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Show OF MTLI im MM . Officials Desert Doomed Post and Populace Is Panic-stricken. .R1CAN BRIG SEIZED jeans Capture Small Ship, t Are Forced by U. S. Cruiser to Release It. BOAKD U. S. S. C A LIFOK JflA, ATLAN, May 8. (By wireless to Diego, May 9.) The fall of Ma-5 Ma-5 geema to De imminent. The city &ls embarked last night on the jj mjnboat Guerrero and the er Liraantour, both of which are to sail for Salina Cruz, i federals have abandoned the at Morelos. wild shot from the Guerrero to-assed to-assed through a street of the city, z a panic. a result of a three days' battle, iwn6people are in a state of terror mndreds are fleeing, is reported that C. B. Helley, an kan, and G. H. Williams, an jbman, were killed and two other icans, Walter Xeal and Patrick wounded near El Favor mine in kinity of Hostatiaquillo. ugees" from Jlanzanillo told i of narrow escapes when they here oa the British steamer .no, which was made into a se ship at the instance of the der of the German cruiser Nu-re. Nu-re. The Cctriano came up the from JIanzanillo and sailed today an Francisco with 100 refugees, ing American Consul Edwards. the Cetriano was at the dock in inillo harbor, according to Cap--ilinister, the vessel 's commander, onsnl Edwards, the Mexican fed-set fed-set fire to the pier with oil and Resorted to dynamite to make the ction more certain. on Americans. e of the last of the refugees to the vessel made their way to I onlv at imminent risk. The 'no got clear of the burning pier much difficulty and as she was ' out into the Btream a number bts were fired across her decks 'the shore. Nobodv was hit. The aiMval of the cruiser Kaleigh in end to the firing and to the atious uf the Mexicans along the "rout. Bra Obregorj, t the conshtutional-mmander. conshtutional-mmander. has expressed to Ad-Howard Ad-Howard his deep regrets that 'obatants should have been killed "e unintentional dropping of a fro:n'a military aeroplane while i above the city. Admiral Doyle, commander-in-)f the Pacific ' reserve fleet, who T.ere from Sau Francisco on the West Virginia, reported to Bear a! Howard, conrai2nder of thePa-lect. thePa-lect. today. Admiral Doyle will .i suvircme command of the Ameri-:. Ameri-:. val'operatious on the west coast ico. jrder of Huerta. lighthouse serv-tiie serv-tiie west coast of Mexico has -.bBodnned and the coast last .tvas in darkness. lean Brig Captured. . American brig Geueva was cap-(r)u cap-(r)u the high seas April 26 by the ".n transport Korrigan, according uinanoii received here today. At IEaancl, however, of Captain Magru- the United States 'cruiser Eal-;be Eal-;be brig was released. |