The daily banner. (Cambridge, Md.) 1897-2008, 1913-02-19
CABINET
WAR IS over

Firing went on practlcally the Wnole
night from both the federal and rebel
positions. In the total darkness It'll
was impossible to ascertain whether
or not any advantage had been gained
by either side.
It was found that the rebels under
Felix DIaz had materially extenuld
heir lines and were threatening some
Of the federal positions.
One rebel battery was placed In q
position west of NizZa street, wi hfl,
a block of the United States embassy.
and another four blocks east of the
embassy.
Silas F. Gilmore, an elderly Ameri
can, who is the manager OF an I'M.
portant mechanical works, received
three bullets in his right forearm as
he was unconcernedly walking along
Colima street He ran into the middle
of skirmish between detachments of
rebels and federals.
A number of looters were caught
and summarily shot in the outlying
districts of the city. A few small pro-
vision stores have been sacked by
hungry mobs, but there has been moth
ing like systematic footing, both fed
eral and rebel soldiers doing their ut
| most to hold the populace in check.
Rebel Deserters Shot.
Some federal soldiers who tried to
join Diaz were caught, ,disarmed and
marched back to the national palace,
where they were summarily shot. In
one instance more than thirty federal
soldiers were lined before the firing
squad at the same time.
ALI the horrors of bombardment
have been experienced by the resi-
dents of Mexico City fer many days,
and to those that might be expected
have been added the effects of vicious
| machine gun and rifle fire in the city's
| streets at a range sometimes of less
than 100 yards.
Scarcely a district of the capital
has escaped injury. Over and through
every quarter at some time shells
| have torn and screeched and explcd-
ed. Little round shells from the auto
| matte pompons have added to the ter
ror and destruction.
Hundreds of buildings attest fy
| their hole-marked sides and wrecked
| interiors to the destructive qualities
Of modern artillery.
How many have been killed and
| wounded is a question which none can
answer with any eXactitude. 1t is
| doubtful if even the government rec
ords will ever reveal the correct num-
Der of casualties.
1000 Dead; 5000 Wounded.
From a source usually considered
careful and conservative it has been
stated that the number of dead is not
less than 1000, while the total of the
wounded amounts to from 5000 to TO-
600. The great majority of these are
not soldiers, but men, women and
children unable to escape the lines
of fire.
This estimate was made after hear
ing the reports of scores of officers
of the White and Red Cross societies
and of the hospitals.
It is a well known fact that detach-
ments of fifty men have been slaugh-
tered at various times when caught
in the narrow streets and moved
down by chine guns.
Carts piled high with corpses have
| been driving past certain point to
spot in the outskirts of the city, where
| the bodies have been burned.
| Every morning may be seen what
| appear in the zone of the actual fight
| 70 ho IF hr1rn ino ,.r1h1
| heaps are for the most part rubbish,
but the odor of burning flesh tells an
other story.
Burn Bodies With Gas.
| A practical, though grewsome me-
thod, has been utilized in one place.
The gas escaping from broken main
has been lighted, and there in that
steady flame has been improvised a
| crematory.
In the basement of an apartment
house few blocks from the arsenal
is the grave of Mrs. E. w. Holmes,
one of the two American women kill
ed early in the fighting by the en-
trance into her home of shell. For
three days her husband stayed alone
there with the corpse, unable to re-
move it and unwilling to leave it per
haps to suffer further mutila.ion.
Soldiers entered the apartment
where he kept vigil and before his
eyes robbed the place. He managed
to find boards and carpenters too.s
end nails in the building and con
s.ructed coffin, into which he laid
the body of his wife. He carried it to
the basement and there dug and filed
her grave