The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-02-12
IINC[[ SAM Is READY
TO INVADE OLD mexico.

not idle. The entrenchments OF the
rebels were pushed considerably In
the direction Of the national palace,
and Diaz, too, brought into position
additional artillery.
Estimates of the dead In yester-
days fighting varied from 200 to 1000.
Americans thought the larger esti-
mate none too high. The brunt of
the casualties was borne by the fed
eralists. The rebels lost few men,
Diaz being authority for the state
ment that only twenty of his men
were killed.
The wounded Americans were said
not to be fatally hurt.
Madero was in possession Of the
national palace, and declared that he
had 100000 men. Federal outposrs
camped for the night on their arms,
in the streets near the palace, for a
distance of several blocks.
General Diaz occupied the plaza
and two huge buildings in the west
ern part OF the city known as the
tcitadel and also had men in posses
sion Of the Young Mems Christian
Association. Diaz said he had plenty
of men and more on their way to the
city Madero was authority for the
statement that the rebels number
only 1900.
There was report that Madero
had cut off the water supply of the
citadel, but Diaz denied this and said
that. anyway, he could get plenty of
water besides that from the city wa
ter system
Conditions in the city today were
! chaotic. Some dead still lay in the
streets and the wounded we're housed
in many private residences, where
the Red Cross attended to them as
we'll as the equipment would permit
Debris and shattered building ma
/ terial Uttered all the streets within
/ the zone of fire, and cornices and
Ichimneys of many buildings were
.ishot away.
4 Food was at premium, and it was
i said that the city faced famine There
Twas no milk and bread to be had, ant
4 other food stuffs were hard to OBJ
tain Hotel fare was meagre ant
\ many private houses were feeding ut
4 ter strangers.
The telegraph lines to Vera Cruz
4 which were cut Yesterday, were re
4 stored today, but the authorities re
4 fused to accept commercial messages
1t was rumored. but not verified, tina
railroad lines into Mexico City wer,
being torn up in places.
{ The fighting here yesterday wa
without precedent in Mexican war
fare Never before were powerful
and long range guns used where onl.
a few city squares separated the com
lbatants. Some of the cannon operat
; ed by both the federals and rebel
! were Of two miles range and more
Y while not more than half mile In
: tervened between the enemies.
AS result, enormous unnecessar
I damage was wrought, and there wa
: no place within the city where nor
combatants were safe. Diaz, the nigh
$ before, made an attempt to clear tn
j streets. but SO far as known Nader
0 did nothing of the sort and gave n
t kind of warning to citizens.
The only warning of any kind give
7 to non-combatants came from An
y bassador Wilson, and his advice wer
largely unheeded Americans an
other foreigners, apparently not reali
ing that it was real war and not oper
;. bouffe, insisted on climbing to hous
d tops and windows to look at the pr
n ceedings and several Of them carrie
= away bullets in their bodies as Sol
2 venirs.
J. Iloyd Osborne, an American write
was shot in the hip while watchin
g the fighting with field glass from tn
r ton of a building. DR.. r. II McCre
e. son. of Lincoln, Neb. lost a f1nge
n while venturing along street durin
i, the cannonading and Mark Johnson.
e negro. Of Madison, Ill.,, was shot
n the shoulder.