The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1911-03-16
nd II Americans were taken prison.

The following at first reported to
have been killed are known to have
escaped: Lieut.. Col. Guiesseppe Carl.
baldi; Ranol Madero. brother Of Fran.
cisco I. Madero, so-cailed provisional
president of the insurrectos; Capt.
Gutierrez de Lara and Lieut.. I. Va.
lecia of Ell Paso.
Capt. Eduardo May, q Mexican OF
Madero's personal staff was not killed
but was taken prisoner. Ranol Ma.
dero was wounded.
R. f.. Harrington, former sergeant
in the United States army, who lived
at Ell Paso; Robert E. Lee and Rob.
srt Evans of San Francisco, and Roy
Gieen, a boy of Mineral Springs, Tex,
were killed. The names of the Amsri.
cans killed or taken prisoners are not
known.
A letter written by Madero was re-
oelved here in which he denied he
made another attack on the town after
he was driven away. He asserted,
however. that he has gathered a fore.
Of 1000 men and is now within a
few miles of the town.
The news from Mexico City that
President Diaz has decided to take ad.
vantage of provisions of the consti.
tuition so that summary death may be
imposed by the military authorities for
any acts of violence and that the Mex
lean government has decided to wage
sharp and decisive war of extermi-
nation speedily to end hostilities has
spread. throughout the insurgent ranks.
The reply, through insurrecto sympa-
thizers here. is that in retaliation the
revolutionary forces hereafter will ex-
pect and give mo quarter"
No word has come from the city of
Chihuahua for seven days. It iss.re-
ported that insurrectos are encamped
around the city, IL miles distant in
each direction, and are successful in
maintaining stoppage of trains and
telegraphic communication both north
and south.
When the last word was received
seven days ago; it was that the food
question already had become critical,
meat and breadstuffs having been ex-
hausted.
The continued isolation of the place
has given rise to grave fears as to
the fate Of the $4,000 inhabitants. The
presence in the city of 1000 federal
soldiers under General Juan Herman.
dez. while being looked upon as suf.
f1cient protection against an attack,
ought to have more than ordinarily
depleted ration. Like conditions pre-
vail In many small towns.
The Mexican federal troops have
been provided with a military train BY
which they hope to be able to carry
supplies to the isolated districts but
the burning of the bridges and the
blowing up of the tracks for miles has
made the plan impossible. The trains
are steel covered and provided with
loopholes for the action of the ma.
chine guns.
The best information obtainable
here as to the strength of the opposine
sides in Sonora and Chihuahua is that
the federals under General Navarro
have a total of 5000 men of whom
1000 are in Chihuahua city, 45O ir
Juarez and the rest scattered while
the insurrectos under Madero and Gen
eral Pasqual Orozco have about az
equal number but with no one force
larger than 1000.
The arrival of United States troops
here occasioned much interest. The
arrivals were two troops of the Fourth
cavalry from Fort Meade, s. D. Will
four more troops due today from For
Smelling, Minn., and the troops al
ready here, they will compose fore.
Of 900 men under Col. E. z. 'Steever.