Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1914-05-21
HUERTh TROOPS
MUTINY IN CAPITAL
1rreguIarS Flee When Dictator
Sends Force Against Them.
DEAD ARE BURIED AT TAMPICo
vlctors Begin UntanaIIng Local Gov
eminent Left by Federals-AmeF-
leans Urged to Return
by Commander.

by Commander
Vera Cruz, May ia courier who
came through from Paso del Macho,
the headquarters of the Mexican army
In front of Vera Cruz, brought word
that troops quartered at the Piedad
barracks, Mexico City, revolted
against Huerta in favor of Villa Thurs
day. Several officers who refused to
join the mutineers were shot down.
The mutineers fed toward the west to
Join the Zapatistas in the Ajusco.
Immediately upon receipt Of news OF
the revolt detachment Of General
BIanquets Twenty-ninth battalion,
carrying machine guns with them, was
dispatched to the barracks.
Tampico, Mexico, May 1.-THE con-
stitutionalists in Tampico are burying
their dead and Strengthening out the
tangle of a local government.
Every hospital is filed with
wounded men and the dead lie on
cots beside men who are dying. Dead
men lie in the trenches where the
federals made their last stand and
which were stormed and taken by
General Gonzales and his men.
No Americans or other foreigners
were killed or wounded during the
battle
The cruiser Des Moines and the
gunboat Dolphin steamed up the
Panuco river and are anchored OF
the wharf at Tampico. Rear Admiral
Mayo is on board the DeB Moines.
Tampico, Mexico, via Brownsville,
Tex, May 16.-It is ruin here, ruin
there, ruin everywhere in Tampico.
The only Mexican city that ever
withstood a flye-day bombardment
from high power, modern, heavy artil-
leTy, is nearly leveled to the earth
What shells and solid shot began fire
finished. If 1t were not so pitiful the
desolation would be grand.
The victorious constitutionalists are
burying their dead and Strengthening
out the tangle of a local government
The defeated federals are gone. Their
gibes, their dead buried with curses.
Every hospital is filed with wounded
men and the dead lie on cots beside
men who are dying. Dead men lie in
the trenches where the federals made
their last stand and which were
stormed and taken by General Con
zales and his men.
No Americans or other foreigners
were killed or wounded during the bat
tie which preceded the fall of the city
But the battle of Tampico will &c
down in history as one of the most
sanguinary of the revolution.
Official information from General
Gonzales places the number of con
stitutionalists killed during Wednes
days fighting at "a. He said that 12t
OF his men were wounded.
General Gonzales estimates the mum
Der of federals killed at ESQ and more
than 600 wounded.
More than 100 federal dead in the
trenches, where they tried to turn the
rebel charge, could be counted. Rebe
shells fell in the trenches just before
the charge was ordered. The shells
exploded with terrible results.
Capt Conrado Cantu Of the rebe
forces was the only officer of Genera
Gonzales army killed. Col. Alfredo NJ
Torres, Col. Sanchez Herrera, anC
Capt. Doroteo Navarro were wounded
Colonel Torres and Colonel Herrera
probably will die.
When the firing from the rebel pc
sitions was heaviest Wednesday morn
ing the Mexican gunboats Zaragozzi
and Bravo steamed down the PanucC
river and anchored under the gun:
and the protection Of the American
warships in the gulf.
AS the gunboats moved slowly dowI
the river the field guns of the rebe
batteries were turned on them. 4
hail of shot and shell followed them
Many of the shots were effective. Boil
the Bravo and Zaragoza are reported
to be badly crippled.
Gen. Ignacio Zaragosa, military gov
ernor of Tamaulipas, and in chief com
mand of the federal forces in Tampi
co, left this city when it became evi
dent to him that he could no longe
resist the steady approach of the cor
stitutionalists or fight them off.
When he left on a special railwa
train for San Lois Potosi, taking wit
him a strong military escort, al
engagements were made for the evacu
alton of Tampico by his forces. Nor
than 1000 men were ordered to tn
trenches TO make a last effort to driv
back the constitutionalists whose fl