Show AMERICANS ARE IN GREAT DANGER CRITICAL CONDITION EXISTS ALONG WEST COAST OF WAR WAR- STRICKEN MEXICO American Residents Se Sending All the Women and Children From the Country and Preparing for Battle With Malcontents r Mai fal Maty advices received Wednesday from Guaymas Sonora and dated April 22 tell of Imminent danger dan threatening upwards of one thousand Americans along the west coast of the southern republic So critical is the situation that a special steamer teamer has been chartered by Nelson Rhoades Jr manager of ofa a sugar refinery to succor those citizens cit of at the United States who may maybe maybe maybe be able to reach the coast at points between Guaymas and 1 At Esperanza where there are supposedly supposedly sup sup- Americans all the women women wo woo wo- wo men and children have been sent from the country and the men have Ilave armed themselves and prep prepared red for MAJ MM THOMAS RHOADES f t taM aM 1 Wi l j ri Ai Major Rhoades Is acting as military aid sid to President Taft temporarily fillIng filling fill fill- ing the place l left ft vacant by the death of Major Butt a siege Similar condi conditions ions preva prevail l at Navojoa where there are about Americans Americans on on small farms at San Bias and Los Mochis Mach Is where there are re Americans at ar Navolato where th the Rhoades sugar refineries refineries' rleS are still operating although the women and children we were sent from that place several days ago to take talce steamer for San Francisco The Yaqui Indians are on an the warpath warpath warpath war war- path in Sonora shooting at passenger passenger ger trains and looting ranches and small towns south of Guaymas The southern portion of Sonora is in a state of anarchy and small parties of bandits are roaming the country pillaging the small places |