The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-05-12
No LootIns by the lnsurreetos Who
Are Taking Charge in Orderly
and Systematic
Manner.
MANY IN BAD SHAPE
Sick and Wounded Are In a PltlabIe
Plight as The Result of Ne
gIect and Lack Of
Treatment.

JUAREI, Mexico, May l2.-That
the insurrecto army is more than an
armed mob was shown in the COM
plete absence of looting and of intoxi-
cation and the quickness with which
dead and wounded.
The embargo against visitors was
removed during the morning, and
curious sightseers in thousands pour
ed across the bridges leading from Ell
Paso.
Yet only occasionally cases of loot
ing were reported and these were
not insurrectos, but curio hunters,
one of whom triumphantly displayed
in Ell Paso two candlesticks taken
from the big church in which the fed
erals made desperate stand.
| In the meantime the insurrectos
are not overlooking the possibility OF
/ attacks from Col. Rabago, reported
approaching from Chihuahua with a
relief force. Naturally, the rebel Off
GERS will not divulge their plans in
this direction, but it is known that
| oul IA loS JuS SOulu is carefully
being guarded against.
Juarez itself contains the larger
part of Madero's original force of L.
$40 men, augmented by several scores
of volunteers, who, during the day en-
4 listed under the banner of the victori-
Gus rebel army, and were armed with
captured rifles
Now that the battle of Juarez has
been fought and won, even the Insult
recto leaders are wondering somewhat
at the easiness of the capture of the
city that appeared almost impregna-
! Bile, with a well-drilled force of regu-
lars, thoroughly armed with field guns
and rapid firers posted at strategi-
| cal points. Yet the garrison, outfought
and outmaneuvered surrendered to a
force of insurrectos that at the most
did not number more than 600 or 700
fighting men, when the sight of the
flag on the federal barracks was run
up in token of surrender.
i A solution may be found in the ex-
pressions of federal prisoners. A mum
ber of the wounded expressed sym
pathy with the insurrecto cause
while others unwounded, but disarm
ed, openly fraternized with the rebels
They simply would not fight" epi
tomized the belief in insurrecto ranks
That the Mexican federal forces are
almost entirely without provisions fol
surgical and medical care was shown
when the Red Cross surgeons anC
nurses from Ell Paso invaded the cap
tured city and took possession of tht
barracks and other temporary field
hospitals where scores of wounded
awaited their care.
Three or four federals were fount
, in an old hotel that had been used b.
| the federals as their hospital. They
, were suffering from wounds that ha
: been received in the fighting arount
Cases Grandes nearly two months ago
and had received no care since tha
time.
Hollow-eyed, living skeletons, witt
gangreneous wounds, gazed SILENT,
at the Red Cross workers as they Sc
to work not at first with the wound
ed, but with disinfectants and water
, In another room, totally shut out from
sunlight or fresh air, We're half doz
en- others who had almost lost tn
semblance of human beings from cry
sipelas or the wasting typhoid fever.
t Eight cases of typhoid fever in al
4 were found by the Red Cross corps a
this one hospital.