The Dillon herald. [volume] (Dillon, S.C.) 1894-????, 1911-09-07
REYES TARGET OF MEXICAN
MOB.
Stoned and Robbed While Attempt
ing TO Speak

ing 10 speak.
Mexico City, Sept 8. Stoned
by mob of Maderists in the prin-
clpa1 thoroughfare of the city,
Gen. Bernardo Reyers candidate for
the Presidency in opposition to
francisco /. Madero, was forced to
abandon an effort to speak and to
run the gauntlet of a jeering crowd,
upon whom the police had received
orders not to fire except as a last
resort.
Repeatedly the police charged the
crowd and the records of the Red
Cross, the White Cross and the COM
missaries show that forty-three were
wounded, although none very seri-
ously.
The stoning of the aged General
was the climas of a riot that be-
gan about 10 o'clock this morning,
and had not been entirely quelled
at a late hour tonight. Since it's
beginning police and soldiers have
Eatrolled the streets at short and
regular intervals, but on account of
the Governments desire not to use
the iron hand, the heavily armed
horsemen had but an intimidatory
effect upon the rabble.
The Trouble Begins.
Placing his faith in the word of
the Government, that equal chances
would be given all parties in the
campaign, the General attempted
TO speak tto-night. A group of
Maderists began threats to inter-
fere with the Reyes meeting. Short
~ before 10 O'Clock the partisans of
Reyers began gathering in Avenida
Juarez. tabulent scene follow
ed. The police repeatedly charged
the crowd.
Stepping from the automobile
Gen. Reyes berated the mob for its
conduct, and was promptly stoned
by the crowd. The automobile was
abandoned. Its occupants walked
the length of the Alameda to the
scene of the disturbance, a distance
of four blocks, where the crowd
followed still throwing stones.
Mounted police, who had been
trailing the crowds, now rode their
horses into the center of the mob,
which gave way before them. Enter
ing a building facing the theatre,
Reyes and his escorts went to the
second story, from which Reyes sters
ped on TO the balcony with the in
tentlon of addressing the crowd,
now grown TO great proportions.
Gen. Reyes Defiant.
Such was the disorder, however
that Reyes's escort attempted to
dlssuade him from making the eff
fort. The old gentleman would not
be deferred and raised his hand for
silence. Instead the tumult grew
and chunks OF marble and rocks
gathered from the ground about the
new theatre were hurled at the
white-faced figure. A number
reached their mark and yet Reyes
stood despite the efforts of his son
TO induce him to seek shelter. For
twenty minutes he remained there
lodging missiles which wrecked the
windows and signs covering the
front of the building.
The police, hated by the popu-
lace, had drawn their sabres and
charged the crowd Content with
ing their orders to deal gently with
the mob, the police reformed fol-
lowing a charge, and took up their
position on the opposite side of
the street. Emboldened by the
knowledge that the police did not
intend to attempt drastic measures,
tie RAJ bic turEcd their n.tentiun
to hurling upon their ranks a
shower of stones.
For more than an hour the fight
retweeG the police and the mob con-
tinued. The police took their med
icine stonically, riding through the
crowds of humanity trying to keep
the crowd moving.
Race For Safety.
FRIENDS succeeded finally in con-
yinoing the General that it was
useless to attempt to speak to-day
An automobile was secured and in
II the Reyes party started for the
Reyes home, in Santa Maria. They
passed up the street at racing speed
and troop of mounted police
which had been detailed to act as
Reyes escort, was left far IN the
rear. The machine escaped most
OF the stones hurled at it, but the
escort of police in the rear was
stoned at every jump by the crowd,
which now lined the avenue to
the length of the Alameda.
Less than a hundred yards away in
al Sunday band concert was i'm prog
ress. The concert-goers were ig-
norant of what was transpiring un-
til squad of police dashed among
them and took a stand facing the
avenue from which the crowd was
beginning to pour. Once free of
the crowd, Reyes discovered that he
had been. robbed of 5000 pesos,
(1,500 gold.) He then felt for his
watch, but that, too, was gone. The
party then went to police headquar-
ters and reported the loss, and then
to Gen. Reyes home. Gen. Reyes
spent the remainder of the day at
his home denying himself to al
most all callers.