The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1909-07-27


Mexico City, July 27.-over 200
arrests have been made, n score or
more persons have been more or less
seriously injured, including two Amer
leans, and two are reported dead as a
result OF political riots in the city of
Guadalajara Sunday afternoon and
night.
mob broke up a meeting which
was being addressed by orators who
spoke in behalf of the reelection of
President Diaz and Vice President
Corrah. The rioters shouted, Down
with Diaz; we want Reyes!"
During the night they stormed the
Hotel Garcia, where the Diaz orators
had stopped. Every window I'm the
structure was smashed and the bar,
office and barber shop looted.
The police charged the crowd again
and again but were repulsed. State
troops were called out and number
of volleys were fired in the air with
out effect. Some members of the mob
erected a barrlcade on one of the side
streets and shots were exchanged be-
tween them and the soldiers. Six
mounted gendarmes and two foot po-
boy, a member of the lower class, is
said to have been killed
Considerable American property
was destroyed and two Americans
wounded. The Americans have asked
the American consulate for protec-
tion. The names of the Americans
wounded are thought to be II. w.
Horton and ii. Murphy, though the
dispatches were so garbled as to
make their identity uncertain. Tho
American embassy and the American
consulate here reported this even
ing that they had received no ad-
vices from the consulated at Guada-
lajara.
Neither the embassy nor the consu-
late knew anything of the riots until
Informed of the occurrence by the As
sociated Press kilograms were i'm
mediately sent to the city. but up to
late last night, no replies have been
received
Absolutely no press dispatches
have reached this city from Guadala-
TARA during the day, although COM
merclal business is being transacted
as usual. This lends color to a rumor
that a censorship has been estab-
lished by the federal authorities. Pol.
itical speakers who are campaigning
in the interest of Diaz and Corral,
left the city in a special train. They
were received sullenly when they ar
rived at the station in Guadalajara,
and on their trip to the Delgado the
ater, where the meeting was to be
held, they were hooted and jeered by
the throngs gathered along the side
walks. At the theayer the crowds re-
fused to allow a single orator to
speak, drowning their voices with
yells and driving them from the
stage by hurting paper wads and an
OCCASIONAL stone.
When the party emerged from the
building they were stoned and Leon
Rojas, prominent lawyer, was
struck on the head and badly in
jured. The automobiles, steel cars
and carriages In which they rode
were also stoned, every bit of glass
In the vehicles being smashed.
By this time the mob had grown
bolder and wilder, and practically
every plate glass window In the down
town district was broken. The Tenth
regiment was called out and with the
aid of this organization and a Gordon
OF mounted police. the speakers
made their way to the special train.
They arrived in Mexico City today.
The Hotel Garcia which was
wrecked by the mob, IL one of the
largest hostelries in the republic. II
was leased by an American and he
has put in his claim for damages.
w. ii. Herter, the Omerican who
was wounded, was guest at the ho-
tel, and just before IL was stoned he
~ said to have stepped to balcony
and fired his revolver In the air in an
attempt to disperse the crowd. Muir.
ply, the other American injured, was
cut by policeman's sabre.
Guadalajara Is the second city of
the republic, and is ranked as the
most beautiful. A large American
colony lives there. The Headquarters
for the extension of the Southern Pa
cifc railroad through Mexico is To-
Gated there, the city being the ter
minal point of the line.
The last dispatch from the place
said all was quiet. A heavy hailstorm
dispersed the mob which had taken
up position In the Plaza DeArmas
aiter breaking up all the benches and
the grandstand.
The riot is the most serious that
has occurred In Mexico in years and is
looked up as significant by those
who have been closely following the
political situation. The Official press
claimed that II was planned and car
ried out by the Democratic party
known as the Reyista party. from the
name of its candidate for vice presi-
dent, General Bernardo Reyes, form
er minister of war N Diaz cabinet
and now governor of the state of
Neuvo Leon.