare from end to end. PldtOOnS Of
troopers circulated through the dis
trict and scattered or drove out the
crowds gathered on the cross streets,
most of them taking refuge under the
river bank, but Offering no resistance.
Mayor Christen had requested Col
onel O'Horan, the commandant of the
Mexican military force in Nueva La
redo, to cooperate with the Laredo
authorities in preventing the crossing
and recrossing of the river by crowds
in case of trouble, and while several
hundred Mexicans driven out of the
disturbed district were refugeeing I'M
der the river bank, a strong detach-
ment of Mexican cavalry deDloyed on
the south bank of the Rio Grande.
Those on this side concluded they were
coming across to assist them against
the colored United States cavalry, and
a mighty cheer went up. Fortunately,
however, they discovered their mistake
before doing anything rash. The city
being quoted, the work of the health
guard of cavalry with each wagon, IN
der orders from Captain Ayers that if
anybody attacked in any way the Mexi-
can officers or themselves, to shoot.
and shoot to kill