Show FORCED TO BUY protection refugees arriving at vera crux tell of paying mony money to huertas HuAi Hu taa artas soldiers vera cruz slaty sixty three members of the medina aladina colony in the state of oaxaca are among the refugees who have arrived hero here they were held two days in cordoba and report they were well treated except that they were obliged to sleep on the floors doors ot of the barracks they were relieved 0 of guns but not of the scanty belonga belongings which they were able to bring with them J W elliott El llott a locomotive engineer was in tierra blanca when news ot of the occupation of vera cruz reached him with his wife and children lie he started for cordoba under guard ot of mexican soldiers at cordoba the guards said they were hungry and demanded 60 pesos apesos on the threat to ew su render elliott and his family farnoly to a howling mob which surrounded the station and filled the streets the money was paid and elliott and i his hib family were marched arched in more than a mile through the streets to the bar lacao backs hounded all the ilia way wa by the mobs they were kept in the barracks six days during the first two ot of which crowds surrounded the place demanding their lives on two occasions roem bera 0 of the mob forced their way into hito the barracks and except for the efforts 0 of the colonel and two other officers 0 elliott and his family would undoubtedly have been killed toward the end ot of their stay the demonstrations ceased to a large extent manager boyd ot of the motzorongo hacienda Ila clenda when he arrived at cordo ba was waa forced by the federal guards to pay 1059 1050 pesos apesos tor for protection through the streets to the jail circulars containing the word sKill the GrIn goes and urging the people to rise and massacre the prisoners were posted about cordoba one of the refugees who have arrived here from the interior Is V F W lehmer a ranch manager from tux tepee cepec whose home Is in omaha and who was waa on his way to vera cruz for or a visit not knowing of 0 the developments here he was picked up at tierra blanca by federal soldiers 1 I was placed with ten others in a train which was standing overnight surrounded r bonded 1 by a mob which continually I 1 y t threatened h atoned to attack us ho h P said the guards ate up everything available on the train compelling us ua to go hungry at every station up to cordoba on the following day similar crowds looted the train and threatened us while being taken through the streets ot of cordoba a squad of young volunteers who had just been presented with a flag swept down upon us and tried to run us down this happened at the corner where the mu palace la Is located or otherwise other wiss we wa would not have escaped oa well as we did As it was I 1 was hit bit on the head with a flagstaff and a man walking beside me waa struck on the head with a rock his scalp was badly cut it was duo due to the fine conduct of 0 thu mexican colonel that we ever reached we the palace he rushed from the door with a squad of police and soldiery soldiers and plunged into the crowd scattering them and surrounding us later we wa were put in tb the e penitentiary and aird for six days we slept on the tha stone atone flagging there were two women in the party one with a little baby we were allowed to send out and buy blankets blan keta and managed to got get enough to eat such as it was A londay we were placed on a 9 train and brought down to soledad wo we spent that night on the tracks thero there was one oae passenger coach left for 43 a a aad in this the women and children slept the rest rest of us ui jw on oa the ground 4 |