The Sentinel=record., 1911-03-19
TROOPS MAY
 MOVE SOON NlEaasA -.
PREPARATIONS FOR LOADING EIGHT TROOP TRAINS AT ONCE
 HAVE BEEN MADE.
Every Preparation is a Denial of Mere Drill Tsctics--Army at san Antonio is Now Com
 pieted.


 San Antonio, Tex. March 1S.-The lair was electrical tonight with rumoTs Iof important developments in Mex iico, and of the movement of the man leuyer division to the border. The re- Iturn of Jose I. Limantour to Mexico is part part accounted for this. A newspaper man who returned tonight from the City of Mexico said that seu- lsational developments were to be ex lpected. He stated that the story of the lstoning of the Diaz palace was untrue.
 At the maneuver camp nearly every preparation was a denial of the story of mere drill and tactics. Eight tracks have been cleared in the Southern Pa cific yards, "skids" and runways have been constructed so that the loading lof eight troop trains can be effected Simultaneously. The entire yard has 'been cleaned of junk so that nothing Twill hinder the regular army in the leftul Ul dH 6lHtTSellcy tdit.
 That these eight tracks are at the disposal" of tue government was ad Emitted tonight by an official Of tue lSouthern Pacific, who in the same breath told of the bedding" of a lot of stock cars that are being stored in the Southern Pacific yards.
 A second official said that a repre- sentative of the government askel aim if, in the event stock cars were not available for the shipment of. horses how many animals could be loaded into ordinary thirty-six or forsy foot boxcars. Inquiry was made also If the road would undertake to han dle soldiers in box cars in an emer- gency.
 l, IA train said to be destined to carry troops to Nogales, Arizona, on the Mexican border, was made up at the army yards here tonight. It consists of nine tourist and two standard sleepers, a Kitchen car and bag gage ear. It is manned and under or ders to remain in readiness to pull out at any hour
 Tt may go tonight, or tomorrow, or never" said railroad man. Tt must remain with steam up and a crew aboard at all times in any event"
 So far as could be learned tonight Inc orders have be, n received for lthe authorization Of troops, but it is said among railroad men that the des- tination of the train is Mogales.
 Probably it will carry the Eleventh cavalry.
 Interests is added to the news by fact that in the plans pigeon -holed at Washington for the movement of troops, ready for any eventuality. an tination of the train is Nogales.
 Nogales as gateway.
 With the arrival today at Fort Crockett of approximately 5000 sol diers from coast artillery posts along Ilne AlldutiC SVdDodiu, thC dt ny Q movement of troops to Texas appar lently has been completed. Intense in- terest hangs upon the next move made, as it is expected to indicate whether the mobilization of soldiers near the Mexican border has any sin ister significance.
 The men who reached here today on the transports Sumner, Mcclellan and Fitzpatrick, after an eight day voyage from Hampton Roads, were Ikeenly disappointed when they learn ed that an air of mystery still enye- loped the so-called maneuvers. They came expecting their stay here to De of short duration.
 A three and a half mile hike to tle camp from the wharf where they landed gave the men the first exe-- else they had had since they took ship They were packed in the trans ports like sardines. eleven hundred on the Fitzpatrick, eleven hundred on the Summer and five hundred on the Me Clellan. To add to their discomfort there was deck room on the transports for only two hundred at a time and they had to take turns in getting on deck for air. However. they were en- Itirely free from sickness when they arrived. First sergt A. A. voight. Of the Eighty seventh company, died aboard the Sumner on the trip down, but his body was put ashore at Key West.
 The transports brought thirty days