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Show SOLDIERS DYNAMITE AND BURN TGWN THRIVING BORDER TOWN IN RUINS AS RESULT OF ORGY OF DESTRUCTION. Several Brisk Skirmishes Between Mexicans and Americans the Result Re-sult of Indiscriminate Firing Across the Boundary. Laredo, Texas. Nuevo Laredo, the .thriving Mexican border town opposite oppo-site side is in ruins, devastated by dynamite and fire by Mexican federal soldiers who late F'riday began an orgy of destruction which did not end until they were forced to flee before the guns of the American border patrol. pa-trol. Two Mexicans are known to have been killed by United States troops and several were seen -to fall. Several Sever-al brisk skirmishes between the Americans Amer-icans and Mexicans were fought as the Mexicans, their troop trains ready to pull out of the burning city, began be-gan an indiscriminate fire across the international boundary. Property damage in Nuevo Laredo will reach $500,000. Among the buildings build-ings destroyed were the United States consulate, municipal 4building, post-office, post-office, theatre, the flour mill, one of the largest in this section of the southwest, south-west, railroad shops of the National railway and other smaller structures. Kerosene and other combustibles, liberally used, added to the wreckage which otherwise would not have been great, owing to the adobe construction largely used. ' |