El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1911-04-03
Fl PAsO Is Ov[RRUN
BY MEXICAN REFUGEES
Many of Them Are Pennless and I'll and Must be Cared
For in Ell Paso-Numerous Stories of Official Per =
secutions Told By w ounded Insurrectos.

s1Irrecto hospital as a result of wounds |
received at the battle Of Sierra MOLINA, |
is accompanied by his son, an 1Syear-
old boy who, according to DR.. l. J. Bush, |
has the reputation of being one Oh the |
bravest fighters in the Maderista army. !
After the youth had exhausted all Of |
his cartridges, seeing federal soldier |
fall. he ran out in front of the federal |
ranks and, taking the gun and the
cartridge belt Of the dead federal. |
coolly continued his fighting
Youths Daring.
Another story told Of young Oros IS
that shortly before the battle OF Sierra
Molina, the elder Oros sent him TO
ranch owner to buy some horses Be-
ing a Diaz sympathizer, the ranchman
replied that he had no horses to sell
II think you have horses to SELL re-
piled the youth, who held a gun at the
ranch owners head while four insur-
rectos who accompanied him went out
into the yard and caught the much
wanted mounts. Still keeping his gun
pointed at the ranchman's head, the
youth told one Of the men to make out
a check in payment in full for the anil
mails. The ranch owner, who had no
horses to sell to the Maderistas, finally
concluded that it would be the part OF
wisdom to accept the inevitable, rein
forced by Mauser. and accepted the
check in payment Of the horses.
A German InsurrectO.
One of the most original of the
characters who has come out Of Mex
leo since the revolution is Matthias Mel
liter German born, an American citi-
zen, a resident in Mexico. Mellitzer
spent his early days in Tyrol. in the
southern part of Germany. He has lived
many years in New York. III Chicago
and in San Francisco. and speaks Eng
lish and Spanish f1uently. For the last
13 years he has lived in Mexico and is
the owner of the Morelia mine IS
miles from the town of Guerrero. Mel !
liter is a typical mining man and
there is nothing of the soldier of for
tune about him. He first became in
terested in the Madero cause when one
of his Mexican friends was killed at
the battle of Cerro Prieta- Neither
was godfather of the dead Maderista
soldiers yearold boy and he says that
when he saw how the insurrectos were
being treated, he tried to help them.
After the battle Of Cerro Prieta he was
asked by Orozco If he would take some
of the wounded to the north in a wa
gon He willingly complied, though with
the wounded on the trip he was ex-
exposed TO the dangers Of being fired
on by both sides, the insurrectos as
well as the federals.
A Mexican Election.
In the Guerrero district the federal
authorities. Neither says, sent out
the official ballot with only the
names of the Diaz electoral
candidates printed on them In order
to vote for any of the MaderO electoral
candidates It was necessary for the
Madero sympathizers to write the
names on the official ballot with a
lead pencil. He says that the moment
the inspectors at the polls caught sight
of an official ballot with names writ
ten on it they would promptly throw
out the ballots. The law requires all
persons voting to sign the ballots
voted. and before throwing out the Ma
dero ballots the judges and clerks Of
the election were careful to make
notes of the persons voting the, Ma
dero electoral tickets The result was
that after the election they had lists
of the Madero sympathizers in the dis
trict and they proceeded to take it
out of the Madero men, in every way
possible. The prosecutions growing out
of the copying from the official bal
porters, Mr.. Neither believes to have
been one Of the chief causes Of the
revolution.
Hogs Eat Dead Rebels
Another thing which Mr. Neither
vehemently protested against was the
fact that the federal troops would new
er bury the >insurrecto dead. They
either burned the dead or left them
lying on the ground where they had
fallen" said Mr. Neither. IF they
had taken any pains to burn the dead.
it would not have been so bad for the
reason that it might have been con-
sidered a kind of cremation, but they
never more than half buried the in
surrecto dead and time and again !
have seen the hogs roofing among the
half charred bodies weeks after the
battles were fought"
Regarding the much discussed ques-
ton of whether the federals had ever
bayonetted fnsurrecto prisoners, Mr.
Mellitzer said: have never seen the
Mexican troops bayonet the insurrec-
tos. but after the battles at Pedrana1es
and Cerro Prieta I have seen the
wounded lying on the ground. The next
day have passed over the same places
and have seen these wounded men
dead-bayonet thrusts in their breasts.
Somebody had killed them over night.
but I could not of course swear that
il was the federals
Executing Prisoners.
after the battle of Cerro Prieta six
prisoners were for some reason SEN
fenced TO be executed. VI the SIX, i've
were killed instantly. but one man,
who appears TO have borne a charmed
life ducked his head and fell to the
ground. He sustained merely a slight
wound on the side of his face. To make
sure that the six men were all dead.
+, the federal soldiers ran the bodies
through with bayonets, but in the case
of the lucky Maderista, who had lodged
and fallen to the ground this time.
they merely succeeded in inflicting
slight wound in the breast. No sooner
had the federals disappeared from
sight than this supposedly dead man,
who had never lost consciousness,
sprang to his feet crying viva Ma
dero," and ran away. The name of
this remarkable soldier who appears
to have more lives than a cat is said
to be Valenzuela-"
Taxes Caused Revolt.
One of the exiles from sunny Mex
leo who started in to fight the Diaz
government because he says the Spoor
people were taxed to DEATH" is Mex
imo Chavez who comes from the town
of Bachiniva. Chavez claims that the
people where he lived were obliged to
pay $40 gold per hecter for water for
l RI Of