The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-11-21
FIRE ON A MOB.
Mexican Soldiers Kill 100 Riot
ers at Zacatecas.
Loss of Life May Reach 800 1t
Is Reported.
in STATE OF TERROR.
The City Is Placed Under Strict
Military Rules.
Slain Citizens Are Still Lying
in the Streets.
IN STATE OF TERROR

Ell Paso. Nov. 21-One hundred per-
sons were killed in riots which took
place at Zacatecas, in the interior of
Mexico opposite Tampico, Saturday
night, according to reports received
here this morning. Soldiers fired into
a struggling body of rioters with dis
estrouS effects. One hundred is the
lowest estimate of the loss of life,
which may reach 500.
The American consul at ZacatecaS
telegraphed the first news of the riots
to the Mexican consul at San Antonio,
stating that the town was in a state OF
terror and that the loss of life was not
less than 100. No details were given,
other than that a company of soldiers
were ordered to fire upon a vast crowd
of rioters which thrOnged the streets.
News of the Its did not reach the
outside world until late Sunday, al
though the battle took place Saturday
night. 1t is stated that 0uiet has now
been restored by placing the city un-
ports are that the slain are still lying
in the streets where they fell.
Arms for Rebels.
Ell Paso, Nov. 21-A report from
Marathon, Texas, this morning to the
effect that rifles and ammunition were
shipped into Mexico from that point
yesterday and three men in charge of
the shipment stated openly they were
for the use of the revolutionists.
The telegram says further that
revolutionists are rising in Chiahua-
hua state, south of Maria and pre-
region is sparsely settled and unguard-
ed and it would be an easy matter for
rebels to gather unmolested.
Gen. Reyes Is Coming.
Eagle Pass. Tex. Nov. 21.-"Gen-
eral Bernardo Reyes is coming"
~ 1T
with telegraphic swiftness up and
down the Rio Grande. If it is true,
and many Mexicans assert that it is
it means the revolutionists have at
their head a man superior in military
training to any other man in Mexico,
not even excepting President Diaz
himself.
General Bernardo Reyes once
business frined of President Diaz, is
now said to be an exile from his coun-
try. He was sent year ago to Paris,
France, on military mission" Since
then no word has come from him I'M
til today when the cautious words
were sent from Matamoras to Las
Vacas. It was reported among the
Mexicans that he had already taken
passage for New York and would
reach Eagle Pass within ten days.
Reyes was governor of the state of
NuevO Leon, that hot bed of revoIu-
ton in Mexico During the last cam
paign for president of Mexico some of
his admirers proposed his name as
vice president.
Subsequent events appeared to
prove that Reyes while avowing per-
feet amity and friendship for DiaZ
was plotting for his downfall. Then
it was that the stirring events in May
1909, occurred. Reyes was surrounded
by troops and was to all intcnts and
purposes, prisoner. He repaired
to Mexico City, where he was sent on
the foreign mission. Adherents of
General Reyes openly assert that he
is now footloose and they claim he has
a strong following in all parts of the
republic.
Orders From Washington.
Washington. Nov. 21-Brig. Cen
eral Ralph w. Hoyt, commander Of
the department of Texas. has been in
structed by the war department to
hold troops in readiness to meet anv
call made by the governor of Texas
to preserve neutrality on the part of
the United States in connection with
the revolt in Mexico.
Outbreak at Hernlanez.
Eagle Pass, Tex, Nov. 21.-Advices
received here today state that an out
break by revolutionists took place at
SHermanez, about a hundred miles
south, last night. Four citizens and
two policemen are reported injured.
The demonstration was of short dura-
tion. The street was quickly filled
with soldiers and the crowd dispersed
shouting, Down with Diaz." The town
is now quiet
Mexico City Has Not Heard of It.
San Antonio, Nov. 21-Advices fro,,,
Eagle Pass, Tex, tOdav- fail to confirm
a widely circulated report that fonr
hundred persons were killed in a nitcI-
ed battle at Zacatecas, Mexico. Satur-
day night.
Zacatecas is nearer Mexico Citv than
Eagle Pass and has better telegram
facilities to the Mexican capital Re
ports from Mexico City state that no
word of any disorder at Zacatecas has
reached there.
Troops Sent to Orizaba.
Mexico City, Nov. 21.-A regiment IF
infantry was rushed to Orizaba in +ha
state of Vera Cruz early TODAY in re-
sponse to an urgent appeal from thn
authorities there for protection from
rebellious wOrkingmen.
American Family in Jail
FL Paso, Nov. 21.-According to Amer
lean train crews arriving here. John
Alarcon, an American engineer on tbe
Mexican Central at Chihuahua Citv. and
his family are in Jail there because
dynamite was found in their home
Alarcon's brother-in-law is n miner
and had dynamite in the Alarcon homo
When the police searched the house foI,
arms the explosive was discovered and
Mrs Alarcon and the children were ~ i,,
mediate placed in Jail, Alarcon he
ing arrested when he came in from bis
run. Americans are trying to secnra
their releases.
WARM WEATHER ON DOCKET