Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1911-05-25
Enraged at Failure of Diaz to
Keep Resignation Promise
Yesterday Citizens Attempt to
Storm Presidential Palace.
POLICE AND SOLDIERS
FIRE AND MANY ARE SLAIN
Some Estimates Place Number
Dead at Thirty With Many
Wounded; lnfuriated Popu-
lace Attacks Government
Newspaper.
DICTATOR DESPERATELY
ILL; LIFE DESPAiRED OF
From What May Be His Death
bed He Hears Shouts of I'M
patient Countrymen Demand
ing His Immediate Surrender
of Power. .e

f,sy Morning journal Special leased Wirel
Mexico City, May 24.--For six hours
tonight this city was in the hands oil
a mob until a rainstorm, more ERECT
i've than police and soldiers, caused
the dispersal Of most of them. AT
midnight. however, a remnant, keep
ing step to the beating OF tin pals
and paying no attention to the down
polr. continued the demonstration
carefully watched by police and SOL
diers.
Twice soldiers fired on the mob.
the first time at the Zocalo, the big
and again to dispense a mob which
had stoned the building occupied by
El Impartial. and set il on fire.
Nothing like accuracy is to be OBJ
tanned tonight with reference to the
number OF the dead. Estimates run
from seven TO eighteen, including
three policemen said to have been
beaten to death by the mob.
El impartial, which continued to
prepare for publication despite the
attacks made on the building, goes
so far as TO place the estimate at thir-
ty dead, mostly at the Hocalo.
The police at midnight estimated
the dead In the Zocalo at five or six
and the wounded All between forty
and forty-five.
An unconfirmed rumor has it that
a detachment of Fiugeroa's revolu-
t. >
Leoharia. about fifteen miles from the
city.
Demonstrations were reported today
at Zacatecas, Guadalajara and Te-
hauntepec. The governor of Jalisco
was driven from Guadalajara and at
zacatecas four persons are said to
have been killed.
In this city business was suspend
ed at 6 O'Clock. BY II o'clock to-
night the street cars, several of
which had been stoned ceased run
ming. Not single taxicab or coach
was to be seen.
The elements favored the demon
stration, as for the first time in
weeks rain did not fall in the early
evening. The clouds withheld then
burden until 10 o'clock. With the
downpour the crowds, which in the
aggregate numbered thousands, be.
gan to disappear rapidly, and at mid
night only band of a hundred or SC
continued marching.
General Diaz who has reserved the
captains quarters on Hamburg-A
erican liner due to sail from Vera
cruz on the last day of the month
continues very i'll, despite recent op-
umistic official reports He Is re-
ceiving absolutely no visitors.
heavy guard was maintained II
iront of the presidential residence
throughout the night
Until o'clock tonight the mob en-.
countered practically no opposition
ana apparently little restriction wa,
necessary. Shouting "vivas'' for Ma.
dero they paraded the streets of tn,
capital, but always In an orderly fash
ION, except for the noise.
occasional instances of vandalism
We're condemned by the thousands O
marching men, who joined in shouts
OF Order, order" At $3.50 1t ap
peared that the crowd was dispensing
The main body had been broker
INTO smaller groups, but at that tm,
some of these had grown more dem
ohstrativc in the big plaza in front o.
me palace, and the police determined
mat the time had come for drasti,
measures. The shouting. gesticulat
ing mass of humanity was warned /,