Arizona republican., 1913-03-18
WAR IN MEXICO CITY
 HORROR UPON HORRORS
American Lady Writes Of Her Ex per'ence During the Ten Days
 Battle in Capital Citv

letter written by Mrs. Lois l. de NrleS, to friends in Mesa oivae graphic description of the fiphtipo. ih that city. The letter was writ+on February 18th while the battle was going on. and shows better than mere statements of war correspondents inst what the foreigners had to nass through while the Mexican forces were smelling each other in the heart 10 the Mexican capital In part the letter sa,~s:
 Tn thlS moment of supreme sufs 1ering ard anxiety l am thinking of friends Nho may be thinking of us The morning of the 9th we wera awakened by the booming of can non-the first idea we had of troublo and in q few minutes We realized that the city was under fire. In little while the Red Cross was at work and l was on duty, forgetting myself in the effort to save others Since that early hour We have been under constant fire, excepting durino short intervals. Cannon balls have pierced the houses on both sides of us; four have entered the house i'm front and we can hear balls whiz zlng about our ears, and can pick them up still hot. We are in Sadi Carnot street. still we would have been in much more danger had we remained in Hotel Berry Many have been hurt there two lady friends. one dead, and of course we do not know how many more. Last night we were oVerjoyed to hear that Madcro had resigned, but report proved false and after We had retired for the night the battle began again worse than before. so we were obliged to aban- don beds for safer quarters below.
 There are 5 of us in this little place. mostly women, and as we fear attacks by the Zapatistas. the men change watch every hour All yaIu- ableS are put away and secret pas sages have been made through the walls In case We are compelled u abandon this house. l have advice from the government officers that the fighting may continue several days. so We can only sit tight and await developments
 At present the bullets are drop ping all around the place and the soldiers are being shot down in tho streets as they attempt to advance. 1 am assistant to Dr Valdes of the plS sanitarium and have helped to operate on many of the poor fellows who were wounded. They bring ter rlble tales of suffering. was the flrst to offer first aid to the wound ed, in this section, and they have mn ion. Unless recognized bv the gov ernment no one is allowed to remove the wounded or pick up the dead rom the streets. The latter are full of dead men and horses Sixty car loads, piled high. passed through two hours ago. Horrors upon horrors are told to us by the people and from what We can see I judge it to De true. There is d lull in the firing and am taking advantage of it to send this, in the hope it may reach you and let you know that all is so far well with us Carl Ga sonD is helping to take care of the woman and children.
 dare not send you any news of the progress of the fighting on either side, nor send d newspaper Anyone raught with paper on him is inn mediately shot
 A letter received on the same day. but written on the 22nd, tells of the death of Madero and the holiday fol- lowing the announcement of peace The writer and family would have been in Arizona shortly after the first trouble, but for the fact that MT, de Vries was too ill in the hos pital to be moved