Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1913-12-29
Innocent Women and Child
rem, and Unoffending
Men Put to Death.
BODIES PUT ON, POLES.
Federal Soldiers Resort 10 Great Bar
barity in Order to Strike Terror
to The Natives.

Washington, Dec. 29.-Details of
atrocities charged against Federal
troops in recent military manocuvres
in Mexico are coming here to repre-
sentatives of the Constitutionalists.
Brutal murders of innocent women
and children and of unoffending poems
and Indians. as we'll as of active COM
batants, are charged. The federal
commanders are said to be stringing
such Mexicans to telegraph poles
along railroad lines to terroriZe sym
pathizers with those opposing the Hu-
erta regime.
The State Department is keeping
official register of Americans and 9TH
err foreign residents in Mexico who
have been killed injured and despoil-
ed of their property. Consular off,
cials are making regular and full re-
ports. The department will not make
public this list, having denied the in
formation from motives of admins
tration policy to the Senate, which
asked it through formal resolution.
A partial list of victims of Mexican
brutality, murder or attempted mur-
der being charged in each instance,
compiled last night by Sherebene 6.
Hopkins, legal representative of the
conytitut;onalists, includes:
President Madero and Gustavo Ma
dero, shot.
!. Governor Riveros; tried to kill but
escaped.
Governor Ambram Gonzales, Of Chi
huahua, killed by General Rahago, by
being thrown under moving train.
Senator Dominguez, murdered after
making speech in the Senate opposing
| Huerta.
! Deputy F. Escudero, ordered mur'
dered, but escaped.
! All Constitutionalists officers ano
men executed, if captured. Estimate;
shot 1000 since March /, 1913.
Fifteen members of Chamber o1
Deputies disappeared.
At least fifty army officers secretly
! shot in penitentiary because they cr'
ticised Huertds assumption OF dlcta
torial powers.
From consular reports and iron
nrivate sources that l believe rell
able" said Captain Hopkins. 1--WE hav
learned that the Federal troops haV
shot down at least 800 inoffensive
men, women, and children, poems an
lohorers in the streets of Montere
after the battle at that city
"These poor people had gone mt
tho streets following the battle an
with the retirement of the Constitute
onalists, they were not afrase
against the Federals. =,
"Retween Monterey and Laredo IN
commanding Federal officers had sue
, ;roffending noncombatants hanged
telegraph poles to terrorize the ma
, t;ves A train on this road was heI
+. m At his orders that the passe"
I. might view the bodies OF elght me e
i, who had been hanged by the Federal
"The Federals hanged fifteen Coz
s+i+utionalist officers and men
Tampico in sight of the foreign wa
!, sbins here, an5 Admiral Fletche
n commanding American battleship
n made vigorous protests. Many
n .he wounded in that battle were ba'
: onetted by the Federal troops
4" General Carranza' commander
= .ho constitutionalists, has requlr'
It that wounded Federals' be accoro
d treatment as humane as that gwen
l. own wounded.
y "The Constitutionalists shot sew
Federal officers at Juarez. after tr'
Inv court-martial on charges tn
r, they had violated parole uno
ar which they had agreed not to take a
ct rive part against the Constitution;
ty sits.
no "About 6 months ago the Feder
~ L;s+s bavonstted number Of wound
ed Econstnutionalists at Gusyamas. l
nd latter have since retaliated by sho
II, ing a Few Federal officers.
a "The State of Morelos has been n
on deva stated by the Federals, wom
men and children having been butrh