Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-05-21
S|Lt|MAN IS STILL
UNACCOUNTED FOR
State Department Continues
Disturbed About Safety
of Vice Consul.
NO REPORT YET RECEIVED
ON FATE OF PRIVATE PARKS
Secretary Bryan Asks Brazilian Am
bassador at Mexico City to Lo-
cate Maryland Physician.

among those not accounted for In lists OF
refugees sent to the United States gov
eminent by consular agents in Mexico.
The State Department still continues to
be disturbed about his safety and is still
planning what can be done about it.
The continued absence of news of the
movements of Mr.. Silliman causes some
apprehension. In some quarters belief
was expressed that lack of transporta-
ton facilities between Saltillo and Mex
leo City had delayed Silliman and pre-
vented him from making his whereabouts
known.
Huerta had not yet reported the fate of.
Samuel Parks, the American soldier, who
was reported to have been executed after
wandering from Funston's lines at Vera
Cruz. 1t was said, however, that the
federal dictator had instituted an in
vestigation.
In an effort to get in touch with DIR.
John ]. Gross of Gainesville. Md, who
is in Mexico City, and to allay the fears
Of DR. Gross wife and children, who
recently arrived from Mexico and are
stopping with DR.. Gross brother-in-law
Frank A. Brandy. Wade avenue. Cations
willie. Secretary Bryan has sent a cable
gram to the Brazilian minister at Mexico
City to make a search for the Baltimore
physician.
Mrs. Gross has not heard from her
husband since she left him in Mexico
tative Lnthicum, who, in turn. requested
Secretary Bryan to take action. Secre-
tary Bryan's cablegram to the Brazilian
minister in Mexico City is very earnest
in requesting thorough search for DIR.
Gross. Mrs Gross says that when she
left her husband he was afraid to ven
ture on the streets and only remained to
dispose Of some property which he owned
n the Mexican capital
Mrs. Gross has sent a cablegram to
DR.. Carlos Campero. physician of Mex
leo City and personal friend of DR..
Gross. asking him to locate her husband.
Mrs. Gross said If there is any man in
Mexico who can find DR.. uross it is DR..
Campero, who is a close friend of Huerta.
Family of T. j. Smith Safe.
Assurances that the family of T. ].
Smith, at Tanola, Mexico. is safe under
the protection Of British and Brazilian
diplomatic offices and that every effort
is being made to obtain the release from
Imprisonment of Smith himself we're re-
ceived by Secretary Bryan from the Bra
lillian minister in Mexico City.
Tho dispatch stated that 1t was not
known that any member Of the family
except Smith himself had ever been in
jail
According to previous State Depart
ment advices Smith and his family were
imprisoned by the Mexican authorities
at Tonala, charged with shooting three
rurales who attempted to enter their
home.
Practically all Americans willing to
leave have been taken out Of the Mexi-
can states Of Yucatan. Tabaseo and
cabled the Navy Department that the.
steamer City Of Tanpico. returning from
cruise along the southern gulf coast,
had brought to Vera Cruz thirty-five
Americans and 1875 other foreigners.
Decline to Board Ship.
Many Americans had declined to board
the steamer. saying that If flight became
necessary later they could find safety
in British Honduras or Guatemala.
Passengers on the City Of Tampfco
who desire to go to New Orleans will
be sent on the Monterey in a few days.
Admiral Badgers report told of the
fight Of fifty persons, including thirty
Americans. mostly employees Of the La
guna Company, from Ell Pital nearly
month ago for the Guatemalan border.
They have been making slow progress,
and an effort will be made to give
them aid.
Admiral Badger said so far as was
known there had been no serious inter-
ference with American property in any
Of the states visited by the Tampico.
In supplemental dispatch Admiral
Badger advised the Navy Department
that nearly all of Tampico's refugees
are now on the Monterey" There were,
he said. q total c. 253 refugees on the
Monterey. The Monterey will go to
Puerto Mexico tomorrow to meet q
refugee train scheduled to arrive there
from Mexico City.
Lieut.. q. p. Brown of the Dixie ha.
been ordered to the Culgoa, the trans
fer being caused by sickness, and Lieut..
W. L. Heiberg of the Trippe has been
removed to tho hospital because Of
sickness.
No Immediate Changes Contemplated
At the Navy Department today 1t was
stated that 1t is not deemed expedient to
make any changes in the dispositions of
the American feet in Mexican waters
during the present state of mediation,
though routine drills and practices Of
the ships have been much deranged by
their long stay in that part of the world.
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