Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1908-07-02
FOR REBELS
MEXICAN TROOPS BEING RUSHED
TO POINTS THREATENED
BY REvoLuTloNlsTs.
RAILROAD BRIDGES BURNED.
All Approaches to TOrreOn, Where
1900 Troops Are Chartered, De-
stroyed-Another Town
Captured.

El Paso, Tex, June 20.-Fifteen hun
dred troops have arrived In Torreon
to protect that city from the expected
attack by revolutionists and the
Americans are preparing to send their
families to the states for safety, ac-
cording to reports brought here Sun
day night by passengers on the Mex,
can Central railway. It is reported
that the revolutionists have attacked
the village Of Matamoros, Coahulla,
about 15 miles from Torreon, ana
have occupied that town.
Oficial advices relative to sending
troops to Torreon say that with the
forces already stationed there, the
town is "pow impregnable.' In chi
huahua there Is considerable alarm
among the citizens and guards num-
herring from 20 to rs soldiers In
single patrol are continually passing
through the streets. A great many
extra police have been sworn In to DO
guard duty.
Both fails Of Chihuahua are pro
tectad by reinfm ead guards, and troops
are stationed on the roofs OF public
buildings. The officers In command
of the troops at Chihuahua have, by
special orders, been quartered with
their men in readiness to respond to
an emergency call.
Two hundred men Of the Eighteenth
battalion, Mexican infantry, command
ed by Col. Luis Ballesteros, arrived
Sunday night in Juarez, across the
river from here, and will be distributed
in the vicinity Of that town. These
reinforcemepts make an aggregate OF
ZOO soldiers stationed In Juarez.
Mayor MAtues, In an interview Sun
day evening, declared that no trouble
in Juarez was anticipated and that the
Eighteenth battalion had been sent to
the border simply as a precautionary
measure. Guards axe maintained
around the jail and public buildings
OF Juafez and the arrival Of reinforce
ments is probably responsible foE a
rumor that the Juarez officials are in
formed Of a plan to attack that city.
Gov. Cardeleas Of Coahuila has tele-
graphed the governor Of Durango
notifying bin that. q number OF the
men responsible for recent disturb
ances in his state have fed to Du-
range, and requesting all possible as
sIstance n apprehending the fugE
tives. Three battalions Of regulars,
sent by che federal government to
VIesca, arrived there Sunday.
Information brought here Sunday
night by passengers on the incoming
MEXICAN Central train Is that all
bridges and approaches to Torreon
on every road except the Mexican
Central have been burned. The inter
national iine out Of Torreon, on which
is located the town Of Matamoros, re-
ported to be in the hands Of revolt
tlonIsts. has suffered heavily, and the
coahulla and Pacific IL entirely tied up
AZ the result Of depredations commit
ted by rsvolutiOnists. A train on the
coahuiIa , Pacihco was attacked FIJI
day night soon after leaving TOrreon,
but the crew succeeded in running the
train lack to Torreon and escaping.
There is general movement Of
trooDs from Mexico City to the north,
according to news received here, and
relBfrcements are being rushed 70
Iiminez, which is said TO be still In
the hands Of revolutionists.
AeoordIngto c. W. Pattsn. q mining
expert Who arrived Sunday night from
Torreon. funds for the inclpient rero-
lutiou IN northern Mexico have been
furnished b. q wealthy ranch owner
near saliilIo.
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