Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1914-04-23

feetively a small detachment of Mex
leans had gained positions near the
custom house and their concealed
iAarksLnen We're causing some trouble.
"a few shots frob tie Prairie's gunf
served to silence that position. From
time to time the same guns PLAYED
.heir shells along the line Of the shore,
kseep1ng that territory comparatively
Tree of sharpshooters
In the action about the custom house
two of the bluejeckets In launch
which carried a rapid firer were
wounded
Information that President Huerta
was counting on receiving from the
steamer Ypiranaga. of the Hamburg
allerlcan .a.5 me, which was due to arrive
To-Day, big consignment Of ammuni-
'loh, rifles and machine guns, was re-
sponslple for the occupation of the
custom house somewhat earlier than
might otherwise have been the case.
me Ypiranga Is still outside the har-
DOT. Sle has on board among other
supplies 10000 rifles and l5 900 600 car
tridges.
PRESIDENT Huerta has been making
every effort to safeguard this consign-
ineht, and had given orders that If he
nnloaded Immediately. placed on a spe-
cia, train drawn by two locomotives
and rushed to the capital
Rush Goes Easy.
WIN all the eastern side of the city
occupied and also the tracks of the
railway as far west as the roadhouse
near the western edge on the northern
slde and with the Mexicans unable to
INEFFECTIVE, fire from housetops. Can
tam Rush at APO o'clock sent under a
nag or truce messenger chosen from
among the natives. to General Maas To
ask II he were not ready to surrender.
IL was learned that unless the Mexi-
cans yielded Captain Rush had his
cholce of continuing the fighting under
the tactics he was using or of charging
all positions or of calling on the war
ships for bombardment Captain
RuSh was loath to resort to lombard
ment and on the other hand did not
desire to lose any more of his men by
charges. He recognized that the tao
tics of the Mexicans might leave the
housetop fighters in their position in
definitely and that it was not impos-
sible that those who were shipping
from the roofs might not be reinforced
by others during the night.
Marines Show Bravery.
The messenger was told to remind
General Mas that. while there We're
ashore at that time only a few more
than 1000 men there would be avail
able for the American forces by morn
ing some 10000 1t was left to General
Mas to draw his own inference from
this message.
There was no cannon firing from the
Mexican side. and it is supposed their
artillery pieces We're taken from the
city early in the day. With the ex-
cepton OF few shots from the light
field pieces of the bluejackets and
few from the Prairie. it was a contest
of rifles.
Bravery was shown everywhere
among the Americans. The youngsters
wearing the bluejackets of their ves-
sells behaved as we'll under fire as the
marines, who along the line conducted
themselves like veterans. Some of the
marines had seen service before in
Central America and other places.
In the earlier part of the engagement
small attachments of the Americans
who were guarding the approaches to
the central part of the city stood with
out flinching. while bullets from the
rifles of the Mexicans sang about their
ears.
There was only desultory firing here
during the night. Occasional shots
were fired from the roofs of houses in
the outskirts of the city but these av-
eraged not more than four an hour and
no further casualties were recorded on
the American side.
The street lighting system failed
early last evening and the only illum-
ination during the night came from the
interiors of houses.