Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1914-05-22
iiiuERTA men MUT|NY
gRREGuLARS LEAVE MEXICO CITY
WHEN DICTATOR SENDS FORCE
TO CRUSH THEM.
DEAD ARE BURIED AT TAMPlc0
Nietors Begin untangIing Local Gov
ernment Left by FederaIs- Graphic
Description Of Terrific Battle at
Mexican Port.

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Mexican Port.
Vera Cruz, May 16.-A courier who
came through from Paso del Macho,
the headquarters Of the Mexican army
IN front of Vera Cruz, brought word
barracks. Mexico City, revolted
against Huerta in favor Of Villa Thurs
day. Several officers who refused to
join the mutineers we're 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
BianQuet's Twenty-ninth battalion,
carrying machine guns with them, was
dispatched to the barracks.
y Tampico, Mexico, May 16.-The con
stitutionalists in Tampico are burying
vtheir dead end STRENGTHENING out the
tangie 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 off
the wharf at Tampico. Rear Admiral
Mayo iB on board the Des 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 five-day bombardment
from high power, modern, heavy artil-
Ferry, is nearly leveled to the earth.
What shells and solid shot began fire
Hnished. II 1t we're not SO pitiful the
nesolation would be grand
The victorious constitutionalists are
6Mrying their dead and straightening
amt the tangle of local government.
The defeated federals are gone. Their
wounded are attended with sneers and
Eibes, their dead buried with curses
Every hospital Is filled with wounded
nen and the dead lie on cots beside
men who are dying. Dead men lie in
the trenches where the federals made
zheir last stand and which were
stormed and taken by General Con
zales and his men.
No Americans or other foreigners
we're killed or wounded during the bat
tie which preceded the fall OF the city.
But the battle of Tampico will go
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 34 He said that 12s
Of his men were wounded
General Gonzales estimates the num-
Der Of federaIs killed at ESQ and more
than 500 wounded
More than 100 federal dead in the
trenches, where they tried to turn the
rebel charge, could be counted. Rebel
shells fell in the trenches Just before
The charge was ordered. The shells
exploded with terrible results.
Capt. Conrado Cantu Of the rebel
forces was the only cficer Of General
Gonzales army killed Col. Alfredo M.
Torres, Col Sanchez Herrera, and
Capt Doroteo Navarro we're wounded.
Celonei Torres and Colonel Herrera
probably will die.
When the firing from the rebel po-
xitions was heaviest Wednesday morn
ing the Mexican gunboats Zaragozs
and Bravo steamed down the Panuco
river and anchored under the guns
and the protection of the American
warships in the gulf.
Az the gunboats moved slowly down
the river the field guns of the rebel
batteries were turned on them A
Rail of shot and she'll followed them
Many OF the shots were effective. Both
the Bravo and Zaragoza are reported
70 be badly crippled.
Cen Ignacio zaragosa, military gov
erner of Tamaulipas, and in chief com
rnand OF the federal forces in Tampi
GO, left this city when it became evi
DENT to him that 40 could no longe
resist the steady approach OF the con
Etitutionalists or fight them off,
When he left on special railwa,
train for San Lois Potosi, taking Will
him a strong military escort, al
rangements were made for the eyacu
alton Of Tampico by his forces. Nor
than 1000 men we're ordered to tn
trenches to make a last effort to driv
hack the constitutionalists, whose fl
ing line was then well within the city
1imits
Those federals fought as never so
May investigate U. s. Judge.
Washington. May ia resolutio
demanding an investigation OF tn