Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1911-05-13

/ wounded soldiers. One man died yes
lterday of the disease. The fever
patients have been removed to another
part of the town and quarantined.
There also are two cases of typhoid
fever in the hospital.
Americans returning from Chihuahua
by automobile today reported that
Gen. Rabago with about 800 federal
soldiers was still at Terrasos about
(, 200 miles south of here awaiting or
ders An insurrecto force of ABOUT
$50 men left here to meet them
should they advance.
! Horrible Scenes in Hospitals.
| That the Mexican federal forces are
almost entirely without surgical care
was shown when the Red Cross sur
seons and nurses from Ell Paso took
possession of the temporary hospitals
Three or four federals were found
in an old hotel suffering from wounds
received in the fighting around Casas
Grandes nearly two months ago which
had received no care since that time.
| Hollow-eyed skeletons with gangren-
GUS wounds, gazed silently at the Red
Cross workers as they set to work not
, at first with the. wounded, but with
disinfectants and water to remove the
carrion stencil that prevailed every
thing In one room practically
stripped and thrown in heap were
found four dead bodies, bloated and
disigured.
In another room, totally shut off
from sunlight ar fresh air, were half
a dozen others who had almost lost
their sem blance of human beings from
erysipelas or typhoid fever.
Stricken With Typhoid.
Another body, typhoid stricken and
all but naked, lay on the ground out
side the door of one of the ill-ventilat-
ed rooms Another skeleton mutely
pointed to his leg, broken by a bullet
at Casas Grandas. A rough board,
stretching from the poor fellows hips
to his ankle had been bound to the
fractured limb. The bandages had not
been touched since that time.
Still another, with his thigh shat
tered by a bullet at Casas Grandas,
had received even less attention Band
ages had been placed around the
wound. That was all. He, too had re-
Casas Grandas fight and gangrene had
set in.
Nurses Fear to Touch Wounded.
A number of other wounded were in
such condition that the surgeons and
nurses did not dare touch them UNI
til they had received their rubber
gloves from the supply depot at Ell
Paso.
Stretched on the floor in one room
were five wounded men.
One was dying from a shot in the
lungs.
A woman couched at the side of an
man, tanning the flies
from his face and weeping silently.
Eight cases Of typhoid fever in all
we're found by the Red Cross at this
hospital and prevailing everything was
he swarm of carrion flies.
No Student Uprising Experienced.
Mexico City, May 12-Despite the
JUNIORS of a student uprising and
possible attack on the city by the
rebels, which gave the more timfd resi-
tents some uneasiness last night, no
hing out Of the ordinary had occurred
1t the capital this morning.
The students are said to have plan
ned a political demonstration, and pre-
,autionary measures have been taken
Nv the government The police guards
IN the streets have been increased and
4 reserve force Is held in readiness for
any eventuality.
Nav Try Navarro by Court Martial.
It is. said here that the behavior OF
Cen. Navarro did not receive the ap-
proval of his superiors. 1t is reported
that he will be tried by court martial
for the surrender of Juarez and that
the court will sit at Chihuahua within
a few days.
Notwithstanding that the press and
consular reports appear to Indicate
that the federal commander had made
a heroic stand. the fact that he dis
played the white flag when apparently
in good fighting condition. is widely
upon as remarkable.
It is believed that the evidence to be
developed by the court martial may
yindicate him as it is understood here
that portion of his command fought
two days without food or drink.
Rebels Hold SaIina Cruz.
San Diego, Cal. May 12.-From re-
ports brought by the American-Ha-
wiian liner Nebraska which arrived
here yesterday from Salina Cruz, the
western terminal of the Tehauntepic
it appears probable that the
rebels are in possession of that place.
According to officers of the Nebraska
five days ago when the steamer left
Salina Cruz, the rebel forces were at
San Geronimo, about twenty-five miles
north of Salina Cruz. They had taken
possession of the Tehauntepic railroad
office at that point and were preparing
for an advance upon Salina Cruz.
The people of the latter city did not
plan any resistance and it Is believed
the place was captured without loss OF
life.
Lootins Stopped at Tijuana.
Tijuana, May 12.-Gen. Pryce and
his insurrecto army are making prep /,
arations for an early movement on
Ensenada. From indications here to-
Jo1, NAV NOT march for a. month