Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1911-06-01
DIAZ LEAVES MEXICO
IN DEAD OF NIGHT HE FLED
FROM PALACE.
FEARED BANDS OF BANDITS
VIII Make Home In spain--De Ia
5arra lnaugurated Provisional
President Of Mexico.

Mexico City.-Porfirio Diaz, for
whom during thirty years all Mexico
has stood to one side, hat in hand,
secrecy at o'clock Saturday morn
ing. Only few devoted friends whom
he dared to trust followed him to the
station. He was bound for Vera Cruz
to take ship for Spain. In the dis.
lance could be heard the voices of
few of the more enthusiastic cele-
brants who were still acclaiming the
new president, Francisco Leon de la
Barra, and shouting viva Madero.
Railroad reports received state that
the pilot train was stopped by insur.
rectos below Jalapa, but after learn
ing that it was serving as a pilot to
the generals train, it was permitted
to proceed. None of the three trains
suffered other delay.
Arrangements Carefully Made.
So carefully were the arrangements
made for the former presidents es-
cape that details could not be CON
firmed for quite while. Secrecy was
due less to apprehensions of popu-
lar outburst than desire to reach
Vera Cruz without the fact being
known to marauding bands along the
route.
Travel between Mexico City and the
seaport usually is over the Mexican
railroad, standard gauge line with
modern equipment. Rails along this
route, however, frequently have been
removed of late by bandits, who were
determined that Diaz, for reasons best
known to themselves, should not
leave the capital. They are reported
to have harbored the idea that Diaz
would follow the precedent of other
Latin-American presidents and carry
the national funds with him.
There is another railroad to the
coast, a narrow gauge tortuous affair
owned by the government. Taking it
for granted that Diaz would take the
more luxurious route the bandits have
not molested it. For this reason it
was chosen by the former president
for his trip
= Three Trains Used.
Three trains were used, the first
acting as pilot. Some time later
third train, occupied by detach-
ment of the Twenty-fifth infantry, set
out after the Diaz special. The cars
of the fugitive special were occupied
as follows.
First car, General and Mrs. Diaz,
Mrs. Romero Rubio de Teresa, Colonel
Porfirio Diaz, son; Lieutenant Lo-
renzo Eliza and their families.
Second car, General Fernando Con
zalez, Manuel Gonzalez, Colonel Santa
Cruz, Major Espinosa y Rondero
Third car, Francisco S. Garcia, Ig-
nacio de la Garita and kitchen crew.
The trains ran without orders, to
prevent rebels along the line from
picking the news of his coming off the
wires.
High Officials Silent.
Presumably De la Barra and the
higher government officials have been
informed, but their lips are sealed
on every detail Even Americans high
in authority with the road have been
impressed with the necessity for
maintaining silence.
President de la Barra, who was in
augurated as provisional president
only Friday, it is realized, has not yet
had leisure to bring about the reforms
of free speech" and "liberty of the
PRESS which have been among the
loudest of the triumphant Insured.
ton war cries.
Making His Home In Spain.
General Diaz undoubtedly will make
his home in Spain, probably at Madrid
During the recent centennial King
Alfonso conferred upon him title
and made him an honorary general
of the Spanish army Sonora Diaz
was made a lady in waiting to the
Spanish queen. General Diaz speaks
no language other than Spanish, and
outside of Mexico he would find the
most congenial surroundings in the
country of the Dons.