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Show " REVOLT OFMEXIGANS FIERCE FIGHTING OCCURS AND ONE TOWN REPORTED CAPTURED CAP-TURED BY REBELS. Three Hundret Federal Troops Said to Have Gont. Over to Insurgents, While Effort Will be Made to Enlist Aid of Yaqui Indians. Mexico City. Fierce fighting occurred oc-curred on Monday at Durango, Tor-reon, Tor-reon, Parral and Gomez Palacio, the latter falling ino the hands of the rebels. re-bels. Three hundred of the federal troops at Gomez Palacio are said to have gone over to the insurgents, who have now turned their attention to attacking at-tacking the loyal forces at Torreon. The fighting began at Durango. It is reported on good authority that twenty-five persons have been killed at Zacatecas. The government troops, it is also reported, quelled the uprising upris-ing there and are in control. The wires north of Monterey have been cut and no reports are obtainable from beyond that point. It is believed that the insurgents are responsible for the cutting of comniunicaion. General Geronimo Trevino, commander com-mander of the military zone in which Monterey is situated, has gone north at the head of a strong body of troops to meet him. There has been much looting and many were killed and I PV PRESIDENT DIAZ OF MEXICO. wounded at Gomez Palacio, according to reports here. It was reported that Francisco I. Madero, the revolutionary leader, entered en-tered Mexico on Monday with 600 followers, fol-lowers, at a point between Eagle Pass and Laredo, Tex. Washington. The United States war department has notified commanders comman-ders at every post adjacent to the Mexican Mex-ican border to be in readiness and has sent detachments of cavalry to border towns. It is reported that the rebels are trying to enlist the Yaqui Indians who have fought the Diaz government so many years. The rebels boast Diaz will be a fugitive within thirty days. The Mexican government has seized the telegraph wires and hereafter It is expected all news wrill be censored. |