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Show I SOLDIERS LEAVE CAPITAL, - MEXICO CITY, July 31. r Four hundred soldiers left hero - tonight for El Oro and 200 more f rurales wore sent from Toluca f to assist in maintaining order. - Late reports are that the men . -4- employed in the El Oro mine and the Dos Estrellas have joined the strikers, who now total" more , than 9000. 3 t gfr . KjV EL ORO, state of Mexico, July 31. V?sfc ' lu renellInS a -b f striking minors mlt w10 t0(aj' free tn prisoners in the $&fi local jail, the troops fired, killing fyL njne and wounding 32. Tho strikers jfc! $ were from the La Esporanza mine, f1?' which they abandoned this morning This afternoon the men in the ; Mexico mine, an adjoining property, ' walked out, and It Is understood by me the men of the El Oro that a strike B l vill be called there tomorrow. jS',; Fearing that they might be the vie-$j4 vie-$j4 , iims of an anti-foreign demonstrate demonstra-te i tion, many of the American women fg i "were sent out of the camp on a spe jK : cial train to Tulenanmo, whence they Ji' ; i were taken to Mexico City. The fears & v - were based upon a circular recently L I issued by the minerB, in which Amer-H Amer-H ' icans were bitterly assailed L 9000 Men May Be Involved. More than 4000 men, representing ft the underground forces of the Mexico J3 I and La Esperanza, are out, and it rift these men should be joined by those Ijlft in the El Oro, the number of strikers Djl would number about 9,000. Thev de It' niand higher wages, but it was stated ffl ofiicially that the properties would be iS closed before increases were granted jjS One hundred soldiers wore sent S from Toluca, the state capital, this afternoon, -and President Do la Barra ;j$; has been asked and has promised 4ff ' additional protection. It is expected ii that 1000 soldiers will be here before awtf ' morning from the capital. The garri M; son originally consisted of 50 state W ' troops and 25 rurales. jjy1, ' Use Gold Ore as Weapons. jj Trouble began early. The rurales ihad arrested a few strikers, and the idle men determined to set them free Arming themselves with no better weapons than chunks ot gold-bearing ore, they started up the one street of the town toward the Jail, throwing throw-ing stoneB as they went at such buildings build-ings as offended their sight They Bhouted their defiance at the rurales, who fired numerous shots. Before the mob fled, however, it had succeeded suc-ceeded In freeing the prisoners, jjj-. Shutters were closed throughout the jjffit town, and foreigners redoubled their sH activity to get the women out of dan- tftr ser jjj 2 All day the commander of the little ,jjj garrison has been expecting trouble y from the gathering crowds of strikers V ; Although far outnumbering the troops, the strikers have few, If any, M ' arms, but In a big hardware store m '$ there is an abundance of guns and it -TS is assumed that should rioting be re- M mr sumea tb's w De racked. StK Fear Town May Be Fired. gF One danger feared is fire. Unlike JSt most Mexican towns, El Oro is built, ft not Bt0De DUt wod. This camp 2k& rf commonly regarded as one of the & richest In the republic, the monthly In output of gold and silver having a PK value of abo'ut $2,0,000 gold On the M opposite of the mountain, where the fgf EI Oro propertied are located, is the m famous Dos Estrallas, and it Is feared HI that tho 3000 men employed thero Hy may also strike. The stock of the H three El Oro properties Involved Is Hff held principally by British and Amerl- B can people. |