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Show REBELS CAPTURE DURANGO. Reports Received at Mexico City Are That Three Southern Cities Have Fallen. CITY OP MEXICO, May 1. Uncon-flrmed Uncon-flrmed reports that Durango, tho capital capi-tal of the state of that name, had fallen into the hands of the rebels, and rumors that attacks were to be made soon on Ouernavaca. and Puebla, two other state capitals south of Mexico Mexi-co City, have ficrved to increase tho feeling of approhenslon here. Last night the bridge at San Juan del Rio, south of Juerotaro, on the lino of the Mexican Central railroad, wa blown out, and tho destruction of several small woodon bridges ou the line of tho National railroad north of San Luis Potosi has interrupted traffic on the Laredo route. The news that Durango was takon by the rebels last week was contained in a letter from Torrcon, which arrived ar-rived hero today The writer says news has reached Torreon that Luis Moya, the rebel leader in the stato of Durango, is now marching with ono thousand men to tho city to mnke it his military headquarters. In the neighborhood of Torrcon tho federals are again in control of the situation. Dissension in tho ranks of the robels who took Laredo and Gomez Go-mez Palaclo resulted In the evacuation evacua-tion of (hoBe towns after a short resistance. re-sistance. The rebels have retired to tho hills and for the momont Torreon feels safe from attack Tho announcement last week by tho rebel genoral, Plgueroa, of a plRn Involving In-volving a march upon the capital, has been followed by f-ar that tho city Is in hnminont danger. This is not tho case, but a wide area, extending almost al-most to the city is infested with rebel bands, whose number is probably not lesB than 5.000. These forces do not appear to bo working under any one head, and it is considered improbablo that a movement move-ment on tho city will bo made, although al-though one afternoon paper appeared in tho streets today with the startling headlines announcing that twenty thousand rebels were preparing to attack at-tack the capital. |