The Washington times., 1911-02-05
OROzCO IS READY
TO STRIKE JUAREZ
Revolutionary Forces Now
Within Firing Distance of
/ Mexican Town.
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der. they know where they can get
through.
information came in this morning
from the city of Chihuahua that spe-
Cial train has arrived there from the
northeast bringing many wounded from
the battle of Coyorne, and the report
that the rebels killed 107 federalS in that
fighting, The report is confirmed by
some mining engineers. One reported
seeing nineteen federals under guard Dy
rebels, and seeing a wagon load OF uni
countryside there is devastated:
Pascual OroZco'S command or lnsurS-
ents had slept calmly through the night
ten miles from town, ana were lFesn
for the fray. Orozco had declared posi-
lively that he would attack not later
than Sunday, but first he would give
his tired men rest and sleep and pre-
pare them for the supreme test Al
night the tired, drowSy sentlnels nau
adobe roofs of the ancient church OF
Guadalupe; the low, fiat munlclpal
building, or the grotesque little post
office structure that more than halI Il
century ago housed Benito Juarez wnen
he was rallying his men for the nght
against Maximillian in this same town.
which Orozco hopes to make the capital
of insurrectionary Mexico OF 1911.
Town Quiet At Night. =
Americans and foreigners had been
kent off the streets during the night
and the little city of 1900 souls in nor
NAL times, now town of scarcely $780,
because the population has fled to Ell
Paso for protection, was, quieter even at
night than it had been during the day
after the American consul had warned
foreigners to leave and the mayor had
ordered all places of business closed
~
Soldiers marched from corner to cor
ner, and secuted or galloped from nrs'
one lockout point to another through
out the night.
Every man had sat with his rifle on
his lap or near at hand, and the more
yenturesome had peered from the tali-
est buildings at the pickering camptires
across the broad mesa, the same sighl
they had witnessed for three nlghts,
with the same dread OF the dayllghI
paipitating their hearts. Late In the
evening Pascual OroZco. the reDtt
commander, had completed the work OF
isolating Juarez from the rest OF the
world by tearing up the tracks OIL thc
Mexico Northwestern railroad over
which the beleaguered city had hoPeu
to get relief from the south. Ihe TepeI
leaders then put an operator somewhere
down the line, who replied 10 all desper-
ale calls from Juarez with the patriotic,
''Eiva Madcro."
Had No Fear of Relief.
With the bridges burned on the MeXl-
can Central and the tracks torn up LOT
forty miles south, all hope of relief from
that source had been cut OFF, and
Orozco had no fear of relief coming 10
the border town, as the federal troops
were busy enough where they were:
Everything was ready for the oattle
when day broke this morning tenn
porary hospital in vacant building on
the principal business street mad Iorty
beds in it with a staff of doctors ana
nurses and an ample number OF pand-
ages and appliances for taking care OF OF
wounded. Stretcher corps composed OF
old men and boys had been organized
TO carry the wounded from the streets'
and the defenders were otherwise pre-
nared While there had been many oe-
fectiOns from their ranks, lncluolIlS
Police Chief Antonio Ponce de Leon ana
Assistant Chief Valentine 0nate, ana
several of the minor officers OF ponce
who are now in El Paso, Mayor Maru-
neg had expressed the utmost commence
I'm the ability of the defenders or the
town to repulse any attack. He clalne0 6oa
70 have 600 men, but in fact about SV0
was the strength of his tlghtlng 1orce'