The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1914-05-01


were aghag The embassy was BON
barded 0'Shaughnessy was astonish'
end lie had received no word OF the
| landing OF marines. The curb OF the
embassy was lined with autos ana
coaches and the Offices were filled with
drawn faced men.
Il can't tell you thing sald
] O'Shaughnessy
The men. therefore. freed o'Shaugh-
messy OF blame. ADMIRAL Fletcher ana
the officials at Washington were
roundly cursed for not having given
Americans warning II wasn't terror
that seized Americans, but alarm was
widespread
what will the MeXicans do when
they hear OF it?" was the general ques'
ton. The answer soon came. by 2
| O'Clock extra editions were on Inc
streets One paper tried 10 make u
easy for Americans by saying that
! Americans in the capital deplored the
Vera Cruz AFFAIR Another said
Yankees take Mexican blood. Even
| the little children OF this capital viii
rise against them
Bv . o'clock there were marching
singing crowds in the streets yelling
Death TO the Yankees.
II rained all day--an extraordinary
thing in Mexico City-and Americans
took shelter in 'coches the typical
Mexican carriage and hid under the
rubber tarpaulins a day OF sunshine
might have meant bloodshed
The train which left for Vera Cruz
al $40. Tuesday evening. was TANNED
10 the guards with Americans. Even
sick persons had been placed aboard
This train never reached Vera Cruz
II got within IA miles OF that city
and was turned back, returning TO
Mexico City with its load OF Amer
leans SO hours later.
The mobs on Tuesday. afternoon, at
tackled the Hotel Porter, and Amer
lean place, the American club, and
the American consulate, smashing
windows with stones and yelling Tor
Yankee blood Guests OF the Amer
lean hotels were forced out without
getting their belongings The Amer
lean club was abandoned. Americans
took shelter in private houses. AS
night fell, the crowds became more
violent
Policemen we're sent 10 the embassy
1 u
town they made no effort TO stop the
rioting IL was member OF Huerta
house OF deputies who led a crowd at
4 o'cloek in the morning TO the Amer;
jean club 20 batter at the doors for
admission Later, he led this same
crowd TO Fiske's American 1ewelry
store, and amid the airing OF their own
revovers, they looted the place OF
$4,000 worth of pewelry while the
lawmaker looked on
Scores OF American men gathered
in the basement OF the embassy that
night and prepared 275 rifles and ma
chine guns which Huerta had permit
ted O'Shaughnessy 10 receive week
before. A jeering, hooting crowd OF
Mexicans gathered in front of the EN-
bassy.
THE Japanese will help Ms, was
one OF their cries The Americans
loaded their rifles. but the police dis
persed the mob. which moved on;
"O,Shaughnessy, in the meantime,
was trying to cable Washington, but
he cotild receive no answer. This was
explained when an official OF the cable
company conflded 10 me that the
Mexican army had seized the land
wires OF the cable which runs to Vera
Cruz.
"Do the Americans at the Vera
Cruz end OF the cable know that the
Mexican army has seized this end OF
the cable?" ] asked.
'No," he answered. They wouldn't
let me tell Vera Cruz about it,"
II was not until 40 hours later when
the party OF which | was one, reached
Vera Cruz. that Admiral Fletcher
knew that the Mexican army had been
controlling the other end OF the cable
land wire.
On Wednesday morning the war de.
partment seized the two railroads
leading 10 Vera Cruz, cancelling all
trains. This move further alarmed
foreigners. French, German, English
and American nationals-the alarm
was general In all the eolonies-bom-
harded their respective embassies,
only 10 discover that their ambassa-
doris we're as much cut of from com.
munication with the outside world as
anyone else.
Newspaper correspondents were I'M
able to get anything onto the cable
AS II to taunt them, the censor per
mitted messages from their Offices.
clamcring for news, to reach the news.
papermen, but they were not permit