Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1913-02-12
]. 5. CITIZENS
 ! NOT MOLESTED State Department Issues Statement That No Ameri-
 cans Have Been Killed. RATTLE HAS CEASED n;oy thp Rebel Leader, Continues On
 Defense at Arsenal and His Forces Growing Stronger.
RATTLE HAS CEASED

Mexico City, Feb. 11.-After eigh bours of artillery battle in the heart of the dapital of Mexico, battle nev- or before paralleled in the history o1 the western continent-With hundreds re1orted killed and wounded among them many Americans, the foreign nonulation in alarm and the Ameri can embassy torn by shells-the MeXi- can revolution stands tonight at q deadlock.
 General Felix Diaz still holds the arsenal. President Madero's forces superior in number if not an arma. ment are gathering at midnight fol what seems to be planned as des- nerate final attack before morning. It cannot be an attack under GOV CT of darkness The city is ablaze with light. If the assault takes place. the inevitable destruction ot l hundreds or more lives will be ac- complished under the glare of cleo tric lights-the first conflidt of the l world so fought.
 The day was one of terror through out the city and tonight scenes equal those of the day in wildness. From the commencement of the firing-a sizzlling little fusillade between in- fantry corps that were followed with in few minutes by the terrific rout and roar of modern cannon and the spitting of machine guns-the fire was ,incessant until tonight
 The streets are streWn with dead and the dead are not only soldiers but women and children and men who Ehad no part in the trouble. And the streets are not only those tributary to the embattled arsenal but also those distant from the actual scene of the fighting-streets as far as two miles away where the shots and shells bf the combatants, flying wild, carried death to the innocent.
 Cltlzens-natives and foreign-are Killed at their windows in sections far from the battle.
 The United States ambassador Henry Lane Wilson, published a warning to all Amerio ans to keep out or the zone of danger. Then as the representative of the whole foreign automatic corps. he demanded pro- tectlon from Madero. Madero, who is eVdently in desperate straits, would not even make an attempt to guard tae property of foreigners. Diaz was poIte but declared that the work of protection was work for the govern ment
 Tonight Diaz sentiment is very strong. The people are all praise for lle care exercised by his men whc Ellea to shoot their cannon at the bat terles only which were attacking him
 Knox Issues Statement.
 washington, Feb. 11.-"So far as an pc learned through our agents in nexlco no Americans or other for sner mas been injured in the revolu- Sv, m whlqh commenced Sunday"
 iuls was the statement which was ssueu nefe tonight by Secretary of uIa'e Knox in reply to a request from
 aliy Lane Wilson, ambassador to
 caico A that the state department off aally promulgate the fact that no
 meflcans south of the border have
 svu N, injured or killed. Ambassador
 ,,son added that he made this re-
 ssSt because of hundreds of tele-
 sus or inquiry addressed the en-
 sss ;sss, which begged for news of indi-
 IVIals and which it was impossible
 aswer from Mexico City.
 K, fOrelgn Section PatrOllad.
 spalcnes from the Mexican capital