El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1911-06-06

! Verde, n. NJ, IN 1851 Mai. Teel Som-
manded the Confederates and he or
dereG this and three other puns
buried at albuquerque. TWENTY-FIVE
years ago next August, he had the
guns exhumed at Albuquerque and old
Blue Whistler was brought to Ell Paso.
Companion guns were sent to St. Jo-
seph, No, and Denver. Colo. twenty
two years after that occurrence. the
present Mrs. Monroe Harper. who was
then Maj Teers wife, helped to put
the gun into the service of the re-
bellious Mexicans. and her son, James.
Nal TeePs son, assisted in the work,
The old gun is now at Camargo in
the Santa Rosalia district. and will
soon be brought back to Ell Paso and
given back to the city to take Its
former show place in the city haIl
park-until needed again
Other Smuggling Escapades.
The romantic story of the old Blue
Whistler is no more romantic than
many other events that have happened
in FL Paso during the late insurrec-
ton The bond of sympathy between Ell
Pasoans and the fnsurrectos was al
ways strong and the struggling Mex
leans got aid from unexpected quar-
tiers. As they had no money to paw for
services, all aid was voluntary and
free.
Helping Old s'LOng Tom"
During the time that the insurrec-
tos were on the west side of the river
near FL Paso preparing to attack Jua-
reg, Mrs. Harper, Mrs. L J. Bush and
Mrs Molina made 272 sacks for holding
powder charges for Long Tom" the
home made cannon that is now in city
hall park, a present from the insur-
rectos. These, they took out in Mrs
Harper's auto and threw across the
Rio Grande at night to the insurrecto
officers.
Many mysterious explosions that oc-
clirrcd around Juarez during the time
of the siege" may now be explained.
Pooling the FederaIs.
A tremendous explosion was heard
one night northwest of Juarez. Many
thought the attack on Juarez was
opening, but next day it was a puz-
Zle; nobody knew what had caused
the noise. It was merely one OF the
plans of Abram Molina and some of
his insurrecto helpers, to smuggle over
insurrecto troops, east of Juarez
and FL Paso- He sent an agent over the
river to explode the bomb near the
dam northwest of Juarez and the sol
diers in Juarez, as he had expected,
made rush IN that direction, leaving
the coast clear east Of town The in
surrecto recruits Immediately marched
over the river and into Mexico to con-
tinue south and join Madero.
Were After Navarro.
The night the terrific explosion oc-
Cured in Juarez when two men were
killed in a dance hall and several 9TH
ers were wounded, the bomb was only
intended as another scare. That night,
Col. Antonio Villareal and party were
to cross the river east Of Juarez, and
the idea was to explode the bomb near
the city jail and attract all the fed
eral soldiers and police TO that point
and then get the men over The spies
sent to throw the bombs, however, had
heard that Gen. Navarro was in the
dance hall in the rear of the jail and
decided to create a panic and kill the
general at the same time, If possible.
They threw the bombs at the dance
hall, but Gen. Navarro was not there
Two of his men were killed, however,
and the explosion had the desired eff
feet in calling the soldiers all to one
locality. but the Villarea1 party did
not cross over for some reason. Next
day a terrific sandstone blew hard all
day and Villareal and his men
crossed the river from their
concealment and got safely into Mex
leo under cover of the binding dust