Show GRAPHIC STORY OF wa CRUZ capture of mexican city after alter two tw 0 days fight presents vivid picture VALOR OF OUR BLUE JACKETS warships shelled buildings in which mexican sniper snipers had taken re refuge natives Native surprised at t cour tey tesy of american troop troops vera crux cruz mexico april 24 twelve american americans were killed and thirty wounded before the city or of vera cm cruz came into the undisputed ed possession pore eslon ot of the american invading invade ax force forces after a two day fight although the mexican mexicans uttered suffered more severely the number of their casualties has ha not been ascertained the bet best estimates obtained by capt william R chuh rush of the battleship florida indicated that la in the engagement engagements of tuesday and wednesday thel deal numbered about one hundred and fifty no peron son knows has bo many me mel fins ans fell ell mounded as many af them thern so e e 9 taken away and hidden by friend friends in the streets about the pi plaza wednesday afternoon I 1 y fifteen or twenty bodies a majority of 0 them at tired la in citizens clothing some of the men evidently had been dead ince since the engage Leck tuesday and the tropical heat beat made their immediate disposal imperative one ot of the first orders given after the town bad had been captured ats to bury the mexican de id in a trench at the rem ca end ot of one ot at the streets leading from the plaza score scares are taken prisoners when the ibe city was taken the order was a given to advance carefully caret nily and earch search every building for men bearing arms scores of 0 prisoners were taken the majority of them protesting vol ubly ably many any hysterically that they were not guilty of any unfriendliness toward the american americans accustomed as the ae mexican mexicans are to seeing their oira own contending force forces boot shoot immediately all prisoner taken the captured men could not but believe that they would receive no less drastic treatment at the band hands of the ameri amerl cans the gun guns found in bouie houses were thrown by the marines and blue jackets achet from the upper balconies balc onles to the pavement below the mot most spirited action wa was the taking laking of the naval academy aside asido from that fight AM no definite organized opposition wa was encountered by the american americans A hot fire wa was poured from the naval college but well directed shots hot from the cral cheater san ban francisco and an tore gaping hole boles in the tone stone i Y ind and silenced ilten ced the rifle fire a of f the 01 0 b 1 fan rans inalie the bluejacket blue jackets tins were enned to proceed with the tak task they bad in band t haap from fight cut off despite the shelling boiling it hid had received tuesday a qua aqua I 1 of soldier soldiers continued to 10 considerable trouble to the americans kmer ican from the battered benito juares tower after they had been fenced illen ced and removed from the tower discovered that the soldiers old ler bad continued fighting for lack of ability to do elie else the shells from rom the warships tuesday had torn away the airway stairway in n the tower and the men had been compelled to remain tn 10 it appeal appi app I from aged mexican coincident with the order orders tor for the general advance of at the american americans an aged white haired mexican earning carrying the white whits flag 1119 of truce came down a street from the center of the city he carried a letter to the chief of police the only authority he hoped to reach and desired consul granada to real it it wa was an at urgent appeal to the chief of 0 police to te call off the snipers and prevent the bombardment he believed would follow if it they continued their execution even before the messenger merc nger had climbed the stairs into the consult office rapt hush wae was informed of the content contents of the note he bore and im mediately funded ceabe affee and naif bt nut but it wa was too late the action had bad ben begun all along the and it wa wag not considered wire to attempt further measures to stop it the commander commanders ordered their men forward at double quick they carried out with a vigor that afterward ae them the city E evidence of at war blood bespattered lle alk broken i widows dow and bullet the scarred walls gave a grew some aspect within the Dill diligencia gencia hotel there the were ere forty had most of the theroman romen aho been there since the met of hostilities com nce ahen t he square was taken they were imme d lately at bey no 1 ish h carlo might V Cc a a the spin T breakwater in outside the order to glye the MOM t or he prairie commander refus ed guns the ill dared not saying hat he manea et his h boat small all apace at t night 14 so red that be also i d needed 1 0 of fresh on fletcher fl etcher insisted at admiral order be carried Teste 9 tda his V out an d the carloe carlos track aa ot abo outside een lust lu before the at ass at 1008 lat the city begab were in nii the session at an th undisputed pos thweat quarter city except socks t sri r aws 1 the tl b bar vac at 00 a had they a re v had outlying jakou takou art the barrack barracks when the city which face faces tho the main plaza v vrem 11 aured lieutenant commander i ta 1 an of at the florid florida made an tour through it there a octia prize among the mexican mexicans 8 o 0 b gathered there thab tha aba b in were ere not released they haj halt accustomed to seeing the he victor jet r ways remiase prisoners and the i press thet i tit 11 into jils armr chief of f police captured chief of falco Ati antonio tonto illa cencio was as taken prisoner pria oner il 0 americans shanty after they had u coupled the main plaza of the UT I 1 i bax as suggested to him that he V dinue in hie his on cial capacity to 4 dim the city cites protective lie to me too question rinder adviser advisement neaL fisli o 0 the frightened mayor made till his ki mind to accede to admiral klet bej suggestion ahl h waa wits made throe consul canada the mexicans leant o 0 have been spared the humiliation g being forced from train their lec u 4 undoubtedly a number of clyel 01 1044 ol not bays been sacrificed when admiral fletcher dir direct that bat battalion of blue jackets filid bd ilia rines tines be landed fron rear near aia Dad gera ships before dawn ml drawn up in the plaza before the pa road station thence to proceed 1 take the entire town he acted ed alter warning and after 15 she from the Pr prairies airles three inch glois been thrown into the steel train of the newmarket new market which face b ket place A persistent but act fire came from rifles in ili the marfa during all the early hould apu of at the rm ing and admiral flad gerli in tm ed to the accompaniment of at rig rifle lg lets oer their heads uniforms dyed lith rust when the rush started adal admiral BK gers gees blue jackets clad in or oradge to ored cred clothing made tor for them oa oil tk trip down by dyeing white anif with iron rust rual mored to oy ed ik close 1 t atee formation up the tu water f froat ss fu the market and across the fran naval college a long three it sta 4 11 ture built of at adobe and having a the column steindl etca dlly dl ward ard until the first comai comaiko kt pasted beyond the college aud tu U bainder were covering cov cring th the e v hole close against tho wall v suddenly a spatter of rig ribs a o 0 broke out flashes from the tb rasi were plainly visible in the tha upper v down of the college and slog h roofs roots the jackles stood their theft o 0 pluckily pluck lly some of them huddled in to the wall to avoid the ra rata I 1 a a osto jacketed bullet bullets from above while hu ers dashed across a small open H divia J d la in front of the building build log biml blue jackets dropped oa an their a itala and lifted their rifles high to daj range on the th window n above the american ambers husta men either forward or backma 0 tiley wr worst la in the shelter of mn men in front 11 the jackies tn in front eiseld 1 l place places however and find the pram 1 shell after shell from her battery lata ur the window windows of W twi iago if go hue hug columns of red dust an each shot went at he beti Chip chidster ster also joined la in and roar her six ix laah took hus tor tore caw in the roof root of taa tahi colleg far IV W tl right of the harbor the mine dl I 1 francisco boned alth wah her inui guns and taking the ta front froot of 11 lege lego shot out window after 1 planting the shells the tha fh of target practise after IS 16 minutes of ot firing bring 1114 h rie tie and the tb ban ilan fro francisco cl sao bess ceus the column of jackies formed and pushed ith ahead deploying M the ua of the college A f were ere directed at them but aono from the college col leee the chester 1 urd abell into luto waybe any ballal which sniper snipers lurked forked and alt also M into the suburb tn e jackle jackies wilt foot ahead lenng spreading out through 1 ter front sections setting tj the et est buildings guards at street Intersect loas the fire alone mong the front jsn slackened ladi tb theo died out I 1 chester sentha eau tw tow hota shots W 11 hills before ceasing the with marin marines OB on board board a arrivee ari ell 1 i to participate la Is tb the fight tul wounded aad and ww 0 aboard the prairie until the AM swan the solace about oom 1 I a vera cna cn The Th TOughly roughlY C conditions lavora la vw crus take oa oil a aspect pact tto bolus of the restaurants were wr ere and a conel derahl put part tt ills tm population began to appear I 1 streets inspecting the dadam dame there were st f will for but tew no apparent antagonism TIO Ts cans carts here seem thoroughly appear td with presence of ut the foreign fore fercl |