The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1914-03-28
Is Told about in Letter to Guy
H. Earle. from His Cousin
in Mexico.


city. Bartlett Harrison, a civil engineer
employed in Mexico, recently wrote the
following letter from Monterey, con-
tainirg interesting information about
certain phases OF the Mexican war:
Monterey, as I suppose you. have
heard, was attacked on Thursday, Oc-
tober % by the Carranzistas. 1t came
with dramatic suddenness for us out
here at the Planr, although the even
ing before we had been hearing the
shots of small fight about five miles
away and saw the bursting of shells,
like bright stars, near Topa Grande
hill.
Thursday morning 1 walked out to
the north end of the plant about $3.50
o'clock and as | was there saw four
or five federal soldiers il their drab
uniform and helmets and with their
guns, coming towards Us on a slow
run and behind them the popping Of
rifles Austin and l ran hack to the
generals office and up on the third
floor, the noise of firing getting near
er
Thinking that the Ande-son's did
now know of the firing l started to-.
ward their house to warn them to stay
in, and reached their back porch and
kitchen, where l found Mrs. Anderson
alone, lust as three federa1s reached
sor1e grass near a stone warehouse
about 200 yards behind their house.
had scarcely told Mrs. Anderson 70
stay in when looking behind l So"
eight or ten Carranzistas on horses
waving guns and shouting, come be-
hind the tin shop and ride toward the
federals. Realizing that Mrs. Ander-
son and myself were in the line OF
their fire we jumped for an inside
room, for we were then on lat
ticed porch, just as they began shoot
ing.
The rebels rode up on the soldiers
and shot two of them down IKE rap
bits in the grass, the soldiers making
no resistance whatever-poor thlngs-
thew looked like hunted animals bereft
Of their senses. More Carranzistas
began coming through from every
direction, on horses, waving guns
shouting ..Viva CarrsnZa" and heading
for town. Mrs. Anderson and myseIt
were looking out of a window and sa"
them all.
NIr. Anderson had gone over to the
mess for milk and on his way paGA
was near the stone warehouse Wheh
the rebels began shooting down the
two soldiers He said he never ran
so fast in his life to get home. Al
first he laughed about his experience,
then the reaction set in and he woul0
get as mad about it and the rebel VINO
was hooting at him, as he thought
that it was funny.
Aa most of then, seemed to have
PASSED we sat down to breakfast. al
mora or less strung up, when tneEs
vas crash OF glass, a bullet haa
come through, nearly spent anu
dropped on the window sill.
nv $50 o'clock the fighting on the
edos of town. south of the plant, was
hot and bullets began hitting the
houses out here with great frequency;
About 10 o'clock it quoted down ana
walked down to the works and TOOK
some photos and returned TO AMER
sons house There we fixed up the
cellar, taking down rugs, carpets,
blankets, food, etc, for the leu S, az, .s
had droppcd two three-inch shells on
the nIant and the explosions had
scared us speechless. All the atter-
noon it was much the same, the
sounds Of fighting, and the uncer.
tainty keeping every one in state OF
That night the firing kept up until
about $50 where during luA MI
ana Mrs. Anderson and myself stole
over to the generals office ana up
IN +he third floor, where ] live
FORGET strings of burning freight cars
Jnmber wards and tanks, storing thous-
ands of barrels Of oil, every once IN
a while some tank would explore anu
throw flames hundreds OF feet lnto
tho air. Now and then the fight would
break out again and machine guns
burst into action with frightful SUD
danness and as suddenly stop. gu
know how they sound as we'll as 90.
That night 1 did not sleep nuch
oo1 toll Won. Next morning it began
aeain-the bullets whisthng by nv,
tino y wall or breaking a window anc
once 7 started out for the office from
+be Anderson home when buile'
went singing by, so close 1t semeu
mat irlvoluntarily curled up l1ke
snoiI and was so mad at myself after
ward. wont
down to Eyi1des' house to see Where
she'll had entered his kitchen ane
wrecked it, and 1t surely had. Theh
4 returned to my third story ana was
living down on the north SIDE 10 se'
4 = nan for there I was safe from the
b,,JIe+s when there was terrific eS-
o1osion and down I went to be IN on
tho ground floor. l stayed on th1
north side of the assay Office alone
while four shells came over and burst
down in the works. then got so lone
some I could stand it no longer ana
ran through the bowling alley ana
over 10 Anderson's house and down
into the cellar, where | found them
huddled up. OF all the ghastly noises
on earth the scream of she'll IN the
ar il the worst, especially when its
no;p+ad in vour direction. not Knowing
where II is coming from nor where
- - Going yor. when 1t is going to