The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1914-02-05
WILSON HELPING TRUSTS
SAYS MEXICAN MINISTER
MOHENA SAYS THE PRESIDENT PLAYED IN
THEIR HANDS WHEN LIFTING EMBARGO.
REBELS WILL TAKE TAMPICO
Less Concern Felt Over the Safety of Torreon-Let-
ter From an American Tells of Scenes During
Terrific Battle.

t AS most of the rebels seemed tt
5 have passed us, we sat down to break
fast, all of us more or less strung up
| when suddenly there was crash O
glass. A bullet came through, hal
, spent and dropped ON the window sill
By $3.50 fighting started on the edge
| of the town to the south of the plant
1t was hot scrap while it lasted, anG
|; the bullets hit the house with grea
frequency. At about 10 o'clock il
quieted down, and l walked down tc
the plant and took some photographs
and then returned to Anderson s
house
Knowing that more trouble was in
the air, we fixed up the cellar as a
took into the cellar rugs, carpets,
blankets, food, and got ready to make
| it our home until further notice, for
while we were moving the federal
forces dropped couple of three inch
shells on the plant, and the explos-
ions almost scared us speechless. All
the afternoon it was much the same,
the fighting continuing, and the uncer-
tainty of evening keeping us all III
high state of tension.
That night the firing continued un-
til about $3.50 o'clock, and during a
subsequent lull Mr.. and Mrs. Ander-
son and | stole over to the general
office and up to the third floor, where
i live.
1.-The scene was one we shall never
forget-strings of burning freight
cars, lumber yards ablaze, and burning
oil tanks, the latter storing thousands
of gallons of OIL Every now and
then an oil tank would explode and
throw flames hundreds of feet into the
air. Now and then the fight would
break out anew, and machine guns
burst into action with frightful sud-
denness, and then just as suddenly
stop.
81 can assure you that we did not |
sleep much that night. Next morn
ing it all began again, the bullets |
whizzing by, sometimes hitting the |
wall or breaking window, and one,
when | started out for quick run to
he office, went singing by so close that
| involuntarily curled up like snail,
and l was so mad at myself afterward.
Shells Exploded in the Works.
"At noon the second day l went
lown to Wildes house to see where a
she'll had entered his kitchen and
wrecked it, and it surely had done
hat very thing. | then returned to
ny third-story room, and was lying
lown on the north side of the room,
bout to get much-needed nap, for
here | was safe from the bullets,
when all of a sudden there was the
nost awful explosion, and ! hustled
own to the first floor. l remained in
he assay office, and while | was
here four shells landed and explod-
d in the works. / got so lonesome
hat | could stand it no longer, ana
an through the bowling alley ana
yer to the Andrson's house and down !
ito their cellar, where | found them
uddled together.
"Of course all the ghastly sounds in u
Al. Of n oh c
orst, especially when it is pointed IN 8
our direction, and you don't know u
here it's going to land or where 1t 81
,mes from, nor when it's going to ex-
ode, and all this coupled with
,reench that seems to be coming
ON everywhere. 1t almost, so 1t NJ
ems, tears your hair out by the roots
id shrivels up your spinal cord. 1t
enough to make nervous wreck
any one.
1--WE remained in the cellar until
80 D. M, listening to the bursting OF -
e shells, never knowing when one ie
IS going to hit the house and ex- ~
- ~ oa,n,as+ Bt
ode. Mrs. Anderson was the callhest
us all, and take my hat off to her.
7 o'clock | ran over to the mess to ~
t some food, leaving Mr. A. with ~
IS. A., as we did not care to leave De
r all alone. The fighting was still '"
ing on, and as l started some build
, uptown was blown down, and the W
ise was so crashing that it seemed ~
: 49, ~ - az oort,, woe beino ms
ped off. | finally managed to get "
ck with basket of provisions. Ev- ~
in the cellar the light was as that of w
z, SO brilliant was the burning "a
,ctacle above and all around us. MI
In the evening we went up into the ioi
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