The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-02-13
f[RROR STALKS STREETS
| Of THE shaken CITY.
hordes expected to arrive under the
guerilla chieftain zapata.

guerilla chieftain Zapata.
The ambassador and his stan scour-
ed the city for automobiles and sue
ceeded in communicating about TWEEN
ty-f1ve machines. All during the night
the women and children who had TAX
en- refuge In the embassy were load
ed into the automobiles and rushed
to the suburbs, where the ambassador
had had the forethought to rent
scores of houses. 1t was estimated
that more than 700 Americans had
been safely removed from the zone of
the expected bombardment by dawn.
Huddled in the bottoms of the cars
and guarded by American civilians
armed with revolvers and rifles, the
refugees were whirled through the
lines of both rebels and federals. De-
spite the white flags that fiuttered
from the cars they were fired on sew
erai times by sentries who either
failed to notice or failed to under
sland the white flags.
With nearly all the American wom-
en- safely out of immediate danger the
ambassador turned the automobiles
lover to the representatives of other
countries.
While the American ambassador
and his staff were working system
at'cally to save their country-women,
in the native sections of the city all
was confusion and horror.
In the darkness women, loaded with
ishousehold goods, carrying babies and
dragging older children. stumbled
over the bodies of the slain. Couriers
dashed through the streets and troops
/ were constantly shifting, but no ef-
fort was made to remove the dead.
/ The Red Cross made every effort pos
sibla to aid the wounded Hospitals
were improvised wherever fairly
we'll protected building could be
found, and the emergency forces OF
surgeons and nurses were aided by
many volunteers from the better class
residence sections.
The exodus from the poorer sec
tions was without plan or leadership
1 Hundreds slept or tried to sleep in
the parks and plazas but the greater
mass OF the refugees wandered about
the streets until daylight.
i The change in position of the guns
1 on both sides is subjecting buildings
occupied by foreigners even more
of cross-fire than in previous days
i battles. Many houses occupied by
4 foreign residents have been seizet
4 and occupied by the federals. On the
\ opposite side of the city the rebels
i have ouartered themselves in scores
of homes of middle-class natives
4 There was a lull In the firing or
I both sides about ten o'clock although
shells continued to fall internationally
, their explosions seeming to shake the
city the more because of their infre
, quency. Up to this time there hat
been terrific bombardment of
wider area than was affected by thu
cannonading of Yesterday.
Scores of additional dead ant
, wounded Uttered the streets. Many o
the dead and dying were non-combat
J, ants There were fewer women ant
children among them. The exodus
!, from the sections of the city imme
!. diately surrounding the battle groun'
saved several hundred lives.
Face to Face This Morning.
!, MEXICO CITY, Via GALVESTON
: Feb. IS. -Daybreak found the fightin
t forces of President Madero and Ger
: eral Felix Diaz facing each other a
closer range than at any time sine
j. IS the revolutionary battles in the cal
e tal began All night long Madero'
j. men were working in short shifts
4 moving into position the heavy car
i non which are being used to demolis
buildings and SNUFF out human live.
s These guns which are Intended to b
n used at distance of two miles, t.
t day will be trained upon targets les
It than 500 feet distant. The bloodief
! fighting Of the present revolution
Q expected today.
nj since 8 o'clock last night the cit
n