Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-11-30
Americans in Chihuahua Are in
Sore Straits.
RELIEF EXPECTED TODAY
Train Service Resumed After
Weeks Interruption.
TELEGRAPH WIRES ARE CUT
Dynamite Bomb Found Beneath
School-Illness of President
Diaz Denied.

Ell PASO. Tex, November 3O.-Tele-
grams from Madero, Chihuahua, Mexico,
where many Americans and Canadians
in the employ of the Pearson lumber
interests are living. declare they are get
ting in sore straits for provisions. The
railroad into the city has been out of
service a week yesterday, and the last
effort of the federal government Sunday
to drive away the instructors and open
the line resulted in severe fighting.
Passengers from Chihuahua City today,
however, said the train from MADEIRA got
through to Chihuahua last night and that
a train would leave Chihuahua today with
freight for MADEIRA. This will relieve the
situation at that point, the insurrectos
having declared they would not modest
trains not, carrying troops.
A telegram today from w. ]. Newsan1.
manager Of the telephone exchange at
Marathon, Tex, declares firing was heard
yesterday afternoon and last night south
of there in Mexico, in the big End
lists have been reported for many days
as gathering there.
May Recall Reyes.
The special correspondent of the Ell
Paso Herald in Mexico City says it is
rumored there that Gen. Bernardo Reyes
is to be recalled from Europe and made
Vice President Of Mexico, and allowed by
Diaz to assume the reins Of government
in few months, as It is believed such
u course would satisfy the country.
Vice President Corrl is ill and is ex-
pected to so to Europe for treatment.
A spec al from Guadalajara says:
A dynamite bomb has been found be-
meath the Institute Of Colone here. The
institute is a Methodist school conducted
by American women, but all the pupils
are natives. Anti-American rioters at
tackled this place recently and later the
bomb was found.
The order recently promulgated here
that crowds must dispense and that II
they did not do so after two blasts OF the
bugle troops would fire, is still in force,
but all is quiet and the theaters have re-
opened.
Telegraph Wires Down.
LAREDO, Tex, November 3O-Reliable
information reached here this morning
that all telegraph wires leading into
Matamoras and Tamaulipas, Mexico. were
cut about o'clock last evening.
The Mexican federal telegraph system
has two lines running to Matamoras, one
from Mier and another from Victoria.
The two wires were cut last night within
HIteen minutes anu ~ dpoul tue odHe
hour the wire Of the National Railways
of Mexico to MatamOras was interrupted
The significance Of the interruption to
the communication is yet problematical
Rumors have been rife for some weeks
that a revolutionary attack on Matamoras
was contemplated.
Trouble in Yucatan Rumored.
7 MEXICO CITY, November 30.-Only
vague rumors OF disturbances in Yucca
| tan; which are generally discredtted, have
reached his city. There has been no in
timation of trouble In Campeche or south
ern Mexico, as related by G. A. Madero
| In his statement issued last night.
That Gen. Diaz is Frustrated is untrue
He is in his usual health and visits the
national palace every day, giving the
affairs Of the nation his personal atten-
ton.