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Show M011 C0L01STS IWE IT D0UGU5 Whereabouts of Other Refugees Ref-ugees Reported to the State Department. WASHINGTON. April 30.--Among refugees refu-gees reported by Consul Canada as having hav-ing arrived safely at Vera Cruz aro a colony from the Alvarado Construction company of Pittsburg, located at Maclnc-so, Maclnc-so, state of Oaxaca, who completed their Journey from Alvarndo In a fishing schooner. In the patty were P. W. Weber, We-ber, wife and four children of SI. Louis; R. H. Cirlmshaw. wife, daughter Mary and sons of Johns Island, S. C ; Eugene Knlggo of Yorklovvn, Tex.; Henry Brcn-wals Brcn-wals of Goose' county, Oregon; Frank Adams, negro servant, and Walter Schwachow and wife. Tho following arrived from Oaxaca by way of Mexico City. Dr. II- A. Monday and wife of Terrell, Tex.; A. E. Placo and wife of Boston, Mass.t William Fernandez and wife of Brownsville. Tex. They reported that twenty-seven other Americans Were on a train bound to Puerto Mexico. L. O. Ccok and J. E. Snyder of Tlerra Blanca also arrived on the same train. Consul Canada further reported lhat these Americans were making safe progress prog-ress out of the countrv; Guy P. Merlan. wire and three children; chil-dren; W. F. Dlnklns and Mrs. H. C Din-kins Din-kins have left Mexico City for Puerto Mexico. The son of Ralph Smith of Jacksonville, FIa has arrived at Vera Cruz and is said to have left for the United States. Mrs. L. L. Lamar Is reported re-ported lo be m Japala. Carlos Lamar has anlved In Vera Cruz. S. M. Emery and wife. C. N. Grigsby. W. F. Kunz, Mr. Hart. Raypor with Polrero men and families fami-lies are en route from Mexico City for, Puerto Mexico: Charles C. Dopar. Claudia Haggard. R. W. Lee. W. L. Walker and Wife. William A. Parker and wife. William Wil-liam E. L. Parker, W. B. Parker, Mrs. Fay parkcr, Mrs. Betty Parker, Hal Brennan. F. E.. Townsend. W. A. Way-land Way-land and Jay Fry. Consul General Bucklln at Guatemala was today instructed by the state department de-partment to furnish food, transportation across the country and ship passage to New Orleans for 1(0 American refugees now on their way to San Jose, Guatemala, from Sallna Cruz on the Mexican Pacific const. Consul Hanna at Monterey reported that order has been restored In that city since Its occupation by the constitutionalists constitution-alists and that business was being resumed. re-sumed. No Americans wore killed" during dur-ing tho fighting. Guy Sawyer recelvnd slight wounds, from which ho Is recovering. recov-ering. Consul Canada advises that Burton Wilson, who was taken off Charge O'Shaughnossy s train at Lavilla and tent back. Is reported safe in Mexico City. Tho district of Durango ha3 been canvassed by Consul Hamra for Americans and he reported there are fifty In Durango. fourteen four-teen in Torrcon and sixteen others scattered. scat-tered. Ninety-one Americans, comprising compris-ing tho entire Mormon colony at Bavlspe. havo arrived safely at Douglas Ariz., Consul Slmplch at Nogales reports. DOUGLAS. Ariz.. April 30. A score or more Mormons who fled to this city from Colonla Morclos. Mexico, were busy today to-day fitting up their prairie schooners to return to their homes. They expressed chagrin at having come out at all. Story of Refugee. ST. LOUIS. Mo.. April 30. The story of ho Mexican "snipers" at Vera Cruz, during the battle with American marines ma-rines and hiuejackcts. fired from the roof of a house while an American woman wom-an and her two children huddled in the basement of the same building, was told here today by Mrs. Eman B. Beck, wife of the president of a Mexico City banking bank-ing company. Mrs. Beck, with a party of refugees from Mexico, passed through St. Louis on her way to Franklin. Ind. A few weeks ago Mrs. Beck and her two daughters loft Mexico City for Vera Cruz and In the latter city took up a temporary residence at No. 18 Constl-tuclon Constl-tuclon street, a few blocks from the spot where American marines landed. "When the fighting began,' said Mrs. Beck, "my two children and I hid In a basement room and remained there twenty-four hours, while 'snipers.' led by a citizen of Vera Cruz residing next door, hauled a machine gun to the roof of our house. It was a lerrlblo period for us. for wo knew not at what moment they might vent their hostility on us." |