Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1922-10-02
THR0NCs ATTEND
FUNE RA[ Of MEN
SLAIN IN FIGHT
Three Victims of the Juarez
Revolution Are Buried;
Caskets Draped With a
Huge Mexican Flag.

Ell Pasc, Tex. Oct. thousands
of Juarez and Ell Paso people this
afternoon attended the funeral of
Gonzalo Chavira, 26. fiscal guard;
Alfredo Escobar. 2S; fiscal guard,
and Private Jose Maria Moreno, 20,
of the Second regiment of mounted
gendarmes of Mexico City, who
died of wounds received in skirm-
ishes with soldiers of the Forty
third regiment, who revolted early
Saturday morning in the neighbor-
ing city.
Chavira was fatally wounded
during the battle in Juarez and
died in an Ell Paso hospital Satur-
day night. Escobar was instantly
killed when rebel troops fired on
fiscal guards at San Lorenzo Satur-
day night. Moreno died this morn
ing of wounds received during the
battle in JuareZ.
Side by side. their bodies lay in
state in the main hall of the GUS
toms house from early today until
A p. m.
The caskets were draped with a
huge Mexican flag. Four hu"e
candles burned at the four corners
Of the black mat on the floor.
Two uniformed fiscal guards and
two privates of the mounted gem
darmes stood guard with four
pretty young women In Blue Cross
uniforms. An honor guard of Blue
Cross members sat in a line at the
head of the caskets.
Guards Are Relieved.
AS the hour for the funeral drew
near the guards were relieved by
Pauline N. Guerrero, customs col
lector; Jesus Anaya Teran. Juarez
fiscal guard commander; Horacio
zendejas, assistant customs COL
lector, and Enrique Delgado, sue
toms house cashier.
A continuous line of people, hun
dreds of them from Ell Paso moved
in at one side of the entrance, pass
ed about the room in a huge circle
and out on the opposite side of the
entrance. Guards directed the
movement.
With heads barred and bowed.
and with prayers on their lips,
Juarez citizens and friends of the
battle heroes took this opportunity
to pay their respect to the men who
died that a revolution again might
be crushed and peace insured.
For brief period relatives were.
allowed to take a last look at the
faces of the young men before the
caskets were hoisted to the shoul-
ders of comrades, who rried them
through the streets to the ceme-
terry.
The funeral cortege was the
iongs7s n The nlstory OK the elt1, X.
was declared.
High civil and military officials,
including Gen. Eugenio Martinez
and Gen. J. ]. Mendez, were in line.
Heavily Armed Soldiers.
There were heavily armed fed
eral soldiers, uniformed fiscal
guards carrying rifles. a squad of
police, groups of fraternal organi-
cations scores of uniformed Blue
cross girls. and matrons, ono of
whom carried the national colors
entwined with the Blue Cross flag.
and fife and drum corps. Several
or the many automobiles in line
pore American and Mexican flags.
Simple Military Service.
There was a simple military
service at the grave. A volley was
Tired across the graves as the cas-
kets were lowered.
Fiscal guards and twenty men
OF the Second regiment of mounted
gendarmes of Mexico City, in
Juarez on a special mission. played
prominent part in the battle in
which the rebels were defeated and
put to flight.
While the funeral at the ceme-
terry was in progress. group Of
men with spades over their shoul-
ders trudged down a path to the
spot where they were to dig the
common grave in which the bodies
OF seven rebels and three alleged
rateros. who were executed were
to be buried. For them there was
no military honors.
Direction of this work was left
TO Eugenio Acosta, superintendent
OF Liberty hospital.