The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-02-27
Ju,,.z Troubled All Night With Com
Ino Battle and EI Psso Anxious
to Watch the
Fight.
REBELS SURROUND TOWN
General Campo With Over 1000 Men
Sends Word That He viii
Attack the
City.
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= Ell PASO, Texas, Feb. 27.- =
! Ciudad Juarez surrendered to the =
vasquistas under General Emf .
lilo Campo shortly after 10 o'clock .
| ! this morning, after a skirmish =
: lasting only few moments. =
= After waiting for two hours, =
supposedly for reinforcements, =
General Campo ordered the at =
tack on the city shortly before .
ten o'clock. =
The 400 citizen guards who =
had been armed by the Madero =
government formed at the out .
skirts Of the city and fired on .
= the approaching rebels from the =
I housetops. The Vasquistas re- =
turned the fire and for a few .
moments a fierce fire continued. .
: Realizing that they were out .
numbered and could not hope to .
= cope with the rebel force, the =
: citizen guards retired. abandon q
: Ing the city to the rebels. The =
firing swiftly ceased and Gen. .
= Campo made an effort to restore =
: order in the city. :
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Ell PASO. Feb. 27.-A band oil
American cowboys from Maria today
engaged force of Mexican rebels on
the Nelson Morris ranch, opposite the
Sierra Blanca, according to reports
received here. The outcome OF the
fight is not yet known. The reports
declare the rebels approached the
ranch yesterday afternoon and de-
manded stores, saddles, horses and
guns. Brown Pacal, manager of the
ranch. refused, and with four Ameri
cans and five Mexicans, withdrew to
the ranch house where they were i'm
nediately besieged by the rebels
Shots were exchanged throughout the
night and Mexican blacksmith is re
ported to have been killed.
A special train carrying troops te
Juarez passed through Sierra Blanca
last night. The commanding Officer
refused to send detachment to The
relief Of the Morris outfit and a bant
OF cowobys, heavily armed, set out t.
the relief or the besieged ranchers.
Both Ell Paso and Juarez spent ,
restless night. BY midnight the rebels
had moved around Juarez and wer,
camped northwest of the town, onl,
about a mile from Ell Paso. This Il
the same point from which Nader,
started his attack A general attacl
was expected this morning and b.
daylight occasional firing was hear,
from the rebel camp.
The American troop patrol was in
mediately established and American
began fiocking down to the river t
witness the expected battle.
Officers today declared thorougl
Investigation would be made of tn
firing on Co. X OF the Texas militi
during the night. The militiamel
were guarding the El Paso electri
light plant when a score of shots wer
directed at them from behind box car
on the Mexican side. Maxim silencer
We're used on the guns and for tim
the guardsmen could not determin
the direction from whence the shot
were coming. One bullet pierced tn
hat OF one OF the guardsmen
The situation was extremely critics
Paso declared that II bullets menac
the city during the fighting today the
will cross the border and engage tn
rebels in protecting their own home
II the regular troops fail to act.
Gen. Emilio Campo with fore
estimated at more than 1000 has cor
pleted all preparations for the attac
I and has notified the Juarez municip;
authorities to get all the foreigner
and non-combatants out Of the cit
Immediately.
Campa's uItimatum followed lor
telephone conference last night wit
r. G. Llorente, Mexican consul her
Campo demanded that Juarez surren
er without hesitance and thus ayo
bloodshed. Llorente curtly refuse
however, and Campo declared
would attack at once.
At midnight Campo had brought
part OF his force to the river bank 0
posite old Ft. Bliss and began