The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1914-05-18
THROWING OF BOMBS
into MAzATLAN BY
AVIATOR PROvOKES
AMERICAN PROTEST
Three Non-combatants, In
Guiding a Seven ear-Old
Girl, Killed by Operations
of Rebel Birdmen.
TRY LEASED WlRE1

LOS ANGELES, Cal, May IS
Sharp protest by Rear Admiral How
ard. of the American navy and the
commander of the German cruiser
Nurnberg at Mazatlan has forced the
Constitutionalists besieging that Next
can port to abandon their bomb drip
ping operations, according to advices
here today from the correspondent of
the International News Service aboard
the U. S. S. California.
The correspondent transmitted
thrilling story of the operations of
rebel aviator at Mazatlan confirming
the report that four persons were kill
ed and eight wounded in the city on
May Z, when bomb was dropped from
an aeroplane flying 1000 feet above
the ground.
Among the killed was a seven year
old girl. The three persons killed were
hon-combat
File Note Of Protest.
The joint German-American protest
was then sent by the two naval Off
GERS to General Obregon, the Constitu-
tionalist commander. The note was ia
ken by the two American officers
through the federal and rebel lines un-
der flag OF truce to Obregon's head
quarters.
The protest was successful and the
aviator ceased his operations. The
bomb dropping was described as fol-
lows by the correspondent:
Il witnessed the dropping of bombs
from the deck of the California. while
watching the artillery duel that had
been in progress since dawn between
the stranded federal gungoat Morelos
and Fort Bosales on one side and the
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Wipes Out Family.
when the aeroplane flew away it
left behind and far below it home
torn in ruins and a wounded mother
wailing over the dead body of her
child while nearby lay the dead father
of the family and two other men, while
in the street outside. crawled away
eight horribly torn and bleeding Pc
ons, half crazed with the horror of
what had fallen from the skies.
The family had been breakfasting
when the tube of nitroglycerine fell in
to the street before the adobe house
near the Methodist church in a street
that bore the homogeneous name of
1.-THE carnival"
IF they saw the aeroplane before sit
ting down to breakfast-as thousands
OF other people in the city saw it sail
ing out of the south-they did not
fear it. The Mazatlan people are &C
Customed to aeroplanes. There are six
Of them in the rebel army They have
sailed above the city dropping Obre-
CONS manifestoes, accusing the Huerta
government of treason and telling the
townspeople that If the Americans in
vaded Mexico. he would fight them to
the last of his resources.
go whom this aornnlana annoa rod
the folks here said:
"'Obregon's postman is busy again.
He brings compliments. Buenas Diaz,
Senior
AeropIane Drops Bomb.
The aeroplane grew larger as it
grew nearer. 1t passed on overhead
until it was over the fort on Round
Top Then from it descended a tiny
object. The black tube fell swiftly.
Made of a piece of four inch pipe
weighing SIS pounds, with its load of
40 pounds of nitroglycerine and with a
decorating cap at each end, the bomb
exploded with frightful force when it
struck. have the exact description of
the bomb from refugees who witnessed
the manufacture.
when this one crashed into the
street a big hole was torn into the
roadway, the thoroughfare was filled
with pieces Of adobe clay and frag-
ments of iron and a dense cloud of
black smoke arose The house fronts
were shattered for a block.
within ten minutes Mazatland was
q city of shuddering fear. The aero
plane passed on and dropped another
bomb, but this fell harmlessly into
an open space near the fort Then the
aviator sailed out of view in the direc-
ton of the rebel lines"