The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-12-14
|0NE THOUSAND REBELS
| FAIL IN SUNDOVN ATTACK

tion and when it was reported that
the gunboats had turned back the
constitutionalists, he started the cav
airy in pursuit. They chased the flee
ing rebels until darkness fell. General
Rabago's dispatches said that many
rebel wounded were killed by the pur-
suers as they tried to crawl to safety
At noon the rebels dynamited the
draw bridge over the Tamesi river,
severing the railway line to San Luis
Potosi and cutting off the last railway
approach to Tampico.
While General Huerta anxiously re-
manned for most of the day at the war
office, getting private advices from
the stricken seaport, he faced fresh
disaster in sudden demand by Gen
.eral Orozsco for funds. Orozsco
wired from Ojinaga demanding money
for his troops. The war office was in
| formed that Orozsco now has under
him only remnant of his once splen-
! did force. His messages were said to
| contain covert threat that he and
/ his men would not stop fighting unless
/, Orozsco is allowed 5000 pesos daily
| for his men.
The rebels were reported to be in
possession Of the railway yards at
Tampico and were endeavoring to re-
pair the damages to the line inflicted
by the federals sufficiently to allow
! the constitutionalists to bring from
| Victoria fresh artillery to offset the
cannon fire from the federal gunboat
Bravo. At the same time the gunboat
Garosa was on its way from Vera
Cruz to Tuxpam with orders to carry
General Joaquin Mas and his troops
to aid the defenders at Tampico.
A report here from Tampico by way
Of Vera Cruz said that both federals
and rebels were hanging prisoners OF
war within sight Of the residents OF
the town and the refugees on the
warships. Rear Admiral Fletcher, II
4 was said, sent an officer ashore to
protest and also to order all remain
ing Americans to leave Tampico fol
the ships.
Sir Lionel Garden, British minister
in an exclusive statement to the Unit
ed Press today, flatly denied stories
sent out here that he had received
! from Rear Admiral Sir Christophel
Cradock, wireless dispatch tina
Rear Admiral Fletcher ordered the
Tampico combatants to stop fir1ns
and threatened to turn his warships
guns on them If they did not obey
The story is absolutely false Car
den said. Il have received no sucl
massage and wish you to Say for mt
that it is untrue in every particular
Danger Looms Up.
, WASHINGTON, Dec. 13.-The dar
ger of foreign complications in cor
nectioni with Mexico loomed danger
ously near tonight. British and Gei
man citizens and property are in dar
ger in and about Tampico A revolt
tionary leader, admittedly drunk wit
power. was threatesing all Spaniard
. in northern Mexico Every rule OF II
: ternational law governing warfare
: being violated today in almost ever
: part of Mexico But there was n
suggestion of American interventio
! tonight. Presid ant Wilson, followin
= the course of events from his sic
bed, remained hopeful So did Sect'
;, tary of State Bryan. They feel ths
= it is the beginning of the end an
that within a brief time-thsy tnin
less than month-the constitution:
: cause will triumph, Huerta VIII hav
! fled and the work of restoration w
! be beginning. But they realize. thu
only the firmest m sasures on ths pa
!. of the United STATES right now ca
n prevent the most dangerous compile
Il ticns So Admiral Fletcher, from tt
n bridge of his flagship off the harbt
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