Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1913-02-12
MANY ARE SHOT
IN ARMY REVOLT
Two Hundred Killed In Street
Fighting In Mexico
FIVE HUNDRED ARE WOUNDED

DIaz and His Followers Take Posses
sion of National Palace, Which Is
Later Recaptured by Madero Forces
president and Cabinet Besieaed |
and Making Desperate Fight Against
Enormous Odds-GeneraI Reyes
Among the Killed
Mexico City, Feb. 10.-The army
revolted Sunday. The troops took
possession of the national palace and
nearly all the principal public build
ings. Gustave Madero was made
prisoner.
After some street fighting, In which
about 200 persons were killed and
some 500 wounded, the government
succeeded in regaining partial control.
President Madero personally led
time.
the loyal troops for a part of the
The insurgents released Felix DiaZ
and General Bernardo Reyes, ex-
secretary of war.
Felix Diaz and his followers
gained possession of the city
early in the afternoon. He took
possession of the palace and
captured the arsenal by assault. Later
the palace was recaptured. Only a
few scattered companies of the city
garrison maintained an appearance of
loyalty to the administration.
/ General Bernardo Reyes was shot
through the head and killed in front
Of the national palace. Reyes was
strong adherents of Porfrio Diaz and
an eXsecretary OF war.
President MADEIRA and the members
Of his cabinet took refuge in the ma
tional palace, where they were be-
sieged, but, with some loyal troops
at their back, succeeded in defending
! the palace from the assaults of the
revolutiOnists.
Madero's family has taken refuge
| in the Japanese legation, and the
| president Is making q light, desperate
| to be enormous odds, for retention of
his power.
| General Diaz, who is the nephew of
the deposed President Porfirio Diaz
is now at the head of a majority of the
capital troops, including most of the
artillery, and is in possession of the
! arsenal and the powder works nearby
Madero is relying on the loyalty OF
General Banquet, who has been
summoned from Toluca, forty miles
distant, but Banquet has only 1000
men under his command, and the
rebels are confident of defeating
him, should he refuse to join. in the
movement of revolt.
Four Separate Battles
! The day was marked by four sep
ar2te enga gements, the most san
culinary of which took place in front
Of the national palace; but most i'm
portant was that which terminated in
the formal surrender Of the troops il
| the artillery barracks.
The mutinous troops were led BY
the students Of the military school a
Tlalpan, a suburb. They marched tt
the prison to which Felix Diaz hat
been transferred for safekeeping ant
released him. Reyes was also free(
from Santiago military prison, there
i being nc resistance in either quar-.
ter.
To the army of the mutineer
quickly came portions of the Firs
cavalry, Twenty Fourth cavalry an
Twentieth infantry. General Mon
dragon, retired, was in command
but gave way to Diaz and Reyes
At $3.50 o'clock the first encounte
with the loyal troops occurred in from
of the national palace, and Reyes
whose long record as an army Office
was broken little more than a yea
ago, by farcical revolt, was dead
He was killed instantly by a bulle
through the head.
Many fell in this engagement an
among the scores of bodies whic
strewed the streets were those G
minor officers, women and boys of tn
lower classes and members of tn
great crowd of spectators which ha
gathered at the firing of the first shot
Thirty minutes later street fightin
began in the neighborhood, but last
ed only short time. Neither sid
q appeared ready to press it's advant
age, but just before noon Diaz le
his command, numbering 1000, on
wide detour in an effort to reach tn
arsenal.
When the fighting in the Focal
ceased, ambulances of the Red an
= White Cross engaged in the work {
. picking up the dead and succorin
: the wounded. The Plaza, an area {
four city blocks, was strewn with tn
II bodies of men and horses. With
the palace there were few victims, bu
Colonel MOrelOS one of the most low