The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1917-02-01
TROOPS
CHARGE MEX|CANS
Soldiers Attack Mob When Riot
ing Is Resumed on Bridge.
AIDED BY CARRANzRS MEN
Men and Women Hurl Missiles at Sol
diers and Two Are lniured--At-
tempt Was Made to Break q.
Quarantine Regulations.

FL Paso, Tex, Jan. 30.-Antl-Ameri-
can riots were resumed in Juarez and
resulted in Company A, Twenty-third
United States infantry, charging a
Wild mob of MeXicans who attempted
to rush across the international bridge
in defiance OF Amedican quarantine
regulations.
After d brief battle on the narrow
structure bridging the Rio Grande, the
Mexicans were driven back on the Jul
arez side. News of the fighting spread
rapidly throughout FL Paso and Ju-
arez and within a few minutes crowds
numbering several hundred gathered
on each side Of the bridge, near the
Mexican and American customhouses.
Baflicd in their attempt to invade Ell
PasO, the AIeNicans turned their atten-
ton TO street cars that had crossed
into JuareZ from the American side,
wrecking them. The street car COM
international bridge.
After the rioting had continued for
two hours, Mexican troops from the
Juarez garrison attempted to dispense
the mobS on the Mexican side, but
failed. In the melee along the banks
women were pushed into the river.
Later the military authorities at Ju-
arez asserted that they had the situa-
ton well in hand. Several MeXicans
employed in FL Paso consented to take
the gasoline baths and were permitted
to cross. No Americans ventured
across the bridge.
American troops drove spectators
back from the El Paso end of the in
ternational bridge, fearing that angry
MeXicans in the mob across the river
may open fire.
Two Americans Injured.
In the fighting on the bridge, Ser
geant Peck of Company A was
Knocked unconscious by n bottle
hurled by a Mexican; Roy Schuyler,
, American customs officer, was struck
! by a paving stone and seriously hurt.
Mexican women employed in FL
Paso and living in Juarez started the
disturbance. They marched across
the bridge in close formation and
swung into n run as they neared the
American side of the bridge. Quaran-
tine officers and a number of soldiers
threw them back.
The women fought like tigresSes,
screaming and cursing. Thirty or
10 women cornered two infantry
men and attempted to rush them of
the bridge, but fell back when the
soldiers threatened to shoot.
Crowds of Mexican men, employed
as labOrers on the FL PasO side, joined
the band of Amazons with their gay
colored mantiIlas. The mob formed
again and rushed toward the Ameri-
can end of the bridge. By that time
the infantrymcn had been REINFORCED
and easily repealed the attack.
Guard Against Uprising
Other troops were ordered to the
river bank at once. The police took
special precautions to prevent an up.
rising among FL Paso's thousands of
Mexicans, who live largely in adobe
huts near the bank of the Rio
Grande.
No shots were fired during the
mornings rioting, but rocks and bot
ties were hurled.
Fear is felt here for the safety of
a large party of American Mormon
refugees who reached Juarez and
were forced to spend the night there
because 1t was impossible for them to
comply with the quarantine regula-
tions at once. Only about 80 of the
Mormons were permitted to cross dur
Ing the night.