The daily sentinel., 1913-06-04

taken to the French legation at that
time; but, as mamma, my nurse and
Luz could not go with us, we all
decided to remain together. There
were only four families left in the
court.
Stirring Moments.
About 2 pm. the firing began
again and our hopes of peace were
blasted. The fighting all Sunday af-
ternoon was extremely fierce, and,
although the usual hugle call to cease
firing was sounded at $50, there
was almost constant firing through
out the night. Heretofore the early
morning hours had been quite tran
quill and quiet and had given us
chance to snatch a little sleep. At
. O'Clock Monday morning the firing
was so incessant that no one could
venture outside the gate. That
meant neither bread, milk or water
for that day. All that day they kept
me in bed, less on account of my
heart than that they did not want
me to know that THEIR dinner con-
sisted solely of pea meal soup made
with water and salt. At noon our
Felizista volunteers brought up cof-
fee and potatoes for Luz to cook for
them. The poor boys were almost
out of ammunition and were much
worried, as they could not obtain any
more. The poor creatures were like
rats in a trap and were shut in by
Maderistas. We found later that. in
spite of their hunger. they left their
coffee and potatoes untouched.
At about O'Clock we were start ed
by excited cries, knocking and push
ing at the door. Within minute
the door yielded, and the little lieu
tenant and another volunteer rushed
in. The lieutenant told us that the
Maderistas had come over the roofs
and down the stairways on the oppo-
site side and were in the court We
barricaded the door and the windows
were securely closed. The Maderis-
tas began shooting directly at our
apartments. The Lieutenant pulled
off his coat and hat, and, going to
the window in his shirt-sleeves, shook
his fist at the soldiers and called out
stop shooting at my house. ! am
an American, peaceable American
citizen; leave my house alone" Nam
ma was just back of the window, tell
inE him to say that we were French
but he knew all soldiers had beer
cautioned to avoid complications
with foreigners, and especially Amer
leans. Twice they shot at him; but
he lodged inside, grinning at man.
ma; then out would go his head and
he would begin shouting at them
again.
The lieutenant had said to US, with
an American accent, that he was an
American, little sunburned because
he had come from Cuba. | said: "No;
you are from Texas" THAT is it,
he said. Il am Mr.. Lang from Tex
as"
After the soldiers stopped shooting
at us, the boys put on some of Mr..
l.. s clothes and We let them down
out of back window into the court
of the neighboring apartment which
opens onto Victoria street. One we
neither saw nor heard from after
ward, and we suppose he was shot,
as the Maderistas told us later that
they had killed three of the five.
They were all nice boys. One had n
family. Miss Wohlfert said. | knew
only the lieutenant. All that after
noon he climbed from one house to
another (there are three which open
onto our back COURT, and stopped
only when the Maderista soldiers
went to the roofs and began looking
down in the courts. He was the gay
est little fellow, and kept waving to
US and calling out to us from win
dow to window. We were annoyed
that he should be 50 imprudent; at
the same time we admired his dare
deviltry.
We're Suspected.
Soon after the Felizistas were gone,
servant, who had been left in one
of the houses of the court and whom
wo had fed for several meals, brought
up the Maderista soldiers to get our
wounded soldier, who had been too
weak to attempt to escape with the
others. They took him away, but
promised to do their best to prevent
him from being shot. The Maderis-
tas looked upon us with suspicion,
because, they said, we had harbored
Felizistas
That night we had decided to re-
tire without undressing. We were
all in my room and had barely fallen
asleep-all but mamma-when she
saw flicker of light. We had been
very uneasy about o'clock because
of an odor of burning wool. Mamma
said she was sure this was fire, but
it might be distant. A soldier came
and told us we would have to leave
at once as the corner house of our
row of apartments was on fire.
Of course, we knew the firemen
could not reach a fire which was at
the dividing line between two enc
mics: so we quickly donned our
wraps, packed our suitcases and went
out.
The fire did not look so very bad;
but We were told that it was dan
gerous for us to stay in the court on
account of bombs, and must go In
side.v. We passed through the, base
ment of the fportero's house. which
was opposite the burning one. and
big hole in the wall, which
led into the Nueva Era, Madero's Of
ficial newspaper, a building opening
onto Nueva Mexico street. They told
us it was not safe to go out on the
street; so we stayed in this office all
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