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WAR is ON AGAIN
IN MEXICO CITY
The AInlStiCe Was Broken BY
Mutual Consent.
DREADFUL SCENE OF CARNAGE
Bodies of Dead Men and Horses Re-
moved From the Streets and Disease
BREEDING Debris Burned.

Breeding Debris Burned.
Mexico City, Mex, Feb. 17.-Tho
truce between President Madero and
General Diaz ended at 2 o'clock OH
Sunday afternoon by mutual consent
At nightfall machine guns on the ROOF
of the arsenal were sweeping the San
Juan plaza, south of the Alameda
wheer the federal troops had taken
position for a renewal of the assaults
on the rebel fortress.
There were sorlies from the arsenal
and Felicistas and Maderistas fought
with the bayonet in the narrow streets
between the market and the citadel
There was considerable loss Of life.
The American residents are safer
than at any time since the revolt be-
gan. Although Madero and Diaz had
agreed early Sunday morning upon a
twenty-four-hour armistice they broke
the truce after twelve hours. This
gave sufficient time, however, for the
American ambassador to remove hun
dreds of his countrymen from the cen.
ter of the city to the Colonla Roma
and the Colonia Juarez.
Confident of ultimately defeating
Diaz, Madero defed the senate and ig.
nored the counsel of Francisco de la
Barra and other friends. He absolute
ly refused to resign, but did not take
the trouble to make known his decls-
ion personally to the senate, depu'
tation from which he refused to meet
at the national palace.
Madero declared that he had been
legally elected by the people, that he
was the constituted president, and
that he would die before he would re'
sign his Office. This defiant declara-
ton was made to the Spanish minis
ter, Senor Jacinto de Cologan y Colo
gan, who was with him at the ma
tional palace.
The capital was almost gay Sunday
morning for the first time since the
revolt began. The twenty-four-hour ar.
mistice encouraged many thousands tc
venture back to the center of the city
The shops were open, several OF the
larger markets received supplies from
the country and the people were able
to buy food and other necessaries.
From dawn until after noon the
streets were crowded. There was fe.
verish activity. Citizens staggered Tn.
der burdens of food and clothing they
were removing to places of refuge.
The weIlto-do were able to Obtain
cash from the 3anKs, ar.a there -
more money in circulation than has
been seen in the capital for eight
days.
The greatest boon of all was the op
portunity that was given to the Red
and White Cross organizations and tc
volunteers sanitary organizations te
remove from the streets such things
as imperiled health and were in way
to produce pestilence. For a week the
sanitation had been indescribable. The
forty acres of the Alameda were
strewn with the bodies of horses. The
federal cavalry had used the park for
bivouacking and their position had
drawn destructive shelling from the
arsenal.
In many Of the principal streets the
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lain for days, buried under the wreck
age of buildings. In San Juan de
Letran street twenty federals had
been killed on Friday by the explosion
of a shell in warehouse where the
men were quartered. The volunteers.
made up of Mexicans, directed by
American, Spanish and German doc
oh fo n
these bodies and to lessen to some
extent the peril of pestilence.
Great heaps of garbage were burned
in the streets and in the public
squares. Sanitation experts examined
the water supply for the purpose oil
seeing whether or not it had been
contaminated.
None but one who has witnessed the
horrors of the past week can appre.
ciate the extent of the public rejoicing
when it became known that truce
had been declared by mutual consent
of the combatants. For seven days q
city of 100000 people had endured a
warfare which recognized none of the
laws of civilized fighting. Six-inch
field guns had dueled at a range OF
2rom four to twenty blocks, sweeping
the finest streets of the city with their
shells. Night and day the people were
alarmed by the terrific roar of the
cannonading and were driven from
quarter to quarter as the zone of the
fighting extended. All classes suffered
The wealthy whose homes were in the
center of the city were in better case
than the unfortunates of the red light
district. Dozens of fine mansions wers
wrecked or burned. Some of the mosi
ornamental buildings of the capita.
will have to be rebuilt at enormou;
expense In the mad warfare in tha
heart of a great city neither Maderc
nor Diaz counted the cost
A conservative estimate places the
number of dead in the weeks fightins
at 1000 and the number of wounded
at more than 1900. This includes citi
zens and foreign residents as well a:
soldiers. The Mederistas were by fai
the heaviest losers. Diaz lost prob
ably fifty killed and 200 wounded. The
federal troops, because of their hope
less frontal attacks on the arsenal il
the face of deadly machine gun fire
lost probably 500 in killed and 1000 il