Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-02-19
rHousApscs KILLED IN STREETS.
Innee eeents I SSosr, ys.ssen and Children
9ailn Dutisa Battle.

! Mexico CITY, Feb. lS.--.All the hor-
! rors Of d hambardment have been ex-
| perienced ~ the residents of this cit,
for many days. and to those that
might be expected have been added
| the effects OF vicious machine gun and
rifle fire in the streets at range
sometimes Of less than 100 yards.
Scarcely district Of the capital has
esca ped injury. Over and thru every
quarter at some time shells have torn
and screeched and exploded. Little
! round shells from the automatic pom
| poms have added to the terror and
destruction.
| Hundreds Of buildings attest by their
| hole marked sides and wrecked inter
iors to the destructive qualities OF
modern artillery.
How many have been killed OF
wounded Is a question which none can
| answer with any exactitudc. 1t Is
doubtful whether even the government
records will ever reveal the correct
number.
Thousands Killed and Wounded.
From source usually considered
careful and conservative 1t has been
| stated that the number of dead Is not
less than 1000. while the total Of the
| wounded amounts to from 5000 to 10.-
900. The great majority Of these are
not soldiers, but men. women and chill
dren unable to escape the lines of fire.
This estimate was made after hearing
the reports OF scores of officers OF the
| White and Red Cross societies and OF
the hospitals.
1t ix aewell known fact that detach-
! ments Of fifty and 100 men have been
slaughtered here and there at various
times when caught in the narrow
streets and moved down by machine
| guns.
! Carts piled jligil with corpses have
been seen driven to spot in the out
skirts Of the city where the bodies
| have been burned.
=; Every morning may be seen what ap-
pear in the zone Of the actual fighting
! to be piles of burning rubbish. These
| heaps are for the most part rubbish
| but the odor of burning flesh tells an
! other story. ~
A practical. aho grewsome, method
| has been utilized in one place. The
gas escaping from q broken main has
| been lighted and thcSe In that steady
flame has been improvised a crema-
| tory
! In the basement of an apartment
house few blocks from the arsenal is
! the grave Of Mrs. E. w. Holmes. one
of the two American women killed
early in the fighting hya the entrance
into her home of a shell: For three
days her husband xtayed alone ther'
with. the corEse. unable to remove !.
and unwilling to leave it. perhaps t.
| suffer further mutilation.
| Buries Wife in Basement.
Soldiers entered the apartment wher'
he kept vigil and before his eye!
robbed the place. He managed to fine
boards and carpenters tools and nails
in the building and constructed cof'
| fin, into which he laid the body of his
wife. He carried 1t to the basemen,
| and there dug and filled her grave.
! The absolute cessation Of all indus
trial and business activity is fast re-
ducing an enormous number of non
! combatants to a state bordering or
starvation. The more fortunate are in
many cases able to take care OF them
selves, but the closing Of the banks has
made precarious the condition even OF
some Of these.