Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1913-07-23
AMERICANS ARE
BES|EGED in
MADEIRA
MESSENGER ARRIVES IN FL PASO
FROM MADEIRA AND TELLS OF
DIRE STRAITS OF AMERICANS
WHO FEAR FOR THEIR WOMEN.
OTHER MEXICAN
DEVELOPMENTS TODAY

FL Paso, Texas, July 23--Huddled
in two houses on the main street of
MADEIRA, Mexico, the Americans VINO
are besieged by bandits, had been re-
duced practically to starvation when
a messenger left there four days ago.
He arrived here today, after a hard
experience travelling overland through
mud as deep as his horses belly at
times. He says the torrential semi
tropical rains are falling upon tho
little town and that the men who
stand guard at night. do so in pour
ing rain. They operate d powerful
searchlight over the town constantly
from dusk to daylight, to guard against
surprise. Meantime, the bandits sur
rounding the town, bent on numbering
the Americans for the protection they
have given some cowboys who attack
ed and killed two members of the
bandit band, while cattle stealing on
the Hearst ranch, are firing their rifles
! into the little settlement at intervals.
THE men are not so much in fear
of their own lives as they are of what
might happen to the women folks once
the bandits take the town." said the
messenger.
He declares that all canned goods
had been exhausted when he left Ma
dera and that the Americans had been
reduced to subsistence on meal and a
little flour There are some English
men and other foreigners in addition
to the Americans. Officials of the
Pearson plant dispatched the messen-
ger back today to the beleagured Am
orleans with word to abandon and sac
rfice the property of the company If
by so doing they could get out and
save their lives. The messenger says
It is impossible TO get out in any sort
Of conveyance because of the mud,
and the railroad has been destroyed
by the rebels and bandits.
Villa Goes To Rescue.
Reports received at the local Mex
ican rebel junta state that Pancho
Villa has started south with his rebel
command to relieve the Americans at
MADEIRA Meantime the attack on
Juarez is given up.
Villa, it is said, hopes to win recog-
milton for the rebels from the United
States government by protecting It's
He has sent part of his men to the
Mexican Central railroad. south Of
Juarez, to resist attempts of the fed
erals to rebuild the railroad between
Chihuahua and Juarez, Repair crews
are only a few miles below Juarnz
and train is expected into Juarez by
tomorrow. This will enable Chihuts
hua to get food again if the federa;s
can keep the road open.
Reports in Eel Paso today are that
1--we Americans, who were going across
have been arrested and de-
Iained by the federals at Chihuahua.
W. W. Stewart, manager Of the Parrat
irht & Power company and A. ] Nc
luatters, a mining man also of Parral,
'ecently left Ell Paso for Parral over
and and are the only Americans
inown to have been travelling in that
section A message from Stewart to
lis wife here dated at Chihuahua,
,ays: Il am all right AS he did not
Intend stopping at Chihuahua, friends
mink certain he is one of the prison
RS.
Trevino Would Be Mediator
Los Angeles. Calf, July 21.-Gener'
Il Geronimo Trevino. veteran of old
Iattlefields in Mexico, announced to-
lay after conference here with Mex
can Consul Pena y Cuevas and Juan
I. Orci, a former Mexican senator,
hat he was ready to return to his
ative land and act as mediator be-
ween the warning factions.
"A general truce is possible in Mex
TO-" said General Trevino, "and it is
~ most earnest wish never to hear of
mother battle in my resolution harried
ative land"
The general declared he was toe
Id to seek Office and suggested that
difference between the opposing fac
ons at San Luis Potosi.
Operation Successful.
Noeales. Ariz., July 23.-It was an
ounced today that the operation upon
eneraI Alfara Obregon, the constitu-
onalist leader, had been success
nd that the rebel chief would be able
} return to the front in ten days.
he trouble was said to have been
ervical cellulitis. brought on by ex-
osure and a chronic affection of the
)nsils.