Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1911-05-17
JUAREz HAS FALLEN
FEDERAL COMMANDER NAVARRO
suRRENDERs STRONGHOLD
AND is MADE PRISONER.
TOWN is WRECKED BY BOMBS
Rebels Take 4so prisoners-Dead and
Wounded Estimated at $50
Col. TamboureI of FEEDER
ais Among Slain.

shot and dynamite bombs for three |
hours, General Navarro surrendered
Juarez. The surrender was complete
and followed the desperate battle
which began Monday afternoon. Ma
varro himself is prisoner of war.
Col. Manuel Tambourel, jefe darms
of Juarez, was killed while fighting at
the jail.
Navarro had taken his last stand IN
the barracks, whittier he fed after the
rebels entered the city.
The rebels have taken 4S0 prisoners
in Juarez. General Orozco is in COM
mand at Juarez. Forty dead federals
were found in the barracks when the
rebels entered The rebels shout
viva Orozco" instead of Viva Ma
dero"
The main street of Juarez is In
ruins. Many of the houses were rid
died with bullets. Plaster, brick and
piles of debris are scattered every
where. Windows in many of the
stores were crashed in, but the rebels
guard the entrance to them to pre-
vent looting. Some of the houses have
been demolished by the dynamite
bombs and shells.
The victory was not secured with
out terrible loss of life on the
American side of the line as well as
on the field Of battle. The dead may
number nearly eighty. while $50 have
been wounded, many of them fatally.
The casualties on the American side
of the line number four killed and
| sixteen wounded. Scores of physi-
clans, their Red Cross insignia glar-
ing In the sunlight, are treating the
federal and rebel wounded alike.
Dynamite bombs, 3hells, bullets and
confagration that ragged for hours
transformed Juarez from its usually
tranquil and sleepy appearance into a
mass of ruins. Numerous adobe
houses characteristic Of Mexican
towns have been RACED.
AS soon as the white flag was hoist
ed over the barracks and the surren-
der of the federals was complete Mex
lean flags we're unfurled on the house
tops and church bells were rung in
celebration.
During the fighting before Navarro
fled the federals made desperate
stands behind their barricades. The
rebels pushed the fighting. The fed
erals found refuge in church and at
the custom house, but were driven
from both buildings. Other federals
took refuge in houses out of town.
The rebels threw dynamite bombs
and both sides used machine guns.
There was desperate street fighting,
hand-to-hand.
4 Wounded men were brought into Ell
Paso. Refugees poured across the
bridge that separates Juarez from the
American city. sps 49ss taaf,.
The rebels swarmed into the streets
The residents of the town. apparently
satisfied that the fighting was over
came out of their shelters aHd the
shouts of exultation and victory could
be heard on the American side. =
The sun burned fiercely and the rev
olutionists. who had been fighting fol-
hours without food or water. were re
lieved by the residents of the town.
Doctor Zuniga. in charge OF the fed
eral hospital, admitted that he ha6
treated more than 100 federal wound
ed. 20 OF whom may die. Around the
custom house. the churcs. and the Jail
between thirty-fiye and forty federals
he said, were dead in the streets.
Liberated prisoners arriving here
declared all the guards about the jai
had been killed.
Colonel Pueblito Of the fedora
army, who has a wound in his eye
said Colonel Tambourel was dead.
Doctor Wilson, insurgent field sur
gean, declared the total wounded o
both sides would number over 100. H,
added that among the dead are tire,
/ Americans of the insurgent army.
/ Bullets came across the river int,
: Ell Paso, but no Americans were kille,
/ or wounded in the later fighting.
1t was 1920 a. m. when Madero'
men began the combined attack for
/ deadly and decisive battle. Ruins Q
whole blocks of houses, burned in tn
fire of the night. were smoldering.
The insurgents opened the battle b
shooting OFF dynamite bombs in tn
town. General Garibaldi and his CON
mand of 200 rebels were reported t
, be stationed at the Porfirio Dia
hotel. opposite the custom house
where federals were hiding.
! The rebels had surrounded the ou
/ skirts of the town with all the re
serves they had and gradual al
/. vance up the main thoroughfare t.
!. ward the federal stronghold was b,
j gun. Soon tlsere was fighting in tn
streets.
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