The daily banner. (Cambridge, Md.) 1897-2008, 1913-02-10
Hundreds Are Killed
and Wounded.
MADERO LEADS IN FIGHT
Presidents Brother Is Taken
Prisoner by Rebels.
CITY IS UNDER MARTIAL Law
General Diaz, Released From!
Prison Leads Attack.
CITY IS UNDER MARTIAL Law

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| Mexico City, Mex, Feb. 10.-The
national capital of Mexico became
| battlefield. About $50 were killed and
the wounded are said to total several
hundred. Martial law has been pro
claimed.
Madero's family has taken refuge II
the Japanese legation, and the presl
dent is making a fight, desperate II
its efforts, against what appears e
be enormous odds for retention of his
power.
General Diaz, who is the nephew
of the deposed president, Pordrln
Diaz, is now at the head of majority
of the capital troops, including most
of the artillery, and is in possession
of the arsenal in the city and the
powder works nearby.
Madero is relying on the loyalty Of
General Banquet, who has been sum
moned from Toluca, forty miles dis.
tant, but Banquet has only 1000 men
under his command, and the rebels
are confident of defeating him should
he refuse to join the revolt.
Three Americans, two women and
one man, were killed in the fighting
at the palace. S
Fighting in the streets of the capi-
tai opened at o'clock Sunday morn
ing, when part of the federal troops
in the capital rose in mutiny, first az
fba ad
leasing General Felix Diaz and Gen.
eral Bernardo Reyes. Is
General Diaz Immediately took com
mand of the mutinous troops and led
them in an assault upon the national
palace, where President Francisco 4.
Madero was at that time asleep. Part
of the guards at the palace remaineI
loyal, and Madero, aroused from hA
bedchamber, took comm m22d in person
and led them through the1treets.
The president was able to hold the
palace and drive the m':t-neers of.
but in other parts of the city the mu-
tineers were more successful. These
defeated bands of loyal troops in sew
eral localities. Many spectators were
also wounded and the principal build
ings of the city were badly shot up.
1t was declared that President Ma
dero had disappeared from the palace
and that he was either in hiding or a
prisoner of the rebels. In the event
of his being made prisoner it is be-
lieved that his execution will occur in
a short time.
People Shot In Their Homes.
General Villarara, one of the loyal
army officers, was killed in the fight
ing. Many officers of lesser rank met
death in attempting to resist the mutt
neers and the rebels. Joined by the
mob, the mutineers were soon but a
small part of the rebel army in the
actual conflict. Men with guns and
pistols came from all quarters to join
Diaz's troops in the fighting. The Diaz
men were careless of their firearms
and bullets flew everywhere. People
were shot in their homes as they were
hiding from the trouble. Bombs, hand
grenades and other weapons common
to the rebels were used.
The treasury was one Of the points
of rebel attack, and the handsome
building was badly damaged. 1t is de-
clared that the rebels succeeded in
reaching the vaults and obtaining a
quantity of money.
It was reported that General Reyes
had been killed, but this was denied
and he was said to be with Diaz. He
was in the thick of the fighting and a
half hundred men were shot down
around him. He was seen to fall,
which led to the report that he had
been killed.
General Diaz escaped with a small
following after the attack on the pal
ace had been repulsed. 1t is believed
that he has left Mexico City. Rallying
to the personal leadership Of Presi-
lent Madero, the loyal troops after a
Humber of deep desperate hand-to.
Land conflicts in the streets near the
palace, city prison and penitentiary
succeeded in quelilng the mutiny to a
great extent.
A vast majority of the excited popu.
lace is frankly open in its expression
of loyalty to President Madero and
his administration.
Madero's Brother a Prisoner.
Gustavo Madero, brother of the
president, who recently returned from
a diplomatic mission to Japan, was
made a prisoner by the mutineers
The rebels have stronger hatred for
him than for the president.
Gustavo drew 100000 from the fed
eral government: shortly after his