The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1913-03-17
Red and White Gross Societies Unable
to Work While 10000 Men
Were Engaged.
MADERO'S DEATH EXPECTED
Murdered on Way From One Prison
to Another-Non- Combatants
in Hard Position.

Taking from February % to March
10 to reach Bemidji from Mexico
City, a letter from Bert Naugle has
been received by his mother here
Mr.. Naugle roomed in the Y. NJ. C.
A. and was driven out by the rebels
early in the trouble which resulted
in the death of Madero. The letter
was written the day that Maderc
and Suerez were shot
Mr.. Naugle writes that he and his
roommate lost practically everything
and his experiences shed an inter
esting side light on the Mexican re-
volution.
"We spent yesterday afternoon
in the Y. NJ. c. A., where we had
rooms, picking up the few personal
effects left in the ruins. All the
more valuable ones were stolen OF
shot to pieces. One new suit, that
| had just had made, was absolutely
riddled with machine gun fire.
Before the fight began, the sold
iers looted every room. They broke
the locks off trunks, doors, etc. and
dumped the contents in the center
of the room. When the shot and
shell later tore the building, it made
an indescribable mess. Most of the
rooms caught fire from exploding
shells and burned out completely
Pringle (his roomate) suffered loss
of about $4,000.
Madero's Death Expected
"Presidcnt Madero and Vice-presi-
dent Suarez were shot at $50 this
morning. 1t was given out that they
escorted from one prison to another
but the people generally believe
their death was not unexpected.
1T is impossible to tell of all
went through during the ten day
scrap. I slept in my clothes all Of
the time and l may say that they
were the same clothes I had whe1
| escaped from the Y. M. c. A.
was some sorry looking sight whe1
it was all over, unshaven and I'm
shorn and frightfully dirty. Sleep
ing on the floor ten nights does no
g,
II first went to Briggs house Gar
American friend) in the American
colony but as the fighting came too
near and bullets were entering tn
house, he took one little girl anC
| the other and we went to vacan
house in the outskirts We stayed
there five days until forced by thu
firing 60 fee again when we finall.
landed in a vacant house in Tacu
baya, a suburb of Mexico City.
Target for Sharp Shooters.
1.-THE only time ! was really an
truly frightened was when we were
escaping the first vacant house. W.
had to cross little park quite open
and several sharp shooters on hous
tops four or five blocks away devote,
their attention to us. had tw'
year old baby in my arms but l brok
all sprinting records for the bullet!
fairly rained around us and the
had a business like sound.
Food went up in price, frs
doubled and then trebled. AS tn
fighting started on Sunday, Brigg
and 7 had but twenty pesos between
us and there was no chance to ge
down town for more. Naturally W.
did not fare very we'll. l have al
ready spent several hundred pesos
for clothes but have not nearly re
placed my belongings.
Il People Died Like Dogs. j..
r.. 'The first days of the trouble whel
the fighting was not so hard mo-
general, the streets were filled will
Red Cross, White Cross and the BLU
Neutral picking up dead and wound
ed; but as the fighting became worse
there were only one or two doin.
business. Consequently people diet
like dogs for wants of attention -
won't attempt to describe the sicken
ing sights in the streets the last
two or three days. They are burning
the dead just where they fell and tn
smell is indescribable. .