The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-04-26

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if need be. The raging mobs
had chosen the embassy as
their chief mark and it seemed
a fool hardy thing for him to
do to stay, but he was deter
mined. The last words he
said to me were, They We got
to kill me before ! 60. ="
Burns said that al. the
Americans left in the city
were keeping off the streets
Just as the train pulled out, q
report was received saying
that the bandit, zapata and
his men were coming. It was
stated that the brutal, barbar-
Gus Zapitatistas would be
turned loose in the city and al
lowed two hours for looting.
It was reported that Huerta
had reached an agreement
with Zapata by which in ex-
change for their support, HUI
erta would permit the Zapatis-
tas, to loot American homes
and stores for two hours.
Womsn and Babies.
IBy William G. Shepherd. Unit I'd
Press star correspondent
| VERA CRUZ, Mexico. April 25.-
More than q score OF American wom-
en- with babies and children were
turned backed by Huerta's soldiers. to
face the mobs OF Mexico City, when
| they attempted to leave the riot rid
| den capital on the refuge train that
reached here this afternoon Huerta
absolutely refuses to allow any Amer
leans to leave the city. Thirty Amer
leans escaped, posing as British sub.
T, jects under assumed names They are
| afraid to speculate on the possib q
| fate of those left behind.
The refugees said that Huerta's sol
diers went through the train as it
| stood in the station and every one
! i'd entitled as an American was put
of and forced to remain. Huerta's
firm determination TO hold the eight
hundred Americans remaining there,
was shown by the fact that he insist
ed upon strict Identification OF every
person wishing to depart. He COM
PEELED Sir Lionel Garden and Paul
Won Schintz, German ambassador to
go in person to the station to fden-
tify refugees. Garden has done every
thing possible to help Americans and
/ it was through his assistance that
! the thirty passing as English. were
able to escape All brought conflrma-
ton OF reports of anti-American riots,
evidently encouraged by Huerta. The
gravest fear for Americans remaining
In the capital was expressed.
John Phillip told how John Mo
Phail saved him and wife and baby.
! McPhail told the soldiers that Mrs.
Phillip was his wife and that Phil
/ lipi was his secretary The baby has
small pox but the distracted parents
/! induced McPhail to pretend 1t was
! his child and to save It, An English
+! family gave up state noon to the
| Phillips after the train got under way
% w.. .h-- >r,,,d 10 $4,000 with
the child.
| Mrs Albert Simmons, an American
woman, who escaped from thu CAPT
tai after narrowing experiences. faint
ed at the point OF transfer. She had
walked a mile along the uptorn tracks
under a British flag, accompanied by
Mexican soldiers OF whom she was
afraid Several British mon picked
her up and carried her to the train
on which the refugees came to Vera
Cruz.
The scenes all along the way were
most pathetic, said Phillipi. AT
many stations we saw Americans
waving British flags. They tried to
get on the train and begged and
pleaded for help. But We could 40
nothing for them. Men and women
/ we're holding UP babies to arouse pity
and pleaded piteously. 1t was heart
rsnding sight.
"Ail along the way we heard tales
of suffering.
I'VE were told that three American
refugees were taken from q train
! Thursday and executed