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Show JUAREZ IN HANDS OF THE REBELS El I'aso, May 10. About 1;30 p. m. Cienernl Navnrro and his staff sur rendered to Col. Garibaldi. An Amso-elated Amso-elated Press coi respondent has 10- turned from tho barracks where he spoke to General Navnrro. Col. Garibaldi Gari-baldi was congratulating General Navarro Na-varro on the splendid fight ho put up. when tho correspondent arrived El l'aso, May 10. With tho hoist-i hoist-i lng of tho white flag over tho bar- 1 racks of Ciudad Juarez shortly oftor El noon today and tho surrender of tho 3 federals who mado their last stand, I tho two days' battlo has resulted In o 1 victory for tho revolutionists under kj Nfi General Mndcro, t( Tho victory was not secured with out n terrlblo loss of llfo on tho American Am-erican sldo of tho lino ns well as on tho battlofleld. Tho doad will number num-ber nearly 80, whllo ICO havo been wounded, many fatally. Tho casualties casual-ties on tho American sldo of tho line number 4 killed and 1G wounded. Scores of physicians, tho Hod Cross ' Insignia glaring on their arms,, aro I treating federal and Insurreclo wound- od alike. Dynamite bombs, shells, bullets and a conflagration that raged for hours transformed Juarez, from Its usually tranquil nnd sleepy appear-nnce. appear-nnce. Into a mass of ruins. Numerous mlobo lioiiseg, characteristic of Mexican Mexi-can towns, havo bcon razed. Four shots from tho robel aitlllery tore such large holos In the barracks that the white flag Immediately was hoisted, and at 12:45, except for occasional oc-casional shooting In tho foothills, the firing had ceased. The main street Is In ruins, some of tho houses woro riddled with bullets. bul-lets. Plaster, brick and piles of debris are scattered everywhere. lWndows In many of tho stores have been crashed, but robots aro guarding the entrances to them to prevont looting, Somo of tho houses have been demolished demol-ished by dynamlto bombs and sholls. After nevonty-two hours of fighting, tho Mexican revolutionists bo com plotely routed tho fedorals that Gon-cral Gon-cral Nittarro, In command of tho government gov-ernment troops, was forced to surrender surren-der at 1:30 o'clock today. The foderal commander and his staff were received by Colonel Gari baldi, oho of the rebel chiefs, at tho barracks, after a whlto flag had been ho'lsted to silence tho terrific cannon-ndo cannon-ndo which tho rebels had been directing direct-ing at tho federal stronghold. Tho rebels aro In complete posBes-.lien posBes-.lien and tho firing lias practically ceased. Attention Is being turned to the dead nnd wounded, the former of whom may number 100 and tho latter lat-ter nearly 230. Juarez will becomo the provisional capital of thn republic. |