Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1913-11-27

the children and sisters all knelt in
prayer for deliverance. At 5 n. m.
the federals retreated and the rebels
with wild Indian war whoops, throw
ing dynamite bombs in every direc-
tion, entered Gomez, about one mile
from u.s.
Sacked Every House.
Then we felt little more at ease,
but still we knew what terrible scenes
they We're senacting. They burned
several stores so that next day not
a spool of thread could be bought.
They sacked every private house,
breaking up every piece of furniture,
or ornament which could be broken.
Next day the streets were almost
blockaded by broken pianos, sewing
machines, chairs, broken crockery,
windows, etc.
The three banks were robbed and
the safes left in the middle of the
street. With brooms the rebels put
coal oil on the ceilings Of lighthouses,
and they then set fire to them with
dynamite bombs.
Calls Rebels Scum.
1T is perfectly nauseating for peo-
pie in the States to admire the con-
stitutionaiists, they are simply all the
"peladoes" tscum), rising against the
decent class. Not a single foreigner
nor person of the least education in
Mexico is in sympathy with them.
1T is just as if all the scum arose In
the United States against the people
of culture. Yet Americans who are
not at all judges of the case think
they can't blame Diaz or Huerta
enough, nor agrandize the peladoes
enough
A Reign Of Terror
The taking of a town by the reb-
els is simply a reign of terror. We
were under them for seven weeks,
from the day they took Gomez, and
the torture was terrible.
81 Archbishop Imprisoned.
Another day they shot straight owe
the fence at two sisters, and another
day they turned a Gatlin gun on four
sisters who went back to the college
for some clothes, killing dog which
was with them. They are perfect
brutes They almost forced us to
take charge of thei' wounded, which
would have been a most terrible thing
FOR their garrisens are far from re-
spectacle places. They threatened
to expel us as undesirable foreigners
and confiscate our property
The British consul intervened and
got us out Of the predicament In
every town they take they put the
priests in jail. In the city of Du-5
range they imprisoned the aged and
most venerable archbishop in loath-,
some cell Of the penitentiary, demand
Ing s560,000 within three days, giving
him the yilest usage. The British
and American consuls rescued him
and smuggled him out of the city.
The rebels also opened the graves Of
the former archbishops, seeking treas.
ure. They stole beautiful remon.I
STRANGE, worth $500, 600.
Women Aid in Robberies.
z- o.
4 July % our college was sacked by
the rebels. September Z it was sack
ed by the federals when they retook
our town. The rebels contented them
selves with shooting open a door and
stealing mandolin. a guitar and two
violins. ransackfng the desks Of the.
sisters, and standing all the photo
sraphs they found head down in d.
line. The federals ransacked the
whole house. they stole all they.
could lay hands on. The women (for
they always accompany the soldiers
changed their clothes for better and
left their old clothes on the foor
Stole Her Rosary.
They cooked supper In our kitchen
atd knocked on one OF tbe yard gates
81 IS to pile on It their booty and
carry the loot to the mountains. We
graced their path by blankets and
clothes dropped along the road. They
ssele the rosary that / put In dear
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