Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1911-05-12
.NAVARROA PRISONER
MEXICAN GENERAL suRRENDERa
JuAREz TO REBELS AFTER
WARS BLooDlEsT BATTLE.
MAIN STREET is IN RUINS
Bombs and Shells Demoiish House.
But Rebels Prevent LootIns--Dead
Number About 80, Wounded 15o--
Insurrectos Capture 40 Prisoner,

But Rebels Prevent LootIns-Dead
Number About 80, Wounded 15o--
lnsurrectos Capture 40 Prisoners,
Ell Paso, Tex.-Following a most
desperate battle which began on the
afternoon of May In which the town
was swept by shells, shot and dyna.y
mite bombs, General Navarro, com.
mander of the federal troops, sur.
rendered Juarez Mexico. to Francisco
I. Madero. provisional president. Ma.
vsrro is a prisoner of war.
Col. Manuel Tambourel, jefe d'arms
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 480 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 a 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 hsve
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, shells. bullets and
a conflagration that ragged for hours
transformed Juarez from it's usually
tranquil and sleepy appearance into 9
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 were 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 barbados. The
rebels pushed the fighting. The fed
erals found refuge in a church and at
the custom house. but we're driven
from both buildings. Other federals
took refuge in adobe houses QUITO
town.
The rebels threw dynamite bombs
and both sides used machine guns.
There was desperate street fighting,
hand-to-hand.
Wounded men were brought into 81
Paso Refugees poured across the
bridge that separates Juarez from the
American city.
The rebels swarmed into the streets.
The residents of the town. apparently
satisfied that the fighting was over,
came out of their shelters and 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 for
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 had
treated more than 100 federal wound.
ed, 20 Of whom may die. Around the
custom house, the church and the jail,
between thirty-fi five and forty federals,
he said, were dead in the streets.
Liberated prisoners arriving here
declared all the guards about the jail
had been killed.
Doctor Wilson, insurgent field sur
gean, declared the total wounded Of
both sides would number over 100. He.
added that among the dead are three
Americans Of the insurgent army
Bullets came across the river into
Ell Paso, but no Americans we're killed.
or wounded in the later fighting.
1t was $3.50 a. m. when Maderos
men began the combined attack for 9.
deadly and decisive battle. Ruins OF
whole blocks Of houses, burned in the
fire of the night, were smoldering.
The insurgents opened the battle By
shooting OF dynamite bombs In the,
town. General Garibaldi nd his COM
mand Of 200 rebels were reported to!
be stationed at the Porfrio Diasl
hotel. opposite the custom house,
where federals were hiding. 4,
The rebels had surrounded the out
skirts Of the town with all the re.
serves they had and a gradual ad.
vance up the main thoroughfare to-
ward the federal stronghold was be-
gun. Soon there was fighting in the
streets. Il.
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