Show insurrection IN OLD MEXICO several towns town 8 sac sacked ked and many per tons con SI slain ain as result of uprising in st state a te of yucatan vera cruz cr the most serious uprising with which the mexican government has had to deal in a long time has occurred in the state ot of yucatan and are beng being rushed to the disturb disturbed ea urea area in the meantime reports indicate that there has been much bloodshed arid and that the insurgents are prepared for battle with the government forces foicey the independent newspaper el Dic tamen publishes dispatches from merlda merida the capital ot of yucatan to the effect that forty persons persona were killed by the maya indians on saturday further dispatches received here say that fot these insurgents sacked the town of ninety five miles to tho the southeast or of morida killing all the principal government employees the chief of police and to they seized rifles and pistols and instituted a reign ot of terror many of the inhabitants of are fleeing to merlda merida the gunboat marems Mor eltos has already left this port with soldiers aboard while the yucatan gunboat zaragoza Is lying in the iha harbor ready to take 1000 additional troops ahro are expected from the interior Hall road and telegraph communication between merlda merida and the scene ot of the trouble Is cut oft off twenty miles of the yucatan railroad have been destroyed by the indians while it la Is reported many telegraph operators have been killed or made prisoners A judge of the criminal court Is among the dead the rebels are strongly entrenched in anticipation for of the advance of federal troops maximilian Ram ferez bonilla Co nilla the former rebel leader and colonel victor montenegro are said to be at the head of the uprising |