Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1914-08-17
Daring Plan to Escape Is Dis
covered Just in Time by
Alert Guard and Extra Pre-
cautions Are Taken.
DIRT IS CONCEALED IN
BUILDING ADOBE HOUSES
Good Detective Work of Guard
Who Spoke Language Flu
emily Alone Is Able to Pre-
vent Break for Liberty,

ESPECIAL o,srsrcr TO sonsisa JOURNAL
Gallup. NJ NJ. Aug. 1G.--Report
has just reached Gallup Of plot TO
escape that had been planned by the
informed refugees at Fort Wingate.
1t would appear, according to the
report, that the plot to escape by
way Of an underground tunnel some
hundred feet in length had been
planned and 1t was expected that the
tunnel would be completed on
Thursday night. and the break of
1000 Mexican refugees was to be
made at that time
A tunnel 100 feet In length had
been dug from some central point
In the enclosure of the refugee camps
to point near the hospital quarters,
where it would be easy for them soon
TO be sheltered behind the buildings
when they were once free from the
stockade and out of the sight of the
guards that are stationed around the
fences.
Dirt Used TO Build Houses.
How II was possible for these men
and women to do all of this work
right under the strict vigilance of a
strong guard Is hardly within COM
prehenson. 1t has been privilege
granted to the Mexicans by the Off
GERS in charge, that they be allowed
to construct adobe houses for use
as soon as the cold weather of the
winter comes on.
1t Is believed that this is where
he
was concealed. Many thousand of
adobe bricks have been manufacture
ed and piled up there for use in
building houses at a little later date
II is presumed that the dirt was
used to make adobes as fast as it
was taken from the ground. or il
may be possible that the work was
done at night and the earth was taxi
en- out and hidden in the tents with
In the stockades.
II was by the foresight of the
guards that the planned escape was
detected before the coup had been
completed. While one of the guards
sat upon his high chair on top of the
parbed wire fence that surrounds
the stockade he pondered and sud
denly the thought flashed upon him
mat the refugees were not digging
any great holes in the earth within
the stockades from which to secure
the adobes, and only small guam
tity OF the best quality of adobe
earth had been hauled in TO the
stockade for use in this work. The
piles of adobes were continually
growing and the thought of this be-
came almost miracle to the guard.
report to this effect at head
quarters started a close watch of the
movements of every refugee in the
camp The guard about the stockade
was increased and decreased at
umes with an effort to learn just
what was going on in the camp. Even
'heh 1t Is reported that not until one
OIL the soldiers who had spent a
great amount of his past life in Mex
lco ana who spoke the language as
iluently as any one In the camp, dis
sulsed himself MS Mexican and
secured quarters in the camp Was
me tfickery discovered BY this
tline the tunneiwas nearly complei-
Cd Is not definitely known
whether or not the tunnel was toI
nave been continued from the point
1t mad reached at the time escape
was discovered, but all indications
point to the fact that the tunnel had
peen completed and that they were
only waiting an opportune moment
70 break through the surface and
make their escape
No Weapons Founu.
whether or not they had intended
TO fight their way after they were
once out Of the stockade could mott
pe learned general search Of the
.ehts revealed no weapons OF any
KIND Some Of the people here, how |
ever are Of the opinion that there
We're weapons in the camp some |
where, and that they may have been
concealed on the persons Of the wom-
en refugees, as an international law
Exists, ii is stated Which does not
permit the searching OF women. The I
officials az thr fort seemed to be
satisfied With the results Of the search |
OF the camps
1t is difficult for the Americans
living hereahouts to determine why |
we refugees should have any desire
70 escape from the stoekades at Fort
"ingate They arc receiving better
ana more food at the present time
man It WAS the custom for most OF
.hem to receive at any time n their
nVes. and they are in absolutely no
danger as long as they create no dis /
.urbance. The government has furn- I
isned them with an abundance Of
Clothing and the people % Gallup
nave collected a large amount Of old /
clothing which has been turned over
20 the officials OF the fort and by |
them turned over to the Mexicans.
II they had succeeded in making