El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1912-03-02

- INCE The Herald published rev
days ago the fact that two OF
~ its reporters. Mr.. Brann and I,
had remained over night in Juarez in
order to be "on the spot when the
expected attack would be made upon
the city by Gen. Salazar's army" 1
have been asked a score or more OF
times if we were not afraid.
don't believe we were AFRAID in
the sense that we feared that we were
in personal danger, but I viii admit
that we were cautious. We avoided
controversies during the night with
drunken men, and when challenged by
sentries we were careful to respond to
their peremptOry "quien vivas' with
prompt but courteous genie buenas'
or viva Mexicos" in voices loud
enough to be heard by challengers who
might even be a little hard Of hearing.
How 1t Happened.
How il came about that we elected
to remain over night IN the ~beleag-
uered" city was this WISE
I had been assigned to cover" Jua-
rez and had done so alone up to
about o'clock Monday afternoon.
About that time I had been made
Gals of the city had been called for 8
O'Clock to consider the demands Of the
revolutiOnists that the city be sur
rendered at o'clock and had also been
photographer, who had been, in the
rebel camp at Bauche since Sunday
morning, wanted to talk to me over
the North Westerns telephone line
which would necessitate my going to
the office of the superintendent Of the
North Western, located in the yards
about one and one-half miles from the
center of the town. AS I could not
and talk with Scott at the same time.
telephOned the office of my predica-
ment and Mr.. BFann was assigned TO
the meeting, while I legged" 1t down
into the yards to get ScOtt's story.
Heard Surrender T~mand.
When 1 reached the So yerintendent's
office I found that Gen. Campo had
sidetracked Scott's scoop" and had
demanded that presidente Enriquez be
called to the wire EnriQuez was close
behind me and was lucky enough to
be 'on the spot" when Gen. Campo de-
manded the immediate surrender Of
Juarez, and upon being refused by
presidente EnriqueZ, announced his in
tention Of Immediately advancing upon
the city
Senior Enriquez hung up the phone.
thanked the railway officials for their
courtesy in sending for him, asked
them TO be kind enough to notify the
foreign consuls Of the impending at
tack and left the office.
Covering the News.
1t was big news and I lost no time
extra called up Mr.. Edwards, the
american consul, and then streaked il
for uptown, where i met Brann, who
had just telephoned the office that the
city officials had determined to de
fend" the town.
We held a little council Of war. We
remembered that at the time of the
battle OF Juarez in Nay, 1910, Col.
Steever refused to permit reporters to
cross the river into Juarez, and we
made up our minds that IL we were to
De able to send first hand report Of
the fracas which we felt sure would
follow any attempt of the rebels TO
carry out their threat to attack, we
must stay where we were. While we
" ere arriving at that conclusion the
street cars stopped running. We noti-
lied the office OF our intention and
were commended for our nerve" and
told to make ourselves cOmfortab bic in
some safe place
The Town Closed.
While we were eating our supper in
the Casino a patrol appeared at the
door and announced that an order had
been issued that all places Of bust
ness be closed and the proprietor
urged US to hurry and get out in or
der that he might barrieade the place.
Then began the all night vigil We
had left our overcOats in FL PasO and
as the night wore on we suffered
much from the cold.
If there were any Americans besides
ourselves IN the city, they must have
housed up early-they were not in
evidence on the street. Two or three
correspondents and q re-
reporter or two for FL Paso, papers
who had not caught the last car be-
fore the suspension Of traffic was or
dered, hit the grit for the International
bridges early, saying as they went
that the battle, ii one occurred could
be covered better from the bridges or