Show MEXICAN BOB REBELS CAPTURE TAMPICO SLAUGHTER DURING SIEGE WAS HORRIFYING STREETS BEING FILLED WITH SLAIN Federals Fight Until All Hope of Victory Victory Vic Vic- tory Disappears Thousands Being Driven Into River by Rebels and Drowned rebels have finally final final- finally Vera The Thc federal de defenders de- de ly occupied The after fenders enders have been defeated stubborn resistance Tampico succumbed sue suc on Wednesday to a af gener l soldiers sol sol sol- assault by rebel Infantry the the command of ot diers under supreme Generals Pablo Gonzales and Luis heavy advancing ad under artillery It H is Impossible to estimate the I number of dead but the slaughter during the thirty thirty six six hours of ot the siege was horrifying and thousands I of or slain obstruct the streets Dona Dana Cecilia I La a Barra Darra an and Arbol gran grande de suburbs by the seaside were taken early carly in the siege by the rebels rebels rebels reb reb- els and from these points the Invaders ers era entered upon uvon the main streets of or orthe the city In a triumphant rush driving driving I ing log the federals back step by step General Zaragosa's troops showed fierce resistance making their final final stand at the abandoned Southern hotel ho ho- tel Ambushed behind the pillars and portals of ot the old hostelry the federal federal fed fed- federal eral sharpshooters picked off the rebels rebels reb reb- els by scores and prevented their advance advance ad vance for some time Federals were also lodged on the roofs of the hotel the customs house and other houses the victorious rebels subduing them only after hard and deadly hand to hand encounters on the parapets General Zaragosa fought valiantly himself and urged his men on long I after all chance of victory had gone He escaped with his life me Thousands of ot federals were driven into the Panuco Panuco Pa Pa- river Many of the wounded were drowned General Gonzales led the final assault assault as as- assault sault on the time city late afternoon aft aft- He had notified the foreign consuls early in the day to take all aU American and other foreigners aboard ships In the harbor This was done and it is therefore unlikely that there are any casualties among the foreign population Until all hope of victory was lost I the federal gunboats Bravo Dravo and Vera VeraCruz Veracruz Cruz ruz held their positions in the Panuco Panuco Pa Pa- river and shelled the rebels as the they advanced Their firing was vas poor General Jeneral Gonzales responded with heavy artillery from the north bank banle of ot the river and soon silenced th the small war craft |