Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-05-15
Victorious Rebels Untan-
ole Government Left by
Fleeing Federals.
TO GUARD FOREIGNERS
Americans Are Urged to Return
TO Oil Fields Under Protec-
ton Offered Them.

San Diego. Cal. May ia wire
less from the battleship California says
the insurgents and federals after bat
Ting for a fortnight for possession OF
Nazatlan. rested yesterday
washington. d. c.. May 15.-Admiral
Badger reported that the Mexican fed
eral g1nboats, Zaragosa and Bravo and
rug Tampico. which left Tampico yes
terdav followed by an American gun
boat and two destroyers, were expect
ed TO reach Puerto Mexico early to-
morrow. The gunboat Vera Cruz has
been abandoned in Panuco river.
Tampico, Mexico, May 15.-The con-
stitutionaIists in Tampico are burying
their dead and Strengthening out the
tangle of a local government
Every hospital is filed with wound
ed men and the dead lie on cots be-
side men who are dying. Dead men
lie In the trenches where the federals
made their last stand and which were
stormed and taken by General Con
zales and his men.
No Americans or other foreigners
we're killed or wounded during the bat
tie. which preceded the fall OF Tam
pico.
The cruiser Des Moines and the gun
boat Dolphin steamed up the Panuco
river and are anchored off the wharf
at Tampico. Rear Admiral Mayo Is on
board the Des Moines.
vfx-nn hr Cen
eral GonzaIes-piaces the uumber OF
constitutionalists killed during wed
uesday's fighting at "a. He said that
I2s of his men we're wounded General
Gonzales estimated the number of fed
erals killed at ESQ and more than GU
wounded
More than 100 federal dead were
counted in the trenches where they
tried to turn the rebel charge Rebel
shells fell in the trenches just before
the charge was ordered and many fed
erals were killed when the shells ex-
ploded.
Military Ruler FIees-
Brigadier General Zaragoza, military
governor of Tamaulipas. and in chief
command OF the federal forces in Tam
pico, left this city when IL became
evident TO him that he could no longer
resist the steady approach Of the con-
stitutionalists or fight them on. When
he left on a special railway train Tor
San Luis PotOsi, carrying with him
strong military escort, arrangements
we're made for the evacuation OF Tam
pico by his forces. More than 1000
men we're ordered TO the trenches to
make a last effort to drive back the
constitutionalists. whose firing line was
then well within the city's limits. When
the trenches we're abandoned the red
eral ammunition depot was brown cp.
General Gonzales with his three bri-
zade commanders and general staf, en-
tered Tampico at 1:40 o'clock In the
afternoon: then only occasional firing
could be heard. The federals had
gone. Il was found that except IlI- ar
senaIs, which, with their contents. had
been destroyed by the retreattng fed
erals. no buildings in Tampico had
been damaged. The rebel fire had
been directed only at the trenches ana
positions occupied by the federals near
the Escuela del Monte. General Con
zales had taken every precaution TO
prevent a possible destruction OF Tam
pico.
Promises 20 Maintain Order.
General Gonzales said:
sThere will be no lawlessness IN
Tampico now Such acts as character
ized the attitude OF Huerta's creatures
in their relations with foreigners Is
not Characteristic of the constitution
slists.
IF the foreigners who left here on
account OF the lawlessness which oc-
cured during Huerta's rule of Tampico
will return now they Will be gwen
every guarantee OF protection ana
safety.
The constitutionalists welcome all
Americans and other foreigners VINO
come to US 70 take part in our com
mercisI life"
A violent electrical storm In TINS
vicinity after the battle crippled the
wireless and other means or COM
nunication.
The plight OF the federals unoer
Zaragoza. who are retiring in the dl-
rection OF San Luis Potosi along the
railroad Is considered by most VINO
know the country as extremely serious
The constitutionalists have oNeFfuh
the territory about San Luis Potosl
and control a considerable portion OF
the railroad. Northward toward the
federal lines the country is rugged ana
barren and probably impossible 10 the
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