Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1920-05-13
CARRANZA FLEES
To VERA Cruz
Reported at City's Outskirts With
Seventy-Five Men.
OBREGON IN MEXICO CITY
Official information Received at Wash
ington Confirms Flight Of the Pres
: ident of Mexico-U. S. S. Dol
phin Arrives at Tampico.


phin Arrives at Tampico.
Aqua Prieta, Mex, May 1O.-Heac-
quarters Of General Gales, commander
in chief of the revolutionary forces,
received information that General Car
rama, who fed from Mexico City Sat
urday, has arrived at the outskirts OF
Vera Cruz with an escort of IS men.
He was reported to have issued a
statement saying he had not yet given
up the fight.
Flight Confirmed.
Washington, May 10.-The flight of
Carranza from Mexico City has been
confirmed by advices here to the revo-
lutionary headquarters.
An official telegram from Vera Cruz
received at the state department says
that General Obregon has taken COM
plete possession of Mexico City.
It is said that CarranZa, after leav-
ing on a train bound for Vera Cruz,
got off the train and proceeded east
ward on horseback.
Ordinarily an event Of this kind
would mean the end of the revolution.
It may now become necessary for the
United States to deal with the per-
sons at the head Of the emergency
government at Mexico City. Instruc-
tions would go to George Summerlin,
the American charge d'affaires at
Mexico City, to that effect.
Advices to headquarters here Of the
Sonora revolutionists say Neuva La
redo surrendered after fight in which
there were three casualties and the
commander of the Carranza forces
was wounded.
Piedras Niegras, opposite Eagle
Pass, and Matamoras, opposite
Brownsville, Tex, the dispatches add
ed, were expected to surrender and
Tampico would fall.
U. S. Dolphin to Tampico.
1t is announced by the navy depart
ment that the destination of the Dol
phin, which left New Orleans under
secret orders, is Tarlpico. nFhe Dol
phin is a small vessel, but she was the
nearest to Tampico and will reinforce
the Sacramento, which is already
there, and which, it is understood, has
moved up the Tanuco river to observe
the military movements of rebels and
Carranzistas with respect to the Oil
wells and other property.
1t is probable that the hurry call
to the Dolphin was caused by the
news which arrived here from another
quarter that the port of Lobos, on the
east Mexican coast, has been cap
tured by the rebels. This is the first
post on that coast to be won by the
revOlutionaries and it is an important
place for the export of oil for the
United States and other nations.
Navy officers, who are in charge at
the oil fields, will act, it is understood,
something in the character of commits
sioners, and will endeavor to arrange
that there shall be no fighting endan-
gering the American and foreign prop
critics.
1t is expected that at least half Of
the force of 1900 marines under Col
onel Bannon, which will leave Phila-
delphia as soon as the transport Hen
derson arrives there to convey them
south, will debark at Tampico for the
oil district generally. The others will
be sent to Vera Cruz, it being we'll
understood that the ordering of the
ships and men to Key West was only
a halfway order.
Keep Telegraph Open.
The immediate need of marines. II Is
stated by army people, is that the
United States shall be in a position
with small force if necessary to keep
the telegraph and railway line open
between Mexico City and Vera Cruz.
Army officials said significantly that
the army probably will have the same
work to do as the navy with respect
to the interior of Mexico.
If, as now appears to be the fact.
communication is cut off either from
the northern boundary or the big
cities on the eastern coast, with the
Mexican capital where are located
the United States diplomatic repre-
sentatives and the largest number of
American citizens, the army must
soon get orders to cooperate with
the navy to lift the curtain.
That there is serious obstruction is
shown by the fact that revolutionary
headquarters here have no news di-
rect from Mexico City, and that the
lines to Mexico City have been cut