The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1912-04-21
tnericans Isolated in Sinaloa
Ind Other Mexican States
Will Be Enabled to Leave
the Country.
ITUATION GROWS
WORSE EVERY DAY
a aMozco Shows Contempt for
ualaJltimatum of United States
sn by Casting Two Ameri-
.VV cans Into Prison.

b71Ia 4, ,ASHTNGTON, April 20.-Pres-
iH& ident Taft probably will send
wv warship soon to the west
coast of Mexico to enable
Vellhericans isolated in Sinaloa aud other
mr. t4tcs to leave the disturbed districts
Estate department notice announced
DAlhight declared this action likely IN
ew Of the general anxiety OF Amer
lllns in those localities.
frState department officials pointed
tonight that with the suspension
Ofllt railroad communication and the in
n rYruption Of tclegraphic service Amer
irwin citizens on the west coast OF
lElbxico, especially at Los Mochis, in
ccrbaloa, where there are many Amer
SSuns, as we'll as IN the vicinity Of Ma"
VICkIan, are isolated This fact, to-
lFlAher with many reports of increased
FYN,Elessness on the west coast, is caus
lVk much anxiety to Americans in the
c6Izion affected and their friends in the
0Hiited States.
ND Many requests and expressions of
lEkicty have reached the state depart
ma mt and In order to obtain news OF the
pis nericans in the affected localities
tisisesident Taft, it is expected, will
,Ad q vessel within few days to af-
Vrd an opportunity 10 leave the dis
hERJfbed districts TO those who may wish
49, do so.
sELIstate department officials declared
M lis action necessary, because other
- BE there is no way to learn of the
anyfety Of those Americans who are at
eBent not entirely cut off from COM
eo Elnication with the outside world, but
Far itirely deprived by the cessation of
:. ilroad traffic Of any means of leav-
,r;;nlThe sending Of an American vessel
the coast of Mexico sets precedent
! flut the present revolutionary disturb
til Pes, as heretofore the navy has re-
@nned from cruising in Mexican
risAters. A British vessel last year, how
or, landed marines OH the western
csS@hst Of Mexico TO enable foreigners to
rds, s8pe the effects of threatened at.
=, Ek by rebels.
lldnrhe. armored cruiser Maryland is at
a Diego, Cal; the guDboat Yorktown
EN- route from Guatemala to San
. thb ego; the gunboat Vicksburg is at
!. mama. 1t is likely the Maryland will
ilon the vessel selected.
peS lnal0a Abandoned.
Ell PASO, April 20.-According to
vices week old, but just received
ere, the entire state of Sinaloa, like
ESURt OF Chlhuahuu, is now IN rebel
|, ,nds
{0nNThirty Americans who had Concen,
nz Ated at the Rhoades ranch at Navo-
ID 70, who had planned to escape TO an
,rlar md IN event of fighting, probably
~" so, and by this time ii is thought
bn TIVE been rescued. by = boat which 1t
s planned to send them from Quay
Is at the time the advices arriving
nay were mailed. In telegram
|S229ch Starting Lines, superintendent
1ef employer, detailing the plans of the
M%ericans TO escape he declared thar
a aspditions were chaotic and the situa
The fear Of the Americans at Navo
23fo that there would be fighting there
0s1s justified, for on the 9th 800 rebel:
tacked the town and drove out the
=, frison of thlrtyfive federals. four
fEQNn, OF whom were captured. The
- aud lootine when a federal col
~ h from CulIacan arrived There
hot fighting and the rebels fled
IS reported that thirty-eight Of then
m3uuding two women, were killed.
kI7nortly after this fight President
.H&4 |dero recalled all his troops from tn,
4 .Me to the City Of Mexico, and tn,
pre district was left without a gov
A Nment, AS every policeman and office
ErSH tder resigned. Almost the last ac
the garrison was to release the pris
Effs from the Jail In the disturb
M fes which followed one OF the pris
vi Prs was killed by citizens. and an
nef' caught IN the act 0f Iooting wa
ppnded. AMERICANS displayed TIL
Is and stripes and escaped iujur,
outrage
recent telegram to the state De
Rtment at Washington stated tha
rebels occupied he city on the 10th
H. rozco Shows Contempt.
FT International News Service.
WASHINGTON. April 2O.-Showin
utter contempt Of General Oroze
,ne ultImatum served ON him las
paay by the United States coDsu
F'on l.etchcr. stationed nj Chlhuc
xsal mexico, reported to the state d,
III Smeht today that without reason a
4 lwo American citizens. one O
as6@y'm a discharged sailor from the AmcI
ayh navy, have been imprisoned b
lnsurgent military authorities !
point since March 16.
Without referring the informatio
Chihuahua To the White hous
state department Immediately scr
peremptory message TO Gener;
zcq through Consul Letchcr demant
that these two Americans be r.
sed without the delay incident
following the dispatch Of this me
?, high official Of the departmeI
Al state Informed the Internationi
III &SlFe Service that if Orozco did NJ
yReply immediately that the prisone
to he released by force. Ii
evident from the information fo
eaily states that f'the imprison M e
vfthout excuse" that before appes
70 Washington he demanded the J