The Vinita daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1913, 1910-11-19

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quiet, Similar reports received from
the interior cities estimated the num-
Der killed in the fighting at 100 to no.
Mexico City, Nov. 19.-One hundred
persons including the chief of police,
were killed in riots at Puebla yester-
day according to statements of passen-
gers arriving here last night.
The stories told are that the trouble
began yesterday morning when several
policemen, headed by the chief of po-
lice, attempted to break up meeting
OF anti-re-electionists AS Chief of
Police Miguel Cabrera and his men
advanced toward the building, a door
was opened by woman, who shot the
chief.
A fight then began between the po-
| lice and the occupants. A bomb was
thrown from one of the windows into
the midst of the policemen and rurales,
the latter having been called to assist
the officers. The bomb exploded, kill
| ing many. The other casualties oc-
Cured in the course of the fighting
which took place in the street. So far
as known there were no Americans
killed
The passengers further declared
from midnight until they left Puebla
in the afternoon there was continu-
ious rioting and while the anti-re-elec-
tionists had been dislodged from the
building, fears were entertained that
the disorders were by no means at an
end
From other sources in Mexico City
last night it was learned the seven
teenth battalion left here late yester-
day for Puebla by special train and
that other trains were in readiness to
transport additional troops to the scene
| if necessary. 1t was officially stated
here that eighteen men had been killed
in Puebla.
A telegram from Puebla at GAS
O'Clock last night said that at that
moment the first regiment of federal
troops had arrived, as had also a crops
of rurales.
These, under the command of Cen
erals Luis Vale and Ecuador Caz,
were being led against the house in
which the rebels were fortified and
were attacking shouting Long live
the supreme government"
The Maderistas, as they have come
to be known, were keeping up hot
fire from the windows and balconies.
A feature of the fighting was the
part played by women The wife of
Joseph Cerdan, who killed the chief
of police, was in turn killed by the fire
Of the troops. Several other women
who were in the house, also were said
to have appeared upon the balcony
and taken part in the conflict When
the place was captured several were
found among tie dead and wounded.
A later dispatch contained the infor-
nation that the house had, been taken
| by the troops and that 100 rifles and
large quantity Of ammunition had been
captured, and that order had been re-
stored.
Secretary of Foreign Relations En-
rique C. Creel, at late hour last
night, authorized the statement that
he had no official information as to the
number of dead and wounded at
Puebla, but that it was fact that
many had been killed and that bombs
and dynamite had been employed by
the revolutionists. The trouble, he
said, was confined to Puebla.
81 have had reports from the gov
ernors of all of the states" he said
land can say positively there is no dis
turbance anywhere in the republic out
side of Puebla."
j San Antonio, Tex, Nov. 19-Grossly
exaggerated reports of the aati-Ameri-
can movement in Mexico have been
J sent out by sensational newspape cor
respondents both to American and