Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1920-05-28

BY REBEL TROOPS
President of Mexico Killed at
o'clock in Morning at
TlaxcaIaItongo.
WHOLE PARTY IS WIPED OUT
Former First Chief Falls In Battle
With RevoIutionists After Flight
From Mexico city-Death
Ends Stormy Career.


Mexico City, May 24.-Gen. " Car
rama, who fed from this CITY on May
6, and who took flight into the noun
tains of Puebla following a battle
near Rinconada, was killed at o'clock
Thursday morning at Tlaxcalaltongo,
according to official announcement
here.
CarranZa's companions, whose names
are not yet known, are said to have
shared his fate. The attack which re-
suited in Carranza's death was led
by Gen. Rodolfo Herrera, it is said.
Gen. Rodolfo Herrera. it is said d.
rected the attack that resulted in the
death of the fugitive president and
his followers. He belonged to forces
commanded by Gen. Francisco Mariel.
| who accompanied Carranza in his
flight from this city, but who last week
deserted Carranza and joined the rev.
Olutionists.
The fall of CarranZa's government
and his death are the direct out
growths of the instruction of Sonora.
The rebellion, starting there early in
| April. rapidly spread throughout the
nation. 1t was practically blood
less revolt until after Carranza's
flight The only real battles were with
his guard.
Juarez, Mazatlan, Chihuahua and
other important towns rapidly fell in
| to the hands of the rebels.
The rebels In the north started to
march on Mexico City and other bands
in the south joined Gen. Obregon,
who had fled from the capital short
time before the instruction broke out,
joined with Gen. Pablo Gonzales. The
two, on May 6, demanded that Car
rama quit the capital. Carranza gave
defiant answer, but was forced to
flee the same day when large part
Of his army deserted and Obregon and
Gonzales were too strong for him to
attempt to hold the capital
Vera Cruz joined the revolt and Car
ranza's plan to escape to Europe from
there was thwarted.
The deposed dictator fled into the
mountains with his treasure. The
money and the archives which he had
taken were captured by the rebels and
on May ID his army was practically
annihilated, $500 of his men being
| taken.
Carranza's turbulent rule of Mexico
lasted about six years, during which
time the country has been in state
of revolt. He came into power after
the flight of Huerta, the man who had
brought about the death of Madero
early in 1913.
VenuStfanO CarranZa, elected presi-
dent of Mexico March IL, 1917, was
able to round out three years of one
Of the most futile, ineffective admin
istrations in his country's history.
In assuming the presidency Carran-
"a stepped from political obscurity to
national and international prominence
on the graves of the hopes of Gen.
Victoriano Huerta, the usurper. and
his followers
Born of parents in comfortable cir
cumstances in Cuatro Ciengas, state
of Coahuila, December 90, 1859, Venus
tiano Carranza was educated in the
! public schools.
| His experiences as a rancher first,
| then as judge, senator, and finally gov
ernor of Coahuila, made Carranza ia
miliar with the agrarian problem. the
root of political unrest in Mexico.
| Having defied Huerta, Carranza raj
lied a small band Of 600 followers.
which grew into stable army when
he won the support of Francisco Villa.
! Huerta's Vaccinations had embroiled
Mexico with the. United States and
| Intervention seemed imminent. The
killing of w. S. Benton, British sub
| ject, by a staff officer of Villa further
complicated the situation.
Then came Villas victory at Tor
| reon, the first real success Of the war.
Huerta resigned the provisional presi-
dency July Is, 1914, and month later
| Carranza made his triumphal entry
into Mexico City, Huerta in the mean
time having fed to Spain.
The beginning of the end of the
Villa-Zapata party as military power
| followed swiftly the heavy defeats OF
villa by Gen. Alvaro Obregon. villa
was forced to give up Torreon and
concentrate his dwindling forces in
northern Chihuahua and eastern Sono-
| ra, making occasional forays and raids
which eliminated in the attack on
Columbus, N NJ, that resulted in the
invasion of Mexican territory by Gen
eral Pershing.
General Carranza was married and
| formerly lived in Saltillo.