Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-02-19

that he join in the shouting but ne
dehantly replied:
Slain by Rurals.
viva Madero" He was answered
by the pistols of the rurales, whose
bullets killed him instantly.
Another instance OF disorder was
the firing of the building occupied by
the Nueva Era, newspaper organ OF
the Madero administration.
Vice-President Jose Pine Suarez,
who was also arrested in the coup
d'etat, was held prisoner during the
night in another part of the palace
from that where Madero was confined.
Each man was under guard of two
soldiers.
The ministers of the cabinet were
given parole over night. Senior Juan
Sanchez Azcona, private secretary to
Madero, fed the country during the
night in an automobile.
The deposed President will be treat
ed with all consideration by those who
have him within their power, it is de-
clared. General Huerta promptly dis
patched message to Mrs. Madero,
assuring her of the personal safety Of
her husband and declaring that he
would be well treated.
1t was the determination that the
battle in which heavy artillery had
been used in the streets since the out
break of the Diaz nlutiny must come
to an end which led group Of sena-
tors last night to urge General HuertG
to the stroke that would not only
terminate the terrible conflict but at
the same time remove the Madero
family from public affairs in Mexico.
BY o'clock yesterday afternoon
Francisco Madero and his cabinet,
with the exception OF Ernesto Ma
dero, minister of finance, had been
made prisoners.
Ernesto Madero Escapes.
| Ernesto Madero managed to effect
| his escape a few minutes before Gen.
eral Blanquet's men took the other
ministers prisoners in the National
| Palace.
| Gustavo Madero, another brother OF
President Madero. also was arrested
| He had been denounced in many
! quarters since the first day of the
| Madero administration as an arch
politician, and had been charged with
| being a false counsellor of the Presi-
dent
| A few hours later General Delgadc
and General Angeles, two of the fed
eral commanders who We're not IL
/ accord with General Huerta's plan
were added to the list OF prisoners.
The plan had originally been made
| without the knowledge of General
Diaz and his followers. The news
soon permeated the rebel lines. ano
| then began holiday fusillade from
the machine guns and rifles such af
had not been seen since the opening
of hostilities. 1t appeared for a time
as though every machine gun anc
| every rifle in the arsenal had beer
brought into action in an effort tt
fire away all the remaining stores Of
ammunition there.
| It was. however merely a celebra-
| ton of the arrival of the news that
| peace was near,
/ Cease Fro" Sounded.
! The awful din was permitted by
the commanders To continue for
twenty minutes before the buglers
were ordered TO sound the cease
I fire"
! As the noise of the reverberatinR
reports from the guns died away tho
, sound Of merry peals from all the
church bells Of the city rang out. This
had been ordered by message from
the national pal8se.
1t did not take the public long IL
realize what had occurred. Long
before the details OF the formation
of the provisional government under
General Huerta had been completely
worked out, the residents of thu
capital had begun to give vent t.
their joy and relief all over the city.
The shouts there were sent mp wer'
not those Of the partisans of a vic
torious army. but of people who's
nerves had been worn to tatters b,
enforced participation in a long ant
desperate battle in the confined space
of a great city.
American residents congregated i
the district about the United State
embassy We're just as demonstratiV
as the Latin-Americans.
In diplomatic circles, where the ten
sion also had been great the solu
ton which had been found wa
greeted heartily.
Dem onstratiOn by People.
Along San Francisco street and i
| other thoroughfares Of the downtow
district extending as far as the hi
open square in front of the nationa
palace, tens of thousands OF peopl
pushed their way back and fort.
waving banners which had been i'm
proyised out of the first material a
hand, and on which was printed tn
one word, Peace"
Shouts OF "Hurrah for Huerea.
"1urrah for BANQUET" "Hurrah 70
Diaz!" "Hurrah for Mondragon!
sounded everywhere throughout tn
city.