Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-05-16
REFUGEES FROM THE
HORRORS Of MEXICO
PASS THROUGH CITY
Tell of Insulting of American
Women and Splitting in Face
Of "Cowardly Yankees"
WOMEN WERE TRUE BLUE
Declares United States Must Inter-
vene if Its Citizens Are to Live
in Shife-torn Land

Enroute to his home in Philadel-
phia following a hair-raising escape
with his family from troubled Mexico,
Michael J. Slattery, a third-part own
er in a S5,000,000 gold mine near
|Guadalajara, passed through Harris
burg.
Mr.. Slattery is a son-in-law of
Thomas Mcfarland. S26 North Sixty
third street, Philadelphia; the latter
came as far as this city to meet the
refugees.
Slattery. his wife, their two small
daughters and some eighteen or twen-
" other Americans went through
some hair-graying experiences in try
| ing to escape from the country of the
kIuertistas. The Americans finally
made their escape from ManZanillo on
the Mexican west coast to San Diego
and thence to San Francisco on q
freighter. The freighter was thirty
six days out of Hong Kong with sew
eral hundred Chinese coolies aboard.
Some awful tales of the treatment
by troops of the Huerta government,
pf the Mexican's savage hatred of
americans and things American, were
told by Slattery. The women We're in
suited by army officers the men were
aunted with cowardlce; American
|lags were torn from the consulate
NlUuO"S ana ana Spal upon.
During that flag burning incident the
Eighteen Americans were lined up on
he docks and while a battalion of HUI
erta troops stood up with loaded rifles,
Forced them to watch. When it was
Pill over a Mexican officer threw the
hshes of the flag in Slattery's face.
I'VE have spat in your fac IS and we
have insulted your women" said the
officer, What in hell have we got to
y Sow to make your cowardly Yam
ses fight"
IF the United States does not in
ervene and show Huerta and villa
and Carranza and all the rest of
hem that it isn't safe to attack Amer
cans, said Slattery, mo American
an ever go into Mexico with safety
gain" So declared Slattery in telling
Pf the outrages.
Slattery went into some detail about
he experiences of himself and the
Pther Americans and the families of
he refugees in that faraway country
nder the Southern Cross. Here are
ONE of the high lights:
When our wives refused to leave
8, however, British Consul Holmes
greed to give us all shelter. He threw
p Notifications and General Mier
ad a few troops posted around the
building. We ourselves kept sentinels
loSted during that -be-forgot-
en- night. A mob that must have
umbered 49, 900 howled and shrieked
nd cursed all night about the con-
ulate. Death to the Gringoes, XIII
he Yanquis.'
\ Fate Worse Than Death
These We're the cries, and I tell you.
was pretty tough to listen to. Our
'omen We're brave and true blue,
lough. That is something, for YOU
now, when a woman falls into the
ands of one of these Mexicans, her
ate is far worse than death.
AT | O'Clock that morning. the son
one of the most prominent members
the Mexican senate came to me
nd said that he had Just been ap-
rised that our forces, the Americans.
ad tried to land at Vera Cru. and had
cen moved down like grain before n
fythe. A lot of other terrible news
Fas borne to us in that horrible night.
ut somehow / didn't believe it. Maybe
hats because I'm an optimist by ma
lre.
II realized that this sort of stuff was
hst ruse of Huerta's to rally his peo-
lie. 1t had this effect.
by 2 o'clock We were notified that
fere would be train out the next
by. This word came to us from Mr..
chu an American, who was master
echanic of the railway. British Con-
u Holmes saw General Mier and got
ders that all Americans must leave
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