Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1922-07-06
Small Groups of Men Who
Had Been Fighting for
the Last Week Behind
BarriCadeS, Surrender,
ONE OF PRINCIPAL
LEADERS CAPTURED
Success of National Cause
Is Purchased at the Cost
of Blazing BuiIdingSi
Many Are Dead,


Dublin, July 5 (by the Associa-
strongholds Of the insurgent Irish
forces was virtually ended tonight
with the surrender of small groups
of men who had been fighting for
the last week behind tho barricades
and the capture of one of the prin-
cipal leaders, Cathal Erugha, for
mer minister of defense.
But the success of the national
cause has been purchased at the
cost OF blazing buildings and terri
BILE destruction in O'Connell street,
to say nothing of the loss of life
and the many seriously wounded.
There is still no information as
to the whereabouts of Eamonn de
Valera who has apparently escaped
from the free staters' net.
Irrcgulars Are Defiant.
In the later afternoon, when ten
buildings, including three hotels,
were aflame, the remainder of the
irregulars, driven into the Gran
vile hotel. with fire on all sides,
still maintained q desperate re-
sistance with automatics and rifles,
but it was already seen hat they
could not long delay the inevitable
end.
The final attack by the free state
troops began at midday after u
lull during which the firing Slack
ened greatly. The regulars adopted
the desperate plan Of bombing tho
insurgents. A bomb was hurleI
into Hammam's hotel and soon
faint wisps of smoke crept through
the shattered windows and sud-
denly a burst of flame in front, fol-
lowed by dense volumes Ct srloke.
The flames spread quickly In less
than two hours three buildings
were completely destroyed.
Still the battle ragged, the irreGt,-
lars firing fusiIlades from the win
dows of both the Gresham and the
| Granville while the national rifle
men replied vigorously from, their
| positions opposite and from ar
mored cars.
| Flaming Furnace.
Shortly after / o'clock an ar
mored car took up a position oppo-
site the Gresham and poured Il
hurricane of machine gun fire into
the hotel windows. Smoke belched
forth, quickly followed by NUT
fled explosion and tongues OF
flames from the windows, and
within half an hour the front of the
building was flaming furnace.
The firemen played water on the
premises between the Gresham ana
| the Hammam and saved them IN
part. but the fate of the Gresham
was from the first hopeless.
Even while the lower floors or
this hotel were burning, the irreg-
ulars continued to fire from the
upper windows, but by o'clock
the remnant of the garrison, five
men, weary-eyed and blackened,
emerged from the rear OF the
building under the white flag and
surrendered.
White Flag Is Seen.
| Presently a white flag was seen
protruding from the door OF the
| Edinburgh hotel and man stepped
forth, the flag in one hand and IL
suit case in the other. Behind him
walked a curious and pitiful pro-
cession of between twenty anu
thirty persons, mostly women. a
white haired woman of 70 bringing
up the rear, all carrying small
quantities of luggage.
They explained that they had
been living in the Edinburgh "a
whole week, chiefly taking refuge
! in the cellars. but were forced to
leave by the flames in an adjacent
store.