The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-02-01

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The mutineers have established a
guard at the Mexican ends of the In
ternational bridges and are refusing
! permission for Americans to cross. De-
tachments of the 4th U. s. cavalry are
guarding the American approaches of
the bridges The mutineers are in abb
solute possession of every public build-
ing In the town and have destroyed
many public records
Cause of the NIutiny.
Various reasons are given for the
mutny. Some say they mutinied be-
cause some of their fellow soldiers had
been ordered discharged; some declare
they rebelIed because MaderO has not
brought about the reforms he promiS-
ed. Some say that Pasqual Orozco,
their former chief and still the idol
Of the former rebels in northern Mex
leo is going to join the Zapata cause
/ ana that they are with him. None of
them seems to knO Y whom they want
for president but they all insist that
| "MaderO must resign
The train due from the south over
the Mexican national line this morn
ing did not arrive, presumably being
held at Chihuahua, although all wires
are down between Jaurez and Chihua-
hua. No attempt has yet been made
at Juarez to modest the Mexican North
western railroad, which also runs to
Chihuahua, but it's wires are down 100
miles south of Juarez.
CSAAA rs NSlCAG open.
The Juarez jail is standing wide
open, not a prisoner in it. The mutt
neers are using the military barracks
for any prisoners they are holding.
There are no field pieces or artillery
of any kind in Juarez so the mutineers
have only rifles, pistols and dynamite
bombs for defending themselves in
case of an attack should they resist,
as they threaten. No damage has been
done to the racing plants of the Juarez
Jockey club and all horses are safe.
No street cars are operating between
Juarez and Ell Paso.
By noon nearly all the resident of
Juarez had fled to Ell Paso and many
poor families are camping in the open
country on the American bank of the
river. The weather is sunshiny to-
and the cam perS suffered considerably
before daybreak.
| Col. Edgar Y. Steever, with two troops
| of the Fourth cavalry, patTolled the
American side of the Rio Grande and de-
elined to permit Americans to cross TO
The garrison Of Juarez, Ell Paso's Next
can neighbor across the river, rose in re-
volt at $50 o'clock last night and in half
an hour were in possession of the city.
| Looting and promiscuous shooting pre-
vailed for hours
Shortly after midnight an italian sur
geon holding a commission in the Mexi-
can army, who has just arrived in FL
Paso from Juarez, declared that he had
]
cans-a man and a boy IL years old. The
boy was lying in the street. He had been
shot through the breast Most of the
dead. he said, were near the customs
house.
G. F. Davis. reporter for a Memphis
newspaper, was in Colonel Estrada 8
headquarters telephoning when the upris-
ing took place. and he was placed under
arrest. The guard who was placed over
him was shot in the head. When an
other soldier appeared Davis hit him
over the head and escaped, running down
an unlighted alley with bullets whizzing
about him. He reported that man
whom he knew as Levy and another
man whose name he did not know, were
arrested with him.
The commander of the garrison was
| thrown into prison and the chief of po-
lice locked in with him, while previous
prisoners were released.
American residents in Juarez and many
Mexican officials and citizens fled to the
American side. Two Americans, Gus
Ruhnke and Fred L. Leyva, employed in
a gambling resort devoted to the favorite
Mexican game of keno, were wounded
when the building in which the game was
in progress was riddled with bullets
Other gambling houses were fired upon
A passenger train about to depart over
the Mexican Central for CHIHUAHUA and
the City of Mexico was detained by the
maicontents.
-Four troops of cavalry from Fort Bliss
were rushed to the American bank of the
Rio Crande to protect citizens and pre-
serve neutrality. Guards were stationed
street
and at the two bridges at the smelter,
mile west of Ell Paso. Refugees were as
sisted across the bridges and the fordable
places along the river.
As near as can be ascerta1ned the up
rising was due to report, printed in
Chihuahua newspaper, stating that Ger
eral Pascual Orozco. one OF the leaders
ana idols of the MaderO revolution, had
rsigned his military position at Chihua-
hra and to the discharge of 100 men or
J1arez garrison The dismissal of these
troops was taken as confirmation of the
Orozco report
Only Three Killed.
Only three men were killed in Juarez
during the night according to careful
count this morning. One of the men
was Cipriano Torres, an insurrecto. The
othe- two have not been identified. The
n1l1tineers burned all the papers IN the
iaiI and the court adjoining, after free
ing the prisoners last night
Col Estrada, commandment of the
troons at the time of the nutiny and
Col Gallo. chief of police who were
iYnnrisoned last night are now at lib
ertv Mariana Rodriguez, assistant
chief of police until the mutiny is now
locked in the military barracks charg-
ed with having killed Torres. Among
fhe prisoners liberated when the jail
vas broken open was George Monroe,
a negro, juGt extradited from Ell Paso
on the charge of having murdered Jess
Burtchen at the Juarez- race track
year ago.