New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-07-23
State Department Has Alarm
inq Reports from MADEIRA
Lumber Camp and
Other Districts.
INTERVENTION DEMANDED
plea for Protection of Ameri-
cans Causes Heated Discus
sion in Standardization
Resolution introduced
in House.
rFrom The Tribune Bureau

Washington. July 22-Alarming re-
rorts as 10 the safety of Americans in
several districts Of Mexico were re-
ceiyed by the State Department to-day.
Il was also apparent from parliamen-
tarv action in Congress that the more
eyperjenced statesmen regarded the
situation in Mexico not only as grave
hut as more discouraging than at any
time heretofore.
A general massacre Of Americans in
the MADEIRA lumber camp was threat
ened last week. il has just been learned,
and conditions at Frontera, in the state
of Tabasco. have caused so great anx-
ietv that the gunboat Wheeling has
been dispatched thither from Key
West.
Telegraph wires to the Madero camp
are down. and for all the State Depart
ment knows the killing of Americans
NAV actually have taken place. The
one-armed bandit. FL Mocho Martinez,
threatened general slaughter of Amer
leans and the burning Of the lumber
mills because of the harboring of
American cowmen after they had killed
two Of FL Mocho's brigand band.
Upon hearing Sunday that ten Amer
leans were held prisoners at the Ma
dera camp. the State Department
sought their protection and liberation
through officials at FL Paso, the con-
sui at Chihuahua and the American
Embassy at Mexico City. but the result
Of the exchanges has not been appar-
ent.
Women and Children There.
Among the Americans who are N
MADEIRA are n. c. Herr, Of Newark,
Ohio. manager Of the MADEIRA mills;
T. J. Clark. of EI Paso, superintendent
Of the FL Paso division Of the Mexico
Northwestern Railroad; w. J. Farra-
gut. Of Alabama. a nephew OF Admiral
Farragut. manager Of the commissary
department at MADEIRA; W. W. Grubbs,
Of Richmond. Ind, who is nephew OF
H I. Miller. vice-president OF the
Pearson interests; r. 3. Rawlings, d
EI Paso. agent for the Northwestern
at MADEIRA. and Fred Schmidt, agent
for the Dolores Mining Company.
MANY Of the Americans have their
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From Frontera Consul Lespinasse re-
ported that the rebels had occupied
two American owned plantations and
pillaged other property. The Wheeling
will leave Key West tomorrow after
noon after she has coaled. She has 80
sailors. but no marines. She probably
will reach Fronte- by nightfall to-
morrow. Her subsequent movements
will he directed by Admiral Fletcher,
commanding the Amer nan feet in the
Gulf Of Mexico, from the battleship
louisiana now at Tuxpam, where re-
newed disorder again imperilled Ameri-
cans and other foreigners.
President Takes Up Issue.
President Wilson has taken the Mex
lean situation into his own hands. The
customary Tuesday meeting Of the
Cabinet was not held to-day, and the
President denied himself 10 all callers
while he made a thorough study Of
papers sent over from the State De-
partment on the subject Of Mexico.
This afternoon he had long confer
ence with John Bassett Moore, acting
Secretary Of state in the absence OF
Secretary Bryan.
Mr.. Moore, il IS understood, carried
with him certain reports and dispatches
which gave the President a compre-
hensive outline Of actual conditions in
Mexico. Later, the President had n
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