El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1916-05-10

sent out
with the postoffice burning and the
rebels fighting in the streets with the
Dlaz Iederals. That night q crescent
or IRE half circled Juarez and the
library. the new municipal building
and stores were destroyed
Villa Entered Town.
Then came the surrender. Villa had
entered the town from the southeast.
turned the tide Of battle and the re-
sistance from the Quartet was only
feeble effort to delay the surrender on
Wednesday. Gen Navarro's headouar-
tiers in beer garden on Concrete
nad been abandoned to the dead: Col
Tambourel slept the long sleep in his
headquarters with candle burning at
his head The old church was a wreck
Of bullet holes, artillery fire. empty
cartridge shells and the debris OF the
three days and two nights of fighting
"A bullet mad pierced the key Of St
Peter guarding the door. and Moses
had his sword badly bent. a hand
grenade had set fire to the frame door
OF the church and then gone out while
the great cross on the tower was un-
scathed-a miracle in the minds Of the
natives
Peaceful ms a Prayer.
Tuesday night, May 9, 1916 in JuareZ
was as peaceful as a PRAYER compared
TO the awful night Of burning buildings.
machine gun fire and bursting shells
on Tuesday night, May g. 1911. His
tory is being made on the border now
as II was being made five years ago,
but it is a battle of peace that is be
ing fought out with brains and not
bullets with the two ablest generals
in the United states and Mexico in
command. Juarez was peace itself I
Tuesday night when Gen. Ohregon re-
turned from the fifth peace conference
at Gen. ScOtts car at the exact hour /
when the American legion five years /
ago, was making its historic house-to- |
house charge up Gale Concrete with |
the federals from school No. Is pour |
ing an infilading fire into the little I
band OF Adventures.
Camp Fires Burn.
Beside the ruins Of the Ketelsen & I
Degetau wholesale store the soldiers /
Of Gen. ObregOn's command slept lasc
night rolled up i'm their blankets near /
the Pickering camp fires while their
women washed the pans and pots after
the evening meal Guards slept on /
the ground beside the private train Of
Gen. Obregon and his staff; officers |
in the car OF the 'Estado Mayor"
played Mexican poker while the brides
and older wives sat around in the car
which Gen Oregon occupied at the I
battle Of Celaya, and talked Of home /
and the things women talk Of the 1
world over. Giant men with belts /
Of cartridges and sagging six shooters
slipped back and forth in the moon
light like spectOrs while the women !
camp followers traipsed to the acequia (
madre for jars OF water for their camps. I
OFF to the south, where the cavalry
Is encamped. a trumpeter blew shrill,
vibrant flare and followed this with |
The final call Of the night, which died
away into a lullaby Of soft tones.
Plays With Daughter.
When Gen. Obregon's big green car |
lrOve up to his private car "Siquisiva."
ne was met at the steps by his little
laughter with her hair down her back.
With his one remaining hand he pat !
er her affectionately and. after enter {
ng the car and removing his closely /
luttoned tunic, he had his hour OF play I
With his little one. forgetting confer |
noes, crises and troop movements as !
he romped with his daughter. Then I
anne Gen. Gavira in the big prOtOs I
ar which Huerta used as his car OF
tate in Mexico City. A conference
officers came and went, the
'arranza consul from FL PasO called
nd correspondents drove up and away.
Five Years of Fighting.
Many things have happened since /
Wednesday morning. May 10, 1911. The
i've years intervening have been
lOOdy ones for Mexico. Madero. the ]
tile. brown bearded leader who an
Ounced at the police station that no
Ulcers would be executed after the
attic Of Juarez, was himself shot to
cath in Mexico City. Villa. who start
4 the battle in defiance Of Madero'e
-ders, rode into the town from the
yer road, has, seen his star rise and
4 as n Mexican leader. American
oops are now in Mexico pursuing this
lme Villa, and Oregon has come from !
Is hacienda i'm Sonora to the first Mace I