Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1914-04-24
LIVES OF AMERICAN pEpgs.
TRANS THREATENED AZ
REFUGEE TRAIN LEAVES.
EXCITED PoPuLAcE
STORMS AMERICAN cLuD
Windows Shattered and Members Aro
Threatened With Asssssinati ation---
Newspapers Of Capital in Extra Edi.
tions Toll Of Capture by Mexican
Troops of El Paso, LAREDO ana
NosaIes.

Train to Vera Cruz. April 3%.--Mobs III
the streets OF Mexico City werc tramp-
ling under foot the stars and stripes
and were threatening American Pc
destrians when the refugee train. CO.
gagged under the auspices Of the Brit
ish and German legations, left for Vera
Cruz. carrying some 500 fugitives Of
various nationalities.
The position OF American citizens
left IN the federal capital was REGARDED
as critical. Nelson OShauahnessy, the
American charge de affaires: Lieuten-
ant Rowan. OF the navy. and Capt
William A. Burnside. OF the army, were
to leave on Thursday night for Man
zanillo. on the Pacific coast. undsr
special arrangement with Provisional
President HuerA-
Immediately after the news oe ne
landing Of American blue3ackete anA
marines Mt Vera Crus was made knoWns
in the federal capital by extra edsttoasg
OF the local newspapers. crowds of sta.s
dents and government office employees
began to gather. 1~ss
Mob Storms American Club.
BY dusk a mob had assembled In
front of the American club where they
smashed windows and howled insults
and threats at the Americans inside. all
of whom they threatened to assassin
ate.
An appeal to the governor OF the fed
eral district brought police protection
but not before the crowd had shattered
the windows in tho club house and In
adjoining property belonging to Amer
leans.
Until o'clock In the morning bands.
OF excited Mexicans marched thru the
anthem and shouting Death for the
Americans"
American Property Threatened.
An American jewelry store was
police looked on without taking any
action.
The American club. the leading
American hostelry and the Offices OF
the Mexican Herald. were closed owing
to the threats of the mobs to burn
them and murder their occupants.
The British, Germans and French in
tho federal capital were prepared at
moments notice to gather in the previ-
ously arranged concentration districts
which had been provisioned to stand
siege.
Newspapers Print lurid Dispatches.
The newspapers, probably acting un-
der the directions OF General Huerta,
issued many extra editions in which
they printed dispatches stating that Ell
Paso. Laredo. Nogales and other places
had been taken by the Mexicans. Other
dispatches announced that the federal
troops had gained great victory at
Vera Cruz where they expected to STIR
round and drive the American invaders
into the sea.
The papers also declared that tho
battleship Louisiana had been sunk by
a Mexican torpedo. An alleged dispatch
from the south said that Emiliano IA.
pata, tho southern rebel. was coming
to Join forces with General Huerta.
American Railway Officials Discharged
All the American officials employed
by the national railroads and the Mex.
ican Railway Company were immedi-
ately discharged by the government in
order that no trains could be operated
except under the supervision OF the
government - n
At the American embassy orders
were expected from the Mexican gov
ernment that the arms and ammuni.
ton recently permitted to enter should
be given up. This was In retaliation
for tho seizure Of Vera Cruz by the
American fleet AT o'clock on Wed.
neday evening Nelson o'ShauEhnesay,
tho American charge de affaires. had
not received his passports but he was
preparing to leave.
The refugee train took twenty hours
to make the journey from Mexico City
to Vera Cruz. There were many de-
lays but no mishaps.