The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1910-10-06

tilery regiment stationed in Lisbon
went over TO the revolutionists and
number OF field pieces were wheeled
into action against the palace.
On the other hand. the defenders of
the palace in the kings household
were all infantrymen and to this fact
Is probably due the small loss OF life
I'm the fighting within the city. For
tunately for the revolutionists the de-
tenders of the palace did not even
have a machine gun to aid them in
their defense and the rebels content
ed themselves by bombarding the roy
alist strongholds without attempting
close range fighting. Practically all
the fatalities occurred among the row
alist forces engaged in the defense of
the palace and the ministry building
The battle ragged uninterrupted for
thirty-one hours. Shortly after day.
light Wednesday morning the royal
ist troops with walls falling about
them and shells plouRhing through
unstable walls of the palace, their
dead lying about them without even
medical attention, realized the hope.
lessness of the satuation and sur
rendered to the revolutionists to es-
cape determination. The Portuguese
| flag over the palace was struck and
the firing of the loyalist soldiers
ceased. By 8 o'clock the blue and
green flag of the revolutionists floated
over the palace from. the new staff
which was rigged up by revolution
| lists the old one having been carried
away during the bombardment.
Populacc Wild With JOY.
At the news that the palace had
| fallen, the populace went wild with
| joy and thousands of them swarmed
| to the plaza and Joined in singing
the Portuguese Marseillaise, stopping
occasionally to cheer the republic and
cry for the downfall of the monarchy
and the king
a few moments later the defenders
of the ministry buildings surrender
ed and the revolutionsts were in com
plete possession of the city.
At first il was supposed that the
royal family had been captured with
the downfall of the palace, but at
noon formal announcement was made
by the revolutionary leaders that the
king and his mother had escaped
during the night
| 1t Is impossible to say at this
writing just how this escape was
made and the news of this feature
will probably be obtained from some
outside point. The most likely version
| given here, however, IL that the king
| disguised in the uniform of police
officer and accompanied by small
| detail of city officers left the palace
by a secret passage underneath the
street communicating with Il building
on the opposite side. 1t is thought
that he boarded the Brazilian Dread
naught Sac Paulo and was later trans
ferred'to another vessel either a pri.
vate yacht or u british ship.
Estimates tonight of the number of
| dead are admittedly inaccurate, but
| from the most reliable information
obtainable your correspondent esti-
mates that the number of killed will
not be less than fifty and will not ex
| ceed IS. Most of the dead were among
the defenders OF the palace. The mum
Der of wounded will mount into the
hundreds. probably running as high
as FIVE or six hundred.
At the time of the filing of this dcs
patch the revolutionists absolutely
dominate the situation here with the
hilltop fortifcations, the battlcshir
fleet and the city barracks In thei,
possession. A surprising degree of orr
der obtains Notwithstanding the tre-
mendous excitement of the past TWEEN.
ty-eight hours. and the new govern
ment has made II splendid start in
Its efforts to win favor.
The revolutionists stil control al
/ lal. A.
which might not be acceptable Il
their censorship Will have to be filed
via Carcavellos or Badajose.