The daily sentinel., 1913-06-04

victims of these guns were scattered
all along the way.
However. every morning at day
break, the cook dear, faithful old
Luz-took boy from Mariano's Cthe
gatekeeper's) house and went to this
corner for water, went one square
for bread and three for milk, often
returning under fire of the guns and
sometimes sitting flat in the street
to avoid being hit. You know she
presents a considerable surface as 4
target.
The first day of the battle she had
told me of one particular dead body
lying at the corner of Balderas and
Victoria streets; several days later
she said the same corpse was there.
Others told me. however, that it was
a different one. so preferred to take
the latter version, as the water hole
from whence came our supply was
within few feet Of where the corpse
lay. | never asked her for details
We had to drink the water and | pre-
ferred not to know for certain. Any
way, 1t had horrible taste after be-
ing boiled and filtered.
More Guns.
On Thursday. the 13tn. the Fell
zistas tDiaz mem climbed over the
high gate at the entrance of our
court, forced the portero to open it,
and brought in a second rapid-fire
gun. Our stairway is the only one
leading to our roof; so up the stairs
they came and installed their gun
They were tired and hungry, having
had almost no sleep since Monday.
WQ than hn -
the food We had cooked for that day.
They wanted a flag, red and white,
Blood or peace" could supply a
sheet for the white, but, as MIR. l..
does not like red, | had nothing of
that color in the house; so Luz
brought out her red flannel petticoat,
SO dear to her heart, and gave it to
them to make a flag That after
the roof. That evening they re-
moved their gun and left only five
rifle men in its place.
All the roofs from Avenida Juarez
to our house were occupied by Mad
erista rifle men, and from our house
to the Ciudadela, where the roofs
We're high enough, the Felizistas held
sway.
Va thC III ol udy tnt FtllElSldS II eu-
tered they brought with them a
wounded infantry man who had been
serving that day with the artillery.
We made him as comfortable as we
could, and my nurse, Miss Wohlfert,
dressed his wound and gave an in
lection of morphine to ease the pain.
Ihe cook kept scolding that he was
one more to feed and that we were
nteffn 4
other side by keeping him; but she
shared with him her own food and
was more solicitous of his welfare
than any of us. He was a very de-
cent sort of Mexican of the peon
class. He had been put in the Diaz
army because he and some drunken
companions had cried "Viva Madero." :"
Fate willed it that he should be in
lured while fighting in opposition to
the very Madero, the partizanship of
Whom, was the cause of his down
fall.
To return to my history: Matters
Kept on in this way until Sunday
AFTER the first excitement, due to the
arrival of the Felizistas, we had no
rear OF them. AT least, we said, be-
ing within the lines, we were in less
VI btlhb lNDDeu ana
by the Zapatista bandits.
On Sunday we were surprised that
the battle did not re-commence at 9
clock, as usual. Soon we learned
that halliday armistice had been
arranged, to see If some compromise
might not be effected There were
many people in the street, coming to
see the scene of the recent conflict.
I hraGgnI haf H. Al
time in three weeks, so was helped
down stairs and to the gate to view
the scene.
much delapidated in its two upper
stories. There was not a telephone.
light or power pole or wire left stand
ing in the street. Piles of burning
trash could be seen at the corners,
covering dead bodies which were be-
ing charred, IS the Red, White and
Blue Cross Societies had been unable
to care for any but the wounded, and
had been obliged to leave the dead
where they fell. Some of the apart
ments on the outside of our flats
were in very bad shape, and one
house only a block away and nearer
the Citadel had been completely de-
unable to walk further, so we soon
returned home. In the meantime Mr..
Laborde's purse had been taken from
an inside coat pocket, so that our ar
dor for Sightseeing was considerably
dampened.
Afterward l called down from our
window to a little Felizista lieuten
ant, asking him if it were to be war
or peace. Knowing | had been i'll,
he said, reassuringly, Peace" We
lfelt encouraged to hone that it was
really peace, and became wildly ex-
travagant at dinner, daring even to
leave little scraps ON our plates, and
to wash the dishes afterwards. For
a week water had been so scare that
we had washed dishes only once
day. ! As long as i had been confined
to my bed many of these privations
had been kept from me. Only |, as
the invalid. had clean dishes, and
only | had oranges, lemons and eggs.
A great many people who had not
gone earlier left the court that Sun