Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-04-29
Little Anxiety For
Safety of Americans Is
Now Felt at Vera Cruz
!. BY Associated Press

relieved by the events of yesterday,
which show that the Mexican authori-
ties are permitting Americans to come
down to the coast. To-day the Amer
lean colony, which is growing steaoliy,
settled down to await news from
Puerto Mexico of the arrival OF three
trainloads of refugees from Mexico
city, which the Huerta officials prom
sed Commander Tweedie, of the BRIT,
ish cruiser Essex, had been dispatched
from the capital last night.
The route from the capital to Puerto
Mexico Is long and roundabout, ana II
is not expected that the trains VIII
reach the coast before next Friday.
! Rear Admiral Badger will have n yes
, selrat Puerto Mexico to meet the ref
lugees. He probably will not send q
warship, as this might arouse anti
American feeling in a town which up
TO the present time has been entirely
quiet. The passenger boats aVallaple
here for the trip to Puerto Mexico
have limited wireless equipments;
consequently the arrival of the refugee
trains, together with the names ol
these on board. may not be learned
until the steamer returns TO vera
Cruz. If the refugee trains are hl!ed
to capacity, as they probably Will be,
it is estimated that 500 people Will
be conveyed to Puerto Mexico. 1t is
impossible in Vera Cruz to determine
how many Americans this would leave
in the capital. William w. Canada,
the American Consul here, is endeav-
oring to obtain information along this
line from the Brazilian Minister at
Mexico City, to whom the affairs of the
United States were entrusted when
Charge D'Affaires O'Shaughnessy left.
Hope of Settlement
Mr.. O'Shaughnessy and Arnold
Shanklin, the American Consul Gen
rxrIn M
with him, are still here awaiting or
/. lders. So far as is known they have
given no intimation as to their prob
! able instructions from Washington.
This is construed here to mean that
. 1.-THE State Department retains nope OF
a satisfactory adjustment of the pres
ent difficult which would make 1t pos
sible for these officials to return to
Mexico City Consequently their return
to the United States now might be In
expedient.
The release by General Gustavo
Mas, the Federal commander outside
of Vera Cruz, of the hundred refugees
7 who were brought in from Soledad
4 yesterday by Commander Tweedie
clears teh territory between Vera Cruz
and Mexico City, on the direct line ol
communication, of all Americans with
i the exception Of few scattered faml'
lies whose whereabouts are not known
1 Some may have made their way tt
the capital; others to coast ports, ant
some are supposed to be in hiding
r with friendly Mexican ranchers.
E Consul Canada has been unable Il
d communicate directly with the Amer
B ,ican refugees and he is urging the Bra
lillian Minister at Mexico City to max.
j inquiries regarding them through
channels controlled by Presiden
B Huerta.
3 Names Are Cabled
Consul Canada's office is fioode'
with cablegrams inquiring for the safe
q lty of this or that person AS fast a
the lists containing the names OF thos
who reach the coast and start 10
Galveston are received they are cable
to the State Department at Washing
ton.
- The Soledad refugees are enthusias
tic in praise of Commander Tweedie
re whose determined stand, they believe
alone saved them from probabl
death or at least prolonged suffering
: On being released from the peniten
e- tiary at Soledad, where they had bee
co confined as protection against tn
n mob, the refugees were taken to tn
- railroad track and handed over to
Mexican major, who had no instrue
r. tions as to what to do with them.
'r- train bound for Mexico City passed bu
lis they were not permitted to board it.
- AIL6T WdltIIlS HOuIS III tic pidAiii
n sun, Commander Tweedie's trai
'e- steamed into sight, bound for Yer
nd Cruz. Several refugees approache
er the British officer and told Of thei
a plight
to "You need not worry" Commando
lite Tweedie answered. This train WI
a not leave without YOU"
to Permitted to Depart
en- Commander Tweedie calmly insis
as ed to the Mexican. officer that he b
90 permitted to take the Americans wit
him to Vera Cruz, and he refused
on listen to the officers protest that i
,k, had no authority in the matter. I'll
to Federal officer finally capitulated an
I'd hastened back to the city for 1nstru'
ry, ticns, returning in an hour with PEI
he mission for the tired. hungry an
yer nervous Americans to depart.
al The refugees told also of the gallal
conduct of the Mexican military con
leo mander at Soledad and of the mayo
mt, who made every effort to protect IL
refuges from the mob in the street.
On the nigh when the situate
was especially serious, the mayor MAJ
s.. an address to the citizens urging the
to be cain. The most effective wor
however was done by the comman
ant who seized several hundred
DS the most ardent rioters, pressed the
into the army and sent they away
,,a Huertas forces There was no fu
in they display of hostility by the town
m people. The refugees say that on
! is the lower element was involved in t
of rioting.
;sh Experiment Successful
I;n Rear Admiral Fletchers experime
,,na last night in granting the populati
ss of Vera Cruz the fullest measure
the liberty, permitting them to wander
will in the streets throughout t
,ro night in order to convince them of I
r;t, pacific Intentions of the America
rios proved completely successful. Outsi
h, of one or two shots fired in the out
re ing districts, which did not damat
a,S the city was tranquil
ars Brigadier General Funston's Office
"a e. continued to-day their study of
sGi- city. They will take over the work
! af policing it on Friday, when the Ge
s,ra eral assumes the title of military &C
ap-