The Brunswick news., 1922-12-02
LACK OF WATER
CAUSES MOB TO.
STORM CITY HALL
Police Fire With Deadly Effect
and Seventeen Reported
Killed.
LEADERS RETURN AND SET
THE Bun DING ON FIRE
Wild Night in Capital and Fed
efaI Troops May be Ordered
to Take Charge of City and
Situation.


Mexico City, Dec. Federal
troops guarded d badly battered
municipal building today while
the city counted the casualties
of a pitched battle between the
police and a mob which attempt
ed to storm the building last
night. The death list as a result
of the fighting stood at seven-
teen today, while eighteen are
known to have been seriously
woundd and thirty-three slight
ly hurt.
The city, after night of Wild ex-
element, found its main plaza be-
fore the municipal building a sham
bles OF broken glass, timbers and
stone, evidence of the anger of the
mod which forced it's way into the
building half an hour after the police
rifles haAs taken their toll.
The Dls@hieh lasted for more
tlem Ia started wren i crowd
marclA@ to the city han@to protest
against the alderman who are held
responsible for conditions leading
to the water famine the demonstra-
ton was intended by the labor unions
that organized it rs a peaceful pro
test and several hundred persons pa
4aaed the downtown streets before
proceeding to the hall to Voice their
sentiments against the city govern
ment These prOtestants were rein
forced along the routs and when the /.
mtmicinM building was reached the
crowd nbered& than 1000
Yellis nvectiveS gainst the al
dermenk the mob I'd emphasis to
it. word by hurting stSaes and 9TH
er miEIes When one leader sug
geste%that the hall be entered, the
dem 3strators made a concentrated
mcY forward The police fired over
the heads of the crowd, which, how
ever, did not check it's course. The
police fired point blank with deadly
effect.
The demonstrators retired, carry
ing the dead and injured, but in half
an hour they returned and several
Of their number, breaking windows,
entered the hall and set fire to its
valuable documents, some
of them dated back several several
were tossed into the street
and the city records We're given to
.he winds.
BY this time federal troops arrived
but intruders were not elected before
the building had been fired in many
places and the furniture wrecked A
line of hose, which the fire depart
ment was able to bring into play de-
spite the water shortage, was sue
cessful in holding back the crowds
outside.
Several sparodic attempts to con-
tinue the demonstration were made
in the succeeding hours. but when
the dcmonS 4qnss returned to the
attack they found a Gordon Of sew
eral hundred soldiers before the
and contented themselves
with jeering and hooting.
Thus baffled in their attempts to
re-enteh the hall, several small
groups of citizens marched through
the streets committing minor depre-
dations They called on all the news
paper offices and hooted and yelled
before the residences of the city Of
ficials.
The residences of all aldermen
were also under protection of federal
troops 1t was said today that the
city election, scheduled for next Sun
day, would be postponed in view Of
last nights occurance and the sns-
gestion was made in many quarters
that the federal government take
over the city administration tempor-
arily.