Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1913-12-17
REBELS Are ROUTED
IN TANPICO FIGHT
Reported as in Flight towards
Victoria.
800 ARE REPORTED SLAIN
Spanish Refugees at FL Paso, Tex, Tell
of Outrages Perpetrated by Villas
Men at Observation-Disclosures
Looted and Priests Robbed.


Washington, Dec ia dispatch
received from Rear Admiral Fletcher
at Tampico said that firing had ceased
and that the rebels have cut off the
city's water supply. The American
and other foreign refugees on board
the American battleships are 1875 men,
166 women and 146 children. The
number remaing in the city is not
known.
Mexico City, Dec. ia heavy and
sustained bombardment by two gun
boats and the federal field artillery
resulted in the complete rout of the
rebels at Tampico, according to war
Office report received from General
Rabago.
Hundreds of rebels, the report
states, were killed within an hours
time, and the remainder of the rebel
army is reported to be in full fight
towards Victoria.
General Rabagos report as made
public by the war office states that
the gunboats Bravo and Zaragoza
started down the river towards Arbol
Grande and Dona Cecilia, which have
been centers of the rebel operations
for the last three days. Back in the
city, General Rabago says, it had been
planned to give the gunboats the CO.
operation of the land forces.
Coup by the FederaIs.
The rebels along the river bank ap-
peared to believe that the gunboats
were attempting to escape, is the i'm
preston given by the report, and
were caught off their guard when the
Smelling, which swept their positions,
began. The report insists that 800
men were killed before the rebels
could get out Of range. As soon as
the flight began, General Rabago
started his cavalry In pursuit, and at
midnight his troopers were hanging
on the rear of the fleeing rebels, whose
going is described in the report as
rOut
Deny Landing of British Marines.
One persistent rumor, which, how
ever, has been denied at the British
legation, was that $50 British marines
and bluejackets were landed at Tam
pico.
Both armies are charged with exc
cutting the few prisoners captured.
The federaIs began by hanging sew
eral prisoners in full view of the in
surgent lines. The rebels immediate
1y retaliated by hanging all the fed
eral prisoners In their hands.
Rear Admiral Fletcher, ia command
of the American warships, protested
against such barbarities, declaring
that the fighting must be conducted
according to the rules of civilized war
fare
Relate Villa Outrages.
Ell Paso, Tex, Dec Histories of
Wholesale footing by Gen. Francisco
Villas rebel army on it's entrance into
Chihuahua, Mexico, of the despoiling
of church treasures, of the robbery
of Spanish priests and nuns, of the
confscation of property, and demands
for exorbitant sums of money, were
brought here with the arrival of 478
citizens of Spain, who had been ban
ished from Mexico by the rebels.
Eighteen Catholic priests and nuns
of Spanish origin were among the
refugees They joined with the other
exiled Spaniards in sending to the
Spanish ambassador at Washington
and to the minister of foreign rela-
tions at Madrid protest against what
they asserted was an outrage of their
rights
Tell of Looting Churches.
The priests said Villa had demand
ed $4,000 from each OF them and after
they had given all they possessed
Villas army looted the cathedral and
churches and the convent of all the
gold and jeweled chalices and sacred
vestments.
One priest said he paid over to the
rebels sos, which was all he had; an
other said he gave $155, and the nuns
gave all but their personal belongings.
Demand 100000 of Terrazas.
FL Paso, Tex, Dec. ia commit
tee representing Pancho Villa consti-
nationalist commander in Chihuahua,
called upon Gen. Luis Terrazas with
demand for the payment of 100000
within 48 hours to save the life of his
oODy LUIS Il eli dLd0, WIZ 10 llOW nSIu d
prisoner by Villa in Chihuahua City. If
the ransom is not forthcoming the
younger Terrazas is to be executed.
General Terrazas and his party arrived
here by train from Maria.
1t is reliably reported that dozen
wealthy German residents of Chihua-
hua also are held for ransom. They
are charged with having given finan-
cial aid to the federals. Otto Kuch,
German consul at Chihuahua, is re-
ported to have been condemned to be
executed within twenty-four hours I'M
less $4,000 ransom is paid. Germans
in FL Paso have appealed to Washing
ton for immediate action to prevent
the threats being carried out.