The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1914-05-15
Huerta' s Downfall
Hourly Expected
Has Appointed General to Sue
coed Mas Who Hates Grin
aoes-Arrests Admirafs Ser
vant-More Troops Rushed
To Guard Prisoners
By DUDLEY HARMON.

ports from Rear Admiral Mayo to
Admiral Badger say that in obedience
to orders the cruiser Des Moines and
the gunboat Dolphin have entered the
Panuco river. and are occupying an
anchorage which gives their guns COM
mand OF the city.
The fate OF the federal soldiers who
did not And refuge on their gunboats
IL a matter OF doubt. There are no
definite reports from the shore about
them. One rumor had 1t that about
" nine hundred of them had made
dash through the eonstitutionaiist lines
towards San Luis Potosi to the west
ward, two hundred miles over the
mountains Another report is that
they started south over the swarnps
and deserts towards pachuco. Of Tux
pan.
In either case their situation Is re-
garded as hopeless. A force OF con-
htitutionalists are operating between
San Luis Potosi and Tampico, under
General Torres. to intercept them, and
the city itself is thought to be under
siege
II they arc captured, il Is believed
they will all be executed. for. accord
ing TO report, Villa himself has sent
orders from over near Saitillo that
no mercy cam be shown. As he APP
proAches the supreme conflict of the
campaign. his forces cannot be en-
numbered with prisoners, and the pa
role Ii not known 10 Mexico
Under present orders the United
States will not land at Tampico, nor
will IL allow its officers and men To
20 lahore on personal visits It Is
hoped, however, that some intelligent
American viii come down the river
today or tomorrow and give detailed
account of the hghting. Il - plain that
beginning with Sunday the constitu-
tionaiists did fearful execution with
their artillery. They were being
answered gun for gun up - that time,
although they were doing the greater
. damage. because they had fortifica-
tioas as = target. After that they must
have swept through the outer for.ifica-
tons running in a crescent from the
Panuco river south, six miles out OF
the city. Then on Tuesday the inner
Notifications must have proved weak
er than they were supposed to be.
There are many refugee oil men OF
TAmpico a, Vera Cruz, all of whom
are beseiging Admiral Badger for
ship to carry them back to their wells.
which are running wild. cntailing an
enormous daily loss. They are told
that tho United States will not take the
responsibility of sending any Ameri-
cans anywhere where there la likeli-
hood Of danger, 1t Is known that
General Carranza IL not friendly IT, all
the oil companies: some Of them have
hAen REGARDED a. the strongest sup
porters of the Huerta administra-
ton.
Ell PASo, TEXAS. May i4~-Fear
Of an attempted general outbreak Of
the 4. $50 Mexican federal prisoners al
Fort Wingate. N NJ. resulted early to-
day In the despatch of Ave companies
Of the Twentieth infantry from Fort
Bliss, increasing the prison camp
guard to two hattalions II was re-
ported today that an American soldier
had been killed in an attempt by Nexi-
cans to escape
ALPINE, TEN, May 1<,--Troop NJ, OF
the Fifteenth cavalry. Is being rushed
from here to Preside. Tex. on the re-
port that large body of Mexican fed
erals are preparing to march to the
border and sack the town. There IL
already a force Of United States troops
IT Preside under command of Captain
Moses and he In TO be reinforced.
Reports here OF the threat of the
raid are meagre. but ii is stated that
the federals, In considerable numbers.
are mobilixing at the little town of
Malta, sixty miles south OF the border.
WASHINGTON. May l4.---At midnight
tho navy department received dis
patch from Admiral Badger reporting
that the Mexican gunboats Bravo and
ZaraEosa left the bar outside Tam
pico and have headed south. Admiral
Mayo dispatched the United States
cruiser Tacoma and the destrcyers
Warrington and Hen1y to follow the
federal gunboats and report their des-
tination.
VERA CRUZ May l4.--Late arrivals
from Mexico City report that when
they left the capital yesterday federal
sroopS were lighting the forces OF
Emiliano Zapata at Tlaipan. which ,is
tust twelve miles from the national
palace. Zapata's men had come up
from the south unexpectedly. and had
taken possession of the summit OF
Mount Ajusco.
The refugees do not know how HUI
erta can stand any more defeats. Some
think that the news OF the fall OF
Tampico. coming after the appear
ance OF Zapata, closer than he has
ever been before. will be the last bur-
den he will be able to carry. They say
they would not be surprised to hear
tomorrow that an uprising has start
"a against the provisional president.
ana that many of his official family
have deserted him.
II 10 reported that General Gustavo
Naas. who vacuated Vera Cruz when
the sailors landed. and who has been
the military commander OF the Vera
y Cruz district since then. has been su-
perssded. His successor IL General
eena, who ID known - the most violent
u -