Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-07-28
SERIOUS RIOT
At GUADA|LAJARA
Ten Persons Killed and Many
Wounded in Charges Made by
Mexican Cavalry.
THOUSAND PUT IN PRISON.
Political Rivalry Between Followers
81 81. OF Diaz aud Reyes Cause
THOUSAND PUT IN PRISON.
Political Rivalry Between Followers
OF Diaz and Reyes Cause
OF Trouble. a

Ell Paso, Tex, July 27.-One thousand
people were thrown into prison, at least
| 40 were killed and many wounded in
charges made by Mexican cavalry, ac-.
3cording to w. J. $Bissell OF PhillipsbIrg,
Kan, who arrived here tonight from
|gGuadala lara, Mexico, the scene of riots
Saturday and sunday. Bissell was in
the Garcia hotel, which was wrecked
by alnob, when the two Americans.
were wounded. Bissell left Guadalajara
on the same train which carried away
the Corral-Diaz speakers, who caused
the riots.
His story of the uprising follows:
Saturday morning 16 Corral ana
8Diaz speakers came to Guadalajara to
Plaza Saturday night, but the Reyistas
drove them to the Garcia hotel and
broke out the windows in the south side
of the hotel with rocks
Sunday morning at3&11 O'Clock tho
Corral-Dias speakers planned to hold a
meeting in the Dallado theater.
1.-THE Reyistas went down there and
erected q small barricade between the
Plaza d Armas and the theater. They
tore up cobblestones and piled furni-
Sture across the gap.
In little while two sqnadrons of
cavalry came charging up. / hid be-
hind a stone pillar.
@5 ~ Inc cavalry SWEPT over EtNes &DaTri-i
cade, shooting into the crowd of about
500 OF 600 people behind 1t. and after
they had shot a path to the other side,
made a return charge with drawn sa-
bers, slashing all who came in thei.
way. The l2eyistas returned the fire.
hut with little effect.
u believe several were killed at this
place. about 10 wounded and about 200
arrested.
No meeting wac held in the Delado
theater.
SUNDAY afternoon at, $50. when
was at the Hotel Garcia. a mob OF
between $500 and 5000 came upon the
place from three sides. They were all
shouting: Death to Diaz: death TO.
Mere armed.
.-trhey sacked tho barber shop and
started in the main entrance OF the
hotel.
Two Americans in an upper balcony
opened fire, and another Joined them
fron,ta room. A little English girl about
16 years old got siN-shooter from
somewhere and began to fire intoBthe
crowd. | saw three men killed near
the hotel entrance.
Two American were injured There
were about 20 foreigners in the hotel
FINALLY the cavalry arrived and dis
persed the mob. Practically every win
tiic
3detachments of cavalry hunted down
flying groups OF the Reylstas, and there
We're several hundred herded up near
the hotel. j believe they must have ar
rested 1000 men. The Corral-Diaz men
were then escorted to the train under
guard of a detachment of5capalry. and
infantrymen We're put on the train 20
protect them from violence
left on the same train, The speak
ers, in a special car; Went to Mexico
City.
IL saw several bodies in the streets,
and many were wounded in the cavalry
charges.
CALLS II YOUTHFUL ENTHUSI-
ASnf.
Sans.Antonio. Tex. July 2S--F, I'D.
Fillarsal, business man OF Saltillo,
Mex, who was in San lAntonio yester~
tlayEon business, said of the recent riot
ing in Gnadalajara, that it is the eS-
preston of youthful enthusiasm on the
part of the students of that city
s,There is no danger Of revolution
In Mexico he said President Diaz
has promised the people OF Mexico that
the next election is to be fair cleo
ton and they believe in his promise.
And above all, they want peace securi-
5ty and property and material Develop
ment They feel confident that either
Corral OF Reyes will win fairly in the
election which will take place next year
These disorderly young men will be
suppressed. y