New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-10-29
FIees to American Consulate IN
the Night, Declaring He
Was To Be Shot, and
Asks Protection.
TAKEN TO THE LOUISIANA
With Two Mexican Companions
and One American, He Eludes
Huerta's Detectives and
Escapes in a Launch
to the Warship.


Vera Cruz. oct. 2S--General Felix
n,az applied TO the American Consulate
during tie night for protection and
mas taken on board the United States
yunboat Wheeling.
Toes Bonales Sandoval and Cecilio
Ocon. Mexicans, and Alexander VIII
Jams. an American newspaper corre-
spondent, who had made similar apPii-
cation to the consulate, were also taken
On board the gunboat with General
Diaz.
Late this afternoon General Diaz w2s
transferred to the battleship LOUISIANA
Rear Admiral Fletcher's hagshlp'
where he was allotted quarters in the
Wardroom.
The fight took place after midnigh',
the three men then taking the risk "
an excursion over the rooftops, which
were guarded by armed men, INTO INC
American Consulate.
The refugees dropped over low WALL
made their way into one Of the rear
rooms Of the consulate and asked thaI
Consul William W. Canada should Dc
called. Apparently suffering from
great excitement, they assured the con-
sui that they were confident that Their
lives were in imminent danger. They
declared they had knowledge that or
aers for their arrest had been issued
and they begged for his protection.
Told to "Run for IT,"
Consul Canada pointed to the water
front, about 200 yards distant, and
told the refugees that launch was
there and to make a run for ii.
The men hesitated for some time TO
make the venture, as the street in
front Cf the consulate was patrolled by
Ieveral detectives.
When Diaz and his comparisons
inally left the door Of the consulate
the detectives on duty apparently did
not recognize them, and they walked
deliberately past them TO the pier,
where they presented card from Con-
sui Canada TO the officer in command
Of the launch.
The officer hurried them on board
the launch. cast off, steamed quickly
across the harbor to the Wheeling, and
out them on board the gunboat.
The detectives in front of the hotel in
The streets were still watching the
place until long after daylight.
General Diaz and his companions.
once on board the Wheeling, soon re-
covered their equanimity, but this
morning they reiterated their belief
that they were to have been shot to-
lay.
John Lind, the personal representa-
tive of President Wilson, has notified
the State Department that everything
possible has been done to protect Cen
eral Diaz. In his dispatch he included
q letter sent by him to Rear Admiral
Fletcher, in which he says he was and
is convinced that the refugees were in
imminent peril and asks that they be
cared for on board the Wheeling or
another vessel until the arrival Of in
etructions from Washington.
General Gustavo Mas, commander
of the federal troops at Vera Cruz, APP
peared to-day to be more amused than
provoked by the action of General Diaz
in taking refuge on a United States
warship. The commander insisted that
he had no orders for the arrest of
General Diaz, and that he had no or
ders to protest against the action of
the United States in affording asylum
10 him.