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Show UNABLE TO MAINTAIN ARMISTICE Oppatintf Mexican Forces Taunt Each Other, Then Begin Shooting. TWENTY-FOUR HOUR TRUCE BROKEN IN TEN f Madero Pleads With Washington Wash-ington Government Not to Intervene. List of American Victims in Mexicol hr f that thr will b an abatement of the outbreak STATEMENT MADE BY SHCHETAEY KNOX WlBy lnimtlonai Nws Service) ASH1NOTON. rb 17 Th elate dpartmnt mad public th Tollowlng utmnt last nlaht Th ilili dprtmnt hai ro1vd ulegrama lndy from the embaasy at ataxic City dated February 11. and filed at , 7, I and I o'clock p. m.. respectively. Th A inertcan embassador had a confrnc in tha vary rly hour af February II (Siurdy) with hi BUI lab, Oernian. Spanish and Ftnch colleagues t th Amarloan embaaay to conaldar th situation. Th meeting waa hrousht about with (Tt difficulty, th automobile unt for Mr Strang, th Brtttah m-baiudor. m-baiudor. having ien itruck by fad-ral fad-ral bullet although ooeupled by a fdral onion! and six soldi, r, a a guard Am a mult of thl i1la.ua ton the Rpanlah mlnlaur propoaed to- vUtt th palace to apeak unofficially unoffi-cially to FTaldnt Madero on behalf of th four mlnlat-ra and th American Amer-ican mbador. The inretlnr at th American embaasy broke up at I du to the difficulty of crossing th o'olock. th Brtllah minister remaln-Inc remaln-Inc for tha nlaht at th embassy, du to th difficulty of crossing th denser kim to reach the BritUh la-Sat la-Sat Ion. Senator Teat Action. Saturday morning the Span ten minuter min-uter accordingly repaired to the paler pal-er and had a dlecusaton with President Pres-ident Madero. Immediately thereafter there-after thirty eenator made an unsuc-caful unsuc-caful attampt to have an audlance with Irealdent Mdro. It la port-ad port-ad that th aenate haa votA that PTealdent Madero ha kad to resign re-sign by vole of thlrty-vn to three th vot constituting a majority ma-jority bat not a quorum, upon d- nertln from the n. 1 nm -.Main aan WABHIITOTON, rb. 17. Following is a hit of Amarloan Amarl-oan cl til ens who have been killed, wounded, fired upon, ud assaulted in Mexico Oity: KILLED R M MEREDITH of Trey, O. . ; geut for the National Cash Sag-istar Sag-istar company, struck by a bullst while in th Porter hotel. Two days pravaooaly Meredith had beem wound ad by a Maxleao radataim bullet HERMANN O WE I HI., rtrtl an. jj dneer of Washtntton and Now ator, are said to have harangued th People, calling for support of leglsla-tlv leglsla-tlv power and hinting that thl enures was . necessary to prevent Intervention. In-tervention. Previous telegram confirm Information Infor-mation to th effect that Richard M Meredith, manasor of th National Na-tional Cash Register company, had been killed, hut that hie wife and children are safe and are to be taken to a place of greater safety. A man named Southertand wa wounded at the same time and 1 doing wall. Moating With Huortx Th American embador and th German minister Joined In requesting of General Huarta a caaaaUon of rlrlng at 1:10, whan they wished to dlsrusa with him the question of a dally rmltic and th quaMlon of definite limitation of the firing son, Ths general say the Amr-irns Amr-irns have been taken to a r a Place as can be found, with th exception ex-ception of many who rsfuse tn iaa. ,J rors. aald to have been shot to W death ! MBS. U. W. HOLMES, wifa of an employ of Dun' killed while preparing dinnar. MRU. PERCY ORIFTITHS, wife of in muployM of the street railway company; leg shot off. causing death. THE WOUNDED SYDNEY SUTHERLAND reporter for th Mexican Herald : thot in the leg while standing near R M. Meredith in the Porter hotel, i LA8AN. an American boy: their horn although In danger. The ernbaaedor In carrying out hts ; instruction, ha done all In his power , to Induce Americans to keep clear , of dangerous places The mbas-i mbas-i dor ntstee that the work of the Dent i relief commute proceed, well; thet ! rtJ.'?C"?ry.Kr. . PoMoffice. first ,1d to th Injured station, r-cue r-cue and housing work and quarters are being provided for. ' MADERO SENDS MESSAOE TO PRESIDENT TAPT i (By International News Brvlc.) I MEXICO CTTT. Feb. 17 Pr.rtd.nt , Mad.ro s mesc to Prsldnt T.ft be-i be-i fiJ,lnft' continuation of the "hand I fonow? ,h nit, 8U,M -B ' I hay. fen Informed tht th gov-i gov-i rnment over which your excellency wovnde.t by flying bullet ! MRS. GREENFIELD, mothor of 1 Harry Oieeolleld. employee of the ( Mexican Light tv Power company; , ttruck by shell. .' OR. R. It. McCRESSON of Lincoln, ) Neb.; finger rhot off while walk . li'g to hla hotel. ) M.Vr. K. JOHNSON, colored, of Mad Iron, Wis., shot through shoulder. E. L. RAMSEY of Oalveeton; wounded. ALLIS ELAND, printer; shot through arm. FIRED UPON. Consul Oeneral Arnold Shanklin and staff. Deputy Consul Oeneral Van Horne. N. A. Jennings, speclsl newspaper I correspondent. ; Pani Hudson, Mexican Herald. D. v Hamer. American envoy, ASSAULTED. Sualgn Edward Guthrie of Washing ton , attacked by mob at Acapulco. Surgeon Cameraon of Denver; at- ' tacked by mob at Acapulco. MEXICO CITT. Fab. 17. With crowds a, - of. nuncombetfttits in the atrt, trusting 10 th ofti-ll announcement or a twenty-four-hour armistice, flrln waa resumed prvein na ordered to net out for the ports of Mexico war vessels with troops to dlscmbsrk snd couie to this capital to glv guarantees guaran-tees of safety to AmerTcan. Undoubtedly Un-doubtedly th Information which von V . hl-b led you to tak thl ctlon In .Inexact and xaggertd. for th llvs ol Americans in this capital r,T. ' Prant In no danger Ifthev will abandon the aone of fir and concentrate in c,rtm point of th t or Its riiburha where trenqullllty Is absolute and where the sovarn-tnent sovarn-tnent can glv sii elss.es gusran- Accepts Responsibility. If you win order that Americana reald.nt hsr to do that, following the precedent retahllhd bv your mvn order, prevloualy issued. danger dan-ger to the lives of Americana snd other foreigners will be obviated Regarding Re-garding what material damages may h suffered by foreigners, this government gov-ernment Is redy to accept all re-) re-) .neibllity according to th oblige- t .oin of International law. Consequently I ask your excellency lo order your men-of-war not to disembark dis-embark troop In .M. xico. s thl act will cuss conflagration and tarn-hie tarn-hie consequences of more extent than the ones we hve to contend with t present. I assure your excellency that this government Is taking all measures meas-ures necessary In order that the rebel reb-el In the Cludadela (the arsenal) V11I do th least harm poaslple to lives and property In the capital . and I have hopes that everything will he peacefully arranged In v,ry short time. Says Crista Passing. It I, tru, that my country at thl, moment i, passing a crisis and th dlernbrktlon of American troop would only increase the dangers of the situation and by a very lamentable lamenta-ble error It would do great harm to a nation which alwaya has been a loyal friend to the United Ststee. aa wl contrlbuu to tha Jangers sur-roujdlns sur-roujdlns ih establlahlng of true democratic government here similar to that of th great American nation. na-tion. I appeel to th. equitable. Just sentiments sen-timents that hsve been the criterion of your government nd that un doJbtedlv represent th, sentiment, of the great American people whose destlnle, you heve guided with much kllt and patriotism. FRANCISCO I. MADERO. WENT TO MEXICO RECENTLY. S PRTNO FIELD, O. Feb. 17. H, M Meredith of Troy. O.. reported to hav been killed during the fight In Mexico City today, hed not lived hr for nix years and had been In Mexico for only two or three weeks. A month go he was In Troy to bid goodbye to his perent he-fore he-fore leaving for Mexico City es the agent of a Dayton company. His wif ircont-panled ircont-panled him and Is now alone In th city. Hunday shortly before noon, snd a heavy tall of noncombatanU' lives waa again exacted by the homicidal cannonading In o bed ln c to th demand of ths diplomatic corps. Msdero Sunday night agreed to auapend hostilities for twenty-four twenty-four hour. He did this es a oonetliatory measure toward the United States aflr i receiving Taft' promise of nonlntrven- i Hon. Diss alao s-rd to cease Bring, although he made it plain that he pre , ferred m continue th battle untfi a 1 daflnll reault should b arrived at. Oen seal Rusrta, In command of the feder forces, refused to remove hla troops from th outpost and th proximity of th, opposing fores, mad. the armistice Impossible, Im-possible, such Is th volatility of the Latin temperament. Insults wars hurled from one side to the other and the firing eoon became general. NoncombatanU Killed l The crowds of non-combatants who aV, rilled the street broke for covr as soon aT- aa the discharges were heard, but scores of them remained on the pavement, struck by bullet. Th American embassador, who with hla corps of American volunteers, hed been busily removing his countrymen from the danger sons, waa forced to nuspend hi numan1tr!an work, and again seek refuse In the embassy. Ma-dsro Ma-dsro haa promised not to are tn that direction and Dies has said that he also , will refrain If his opponents do not us. the high ground behind the American colony a vantaar point for their r-tlllery. r-tlllery. FALSE STATEMENTS OF SENATORS INFLAME PEOPLE WASHINGTON, Feb, 17 Misstatement Misstate-ment by Mexican federal official concerning con-cerning the Intentions of the I'nlted States In the present crisis, which so Inflamed In-flamed tha populace In th capital Saturday, Satur-day, are being made throughout the republic re-public with similar effect. Consul Klrtt reported to the state department Sunday that anti-American feeling ran high In Mansanlllo and throughout the country-eld country-eld on account of unauthorised statements state-ments about th Intended action of the American government Demonstrations agaltmt Americans hav ben mad In other Mexican port, and It became neces- ; atw eery to hold the cruiser Denver at Aca-m Aca-m milco until the arrival ot th South Da-V Da-V kota In that port yeaterday, no bitter were outbreak resulting In some caaes In assaults as-saults upon American cltlsens who wen peaceably passing through the street. With th South Dakota at Acapul.-c anc the Colorado at Manaantllo. officials |