El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1911-05-11

damaged TO any extent during
the assault. The doors of this saloon
were broken in, but otherwise it was
not damaged greatly.
Clock Face Wrecked.
The clock in the custom house tower
was shot away and the front of the
building was peppered with shots
which had fallen from the insurrecto
trenches There seemed to be little
or no fighting along Concrete street
at this point, as the men worked their
way through the town by way of the
adobe houses between Concrete street
and the river. The block between
Juarez avenue and the railroad was
not badly damaged, but a plate glass
window of the Mexico North Western
city office, on the corner of the rail
road and this street, was plugged
full of bullet holes. showing that the
fighting had been fierce between the
bullring and the fortified ton which
had been thrown up across the rail-
road tracks just off OF Concrete street
in the direction Of the Mexican Nation
al station.
Heavy Cross Firing.
There appeared to have been a heavy
cross fire along the plaza. leading from
Concrete street to the bullring. The
bank were filled with bullet holes and
the bullring garrison, where loopholes
had been cut through the adobe walls
and sand sacks paced on the roof was
filled with holes where the Mauser
bullets had plowed their way through
the soft bricks. No hand grenades or
shrapne1 were used in this part of the
town and the fighting that was re-
ported so fierce from the bullring must
have been done by the machine guns
of the federals which swept the ap-
proach from the river, as there were
no 1oopholes cut in the building.
The horses of the federal cavalry
were peacefully standing in the bull
ring when the insurrectos arrived IN
the town. ard they were quickly roped
and equipped with saddles and brides
by the rebels. who used them for po
Icing the town.
The statement Of the men that they
used dynamite bombs to good effect is
shown in the condition of the houses
that were destroyed. Four residences
on Avenida Lerdo, about midway be-
tween the river and Concrete street,
were wrecked and burned to the
ground Another house in the Same
row was shot to pieces with cannon
Jefetura Hit Hard.
Inc JeI6luTd UP Dl Tie market /
place has the appearance Of having i
received some bad treatment at the !
hands of the insurrectos. The sand |
bags were still on top Of the building |
but bullet holes were plainly visible in |
all parts Of it.
Concrete street. from Juarez avenue |
to Lerdo avenue, does not give the i'm |
preston that II has been the scene of |
any battle Only one window has /
been broken in any of the business es-
adjustments on that street. That is in /
the B. B. B. store.
At one window of the home of Col |
Manuel Tamborel there is large (
patch OF blood. which may have been /
that of the colonel himself. The blood |
Tried on the windowsin and the Garnet /
n the room was crinsoned. The side |
walk was much disco1ored. showing
hat the man had evidently been killed |
here and dragged hack into the house. |
H. s. Potter of the street car COM
,anly was the first to arrive in an auto |
robbie after the capitulation. He says
he service will be several day. in re-
uming, as the wires are cut.