The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1911-05-18
NAVARRO sURRENDERs SWORD
AFTER BEING DRIVEN TO
LAST CORNER.
NOW THE REBEL CAPITAL
$50 Of Captured Soldiers Join insur.
acknowledging Is General in
the New Revolutionary
Citadel.


riddled city is the provisional capital
of Mexico and Francisco /. Madero,
Jr., provisional president, and his stan
have taken complete possession after
winning the ~bloodiest battle OF the
Mexican revolution.
In q corner room of the barracks,
which for two days he held out
against the terrific fire of the rebels,
sits General Juan j. Navarro, the FED
eral commander, a captive, having sur
rendered with almost his entire garri-
son of several hundred men. His sal
low face is sunken, his head is bowed
and he does not talk, for the bitter
sting of defeat has disheartened him.
In contrast, in another part of the
little town, ID Francisco |. Madero, Jr.,
the c%onqueror, surrounded by members
Of his family and his staff, joyous,
exultant and flushed with victory, yet
ready, he says, to make peace with
the Mexican government If it is dis
posed to deal frankly and sincerely
with the evolutionists and without
such vague promises as President
Diaz' manifesto contains"
In hotel Hobbies, store fronts and
Railways, the i~mprovised hospital of
the battlefield, are scores of wounded,
attended by a host of physicians and
nurses from Ell Paso, who have volun-
teered medical relief. The floors Of
the Porforio Diaz hotel, where 30
wounded lay, are covered with blood
and gore-soaked clothing.
All the dead are being buried. A
conservative estimate by physicians
as well as by insurrecto leaders who
surveyed the fighting, place the feder-
al dead at nearly so and the rebel loss
at about fifteen, with a total of nearly
$50 wounded on both sides. The &C
tual number lost probably never will
be known, as deserters were many
and the dead have been buried quick
ly. Among the dead were Colonel
Tamborel and Captain Sachudo, the
former, the man who a few days ago
tainted the rebels as towards.
On the American side of the line five
have been killed and about II wound
ed, many of them being ~innocently en-
gagged at a distance from the river
front.
The actual surrender of the town by
General Navarro took place about 1
o'clock, General Navarro giving his
sword to Colonel Garibaldi of the in
surrecto army after the rebels had
completely surrounded the barracks
and threatened to a~nnihilate the gar
rison within.
General Madero himself, when he
arrived at the corral where the fed
eral prisoners are quartered, made an
address full of sympathy and encour-
agement, lauding them for their brav-
cry and assuring them that in his
heart as well as in those of his men
there was no feeling of enmity, but
of uniform friendliness.
With shouts of viva Madero," the
vast throng Of prisoners and insurrec-
tos who gathered to hear him threw
their hats skyward and shouted In
~deafening applause.
A few momens later down the main
thoroughfare was heard the galloping
Of horses and o the in~surrecto
standard, the Mexican national colors,
flashed in the sunlight. Behind it
rode Mrs. Francisco l. Madero, Jr.,
and an escort of cavalry. Her face
was beaming with joy. her black dress
covered with dust, and she purred her
horse to the scene of her husbands
triumph.
Orders were being issued all after
noon to his men to guard stores and
houses TO prevent footing. General
oronzeo himself shot at two of his men
whom he caught trying to make away
with some booty.
After the attack was renewed and
the rebels had brought their machine
gun within deadly range the federal
retired to the barracks and insurrec-
tos by the hundred occupied the hous.
es within 100 yards of every side.
Their fire was rapidly demolishing the
building. There was no other alterna.
tive for General Navarro but to yield,
Shrapnel was being poured into the
hollow square of the barracks. Many
federal cavalry horses were killed
The soldiers crowded the place to its
capacity. Only a few loopholes from
which to shoot at the insurrectos
pierced it's sides. Finally at noon Gen
eral Navarro hoisted a white flag. He
hrst attempted to send a messenger
to Senator Obregon. one of the go-be
tweens in the recent peace necotia
tons asking him to arrange for q
cessation of hostilities or for an arm
lstice. but the rebels would accept
nothing except immediate surrender.