The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1913-02-12
200 ARE KILLED
IN MEXICO CITY
Revolt Breaks Out in Capital
Federal Troops Mutiny
MAOERO REMAINS IN CONTROL
Generals Diaz and Reyes Released
From Prison, Reyes Being kilIee
Shortly Afterward by Rifle Bullet

Shortly Afterward by Rifle Bullet
After a day of terrific resistance tt
mutinous troops Francisco Madero il
still president of Mexico. The capita.
echoed to the incessant discharge ol
rifles and the crash of machine guns
as the partsans of Colonel Felix Diaz
of General Mondrago, of the dead
Reyes and the other insurrectionists
struggled to pierce the defenses of the
national palace.
Two hundred have been killed in one
days fighting and among the dead are
three Americans, two women and one
man. More than 800 persons were
wounded
The Plaza Constitution and the
streets leading to the Alameda were
strewn with the dead and wounded.
For forty-eight hours the fate OF
the Madero government and the life
OF the president have hung in the
balance.
The death of Reyes who was killed
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in the national palace that few but
| the president himself ever uses and
| the gallantry of Madero himself, who.
against the protests of his brothers
and friends mounted a white horse
and galloped up and down encouraging
his loyal troops, served to check the
advance of the revolutionists.
There can be no doubt that the army
is honeycombed with treachery, that
DiaZ has the support of most Of the
faction leaders and that the assaults
on the palace will be renewed
An account of the beginning of the
revolt follows:
Late Saturday night the soldiers oil
the local garrison revolted and cap
| tured the powder magazine in suburb
about six miles from the city. Before
daylight Sunday morning the First
cavaliy and other soldiers of the gar.
rison formed and marched to the
Zocalo plaza in perfect order On theil
| way to the national palace the soldiers
captured and disarmed all policemen.
At the palace, which was in charge
of federals and the cadet corps, the
cavalry was welcomed and some of
the palace guard jointed the revolt and
all INDUCED in shouts of Viva Diaz!"
| Machine guns had been mounted on
the roof of the palace and many sol.
diers were crowded into the towers OF
the cathedral and all of them ap
| parently in sympathy with DiaZ. The
| first cavalry commander to arrive, sur
veying the situation at the palace and
believing it strongly enough guarded,
ordered his regiment to proceed TO
the penitentiary and there demanded
| the immediate release of Generals
Felix Diaz and Bernardo Reyes.
Both of these men we're then taken
to the palace by the troops followed
by crowds shouting for Diaz and Reyes
and Death to Madero!" Their ar
rival at the palace was marked by the
enthusiastic thousands of common
people thronging continually into the
Zocalo plaza on the east side of which
stands the governmental buildings.
The cavalry, about 500 strong, and
the infantryr1en lined up the full
length of the palace, almost 200 feet.
Other troops were lying on the paving
in skirmsh order A body OF mount
| ed police was stationed at the south
end OF the palace where Diaz stood
watching.
Suddenly the south door OF the
palace known as the presidents door
flashed open and from within came
the report of rifle. At the same
moment General Reyes standing near
Diaz cramped into a heap. He had
been shot through the head and died
instantly.
His death was the signal for gen.
eral fight In an instant the machine
guns on the roof of the cathedral be-
gan splitting their hail of lead and
steel and simultaneously the artillery
which had approached from the south
| began an attack on the cavalry.
The mob in the streets swung about
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of shelter In a minute or two the
plaza was filled with the dead and
! dying. Everywhere a pool of blood
marked the place where bullets had
found a mark and where the shrapnel
and the solid shot OF the field guns
worked carnage.
Gustavo Madero, brother OF the pres
ident, who recently returned from a
diplomatic mission to Japan, was made
a prisoner by the mutineers. The
rebels have a stronger hatred for him
than for the president Gustayo was
granted many concessions and money
by the government and the rebels
charge that he went to Japan to sell
that nation a Pacific coast coaling
station to raise money to fight the
rebels.
Gustavo wears monocle and so
strong is his influence over his brother
that the rebels call the Madero rule
THE one-eyed government
General Felix Diaz, who is now the
supreme leader OF the rebels in the
capital, was under sentence Of death
by a military courtmartial for his
recent attempt at rebellion at Vera
Cruz.