The Sentinel=record. (Hot Springs, Ark.) 1900-current, 1911-05-11


to dissolve. In few days perhaps
peace will be restored. You soon will
be free. If the war is to be continued,
you can have your choice of being
paroled or joining the army of liberia.
ton. In the meantime we shall treat
Iyou as brothers, not as foes,
With shouts of viva Madero" the
vast thnong of prisoners and insur.
rectos who gathered to hear him
threw their hats sllyward and shout
ed in applause.
"A few moments later down the
main thoroughfarc was heard the
galloping of horses and soon the in
surrecto standard flashed into view.
Behind 1t rode Mrs. Francisco l..
Madero, Jr.. and an escort of cavalry
Her face was beaming with Joy, her
black dress covered with dust and
Ishe spurred her horse to the scene
of her husbands triumph.
The shouting increased as the two
embraced and entered the Municipal
Building, now the Madero headquar-
ters.
Orders were being issued by Cen
ieral Pascual Orozco all afternoon to
his men to guard stores and houses to
lprevent lootlng. General Orozco him
self shot at two of his men whom
he caught trying to make away with
some booty.
The town the federals thought i'm.
lpregnable to attack fell after com
paratiely easy effort. The house to
house advance, the same deadly fire
which had driven the federals from
their trenches and outposts early
Monday when the skirmishing began.
gave the rebels an entrance to the
town hardly molested by the artillery
of the federals.
AT the close of yesterdays fighting
the rebels had control OF most OF the
pace. During the night they discov-
cred the federal strongholds and by
the aid of dynamite bombs and shells
raging conhagration and fierce
musketry fire, fought their way to
the famous old Spanish church, a
brown building whose high brick
fence formed a barricade for tho
Ifederals. The insurrectos took the
church at midnight. The federals re
itired further into the city to the rooi
Iof the Municipal Building. the edges
of which We're piled with sandbags for
a barrieade.
After the attack was renewed ear
Ily today and the rebels had brought
their machine guns within deadly
range the federals retired to the bar
racks, and insurrectos by the hun
dreds occupied the houses within 100
yards on every side. Their fire was
rapidly demolishing the building.
There was no other alternative for
General Navarro but to yield.
Shrapnel was being poured into the
hollow square of the barracks Many
federal cavalry horses we're killed.
The soldiers crowded the place to
its capacity. Only a few loopholes
from which to shoot at the insurrec-
tos pierced its sides.
Finally at noon General Navarro
hoisted white flag. He first at
tempted to send messenger to Senor
lObregon, one of the go-betweens IN
the recent peace negotiations, asking
him to arrange for a cessation of hos
Utilities or for an armistice, but the
rebels would accept nothing except
immediate surrender
The gray-haired general stood in
the doorway of the barracks and re-
ceived Colonel Garibaldi. RaouI Ma
dero, a brother of the rebel leader,
dashed forward with his gun pointed
at Navarro, ready to shoot If Carl
lDdlul Was MT. II feutfdlS anu litoulItl-
tos alike. however, withheld their
fire while the surrender was being
arranged.
The fighting soon ceased and at
tention Immediately was directed to
the dead and wounded.
The federals. in their humiliation.
tore off their visor caps and uniforms
and under guard of the rebels, walk
ed dejectedly in their underclothing
down the street to the corral. They
numbered about 500. Tonight 1t was
reported $50 OF them had taken the
oath of allegiance to General Ma
dero and would join his forces.
Church bells were rung, residents
of the town appeared in the streets
kwith sighs of relief and the insurrec-
tos began to shout.
The insurrectos collected thousands
of rounds of ammunition from the fed
eral barracks and they easily have
made the most valuable capture oi
the revolution. They now have two
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