The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1911-02-23
Letter from Texas.

Ell Paso, Tex, Feb. IL, 1911.
The Editor Bamberg Herald, Bam-
berg, S. c.
Dear Sir:-Of all of our cities Ell
Paso is coming in for her amount of
attention just at the present time.
The international aviators are
here at Washington park with such
bird men as Hamilton and Simon
''cutting up something scandalous" in
the air, and the Mexican rebels just
over the Rio Grand singing songs
and building their campfires almos.
within gunshot of the besieged city
of Juarez.
"Our Uncle Sammy" has his boys
in blue and drab parading the inter-
national line from lower. Texas to
the Pacific Ocean endeavoring to en-
force the neutrality laws. At this
place there are enough and to spare
to eat up the whole Mexican family
-" -"sombreros" and all.
The insurrecto chief Pascual Oros-
co has been at the borders of Ciudad
Juarez for the past 10 days. He al
lowed Colonel Robago with his rem
nant of worn out federal veterans
from Casas Grandas to march into
town for it's defense last Sunday
night when he had enough men in
his command to have annihilated
them. Then he camped in the hills
less than three miles west Of the
city on the banks of the Rio Grande
and rested easy all the week and
ate apples, bananas, etc., thrown
over the river by admiring American
crowds. They are indeed happy
bunch and are confident of victory.
1 saw and conversed with Gen.
Orosco yesterday. He is an ordinary
looking Mexican at distance but on
close observation you can see de-
termined mouth and chin combined
with an intelligent forehead and
fiery eyes, You readily size him up
as the fighting man he has proved
himself to be 80 far. After talking
with him and asking him all the ques-
tions I felt like it didn't take me
long to sum up all had learned.
He treats all Americans with the
greatest of courtesy and is always
pleased to talk but he Is giving no
information about his movements.
Yesterday afternoon he with the
combined forces of Blanco and Alanis
marched South to intercept Gen.
Navarro who with about 1,500 men
are marching from Chihuahua to the
relief of Cindad Juarez. A big battle
is expected to take place about Is
miles south of here And as the in
surrectos want the General very
much, to pay their respects to him
for the way he bayonetted the
wounded, shot his prisoners after
the battle of Cerro Prieto (Black
Hill,) it will be a safe bet to say that
it will be a warm scrap.
This revolution has been looked
upon as a volcanic overflow that the
Latin-American nations are subject
to once in a while but it's steady
growth discounts such an idea.
These men started out a mere
handful, to fight the Mexican gov
ernment, whom they accused of all
kinds of oppression, and now for
three months the government has
been trying to quell them and they
are growing all the time. They
have marched all over the country,
fighting only when they felt like it,
tore up all the railroads they wanted
to and have been victorious in nearly
every fight they have entered. To
have done all this It is easy to see
that they undoubtedly have had the
moral DIS well DIS uuduC4d1 SuPPoA
of so-called neutral citizens, and
the government has shown itself ab-
solutely incapable of stamping them
out or protecting property so far.
There are numbers of times when
the federal troops are entirely on the
defensive, as is the case here in the
seizing of Cindad Juarez and both
forces here are about equal.
I could go on to describe the quail
ties, behavior and equipment of both
sides but it would be too lengthy.
There is no use trying to get at the
correct number of men in the field
south of here as there are count
less reports. The government also
enforces a strict censorship and only
meagre and unconfrmed reports of
fights in other States ever reach us.
Some of these times I may be able
IN find ont something interesting.