Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1914-06-24

what Americans Tn interior tOWn.. or
 Mexico suffered just after Vera Cruz
 was seized are trickling into Washing N if all tfe outrages which were pe"pcY Il trated on United States Q tizens in those stormy days had beeI known at d the time to the folks here at home our l 'o:ces would never have paused on '..e seacoast.
 Ira Adler, whose home is in New York City, has just made public a de- 5 scrption of the escape from Guada-
 lajara. Existence of Americans in
 that town after the capture of Vera Cruz was impossible. After many
 hardships MT. Adler an dhis compan-
 ions reached Manzanillo and thence travelled to San Francisco aboard a British steamship.
 He is indignant at the neglect of the , American government which, he de-
 clares, dil nothing to save the refu- gees from Guadalajara, although Con- mander Thomas P. MacGruder allow , ed the freedom of the port of ManZan.
 illo to Mexican vessels on condition
 that the sixteen prisoners from Guada- \ Gruder commands the cruiser Raleigh , "The first notice to get out came from w. A. Davis, the American con- :, sul, without warning" said MT. Adler.
 "On April 21 the second order to leave came and all Americans were asked to gather in council at the
 American club. There 40 decided to
 go at once and did The next day at
 another meeting more Americans were able to make arrangements to leave and party of 160 was taken to Man t zanillo on a special train. This day the Mexicans became active and threatening. They tore down signs on
 the American consulate and other
 buildings of American citizens.
 "The following day was worse } Cries of Kill the gringoes,' and 'Hur- rah for Huerta and Mexico' were
 heard. Led by band, a mob ap-
 peared in front of the German club in the evening, singing Mexican and German airs.
 3 "The populace was infuriated by r stories originating God knows where
 that many Mexican women and child
 ren had becn killed in the streets of
 the large cities of the United States. "A bowling mob followed our party } of twelve men, two women and children as we went to the train. We
 left there in the morning and arrived
 in Colima. We took coaches to the
 center of the town and tried to find hotel. One after another the hotel : proprietors refused to receive HIS. They declared that the mobs would
 h,,y,, %1os, ,;1J
 cans were sheltered. We finally
 found the British consulate and Mir. McNeil, the consul, told us we would I be escorted to car at the railroad
 station under guard and cared for there until a train left for Manzanilld the following morning. A few min- utes later we were asked to occupy
 the center of a square of soldiers
 which had formed in the streets. The
 commander of this squad was a gen
 tlemanly fellow, ,vho did all he could
 for us. On the march of mile and
 quarter to the station the crowd fol-
 lowed, shouting insults of an unre-
 peatable character The women cov-
 cred their ears. The captain tried his
 best to silence the rabble. At the
 railroad station we were ordered to
 enter aacar, which appeared to be a
 cattle car, where we waited, sleepless,
 until almost dawn.
 "Once an orderly came in and in
 formed the captain of our guard there
 was company of infantry outside
 which wanted to attack the car and
 massacre the 'gringoes.' The captain
 went outsi6e and dispersed these soldiers. But little later he had
 more serious problem in company appar ontly bent on taking possession. The captain finally sent them on thier
 way after a deal of argument.
 "A man ordered us to get out a lit
 tie before four o'clock and we were
 hustled into another car. We were
 half undressed at the time and were
 forced to walk to the other car with
 our clothes in our hands. There
 were some Red Cross nurses and soldiers in the second car. We were
 huddled together at one end.
 The line to Manzanillo passes
 through wide and pestilential
 swamp and then across small moun-
 tain range. We were stopped in the
 swamp and awaited there the barley
 between the commander of the troops and Commander MacGruder.
 ''All Or us, men, women and child ren, were without food and drink
 from four o'clock in the morning until , five o'clock the next night. At last we were told we could go aboard a f Mexican vessel which was in the har- ) bor and we were escorted from the , railroad station to this craft. We re- l mained from early morning until late t at night and then were conveyed in a ) small boat to the Raleigh.
 q learned later that we were al- t lowed to go aboard the Raleigh be- l cause the commander had promised - to allow two Mexican ships in the : harbor to leave unmolested.
 Mrs. M0rgan's Experiences. Mrs. Ray Morgan, who has haci- 5 enda neal Monterey, wrote the follow.
 ing in her diary
 l April 1S.-Today band of men I rode into our hacienda. We knew by