Perth Amboy evening news. [volume] (Perth Amboy, N.J.) 1903-1959, 1910-11-23
FEAR MANY DESERTI0NS
FROM MEXICAN ARMY
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El Paso, Texas, Nov 23;-With
repeated successes being won at a
score of points all over Mexico, Pres
ident Diaz is today facing the possi-
bility of desertion by the large part
of his army, according to advices
Just received here.
Three battles are today in progress
with indications that two large cities
may at any moment fall into the
hands of the revolutionists. At Chi
huahua 5000 revolutionists have en-
trenched themselves in the plant of
the American Refining and Smelling
Company and are making the plant
headquarters for their assault upon
the city. Both at Chihuahua and at
Cuatro Cienegas, where an assault
has been in progress since / o'clock
this morning, Madero, the revolu-
tionary leader, Is personally direct
ing the attack.
The most desperate fighting so far
of the rebellion against Diaz is re-
ported here today by telephone from
Torreon, where 1900 soldiers and
rurales have been engaged all night
and today in fierce battle with
revolutionists said to number 1000.
The Diaz forces and the townspeople
have barricaded themselves in the
steeples of churches and on the top
of other tall buildings about the city
from which they are shooting down
the rebels, large numbers of whom
are declared to have been killed in
the repeated onslaughts.
Over 100 of the Diaz forces have
been captured by the revolutionists
and the former are having a desper-
ate time trying to hold out until re-
Inducements can arrive. While 500
additional troops have been sent to
aid the Diaz army, hundreds of rev.
olutionists are also declared to have
been hurrying forward to aid their
cause and it is believed here that the
city will be. taken by the revolution
lists.
Ell Paso is filling up with refugees
from Mexico, mostly American men,
women and children and some ma
tives Today's trains were full of
them fresh from the scene of fighting
at Torreon, Madeira, Gomez, Palazio,
Parral and other points in northern
Mexico.
Many Americans are leaving their
business, one American doctor who
brought his family out from Parral
leaving behind drug store with s1G-
600 worth of merchandise In 1t. He,
reports that two Spaniards, storekeep-
ers. were killed in Parral for refusing
10 give rifles to the attackers and that
the Chief of police and mayor have
hnpr tyfo nd fpbf
in the streets when he left.
Reports In some instances state that
Americans have been killed In the
fighting, but arrivals do not know this
positively. That the death list has
been heavy In Gomez Palazio, Ma
deira and Torreon among the natives.
however, is universally declared.
A. g. Springer, New York jeweier,
declares he counted more than fifty
dead In the streets of Gomez Palazio
and that he saw three battles In one
day-first when the rebels captured
the municipal palace, then when they
were driven out by-rurales and again
when they retook It. He says the
rebels, gathering recruits at every
step, were marching on to Torreon
when he left and that all business
houses In Torreon have been closed
and every preparation made to resist
an attack.
Late kilograms say that the attack
took place and that the town fell into
the hands of the rebels after an artil-
lery bombardment, but that troops
have been dispatched from Guadala-
jara to attempt to retake the town.
When Gomez palazio was taken by
the rebel troops the prisoners in the
Jail were released and armed. The
same was done at Ortzaba and Vera
Cruz. The revolutionists plan to re-
lease all prisoners from the jails.
Primftiv Enriquez and Louis Estrada,
chihuahua merchants, have arrived.
Estrada says he and his partner are
members of a rife club In chihuahua
and that an effort is being made to
force all the members of the club into
the regular army.
Frank Gilmore, a mining man, who
arrived, said Chihuahua had received
the news that train bearing 800 sol
diers has been blown up near Madeira.
Madeira Is la the hands of the revolu-
tionists, the soldiers having deserted
after arrival there.
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