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SELF PRESIDENT /
MaderO Said to Have Fled
From Mexico City.
REBELS ARE IN COATR0L

800 Reported Killed and 1000 Wound
ed In Fights In capitai-Genera
RIanquet Joins Revolutionists.
Mexico City, Feb. 11.-General Fell,
Diaz has proclaimed himself provis
ional president of Mexico, denouncinf
Francisco Madero as an enemy to tbs
republic.
Madero has disappeared from tbs
national palace and is reported to bs
in hiding with his family in Vera
Cruz, ready to fee from the country.
Many bodies of the 300 victims who
fell in Sundays fighting when the
revolutionists captured the arsenal
were still lying in the streets and
plazas. One thousand men and w0
men were wounded in the attack OF
the insurgent forces under General
Bernardo Reyes, who was shot to
death, and General Dfaz against the
national palace.
Most of General Blanquet's army OF
1000 federals, the Flower of the gov
ernment army" after reaching the
city refused to fire upon the insur-
gents and helped to burn the bridges
around the city to keep federal troops
from entering.
Five thousand Indians and Zapatist
revolutionists are on the way to the
capital.
AS many dead bodies were secretly
removed from the streets the exact
number of dead was not known. al.
though it was generally placed at
300. Some estimated it far above this
number.
Bands of mutineers marched around
the streets shouting that Madero
would have to pay for the death of
Reyes with his own life. No doubt ex-
listed in the minds of those who look
ed upon the fanatical insurgents that
Madero will be summarily put to
death If captured.
Madero in person led the national
palace troops that resisted the first
attack Sunday, although there was
mutiny in his own ranks. Madero's
own bodyguard hanged four officers
of the national palace troops for re-
fusing to join the uprising.
A tragic sequence of the death of
General Bernardo Reyes in the fight
ing Sunday was the suicide of his son,
Rodolfo. He shot himself through the
head. Grief over his fathers death,
was the cause. He was well-kno9
attorney.
revols 3
army, by which General Fell
practically captured the Mexican capi-
tai, prevailed in Mexico City.
The populace did not know whether
President Madero had fled from the
capital. With a following of loyal
troops, said to number 1000, he took
refuge in the national palace, but 1t
was reported that under cover of night
he had fed toward the eastern coast,
taking his family with him. 1t was
also reported that all of the members
of the cabinet had resigned.
The report of his flight was given
credence, although it was without con-
firmation His decision to flee the cap
ital, it was stated in the reports tnat
he had fed, was due to General Blan-
quet's refusal to stand by him.
1t is recalled that during the Orozco
rebellion Madero stated what course
he would pursue if the national CAPT.
tai was captured. He said he would
never surrender, but in case Mexico
City was taken he would remain in
the government palace as long as pos
sible and then with whomever re-
mained loyal he would transfer the
seat of government to the hills in the
south where he would keep up the
fight for constitutional government.
The city apparently was not con
vinced that Madero would not be able
to return to the city with enough
troops to wrest from Diaz and his mu-
tinous followers the power which they
seized.
There was considerable speculation
as to what action congress might
tike. 1t was regarded as probable
that congress would demand the re-
signation of the Madero administra-
ton.
The American embassy is guarded
by twenty Americans, members of the
protective association which was form.
ed several months ago.
The mutinous troops were led by
The students of the military school at
Tialpam, suburb. They marched to
:he prison to which General Felix
Diaz had been transferred for safe
keeping and released him. General
Reyes was also freed from the San.
tiago military prison, there being no
resistance in either place.
To the army of the mutineers quick.
ly came members of the First cavalry,
Twenty-fourth cavalry and Twentieth
infantry. General Manuel Mondragon,
retired, was in command, but gave
way to Generals Diaz and Reyes.
The first encounter with the loyal
troops occurred in front of the ma
tional palace. Among the scores of
bodies which strewed the streets were
thoes of minor officers, women and
boys of the lower classes and mem.
bers of the great crowd which had
assembled at the firing Of the first
shot.
General Reyes was shot down at
the first fire, as was DR.. Espinosa de
LOS Monteros. Reyes leader of ma