The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1914-12-09
N''eS RULED CITY
MEXICAN CAPITAL In TERROR
DURING WHOLE WEEK
Police were UNFRAMED

| Principal Streets of the Trouble
some EIement-Zapata's Forces
Are Now Keeping Order in Ancient
City.
Fer one week Mexico City has beer
| isolated from the outside world, sc
far as concerned the transmission Of
press dispatches. Wednesday com.
munication was restored by wire
from the capital to Ell Paso and it is
possible to recount in detail the story
of the last few days, only fragments
of which hitherto have passed beyond
the border.
When Gen. Lucio Blanco left the
city early Tuesday, November "a. few
inhabitants knew Of his departure
Towards noon heavy firing was heard
in the neighboring suburbs. Here
the retreating forces of Gen. Blanco
were deserted by their chief. They
fought the advance guard of Gen
Zapata. During these engagements
sixty men we're killed and Blanco's
}men retreated northward through
Atzcapotzalco.
1t then became generally known
that Gen. Carranzo had ordered both
Obregon and Blanco to leave the city
I with all their men. The order also
called for the disarmament and the
| dissolution of the entire police force.
AS Zapata's forces had not pene-
trated the city proper and as the Con-
stitutionalist plan called for complete
abandonment of the capital, when the
order to dissolve the police force be-
came known fear and rage divided
the feelings of business and residen-
tial communities. Stores and banks
were closed Immediately and have re-
NAMED closed. Foreigners and Mexi-
cans kept close to their homes.
At 5 o'clock Tuesday mobs began
forming in front of the national pal
ace. It was evident that serious trou-
BILE was brewing and the streets were
cleared of all save four rioters. With
cried of ''To the arms store! there
are no police" the crowds ran from
the open plaza to the places designat-
ed on the Aysnida 18th of September.
Here the leaders forced the doors
of one of the largest establishments
selling arms and ammunition and
handed out the weapons to the wait
| ing throngs. With these the rioters
rushed down the streets, firing as
they went.
This firing began at dusk on the
evening of November 27 and resulted
in the shutting up of all establish
ments, both public and private, until
the cause Of it was learned.
Excellent order is now Being pre-
served in the city, but eleven iremen
were killed Thursday night by Zapa-
| ia soldiers, who, when the fremen
answered an alarm, mistook their ap-
paratus for rapid fire guns and artil-
lery and poured volley after volley
into the defenceless men. Seven fire.
men killed outright and four died on
the way to the hospital. Many were
wounded.
Wednesday the advance guard of
the Villa army, under Gen. Angeles,
reached the outskirts of the city.
There are 5000 infantrymen in the
detachment and they are encamped
about mile back of the Chapultepec
Castle. These men will not enter the
city until the bulk of the army OF
Gen. Angeles arrives, which will be
about the end of the week.
A large detachment of Villa troops,
| under Gen. Jose Isabel Robes. IS re-
ported to have defeated the division
OF Gen. Pablo Gonzales and captured
! the city of Pachua. When the Car
rama forces deserted Mexico City
they took with them one Of the loco
motives and all available rolling
stock, so that for the past week the
various railway stations and yards
have been empty.
| Troops from the north are bring
ing many trains with them. Tele.
phone lines connecting the capital
with the suburbs had been working
busily, however, and the Zapata
forces on the outskirts were asked tc
come into the city. They responded
promptly.
Meanwhile students had met ano
decided to arm themselves and dis
perse the mobs if no assistance came
from the besieging soldiers on the
outside. The crowds heard OF these
preparations and broke up into small
parties, spreading out over the en-
tire city.
When the Zapata forces entered
Mexico City the students, armed witt
all sorts of weapons, already hat
/ taken possession of the princlpa
| streets. These manifestations awee
the mobs, who confined themselves t
breaking into small stores along tn;
unfrequented streets.
/ Terror was added to the situation
by the fact that the men OF Gen
Blancos command, in their hurry t
get out of harms way, held VI
i coaches and unhitched horses o.
broke into public and private stable
). and seized any animal that would en-
able them to escape. During thes'
operations considerable firing was go
ing on.
/ Eduardo Iturbide, governor of tn
!. federal district under the CarbaJa
regime, led the reorganization of tn
police force, calling on all forme
army officers for that purpose. Seno
Iturbide. working in conjunction Wit
Col. Saldana. Of the Zapata forces
; and by 10 o'clock that night 200 foo
and 100 horse of these volunteer
were patrolling the streets. By mid
night complete order prevailed in tn